Guy A.I. Baeten built his career in enterprise IT, twenty years as a network engineer and IT manager, back when "the cloud" was still mostly marketing copy and most of what mattered ran on hardware you could walk up to and touch. Then AI happened, and suddenly everything important was running on someone else's machine, billed by the month, and one terms-of-service update away from disappearing.That bothered him enough to do something about it.The No Subscription Required series is his answer. It's a practical guide to building and running real, capable AI on your own hardware -- Linux, Windows, laptop, or workstation -- with no subscriptions, no data leaving your home, and no surprises when a vendor changes their pricing model at 2 AM. He lives quietly, walks more than he should given how much he sits, and cycles when the weather allows.