This post shows you how to deploy Microsoft Foundry Local onto a disconnected machine with no access to the internet. This requires having a machine with access to the internet to stage the model and installation media and a way of getting those items to the disconnected machine.
If you’re running Windows on ARM and noticed that Wave Terminal doesn’t provide a native binary, it’s a fairly straightforward compilation process if you want to build it yourself.
This is a quick document to walk through configuring Obsidian Copilot with LM Studio for local models and embeddings if you want to run the AI pieces fully locally.
Once again, DNS behavior surprised me on Windows. If you're using nslookup instead of resolve-dnsname, you may not be getting the actual DNS response that's being used from your application...