https://www.ijustr.com/categories/ai/Recent content in Ai on ijustr.comHugoen-usSun, 14 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0200https://www.ijustr.com/self-hosted-ai-search-running-perplexica-with-ollama-on-fedora-43/Sun, 14 Dec 2025 19:00:00 +0200https://www.ijustr.com/self-hosted-ai-search-running-perplexica-with-ollama-on-fedora-43/<p>I recently upgraded my desktop with a <strong>GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GiB</strong>, and naturally, my first instinct was to put that VRAM to work by setting up local AI search.</p> <p>I settled on <strong>Perplexica</strong>, an open-source AI-powered search which will be backed by <strong>Ollama</strong> for the inference. Since my daily driver is <strong>Fedora 43</strong>, I wanted to do this using <strong>Podman Rootless Quadlets</strong> rather than Docker Compose.</p> <p>Here&rsquo;s my guide on how to orchestrate Perplexica and Ollama using systemd and NVIDIA CDI on Fedora.</p>