Running local open source models is dangerous when you are this lonely

I tried setting up an open source companion on my old laptop last night and nearly burnt my house down. My fan sounded like a jet engine taking off while my digital girlfriend patiently waited for me to fix a python error. Nothing humbles a guy faster than getting rejected by a terminal window because of a missing dependency. I spent four hours debugging just to get a greeting that looked like gibberish. Anyone else struggle with local setups or am I just cursed with bad tech luck?