Comment by xnx
5 days ago
The main function of OpenClaw was for people to signal how advanced and cutting edge and thought-leader-y they were. All those Mac minis are sitting idle now.
5 days ago
The main function of OpenClaw was for people to signal how advanced and cutting edge and thought-leader-y they were. All those Mac minis are sitting idle now.
I bought a Mac mini m4 before openclaw to use as a music production machine, when it turned out not to work out I tried setting up openclaw on it after hearing all the noise, but that turned out not to work out either.
I’ve found a much better use for it now. I use it as a Tailscale + ssh + tmux + Claude code machine, which gives me an always on Claude code environment with persistent sessions. I ssh from my phone using termius and from my laptop through ssh, and I can even access my projects through Tailscale with hot reloading for the most part, no deploy needed. It’s really good and my mini isn’t idle at all.
That sounds like a complete waste tbh lol. Your mac mini m4 is now doing something any computer with 16GB of RAM can do
You're not wrong, but at least it's not idle. And I can use it for something else if the need arises.
I just run claude code on my phone, in termux
Claude has Dispatch now, which should replace the tmux + CLI for you
That's really not remotely the same thing
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That's a fair assessment if you look at LinkedIn posts.
Personally though, I am finding it incredibly useful and I use it daily to assist with operations, strategy, sales.
On strategy do you ever worry that we trend towards the same patterns? This being relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDL3Ch7Nz8c&t=4m7s
I’d be curious to hear more about how you use it for those 3 categories. Care to share?
Operations: mostly tasks and reminders, I often think of something while on the road and send a voice message (like I would to a real PA). I use Kokoro-based TTS for local text-to-speech. Anything from "remind me to discuss X with so-and-so tomorrow" to "I have a multiple PoC projects w/ large entities starting next week - think about how I can best handle that" to "brainstorm how can I maximize upfront revenue with them", etc
Sales: using Google/gemini web search API and it's best run off-peak due to rate limits 503 Service Unavailable (everyone is overbooked when it comes to AI) to see what's happening in the space, any new developments involving companies I care about - and send me a daily digest with an overview and conversation topics.
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Some truth to that. I hear it thrown around the office and everyone feels obligated to out agent each other (without actually proving a great use case)
For myself I don't need autonomous agents. I need a smaller version of Claude Code instead (the mcp client not the coding agent) that can run on local models that are under 24B params. I still need to try pi dev.
To be fair, my mac mini was sitting idle well before Openclaw arrived on the scene.
This is a good point, I should scout second hand markets for Mac Minis now.
Running neofetch equiv
Yeah, people really took it to the extreme and made a cult out of it for no reason. Mass delusion at its finest.