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Probably the Mac Mini. A few OpenClaw users are buying the agent a dedicated device so that it can integrate with their Apple account.

For example: https://x.com/michael_chomsky/status/2017686846910959668.


Why would it need more than 1? Couldn't they do this with any Mac with an Apple account?

It appears he is selling a service where he comes to you (optionally with a Mac Mini which is probably why he's buying multiple) and sets up OpenClaw for you.

That truly cant be it right? This is like satire? How much do you even charge for that?

Unfortunately not satire, and the answer is $500

Mac Minis are perfect for locally running demanding models because they can effectively use ordinary RAM as VRAM.

but people dont use OpenClaw with local models

They definitely do. A common configuration is running a supervisor model in the cloud and a much smaller model locally to churn on long running tasks. This frees Openclaw up to lavishly iterate on tool building without running through too many tokens.

Unless you're running a large local model in 192GB+ this just won't be ideal, based on real-world experience.

Considering there are 1.5M openclaw agents, created by 17,000 humans, it seems like some people really would use more than 1.

Are you saying that software is THAT inefficient so that you can’t run a few hundred of them on a single Mac Mini? : D

if you are counting reported moltbook accounts there are not, the API was spammed by scripts to create accounts

This was on HN a few days ago, I wasn't counting anything:

https://www.wiz.io/blog/exposed-moltbook-database-reveals-mi...


There are few open source projects coming along that let you sell your compute power in a decentralized way. I don't know how genuine some of these are [0] but it could be the reason: people are just trying to make money.

0. https://www.daifi.ai/


There have been countless projects to sell distributed compute power. I don't know of any that have gotten much traction. Everyone keeps trying to create new ones instead of developing for the existing ones.

The one you linked to looks clearly like a pump-and-dump scam, though.


That one definitely looks like a crypto scam.

It doesn't cost $600 in Anthropic credits though. It probably costs a few cents (definitely <$1).

I do understand the general point you're trying to make, but you can't overestimate the cost of tokens by a few orders of magnitude and still expect the logic to hold.



It does make a difference. When filing for adjustment of status, you can request USCIS to consider both you and your spouse as chargable to your spouse's country of birth, and therefore be placed in a more favourable GC queue. This is called cross-chargeability [1].

Because of this, the "100-year green card queue" problem only really applies for a couple who are both born in India/China, with kids who are not born in the US. If even one child was born in the US, they would be able to sponsor both parents for an immediate green card when they turn 21 years old. In the meantime, the H1-B beneficiary can extend their visa indefinitely and port their approved I-140 whenever they switch jobs, with a 6-month grace period. The spouse also has full working rights.

21 years is a long time, but while working, both parents will accumulate social security credits and will be eligible to recieve benefits upon retirement (if they've secured a green card by then).

[1] https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-7-part-a-chapter-...


Donated blood is stored as packed red blood cells, with the plasma removed. The plasma is where most of the hormones reside while being transported, so in packed RBC transfusions, there will almost no transfer of hormones. This makes it so that blood type is pretty much the only important factor when determining whether somebody can receive blood.

Sometimes doctors do perform whole blood transfusion which does not have the blood plasma removed. This has the chance of increasing hormonal levels temporarily in the recipient. However, the body will quickly compensate and bring levels back to normal. Even if not, the hormones will still degrade and lose their effectiveness over time.

Side note: everybody has both male and female hormones in their body, at different levels. These levels can change a lot depending on your age, genetics, menstrual cycle, or even the time of day. As long as there is no prolonged increase in the levels of a particular hormone, there won't be any abnormal effects.


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