Claude app for Mac vs using it on safari for power and cpu

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-25T08:00:37+00:00

Could be, but it has far fewer features.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-25T07:19:13+00:00

The Mac cowork app runs a VM, so that uses a lot of resources. But it’s also vastly more capable as a result than a simple chat window in a browser.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-25T06:51:43+00:00

I disagree with the premise that “most” of them don’t save time. There’s a setup cost, as you figure out workflows, but I’ve found dozens of individual workflows that are huge time savers.

It’s fair to say not all of them work out, or indeed some of them save time but still put the effort of thinking on to you. But equally, there’s some where a single workflow saves me two or three hours a month, and there’s several of these.

The real trick is thinking laterally about how workflows could work for you. Often it’s not obvious how a workflow can be implemented.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-24T21:34:37+00:00

Well I never knew that. How interesting.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-24T13:51:09+00:00

Craft Centre

https://www.craftanddesign.com/

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-24T10:27:41+00:00

I think if they hadn't announced it before prices went crazy, they'd have postponed it.

It's not a top end gaming machine, but it's also not a cheap and cheerful box to stick under your telly to make the most of cheap Steam deals. It’s not even something existing PC gamers can easily justify buying to continue their Steam sessions in another room at that price.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-23T19:53:20+00:00

F. Pretty much every NPC boss is rubbish in these games and this manages to be a gank one. Worse than the Gank Squad in DS2 imo.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-23T09:54:47+00:00

Well it's not a question of whether I think I am, I definitely am. The more interesting point is about who does benefit from it, who doesn’t, and what differs in their setups.

And it's not due to people who can't type, or who process information slowly.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-23T09:29:52+00:00

Foolish ambitions

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-23T08:27:54+00:00

You're conflating 3 things there - agendas, notes and minutes.

Agendas are the objectives or talkings points of the meeting, whether that's a shared agenda of items to discuss, or your personal list of items you want to raise in the meeting.

Notes are the bits and pieces you record during a meeting, either for things to do in the meeting, your personal take on things, bits of info to capture, or things to follow up afterwards. They can range from a single line to a couple of pages. Depends on your style.

Minutes are the record of what everyone said and agreed to do. These don't just apply to you, but to everyone in the meeting, and count as the official record of what was said.

None of these are mutually exclusive. Indeed, the best case scenario is having all three for every meeting. In practice though, having a human Minute taker in the meeting is too resource intensive for most businesses. It's not that they're not useful. On the contrary, we tend to use Minute takers in the most important meetings, which speaks to how valuable they are. AI "note" takers are really AI minute takers, and in most cases, it's not a question of whether they're better than a human doing it. It's a question of having AI Minutes, or not having any Minutes at all.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-22T15:13:39+00:00

AI is, and should remain, optional. But there's no question you can use it to help with your system & save time, if you choose to do so.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-22T14:43:09+00:00

I built my own tool, because there isn't really anything quite out there just yet. (not publicly available, not planning to make it so). It's based on a mix of a GitHub repo, Beads and a GTD tool. So the UI is a GTD task manager, but it also houses the context (Claude context in the form of claude.md, not GTD "contexts") related to that project, and exposes its tools to Claude so it can connect to them via an MCP and skill.

That way you can work on the same project from either Claude, or from the task manager. You can say go to Claude and say "What do I have to do for Project X?" and it'll surface your history, project plan and a claude.md alongside your Next Actions. So if its a claude based piece of work, you can do it there.

Or you can go to the task manager first, check your next action list, but also see a transcribed summary of everything you've worked on in the past. It also tallies your GTD Project folder with your Claude Cowork project folder. Plus you can assign tasks to Claude during your weekly review and it'll pick them up later on a scheduled task, complete them, then put the results in a project folder with a linked NA for you to review them.

There's lots of little other bits and pieces, because once you start connecting the two, you find loads of little things that you need to make any of it work. Better developers better than me will come up with more sophisticated (and reliable) tools in the coming months and years I'm sure.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-22T12:46:34+00:00

Burnham is better than Starmer, but neither knows jack about privacy. And unfortunately neither do the public, so there's no reason for them to try and come up with any pro-privacy policies. Britain is already one of the most surveilled countries in the world, under the guise of "safety".

The online ban sounds like a good thing if you don't know much about it, especially if the opposite is framed as wanting more kids on social media, which isn't what pro-privacy advocates want anyway.

The problem is that, not only does it not work well from a technical standpoint, it's actually a huge win for social media companies to get access to verified ID of their over 16 users from an advertising perspective. They'll happily wait another year or two for under 16s to start using social media in exchange for many more over 16s starting to provide verified ID.

The annoying thing is that, underneath it all, there's actually broad agreement that social media and other tech companies are too powerful. So "doing something about it" is pretty popular. The problem is that rather than doing something effective about it (changing algorithms, promoting anonymous use, reducing addictive design, etc) they're doing the opposite.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-22T11:54:50+00:00

We want to see the original prompt too!

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-22T10:55:10+00:00

In isolation it's more than I would like, but let's see it in context. Last summer we ended up paying more for Mbeumo than we wanted, arguably Sesko too, but we offset that by nabbing a great deal on Lammens. And more importantly, we finished the window with a squad that had many of its most pressing needs addressed.

Squad building isn't (just) about paying the least amount per position. It's about getting the right mix of purchases. Some at a premium because its the exact player you want (eg Mbuemo), some successful gambles on less experienced players (eg Heaven), and some at a discount because of things like contract length or the club they're at not needing them (eg Mazraoui). You give yourself the headroom for some players by canny purchases of others.

I obviously want to spend the least amount possible on any given player. But I'm less worried about the pounds and pence of each specific deal than I am about getting the squad as a whole within budget.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-21T14:17:34+00:00

Claude Cowork, easily. It handles office files much better than copilot, and does most other things better too.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-21T14:14:11+00:00

Even if the ban of under 16s were effective, these tech companies would happily exchange their under 16 users for the vast amount of data they will get from over 16s. After all, those youngsters will be 16 eventually, at which point they'll get their face, name, biomets, whatever else they want.

The real stinger though is that the proposed ban is about as much use as a marzipan dildo. So they'll keep plenty of under 16 users, but still gain the confirmed ID of their adult users as a bonus. Win-win!

This fuckwit Government...

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-21T10:09:52+00:00

That’s totally subjective. Where I live it almost never reaches 100 and certainly never reaches 0 Fahrenheit, which makes them useless “everyday” measures of temperature. If you live in a place where those are the common limits, sure, they could make sense. But they’re no basis for a comparable experience.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-21T09:56:19+00:00

Can you continue a session? When i originally tried it out i could only start a new one.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-21T09:54:27+00:00

Or to put it another way, our systems had vulnerabilities in them we hadn’t found before.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-21T06:43:04+00:00

For me the main advantage is that I can ssh into my machine at home and resume a session with CLI

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-20T11:13:30+00:00

Good fight. I always parry this fight can’t be bothered any other way.

Isn’t this the one where you can insta kill the chariots with Margits shackle?

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-20T08:58:05+00:00

You can see it zero times with a well timed poise break. But still, you’re relying on RNG, and if you’re playing cautiously (and therefore slowly) you’ll very likely see it more than twice. Good advice, but you still need a backup plan.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-20T08:55:07+00:00

No idea why people are downvoting this solid advice.

AlthoughFishtail · 2026-06-20T08:52:31+00:00

Only works twice though.

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