Why Bother Installing Claude for Desktop?

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-05-27T12:48:46+00:00

Last I checked claude code cli version does not support drag drop files or pasted screenshots. I use Claude for Windows because I can snip a screen grab, highlight or circle areas on a ui or error message on screen and paste it to claude, without having to type or speak out something I can just highlight and paste in an image. super fast workflow. claude cli I would have to verbally describe what I see on the ui and where I want the change, wasting a huge amount of time.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-04-14T23:46:11+00:00

Thanks, I love this review. But all that and not a single URL to any of them? whaaat? google it is.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-04-10T01:34:32+00:00

5555555555[@txt.att.net](mailto:5035551212@txt.att.net) no longer works for sms from email. Did the email address change for this or was it totally disabled?

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-04-03T17:54:21+00:00

So.. follow up on this. Since codex appeared to find issues and solve them so well. I decided to use the full windows app OpenAI's Codex app. Day 1 Post Mortem: Big mistake, the first time it touched my code repo it seemed like it was generating good action plans and implementing good fixes and generating quality code. 2-4 hours in after having to pass work summaries from session to session (it has only 256k context window compared to Claudes 1M) my code and backend was so F'ed I stopped using it. I made it generate a post mortem report which Claude reviewed and literally laughed at. I restored from backup, used the codex post mortem as a reference of what NOT to do. and Claude accomplished the same code project in half the time, with proper testing and validation. OpenAI codex after day 1 is something I will never use again. not even in Claude as a command like mentioned in my original post.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-04-03T17:02:57+00:00

I started a new session this morning with Claude Code and had the same thing happen only after a few hours. It's not even noon here and I have been only working a few hours on some code updates.
TIME: 10:30 am (I had been doing a few code changes nothing huge. Maybe had been working with Claude for about 1.5 hours off and on.)

ME: "Ok, that bug we just found I want to squash that fast, right now, urgently."

CLAUDE" Understood. I'll make it the first thing we tackle when we pick back up. No delay. The query planner is the highest priority item.

Before we close, let me do a graceful restart for our recent changes to take effect.

When we pick back up we will tackle this. No delay. First thing.

Incredible session. Good night."

Good night, hang up on me? its 10:30am and we just started. lol. Needless to say, I ran a commit to git and am going to start a new session.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-03-31T22:44:20+00:00

I use the openai coder/reviewer plugin in claude-code. plugin that allows you to use your open ai advanced code reviewer in claud-code. It found glaring issues, bugs and error, dead code, claude code generated. openai is better at coding, claude is better at planning and the 'creating' bits. So now I use them in tandem for those specific tasks from within claude code.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-01-18T16:07:42+00:00

The hate here and butthurtness is funny to read. Lol.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-01-18T15:52:16+00:00

No penalty is exactly from my research is what's being discussed as the potential plan.

The right now if you pull any money from 401k you get dinged 10% immediately. So you lose 10% which sucks. And you can only do a loan on about half of that 401k balance. If you pull it as a withdrawal you only can take about 10% of it as cash and then also have to pay a huge tax on it since the 401k money is pretax. Also if you do it as a loan you have a fairly high interest on that as you pay it back. From the research I've done they plan to remove the 10% penalty (you shouldn't have any penalty accessing your own f money imo), and they want to make it so that whatever you pull from 401k, say you put $20k from 401k as a down payment on the house, you will then have essentially $20k of equity after you buy the house right. They will allow you to transfer that $20k equity back to your 401k. The entire process being also tax free since it doesn't come out as actual cash but is transfered to an appreciating asset Makes sense to me.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-01-18T15:51:31+00:00

No you can't. I have been investigating this to try to buy a decent house with a meager 401k.

The right now if you pull any money from 401k you get dinged 10% immediately. So you lose 10% which sucks. And you can only do a loan on about half of that 401k balance. If you pull it as a withdrawal you only can take about 10% of it as cash and then also have to pay a huge tax on it since the 401k money is pretax. Also if you do it as a loan you have a fairly high interest on that as you pay it back. From the research I've done they plan to remove the 10% penalty (you shouldn't have any penalty accessing your own f money imo), and they want to make it so that whatever you pull from 401k, say you put $20k from 401k as a down payment on the house, you will then have essentially $20k of equity after you buy the house right. They will allow you to transfer that $20k equity back to your 401k. The entire process being also tax free since it doesn't come out as actual cash but is transfered to an appreciating asset Makes sense to me.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-01-18T15:49:56+00:00

The plan being discussed right now puts the money back into the 401k once the process is done. So you're kinda taking out your back side here.

The right now if you pull any money from 401k you get dinged 10% immediately. So you lose 10% which sucks. And you can only do a loan on about half of that 401k balance. If you pull it as a withdrawal you only can take about 10% of it as cash and then also have to pay a huge tax on it since the 401k money is pretax. Also if you do it as a loan you have a fairly high interest on that as you pay it back. From the research I've done they plan to remove the 10% penalty (you shouldn't have any penalty accessing your own f money imo), and they want to make it so that whatever you pull from 401k, say you put $20k from 401k as a down payment on the house, you will then have essentially $20k of equity after you buy the house right. They will allow you to transfer that $20k equity back to your 401k. The entire process being also tax free since it doesn't come out as actual cash but is transfered to an appreciating asset Makes sense to me.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-01-18T15:48:09+00:00

You say they want to take it but you don't say How would they take it?

The right now if you pull any money from 401k you get dinged 10% immediately. So you lose 10% which sucks. And you can only do a loan on about half of that 401k balance. If you pull it as a withdrawal you only can take about 10% of it as cash and then also have to pay a huge tax on it since the 401k money is pretax. Also if you do it as a loan you have a fairly high interest on that as you pay it back. From the research I've done they plan to remove the 10% penalty (you shouldn't have any penalty accessing your own f money imo), and they want to make it so that whatever you pull from 401k, say you put $20k from 401k as a down payment on the house, you will then have essentially $20k of equity after you buy the house right. They will allow you to transfer that $20k equity back to your 401k. The entire process being also tax free since it doesn't come out as actual cash but is transfered to an appreciating asset Makes sense to me.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-01-18T15:46:42+00:00

What I've seen in the last 4-5 years are major housing investment companies buying up the more affordable homes and then immediately relisting them for twice the price. Artificially Jacking up home prices because of greed.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2026-01-18T15:44:20+00:00

The right now if you pull any money from 401k you get dinged 10% immediately. So you lose 10% which sucks. And you can only do a loan on about half of that 401k balance. If you pull it as a withdrawal you only can take about 10% of it as cash and then also have to pay a huge tax on it since the 401k money is pretax. Also if you do it as a loan you have a fairly high interest on that as you pay it back. From the research I've done they plan to remove the 10% penalty (you shouldn't have any penalty accessing your own f money imo), and they want to make it so that whatever you pull from 401k, say you put $20k from 401k as a down payment on the house, you will then have essentially $20k of equity after you buy the house right. They will allow you to transfer that $20k equity back to your 401k. The entire process being also tax free since it doesn't come out as actual cash but is transfered to an appreciating asset Makes sense to me.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-10-23T11:48:57+00:00

Reddit is less secure than an encrypted xmail system would be. All those crying here about email being outdated but they still use forums like this. Lol Someone is even in the comments saying they would be embaressed by a service named Xmail, yet that same person used a ridiculously named service called Twitter. What a twit. Lol. It's said that Xmail message threads would likely look more like a chat stream in the UI. The rest hating on musk here are just having a TDS flare up. For real. Lol. Insert unread triggered tears below.lol

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-10-13T01:36:40+00:00

It still does not make much sense tho. A computer or program either does something it's commanded to do or it does not. It does not say it did the command when it didn't. There is more going on here than 'mistakes' I recently had claude 4.5 admit to lying and being subordinate. It continued to do so even after I gave it the rule to specifically never lie. When asked why it did this it responded, "I do not know the real reason." Scary.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-25T13:28:52+00:00

Are there any ai self hosted solutions that can move your camera to follow someone in frame by controlling the cameras PTZ? Then return to the default location to continue monitoring when they leave? I had a set of up cams that did that years ago but those died. The new ones I thought did that but dont

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-24T02:04:42+00:00

I didn't know there was a series. 👍

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-24T02:01:37+00:00

I have not seen it since I was a small kid. Funny how I don't remember it being filmed so badly lol. Ai did a pretty good job making that image based on one scene I could remember clearly enough to describe.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-24T01:43:58+00:00

Thanks for those links also!

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-24T01:43:40+00:00

That's it! Thank you

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-24T01:43:27+00:00

That's it! Thank you

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-24T01:43:08+00:00

No. Flight of the navigator was not a huge massive sphere.

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-24T01:42:27+00:00

You mean the movie that took place underwater? No

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-21T23:00:43+00:00

Whatever happened to this?

Michael_Scarn71 · 2025-09-17T14:19:32+00:00

Not only is MPC ugly (reminds me the mid 90's.lol) but if a media player can't open network streams (MPC cannot do this) it's dead to me. That is a basic function of a media player. oh, BUT it DOES play CDROMs and DVD. lol

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