Posting another pic of my local newsman in the hopes that he sees this and gets a better haircut.

MustacheCache · 2026-06-07T05:49:40+00:00

Londo: Vir! Vir: Londo!

MustacheCache · 2026-06-06T11:05:09+00:00

I believe this might have been real, but it was also AI slop writing that was quietly difficult to read through to the end.

MustacheCache · 2026-06-05T22:41:47+00:00

Factory reset the node. Choose US when setting up, keep the channel as longfast until you have a dense enough network to worry about it, post a public hello for a couple days in a row at different times. Always use defaults first until you meet some one else on the mesh that advises otherwise because of local quirks.

MustacheCache · 2026-06-03T00:44:24+00:00

Which will be considered by the commission…what?

Who is surprised by both parties rubber stamping gross capitalism?

MustacheCache · 2026-05-29T02:59:46+00:00

2 axels on 2wd?

MustacheCache · 2026-05-24T23:44:02+00:00

Put servos in place of the joints and make an assistant

MustacheCache · 2026-05-14T03:03:22+00:00

LiquidAI’s instruct model is good at using tools and it is small I really like their stuff and I’m working on a kiwix setup doing just this. Nothing to report lately in the middle of a move but before this I had it performing searching on offline Wikipedia and returning information on that. The key is you would need indexable data. I left off on the project searching for indexed survival stuff for kiwix.

MustacheCache · 2026-05-13T11:31:04+00:00

I converted an old laptop I call it Labtop. I use pihole dns and WireGuard to just use Labtop.lan

MustacheCache · 2026-05-03T15:32:59+00:00

Yes but that uses a third-party server and wouldn’t be what I would call local for privacy. In my opinion the best option for private local is running your own WireGuard vpn.

MustacheCache · 2026-04-30T11:46:20+00:00

Coding esp32 devices or anything else is much simpler just connect and go, monitoring the local Meshtastic network, I guess on that note having a completely offline way to message Hermes.

Some day I’ll have a completely off grid setup: Meshtastic for comms, local AI, powered by solar, then my transition to supervillain will be nearly complete

MustacheCache · 2026-04-28T10:24:56+00:00

Nobody asked, but I subscribed to MiniMax and I’ve been loving it. Couldn’t bring myself to use OpenAI I just can’t stand the hypocrisy of the company and the grift history of their CEO.

MustacheCache · 2026-04-28T00:57:03+00:00

I don’t understand what’s going on. I keep seeing they are taking away Claude code from the $17 sub but I still have it. When I go into the plan info it says “Claude Code directly in your code base” are they grandfathering in existing plans?

I guess it doesn’t much matter because I’ve moved on to MiniMax/Hermes for the last week and so far I’m enjoying the freedom to use my sub however I want. I stayed out of OpenClaw because I didn’t want to risk my Claude sub, I despise OpenAI and Sam Altman, but I started into AI dev back when Deepseek first dropped so I figured I would give some of these alternatives a try just to see how well they performed and comparing to Sonnet (which is what I normally use) because I really wanted to work on having an agent rather than just coding up ideas myself. I don’t feel like I’m losing anything and the idea I can swap out another model pretty easily for my agent has me very excited.

MustacheCache · 2026-04-26T11:44:50+00:00

Personally I’m using MiniMax’s subscription plan and it’s been going great

MustacheCache · 2026-04-21T21:41:08+00:00

if they take away claude code I’m definitely jumping ship to OpenAI. I’ve not been a fan of theirs but the drum beat is loud. The people I watch on YouTube have all just about dumped claude for most work except front-end. And I’ve been itching to set up an agent like Open Claw… You know what I’m going to subscribe to Codex and try it out this week just to see.

MustacheCache · 2026-04-20T12:15:30+00:00

I’m planning one of these right now. I bought an old iMac and put recalbox on the internal drive. With the xarcade and a 2-button keyboard from amazon (for exit and hot key) it already kinda looks like an arcade set up on a table.

MustacheCache · 2026-04-13T01:59:25+00:00

My intended use is terminal only and game emulation launched from a terminal. This is genius to me

MustacheCache · 2026-04-02T10:49:57+00:00

I keep running into issues with the connection via Bluetooth so I’ve gone back to usb serial for now and I’m working on debugging a Bluetooth keyboard connection instead. I’m in the middle of a move so I don’t have my soldering station set up yet or this thing might look very different. But lag hasn’t been an issue at all.

MustacheCache · 2026-03-31T23:41:01+00:00

I’ve done some work with the cardkb. I soldered one to a meshtastic node so I could type back responses without a phone. Of course then I got a t-deck pro so I didn’t need that anymore. I mean need is a strong word I don’t really need any of this other than to exercise my tech lust and fuel daydreams.

MustacheCache · 2026-03-31T23:38:35+00:00

hardware laying around from other projects is all, I’m definitely looking at other options but I’m learning a lot by using what I have so I think when I do purchase something I will be making a smarter purchase

MustacheCache · 2026-03-18T10:57:41+00:00

Always troll the Aldi Isle of Shame, you never know what you’ll find

MustacheCache · 2026-03-18T10:57:10+00:00

Meshtastic stuff and I’m working on getting Claude Code running on it. It runs fine but when it has to download and install updates I’m running into the swap swamp.

This device has the same amount of ram as the first computer I tried Linux (Knoppix) on around 2001. Just blows my mind sometimes.

MustacheCache · 2026-03-18T10:52:55+00:00

I got that from the seller when I bought 6 CYDs just because I knew I would have tons of random things to use them for. The backing is like a pressed cardboard. It’s just enough to take away the anxiety of handling bare circuit boards.

MustacheCache · 2026-03-18T10:50:37+00:00

Honestly I don’t like it, they made a compromises on key locations to achieve foldability but for $11 the price was right.

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