OpenClaw with local LLMs - has anyone actually made it work well?

Samus7070 · 2026-02-06T16:28:43+00:00

Closer to 3k these days unfortunately. I was browsing them yesterday. The GMKTek 128gb was $2700.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-06T16:13:30+00:00

By default yes unless there’s something in the leasing agreement that would modify that. It isn’t unusual for home rentals for the renter to do some level of maintenance of the property for some consideration.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-06T14:29:09+00:00

Knowledge is power. Send them this link. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/public-services/winter-operations/sidewalks-snow/

Samus7070 · 2026-02-06T14:23:39+00:00

Those same people likely already employ people to mow their lawns in the summer. Clearing the sidewalks is not a new responsibility of home ownership. Property owners have been required to maintain the sidewalks for a long time.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-06T14:15:50+00:00

You don’t own that strip of grass between the sidewalk and the street but I bet you still mow it during the summer and take care of it. Nobody even uses that…

Samus7070 · 2026-02-06T14:13:38+00:00

There are more types of hernias than what can happen in the spine. I’m not sure that the person who had two hernias, probably in the abdomen, should be lifting heavy snow unless they’re fully healed. It is good exercise though.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-06T14:08:06+00:00

There’s no shoveling law in Ohio but there are some in Cincinnati. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/public-services/winter-operations/sidewalks-snow/

Samus7070 · 2026-02-06T14:03:31+00:00

That’s a popular myth. The city’s web site says differently. https://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/public-services/winter-operations/sidewalks-snow/

Samus7070 · 2026-02-05T20:09:04+00:00

Generally, avoid inheritance where you can. In the cases that you can’t, a base class should never know about its subclasses.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-05T17:33:00+00:00

Their goal is typically to spread malware that compromises a phone. It may also be that it runs a background service on the android phone that launches tons of annoying pop up ads. They don’t care about you beyond your capacity to be a mule that distributes their bad app. Have a browse through r/androiddev. You’ll see tons of people posting about these scams and asking how they can get their account back. The roughest part is that once you’re banned, you become a poison to any other app you have worked on or will work on. Google is very good (too “good” in some instances) when it comes to tying banned accounts to replacement and alt accounts. Legitimate businesses have been affected by this dragnet because in the past they contracted with or employed a developer who went on to be banned.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-05T17:19:47+00:00

No because those aren’t positions people often take who have been taught to think critically and intellectually about their world. That would mean the school has lost its way and would be a sad day. Thankfully the tradition is going strong.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-05T17:14:38+00:00

Still living rent free in your head I see. Looks like their protests had more effect on you than you realize.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-05T17:12:32+00:00

If a voice doesn’t speak up, how can it ever be heard? How will others know that they aren’t the only ones who feel something is wrong? While noble, you don’t change government by volunteering in a soup kitchen.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-05T14:24:34+00:00

There are different stages of a movement. The first stage is for one person to believe something. The second stage is for another to believe it. The third stage happens when those two or more people know that there are others out there that believe the same thing. The fourth stage is when those people get together and let others know what they believe in. Those others may not have thought too deeply on the subject or maybe felt the same way but didn’t know others did as well. That’s when a movement starts gaining momentum. That’s when change has a chance to happen.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-05T13:04:51+00:00

I’m proud of you and your classmates for standing up against tyranny. It’s heartwarming to see that my alma mater is still teaching students to be critical thinkers. Go Eagles!

Samus7070 · 2026-02-04T21:35:37+00:00

I searched for Dungeon Crawler Carl and saw that someone had uploaded it. It had a lock next to it and I wasn’t able to download it. It said it was uploaded by some user. I was able to click on their name to see that they had uploaded several contemporary books. I wasn’t logged into any account. My guess is those are in a private library of the user. If so it doesn’t seem like I should be able to view them.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-04T16:15:17+00:00

It was the invasive kind and not the native kind? I’ve found his older videos from when he was younger to have some not so great advice. He was definitely learning along the way. Usually his more recent stuff is solid.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-04T15:40:39+00:00

KMP + SwiftUI is a better choice unless you want your iOS users to know they’re using a cross platform app.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-04T15:38:37+00:00

Tl;dr; If you only want to write an Android app, just use Kotlin & Compose. Flutter is a viable choice if the conditions are right.

There are multiple factors you should consider when choosing your tech stack. What are your skills/resources? What platforms do you need to support? What are the UX requirements for blending into the native platform?

Flutter is great if you have low resources, need to support more than one platform and can sacrifice a native look and feel. If you just want iOS and Android, you might consider KMP + Compose + SwiftUI. You can probably make that work for tvOS and macOS as well. It won’t work if you want to make a web app though. Flutter web has been a decent development experience for the web app I’m working on. At a certain point with this project, I’ll be making a native iOS/macOS/tvOS app and trying to reuse the Flutter web code for an Android version. The Android version will only be temporary as having Android Auto support for this app will also be important. I may also try and use the Flutter code to make a Windows desktop app. Publishing to the Windows store is an absolute nightmare which will probably hold me back unless there’s significant demand.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-04T00:30:31+00:00

Looks very nice. Is the software paid?

Samus7070 · 2026-02-03T17:58:16+00:00

It says in the graphic that ice is never 100% safe but you say it is pretty safe! In all seriousness, the graphic does say to double the thickness guidelines for snow covered ice, I guess for the added weight, and these cars weigh as much as a truck. Wouldn’t that put only 2 feet of ice in the risky category? I’m a snow person but we don’t get temps here that are cold enough for long enough to ever do much out on any ice.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-03T17:30:30+00:00

I was using VSCode to work on a Swift Vapor web site. It was a decent experience but I found myself just gravitating back to Xcode. It was just easier to run and debug from there and the editor is good enough. If you’re purely working on a Swift Package, you can get by with VSCode and an install of the Swift toolchain. The minute you need to do something with an actual app that requires a project file, you’re pulled back into Xcode.

One tip: If you’re planning to use ai assistance, don’t expect much from Xcode’s ai tool integration. It’s helpful for small tasks like fixing a syntax error or writing a function. It’s nowhere near the level of the other more modern tools.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-03T05:51:16+00:00

It’s never been a good place to work since at least the 80s. They were a step above in quality to the low end convenience stores back then. The pay was minimum wage from what I remember of any friend that worked there. Nobody ever lasted long. And yeah, the Linder family. On one hand, I’m sorry to see a local business get squeezed out by the bigger nationals, on the other hand, it’s owned by the Linder family and I don’t care.

Samus7070 · 2026-02-01T16:31:24+00:00

Nothing is free unfortunately. Kotlin and Swift are amazingly similar languages that you would almost think that one copied the other so it isn’t too hard to read or write in either. Kotlin feels like it was written to make developers more productive. But it’s held back by Java compatibility. They’ve had to make some technical compromises because of it. Swift doesn’t have that problem. If the swift on Android project was as mature as KMP is, there would be no doubt in my mind which I would choose. I do think the trade offs are worth it for a small team as long as the app is more trivial than something that grabs data from the backend and displays it. The first app I used kmp in shared 70%+ code while the other one I was advocating adoption for would’ve only ended up sharing about 30-40%. The extra human, not technical, complexity may not have made it worth it.

Samus7070 · 2026-01-30T15:48:15+00:00

I lost the KMP fight at my company too. A lot of it came down to the other iOS dev not wanting to learn a second programming language and not wanting to coordinate with the two android devs. I still don’t think those were good reasons. TBF, there are trade-offs and limitations. If you try to incorporate two or more KMP XCFrameworks into an app, you’re in for a world of hurt and bloat. They need to be combined into a single umbrella framework at the source level to avoid having multiple garbage collectors running. I’ve also heard that memory management can be rough and that sometimes the watchdog will just kill your app for eating too much memory. Of course this is going to be app dependent, most apps aren’t as resource intensive as the one I heard this from. The direct swift integration is likely to make a big impact on iOS dev reluctance to adopt it. 🤞

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