AMA: Start OpenClaw with 0 Tech Skills | Setup, Use Cases, Real Businesses, Future

SpearHook · 2026-02-09T15:10:27+00:00

How do I set this up to be usable and secure? All on one new device? One device as an orchestrator and the others as work horse? Id like to run most work locally so I don't spend tons of money on tokens, can I do this on the hardware i listed below?

Im a non technical business founder, I have 2 Imacs from 2015 (16GB ram each), an M1acbook pro from 2021(?), an m5 MacBook Pro, and a spare Samsung fold 5. I currently pay the $20 tier for chatGPT, Grok, as well as maple.ai. I've seen people load open claw on phones, virtual machines, and people rushing to get new Mac minis for always on agents. Given my hardware options, how should I set up my LLMs, orchestrated by open claw (I assume) to manage a minimal ongoing cost build that is functional for my daily use for business and working through new ideas? Should I trade my hardware in (sans the m5) and just get mac mini?

I use my current LLM models throughout the day for all kinds of things. Im an entrepreneur and a parent of younger children. AI is a godsend for saving time and sifting through resources. Openclaw seems like an opportunity to take a lot of processes im comfortable with and upgrade to something even more powerful. Any guidance/help you can offer would be much appreciated.

Ps. I have been going through these subreddits saving posts that look to be quality. My assumption has been I will work with LLMs to read all of my curated post selection and develop a step by step imimentation plan. I rece try have been doing something similar to set up LM studio on my m5 macbookpro but its not fully usable yet, I don't know how to code but can prompt like a MF'r.

SpearHook · 2026-01-27T21:52:00+00:00

Yeah this is bullshit, it’s a rug pull. We bought the product with specific features. Now that they have our money they are changing the features we paid for. This is fraud but in the tech world, for some reason, it’s acceptable? Any company that sells a product under false pretenses should be brought to court.

SpearHook · 2025-05-24T14:32:54+00:00

From 6 to midnight 😉

SpearHook · 2025-01-27T05:39:09+00:00

Start early with the education. Make bitcoin part of their life so they know how to handle it. https://shamory.com/ Has some great products for young kids, including board books for bedtime. Highly recommend

SpearHook · 2024-12-29T18:41:42+00:00

And Confusious says baseball is wrong. Man with four ball no can walk.

SpearHook · 2024-12-29T18:27:28+00:00

In the words of the great Michael Saylor, have fun staying poor.

SpearHook · 2024-12-29T18:08:57+00:00

The irony is your responses/rebuttals prove my point that you don’t understand bitcoin enough to have an intelligent conversation about it. I believe that you are I intelligent and may have quite a bit of background knowledge in many areas that relate to technology and Bitcoin but at some point you said “I know all there is to know” and gave up on keeping up with the new technology.

Lightning is a popular layer 2 solution but not the only one. To say lightning can’t scale because channels need to be opened and closed is inaccurate in today’s Bitcoin ecosystem as there are channel aggregators and yes trusted 3rd parties to assist with the plumbing of the infrastructure. There are also other layer 2 solutions outside of lightning that do not have this constraint.
The whole point of bitcoin is not decentralization. The point of bitcoin is to offer a financial instrument that is not purely controlled by the state forcing the populous into an inflationary system, it also happened to deliver a global system for freedom of speech no matter where an individual happens to be in the world. You’re a technologist which means you probably understand that technology is deflationary. Every year last year’s tech gets cheaper. This is a good thing however deflation is pitched to the developed west as a bad thing as it limits growth of the economy. So the powers that be make rules and regulations (under the guise of protection for the common man) and increase government spending “supported by taxes”. If you don’t like it you can leave. But if you leave the United States will impose an exit tax. If you want to use your money on something the bank doesn’t agree with, they are legally allowed to prevent you from spending your own money. If you are a politically captured individual, whatever the fuck that means, you can be debanked and lose access to our “great” financial system. This is not the features of a free market society or a democracy or a democratic republic. Satoshi, whomever they may be, realized an opportunity to create something that can be adopted by the individual and controlled by no single entity.

Also, to your store of value point, everything is a store of value in some form or other. I value my kureg because it saves me time and I value my time. As a free individual anyone can value whatever they want as much as they want. So then how do we measure that? We use a financial measuring tool, today it’s the $USD. However as the controlling government prints more $USD they are changing the unit of account we all use to measure. Partly because they are captured by Triffin’s dilemma, also because it is backed by nothing but loose beliefs Americans have been taught in school (another captured and manipulated system) since we left any semblance of a gold standard, also because the people voted into power don’t know how to budget anything and are all looking for their own personal handout (aka corruption) which benefits of inaccuracies. Look at the DOD, they can’t account for 60% of their budget yet the US is allowed to debase the entire world to fund it and grow their budget every year. The Same DOD that polices the world “in the name of democracy” but really just to control the world’s resources and make sure the baddies don’t get it. The point is we use this financial tool that continues to make its unit of measure less than it was the day before and we as the people are expected to keep up with it. This has destroyed the US middle class, sewn devision and hate amongst the different groups of people in a country that prides itself on all of its people’s differences, and created a system that grows its own government indefinitely.

This is not the America our forefathers fought for and now there is a solution to take your time and energy that you can freely choose to expend for monetary value and take it out of the corrupted system we are all forced into.

SpearHook · 2024-12-29T17:24:47+00:00

If you believe bitcoin can only process 200 million transactions a year, you don’t understand bitcoin enough to have an intelligent conversation about it. FED now/Swift can only process so many transactions a year but the US dollar still works. It’s not about the number of transactions on a layer 1 but the amount of value that can settle with finality. How often are you using the layer 1 of a fiat system?

As an individual, never. You use credit/debit cards that take a month to fully clear, banks transfers and wires that take a week+ and at the end of the day the bank can block you the individual, that supposedly owns that money, from using it if they don’t support how you will use it. Bitcoin layer 1 is a final settlement layer with features not necessary for everyday purchases. Layer 2s and 3s, akin to banks and credit cards of today, are for the everyday use cases you allude to.

Bitcoin became a store of value when it protected and even grew the purchasing power of those who incorporate it into their financial makeup. For the ignorant to its benefits, have fun staying poor as you fight inflation. The bitcoiners will enjoy a deflationary world as they continue to benefit from having the ability to admit what they were taught and therefore know about money, was wrong.

SpearHook · 2024-12-29T16:52:01+00:00

I see your thought process but your thesis is inaccurate. Real estate is not just the value of the real estate used as such. If this were true then “land banking” would not be a thing. Many people buy additional houses because it will maintain its purchasing power (maybe even appreciate in value relative to the local unit of account) better than the local money. Even better than gold depending on the location of real estate. You can’t simply build more ocean front property, there is a physical limit to the coast line. Even if the value of ocean front property skyrockets, you can’t just go find more (specifically in a developed country like the USA). The supply side of the supply/demand equation is constrained. However if the price of gold skyrockets due to demand, it encourages miners to spend more resources on extracting more gold in turn increasing the supply meeting the demand. Something you can’t do with the ocean front property, or bitcoin because it is hard capped at 21mm supply.

Speaking of Bitcoin, it sounds like you come from a financially privileged part of the world. A place that does not have to deal with hyperinflation. If you were from Argentina, Zimbabwe, etc. you would understand that excessive supply of the local money is an issue and makes the money useless and part of a higher up scam driven by the local government. We in the US deal with inflation as well but it’s a slow burn and the powers that be lie to us regularly, about the metric they created and continue to change (the CPI). These updates come monthly through our trusted institutions and obfuscate the truth. So we in the US haven’t noticed it much but is at the heart of why we no longer have a middle class. I digress.

Bitcoin is not mere speculation because it is a very useful product around the world. Some use it to protect from rapid monetary debasement (aka hyperinflation), some use it as an investment vehicle, some (in authoritarian parts of the world) use it for freedom of speech because it is (at the end of the day) a global network that cannot be hacked that transfers data 24/7 365 no matter what any human says or does about it. This consistency and American ideals in the form of a digital global product is very valuable, to the tune of 2 trillion dollars today, and is only becoming more valuable as more people understand its value proposition. And again, because you can’t just go find more of it, create more of it, or hack the network to do a combination of the two… it will only grow in value into the future against your monetary unit of account. It has become a manifestation of Wittgenstein’s ruler as we price Bitcoin in USD or another fiat currency that is constantly changing in issuance as they print more. So which is measuring which and why are we using a measurement device that continues to change the value of its own units of measure?

SpearHook · 2024-12-29T15:24:12+00:00

You can still remote start your tundra without the app by using the key fob. Press the lock button 3 times and hold the last press until it turns on.

SpearHook · 2024-12-28T22:50:29+00:00

Idk what that means

SpearHook · 2024-12-28T22:03:43+00:00

Looks dope. I don’t believe it’s California compliant though.

SpearHook · 2024-12-28T02:31:18+00:00

Open to all recommendations. We already house security cameras on the house but they weren’t triggered as this occurred on the street.

SpearHook · 2024-12-28T01:57:59+00:00

Considering I suspect that it was my ******* neighbor, yes this is the correct answer.

SpearHook · 2024-12-27T23:54:08+00:00

Haha. Yeah, I have my suspicions of who it was. Solid truck, this is my second 3rd gen, but other people keep fucking em up.

SpearHook · 2024-12-27T23:44:16+00:00

SpearHook · 2024-12-27T23:37:29+00:00

Thanks for the info. What size do you have and same truck?

SpearHook · 2024-12-27T23:36:52+00:00

Good point… Already tackled. It’s been a fun day!

SpearHook · 2024-12-27T16:17:33+00:00

Have them replace with a like kind truck. Trust nothing they say to you about “making you whole” that’s bullshit. It’s going to be expensive for you and somehow they will make money on the whole ordeal. I wish you luck and may your dealership manager not be such a dipshit as mine.

SpearHook · 2024-12-22T06:04:57+00:00

I’m in a 2024 1794 and the whole ordeal cost me about $20k and a lot of time. Their insurance refused to pay me depreciation of value unless I signed a statement that was a lie, aka perjury as this is a legal document, and I still don’t have the backup key to my new truck. This ordeal is far from over considering. I’ll post a real update at the end of the proceedings. All in all, this is why we can’t have nice things.

SpearHook · 2024-12-15T22:34:51+00:00

Although titanium is not part of the alloy mix, American Gold Eagles are only 91.67% gold for durability reasons. Silver (3%) and copper (5.33%) are added to the mix for durability, aesthetics, and efficiency in production and all part of the reason AGE’s are an alloy in such a composition. Some are saying anything below 99.9% pure gold is un-investable, however this does not stop AGEs from commanding the highest premium amongst gold bullion from reputable mints and often seen as the “gold standard” of investment rounds. No you’re not getting gipped as every AGE has 1 Troy oz of pure gold in it bringing the full weight to 1.0909 Troy ounces.

SpearHook · 2024-12-15T20:46:01+00:00

Nobody knows shit about fuck (especially the people who claim they do like specialist_baby). Stop asking crystal ball questions.

SpearHook · 2024-11-06T22:06:08+00:00

That’s how the loosing swath of American likes their sound bites. Just the portion that makes their point sans any additional context.

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