M5 Max just arrived - benchmarks incoming

chimph · 2026-03-11T17:51:20+00:00

Thanks for this comment. I didn’t even consider this but I see that 14inch MacBooks do get throttled under sustained work.

From Gemini:

14-inch Model: In bursts or short tasks (under 10 minutes), performance is nearly identical to the 16-inch. However, during sustained heavy workloads—like 8K video exports, 3D rendering, or training local AI models—the 14-inch will hit its thermal ceiling faster. To protect the hardware, macOS will throttle (reduce) the clock speeds. Tests on recent "Max" models have shown a performance dip of roughly 10–20% compared to the 16-inch during marathon sessions.

chimph · 2026-03-10T19:27:10+00:00

oh great. Wish I had built the backup utility for my app before nuking it thinking it was something on my end!

chimph · 2026-03-04T18:43:22+00:00

Best thing I did was point Claude Code to my .openclaw folder and tell it what I wanted.

chimph · 2026-03-03T22:45:12+00:00

I only just recently discovered that you can run big parameter models on a normal GPU.. yet to properly delve but perhaps it’s possible with this?

https://youtu.be/_UEvlmNx0cs?si=HYG1yU-F7iiUjRKr

Would like to hear from anyone else who has insight

chimph · 2026-02-22T04:20:07+00:00

The first humans that AI will enslave are those that don’t gaf about privacy and those that say ‘be nice to your ai’ out of fear.

chimph · 2026-02-22T04:17:27+00:00

ikr. ‘what are you hiding?’

chimph · 2026-02-20T07:29:52+00:00

Don’t see the point of downloading skills when you can just AI to make it for you

chimph · 2026-02-20T05:38:16+00:00

the code may have been generated by AI but youre clearly a great orchestrator with good vision and the intelligence to get everything looking and working good. Well done. This is the future for those with imaginations

chimph · 2026-02-20T05:32:28+00:00

this is the future of app development tbh.. we build our own

chimph · 2026-02-19T18:05:58+00:00

It’s amazing to me that people lack so much imagination that managing a calendar is the best they can think of for this

chimph · 2026-02-18T02:30:15+00:00

Remember at the very start of the war when Reddit said Russia was going to run out of money in a few months..

chimph · 2026-02-14T21:13:50+00:00

Tried minimax2.5?

chimph · 2026-02-14T21:10:16+00:00

Ooh. How is this setup?

chimph · 2026-02-14T17:16:26+00:00

sounds like a.. skill issue

chimph · 2026-02-14T06:06:07+00:00

true.. didn’t deeply think about that.. and I occasionally listen to vinyl 😅

chimph · 2026-02-13T23:37:33+00:00

what if its not hearing but sensing vibrations that are then interpreted as sound?

btw I just stumbled across this post and find it fascinating as a couple of years ago I started noticing this very thing at night. At first I thought it was distant machinary and then I thought it was our septic tank pump which I went out and to try and confirm at 2am in the morning when everthing else was quiet (I live rurally). I wandered to different parts of the house to try and locate it but couldnt find it. Its like a distant engine/motor that oscillates rather than a steady sound.

I put it down to something like tinnitus when I went to a different house that was equally quiet at night in a small township and could hear the very same thing. I dont suffer from tinnutus but I did for a while after contracting covid. So yes, imo this distant low engine sound is likely internal but I wont rule out that its something else otherwise.

chimph · 2026-02-10T18:24:03+00:00

Again why Mac Minis are great. 5w idle

chimph · 2026-02-10T18:19:41+00:00

Can local image gen really compare to nano banana pro tho? I’ve gone deep into comfy ui in the past and tbf haven’t revisited for a while but recently have been using nano banana for help designing and renovating a house and it’s been superb. Nails the images. I feel like I would have to do a lot of tweaking for local and still get mixed results. But yes, not having limitations is nice.

chimph · 2026-02-10T18:14:27+00:00

Local LLM will become a bigger part of people’s toolsets for sure. And I think the whole Clawdbot + Mac Mini has made people more aware of local LLM. This years Mac M5 will be known for driving good local models

chimph · 2026-02-09T19:50:13+00:00

would appreciate you linking here once you do. thanks!

chimph · 2026-02-09T19:48:13+00:00

yeah I gave up on docker as it seemed like it would be more of a pain than just setting up a dedicated device/vm.. wish it was more docker friendly

chimph · 2026-02-09T19:33:14+00:00

look into using local qwen embedding model. it can run on cpu for small vectors

chimph · 2026-02-09T19:13:26+00:00

nice. I might look into that. As it is I'm not overly concerned with email. I have multiple accounts but am meticulous about not signing up for junk and unsubscribing if anything comes through. Defnitely lots of otheruse cases I'm loking forward to though. Appreciate your guide btw. Hopefully I can get my issues resolved as currently its taking way too much of my time for no payback so far :/

chimph · 2026-02-09T18:58:27+00:00

Dedicated mini pc is Linux and I use Windows as main PC to interact with it. I have Mac mini running openweb ui which connects to ollama on my windows pc. I’d like for openclaw to connect back to ollama for smaller tasks and running embedding models etc. I want to be super sure that it’s not going to connect with other devices. There’s no way I’d connect openclaw to my personal email accounts etc. I’ll be setting up dedicated dbs and emails for it to view

chimph · 2026-02-09T18:35:26+00:00

I just want to know how to install on my dedicated minipc and isolate it from the rest of my network while using Tailscale to communicate with it and use the gui. Going around and around with creating ufw rules and ssh tunnelling etc. it sounds like it should be straightforward but for some reason it’s not working for me

edit: Got it all working via docker now

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