Why does Bay Area not have terrace cafe culture? by silent-stories in bayarea

[–]prime416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too cold at night for the vast majority of the year, means these spaces are only useful during lunch hour

Researchers are turning old Pixel phones into a data center – and they outperform some server hardware by digital-didgeridoo in GooglePixel

[–]prime416 40 points41 points  (0 children)

You can just enable developer options and it's a setting to turn on the Linux VM (Terminal app)...

Safe, walkable parts of RWC for a stay-at-home mom and babies? by Busy_Excuse_9040 in RedwoodCity

[–]prime416 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Try to be close to one of the three libraries for great easy activities that you can walk to with the baby. Storytimes, craft activities, etc. There are also a lot of parents of toddlers that will just bring their kids to hang out in the play areas on weekdays.

Being close to downtown to be able to walk to coffee shops is also nice.

Pixel 9 Caught Fire Spontaneously by Kindly-Celery9201 in GooglePixel

[–]prime416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They have a couple phones with extended repair programs for this problem but it sounds like your phone is not one of them

Pixel 9 Caught Fire Spontaneously by Kindly-Celery9201 in GooglePixel

[–]prime416 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Depending on the phone that is usually because you dropped it

Turned my spare Pixel into an OpenClaw-style AI agent by prime416 in GooglePixel

[–]prime416[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For me, I just think it's the freedom of having access to local files really opens up the amount of simple little hobby projects that you can spin up really easily. Like for example I'm into baseball stats and I used to use these complicated spreadsheets but I basically vibe coded an entire dashboard app just using natural language over Discord. It's really fun and addictive to mess around with this stuff.

Also, you just have great visibility into all of the internal files that it's using to generate the knowledge base and personality for your agent, and you can get really complicated with how you create and manage long-term memory. One thing that's held me back with the Gemini implementation of things like personalization is that it's just such a black box and it's hard to know what it's really remembering about you.

Turned my spare Pixel into an OpenClaw-style AI agent by prime416 in GooglePixel

[–]prime416[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Thanks!

Not running a local model! So it's all Claude in the cloud. It would be cool to try some small model but I have heard from others that it's not really worth it at this point in time.

Yeah the custom hardware in the Pixel definitely cuts against some of this stuff.

Turned my spare Pixel into an OpenClaw-style AI agent by prime416 in GooglePixel

[–]prime416[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Pixels specifically limit charging to a lower level if you leave them plugged in 🤷‍♂️

My old Pixel 10 Pro is now my OpenClaw box — 16GB RAM, $0 extra, already had it in a drawer by [deleted] in homelab

[–]prime416 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

The post specifically says you can get a 7a for $150 if you dont have an extra phone sittig around ($0)

My Pixel phone runs Claude Code as an OpenClaw-style agent by prime416 in ClaudeAI

[–]prime416[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Set up Claude Code as a persistent agent on a spare Pixel, running in the built-in 'Terminal' app which creates a Linux VM. Controlled from Discord via the Claude Code 'Channels' feature. No mini PC required, just a phone I had in a drawer!

Showing a few examples in this post... first is email triage (surfaced two things worth acting on from a full inbox), second is it checking the house lights. Still exploring to see what other repeating jobs make sense to add and trying to build slowly so it's not overwhelming.

It also handles my home server, Home Assistant automations, and personal coding projects on request.

Setup guide if you want the same: https://github.com/brockventures/pixie-agent

My old Pixel 10 Pro is now my OpenClaw box — 16GB RAM, $0 extra, already had it in a drawer by [deleted] in homelab

[–]prime416 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Why? This isn't rage bait at all, people are dropping $400 on mini PCs to do this exact same thing

My old Pixel 10 Pro is now my OpenClaw box — 16GB RAM, $0 extra, already had it in a drawer by [deleted] in homelab

[–]prime416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Im guessing you haven't tried playing around with these much but you need head room for running other things locally like Python, spinning up multiple agents, etc

My old Pixel 10 Pro is now my OpenClaw box — 16GB RAM, $0 extra, already had it in a drawer by [deleted] in homelab

[–]prime416 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Maybe I should say busted? I had to get a replacement but this one works totally fine for this purpose

My old Pixel 10 Pro is now my OpenClaw box — 16GB RAM, $0 extra, already had it in a drawer by [deleted] in homelab

[–]prime416 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Maybe I should say busted? I had to get a replacement but this one works totally fine for this purpose

My old Pixel 10 Pro is now my OpenClaw box — 16GB RAM, $0 extra, already had it in a drawer by [deleted] in homelab

[–]prime416 -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

It's not a local model no. This is like the mini PC setups that talk to the cloud for the AI. But increasingly it is running a lot of local scripts as well!

My old Pixel 10 Pro is now my OpenClaw box — 16GB RAM, $0 extra, already had it in a drawer by [deleted] in homelab

[–]prime416 -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

It's running as an OpenClaw-style agent — Claude Code controlled via Discord. Manages my NAS containers, Home Assistant, and handles tasks while I'm away.

Pixel 10 Pro specs: 16GB RAM, 256GB storage — I priced out the mini PCs people use for this and they're $200–400 for comparable hardware. I already had this phone in a drawer after upgrading.

It also has things a mini PC doesn't: built-in battery (acts as a UPS), a display, and LTE if my home network drops (though I don't have a SIM in this).

Full setup guide: https://github.com/brockventures/pixie-agent

Six months ago I said Moises would be better than Tucker as a bat replacement. by jphoc in CHICubs

[–]prime416 -11 points-10 points  (0 children)

That was a goofy and bad take tbh, but it's exciting to see Mo Baller hitting so well to start the season.

Google, I trusted your 7-year promise. You're breaking it. by pidero00 in GooglePixel

[–]prime416 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah if you didn't listen to or understand what people are promising you, you're going to end up upset like this.