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Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by beng-nl »

andai wrote: post #82
esaym wrote: post #46

Outside of the article's mentioned graphics development, there is no reason to isolate an agent using actual hardware. I threw together this script[0] using libvirt to give claude its own graphical desktop env to be able to do user acceptance testing with Chrome. It has full root and can do what ever. If it makes a mess, I can dump and reinstall in seconds. 0: https://gist.github.com/smith153/04b4068b5a2d7b234f1c3d59…

Nice. I just have sudo useradd agent sudo su agent So it can blow up its own files, but not mine. It was also doing some kind of headless Chrome stuff in there. I don't know how that works, but it was taking screenshots iirc. I did also set up VNC at some point but didn't find it worth using. >If it makes a mess, I can dump and reinstall in seconds. This is also true of a $3 VPS, where I found it very amusing to give…

Patiënt zero, that’s what :-)

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by hjkl0 »

bagels wrote: post #87
brandnewideas wrote: post #32

You people are too far gone

You're being left behind.

This implies a long road to catch up. But seems to be that all one needs to do to be on the cutting edge is to integrate a few scripts that support a cutting edge model. Which you then converse with in natural language. So how higher will the bar to entry be five years from now?

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by hjkl0 »

artisinal wrote: post #52
mystifyingpoi wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Crap, I totally believed this. We live in a dystopia already.

Someone apparently made this https://github.com/Grigorij-Dudnik/TinderGPT > TinderGPT automates the process of writing and arranging dates with girls on Tinder, enabling you to generate romantic meetings with almost zero effort. Your only role is to like the profiles that catch your eye. After that, TinderGPT comes into the play. It initiates a conversation with the girl, using details from her profile, continues by…

This is not really the same at all. You still have to swipe, the value add here is apparently “building an emotional bond”. Together with the explicit goal of “dates with girls”, this actually feels incredibly nefarious.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by hjkl0 »

airstrike wrote: post #105
fooster wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really they're not. But it seems you have decided that you, above all, know best.

I started my post with "it seems to me" precisely because I haven't decided that I know best.

> The only ostensible benefit is in the eyes of the AI-psychotic tinkerer, who knows no better, or in those of the clout-chasing developer farming likes on their LinkedIn posts.

Truly open minded

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by somewhatrandom9 »

booi wrote: post #47
somewhatrandom9 wrote: post #38

Though it doesn't get by all the hurdles mentioned, it is alternatively possible to run Mac OS in a VM on your Mac using UTM and install Claude Code within the UTM VM. UTM can be run under a non-admin Mac account. This can allow you to use most Mac-native tooling, at least. The interactive performance of using the Claude Code ui on the VM isn't great, however. I'm not sure if you can log into the VM via terminal on t…

An argument against this method is UTM doesn't support graphics acceleration so browser support will be hobbled. Even if you don't need the acceleration, I've found browsers in UTM virtualized OS's can't get past some modern captchas and other browser fingerprinting checkpoints :\. It's terrible but that's the way it is.

I don't know about solving captchas, but if you are running macOS virtual machines on an Apple Silicon Mac, hardware graphics acceleration is supposed to be natively supported out of the box when using UTM's Apple Virtualization Framework backend.

A primary source of UI lag is how Apple's native virtualization framework processes multitouch trackpad events. There are other issues like mismatched resolutions and framerates, too. Ask your favorite ai to debug. You can try e.g. deselection of the trackpad setting and instead select basic mouse support, and that can clear things up..

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by fooster »

troupo wrote: post #157
fooster wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not really? Imagine for example looking for http status code 500 in an api log over the past hour. The nice thing here is it doesn’t matter if you get them all because it’s reoccur (or not).

> Imagine for example looking for http status code 500 in an api log over the past hour. 1. On a blog that no one visits maybe? 2. It's called a grep 3. For bigger projects it's called sentry

Dude, really open your mind and stop arguing mindlessly. We're using this to great success on a serious sass product with hundreds of thousands of users. I'm not some AI influencer, or blowing smoke.

The source of errors can be whatever you like. Sentry, grep, whatever. Its not the point. The point is that many of these errors are real issues, and can be fixed automatically and safely by agentic systems. It really saves time, and work by our team leaving them to actually concentrate on the thing that delivers real value.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by phil21 »

croes wrote: post #27
phil21 wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For a lot of folks summarizing a few days of work email and especially slack chats is way more than 5 minutes. Some work environments do not have great communication hygiene so it can be overwhelming to try to keep up with 500 emails a day and 38 Slack channels. For the folks I talk to who use a LLM for this that seems to be the case. Takes a huge cognitive load off every morning and saves them an hour or two. More o…

And how can they be sure the summary correct and doesn’t miss anything important?

In such environments everyone is constantly missing things and not replying until they get followed up with.

So that sort of thing is already normalized. An LLM is unlikely to be worse than a human. There is no accountability either way since everyone is failing at the task, it really doesn’t matter much if your or your bot misses a few percentage points of high priority items. You will probably be vastly outperforming your peers who are doing it manually.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by eventualcomp »

threethirtytwo wrote: post #30

What's a good way to give a limited amount of money to the LLM, say like 2k or 5k or something. But keep it completely separate from my identity. Like I want the LLM to have a bank account and he can do ANYTHING with that bank account that he wants. But he can't fuck anything up that has to so with me. He only has 2 - 5k

Your LLM can fuck that up badly if your LLM starts to take loans, right? Or BNPL regardless of sandboxing?

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by thoughtpeddler »

mmh0000 wrote: post #53
chasd00 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Idk how you could at least in the US. Closest thing off the top of my head would be one of those checking accounts you can setup for kids. It would still be tied to you.

If you want Anthropic (or others) but anonymously, what you do is use https://openrouter.ai/pricing and fund your account from any of your preferred cryptos.

Yes you can anonymize from one frontier lab, but you've just now created a new source of identification for all your inference: OpenRouter.

Re: Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

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Post by Huppie »

throwawaysjskdk wrote: post #143
guluarte wrote: post #29

i just use terminus + wireguard + tmux and works great, i can control claude/codex from my phone while working out

Why not Claude remote control?

Not OP but in my case I've been using this setup for quite a while (well before Claude remote control was a thing), this works with any other tool / ssh session.

I'm not entirely sure there's a big advantage to Claude remote control to be honest. Maybe it's just me being afraid of lock in (I do switch between Claude and Codex somewhat often) and/or the inertia of changing things up that keeps me from trying it.

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