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HE TURNED A $599 MAC MINI INTO A CLAUDE SECOND BRAIN USING OBSIDIAN, PYTHON AND A FEW ALWAYS-ON LOOPS not a fancy SaaS dashboard. not another chat tab. a tiny box on a desk that can pull lectures, transcribe audio, read articles, clean notes and write everything into a...

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HAO WANG BUILT AN AI SERVER FARM OUT OF 100 MAC MINIS. ONE $599 BOX KILLS A $200/MONTH CLAUDE CODE BILL FOR $3 IN ELECTRICITY a developer posted his $170 claude code bill from 10 days on reddit. someone replied "i bought a mac mini m4. haven't paid anthropic since" the m4 chip has 120 gb/s memory bandwidth and unified memory. a $599 mac mini runs ai faster than a $1,500 windows pc with a discrete gpu ollama now supports the anthropic messages api. claude code connects to your local mac mini with one environment variable. zero api costs, same interface a heavy developer pays $459 a month across claude code, chatgpt pro, gemini, cursor and copilot. the mac mini pays off in 3 months and runs on $3 after that uber rolled out claude code to 5,000 engineers and burned $3.4 billion in 4 months. the people who own the hardware in 2026 will look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article below
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HAO WANG BUILT AN AI SERVER FARM OUT OF 100 MAC MINIS. ONE $599 BOX KILLS A $200/MONTH CLAUDE CODE BILL FOR $3 IN ELECTRICITY a developer posted his $170 claude code bill from 10 days on reddit. someone replied "i bought a mac mini m4. haven't paid anthropic since" the m4 chip has 120 gb/s memory bandwidth and unified memory. a $599 mac mini runs ai faster than a $1,500 windows pc with a discrete gpu ollama now supports the anthropic messages api. claude code connects to your local mac mini with one environment variable. zero api costs, same interface a heavy developer pays $459 a month across claude code, chatgpt pro, gemini, cursor and copilot. the mac mini pays off in 3 months and runs on $3 after that uber rolled out claude code to 5,000 engineers and burned $3.4 billion in 4 months. the people who own the hardware in 2026 will look very far ahead in 2028 bookmark this and read the article below

starmex

50,604 views • 21 days ago

Someone put a Claude Code sticker on a $599 Mac Mini and accidentally built the most productive setup in tech. Dedicated machine, zero distractions, Claude 4.7 Opus running 24/7 with one prompt on the screen. What do you want the computer to do? Fork a repo, write the code, create the file, find the article, handle whatever comes next, repeat. No laptop, no cloud subscription, no context switching, no "let me pull that up real quick" Just a box the size of a hardcover book sitting on a desk doing the work of a full time hire around the clock. People stopped using Mac Minis as computers, they're using them as Claude, $599 once and it never clocks out.
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Someone put a Claude Code sticker on a $599 Mac Mini and accidentally built the most productive setup in tech. Dedicated machine, zero distractions, Claude 4.7 Opus running 24/7 with one prompt on the screen. What do you want the computer to do? Fork a repo, write the code, create the file, find the article, handle whatever comes next, repeat. No laptop, no cloud subscription, no context switching, no "let me pull that up real quick" Just a box the size of a hardcover book sitting on a desk doing the work of a full time hire around the clock. People stopped using Mac Minis as computers, they're using them as Claude, $599 once and it never clocks out.

Defileo🔮

70,289 views • 2 months ago

$5,500/year subscription stack vs $599 hardware. Mac Mini M4 + Ollama + Claude Code. Apple Stores ran out of Mac Minis. not because of marketing because developers figured out the math. one env var (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL= redirects Claude Code to your $599 box. same workflow. $3/month in electricity. forever. the smart play isn't all-local or all-cloud. it's hybrid: / Mac Mini ($599) handles 80% coding, drafts, RAG, document QA, agent loops / one $20/month subscription handles the 20% that needs frontier reasoning / total monthly: $23 instead of $459 / total annual savings: ~$5,232 Apple positioned the Mac Mini as "the most popular Mac ever." developers turned it into the cheapest AI server on earth.
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$5,500/year subscription stack vs $599 hardware. Mac Mini M4 + Ollama + Claude Code. Apple Stores ran out of Mac Minis. not because of marketing because developers figured out the math. one env var (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL= redirects Claude Code to your $599 box. same workflow. $3/month in electricity. forever. the smart play isn't all-local or all-cloud. it's hybrid: / Mac Mini ($599) handles 80% coding, drafts, RAG, document QA, agent loops / one $20/month subscription handles the 20% that needs frontier reasoning / total monthly: $23 instead of $459 / total annual savings: ~$5,232 Apple positioned the Mac Mini as "the most popular Mac ever." developers turned it into the cheapest AI server on earth.

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111,699 views • 20 days ago

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MAC MINI + IPAD + CLAUDE OPUS 4.8 = THE MOST UNDERRATED SETUP OF 2026 > $600 Mac Mini M4 in the closet. no monitor. autonomous agents running 24/7 > reviewing code, managing files, handling workflows while you sleep > you wake up, open the iPad, connect to the full desktop, see what got done coffee shop. lid open. check on the agents. nudge one. close it. your AI keeps working > Mac Mini M4: $600 > Claude: $20/month > iPad you already own this is a remote AI office that fits in a shoebox demo below. Claude skills that run on this setup are in the article above

Mr. Buzzoni

47,978 views • 22 days ago

A GIRL BOUGHT A $599 APPLE BOX AND CUT HER AI COSTS FROM $459/MONTH TO $23/MONTH. THE MAC MINI M4 IS QUIETLY BECOMING THE CHEAPEST AI SETUP IN 2026 she didn’t buy it because it looked nice on her desk. she bought it because paying for claude, chatgpt, cursor and api usage every month was getting ridiculous the setup is simple. mac mini m4, ollama, open webui, and local models like qwen, deepseek and llama. for most daily work, that’s enough to write, code, summarize, search notes, and run private workflows without sending everything to the cloud that’s why the math looks so good. a heavy ai stack can hit $459 a month, or $5,508 a year. the mac mini starts at $599 and uses around $3 a month in electricity. if it handles even 70 to 80% of the workload, it pays for itself fast install ollama, point your tools to localhost, and the workflow changes immediately. no token stress, no rate limits, no wondering where your files are going you still keep one cloud model for the hardest tasks but once a small box on your desk does most of the work, paying full price for everything starts to feel stupid
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A GIRL BOUGHT A $599 APPLE BOX AND CUT HER AI COSTS FROM $459/MONTH TO $23/MONTH. THE MAC MINI M4 IS QUIETLY BECOMING THE CHEAPEST AI SETUP IN 2026 she didn’t buy it because it looked nice on her desk. she bought it because paying for claude, chatgpt, cursor and api usage every month was getting ridiculous the setup is simple. mac mini m4, ollama, open webui, and local models like qwen, deepseek and llama. for most daily work, that’s enough to write, code, summarize, search notes, and run private workflows without sending everything to the cloud that’s why the math looks so good. a heavy ai stack can hit $459 a month, or $5,508 a year. the mac mini starts at $599 and uses around $3 a month in electricity. if it handles even 70 to 80% of the workload, it pays for itself fast install ollama, point your tools to localhost, and the workflow changes immediately. no token stress, no rate limits, no wondering where your files are going you still keep one cloud model for the hardest tasks but once a small box on your desk does most of the work, paying full price for everything starts to feel stupid

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455,517 views • 21 days ago

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Andrej Karpathy quietly shipped the best second brain idea in years not an app. a pattern. let an llm maintain a wiki of your notes. you dump sources, it reads them, links them, files them. knowledge compounds like interest. someone built it into a free claude code plugin. setup is two commands: claude plugin marketplace add AgriciDaniel/claude-obsidian claude plugin install claude-obsidian@agricidaniel-claude-obsidian then open obsidian, open claude code in the same folder, type /wiki. that's it. your notes are now queryable by claude and they get richer every time you read something. bookmark this. best thing you'll build this weekend.

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329,930 views • 10 days ago

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60,173 views • 16 days ago

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THIS GUY CONNECTED HIS AI AGENTS TO HIS OBSIDIAN AND BUILT A BRAIN THAT LEARNS ON ITS OWN. HERE'S HOW TO BUILD IT Obsidian is just markdown files sitting in a folder. That turns out to be the perfect memory for an AI agent, because an agent can read and write those files directly. He wired his agents into the vault so they pull context from it, do the work, and write what they learned back. The notes aren't the point. The loop is, and it gets sharper every cycle How to build it: 1. Point an agent at your vault. The fastest way, no plugins, no API keys: open a terminal and run npx obsidian-mcp /path/to/your/vault. That exposes your Obsidian folder to Claude as a tool it can read, search, and write to. Add it to your Claude Code or Cowork config and restart 2. Confirm it can see the brain. Ask it: "list the notes in my vault and summarize what's in them." If it reads them back, the connection is live. Now it starts every task with everything the vault already holds instead of from zero 3. Give each agent one job and a write-back rule. Tell it: "research this, then save what you found as a new note in /brain with links to related notes." One agent researches, one summarizes, one plans. Each writes its output back into the vault 4. Close the loop. Add one line to every agent's instructions: "read /brain before starting, write your result back when done." Now each task leaves the vault richer, and the next run reads that before it works. It compounds instead of resetting 5. You only steer. Review what the brain produces, point it at the next thing. The agents handle the reading, writing, and connecting The edge isn't better notes. It's a brain that feeds itself, so the work gets sharper every cycle instead of starting over Bookmark this

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57,768 views • 16 days ago

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THIS DEVELOPER BOUGHT A $799 MAC MINI AND NOW RUNS 5 FACELESS YOUTUBE CHANNELS FOR $55/MONTH WITH CLAUDE AGENTS the trick is not buying a stronger computer. the trick is giving claude its own 24/7 machine, so it can take over the screen, click through tools, move files, write scripts and keep working while his main laptop stays untouched each channel runs from its own skill. documentary, luxury, gaming, deep sea and infrastructure all have different tones, seo formats and script rules. claude can turn one topic into a 1,600-2,000 word script, 8-10 visual prompts and 3 title options without a new brief every night the whole system costs $799 once and around $55 a month to operate. claude, elevenlabs, midjourney and electricity replace the manual loop most faceless creators get stuck in after month two. the mac mini itself stays online for about $3/month setup takes around 45 minutes. fresh macos install, 32gb ram, claude desktop, computer use permissions, google drive routing, connectors and one dedicated output folder. after that the machine becomes the place where the work happens most people try to scale youtube by adding more channels and more manual work. this flips the model. one box handles research, scripts, prompts, descriptions and scheduling while the human does one review session per week month 6 is where this starts getting dangerous. the channels that survive the first 90 days are not just posting videos anymore. they are running a tiny content factory from a box under the desk

Gipp 🦅

19,638 views • 19 days ago

THIS GUY CONNECTED CLAUDE TO TRADINGVIEW AND CUT 200+ HOURS OF MANUAL CHART WORK 40 trades a week used to mean the same loop: open the chart, check RSI, compare EMA, write notes and wait for the next setup now Claude reads TradingView 24/7, tracks volume, indicators and price conditions while he is not even at the desk this is not a $20k trading terminal and not a quant fund setup, just one laptop, one chart and one strategy written in plain English the crazy part is not that Claude predicts the market, it is that a regular trader can remove the boring human loop from every setup ↓
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THIS GUY CONNECTED CLAUDE TO TRADINGVIEW AND CUT 200+ HOURS OF MANUAL CHART WORK 40 trades a week used to mean the same loop: open the chart, check RSI, compare EMA, write notes and wait for the next setup now Claude reads TradingView 24/7, tracks volume, indicators and price conditions while he is not even at the desk this is not a $20k trading terminal and not a quant fund setup, just one laptop, one chart and one strategy written in plain English the crazy part is not that Claude predicts the market, it is that a regular trader can remove the boring human loop from every setup ↓

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54,844 views • 13 days ago

🚨 Yarchi just published an awesome guide on building an AI "second brain" using Claude and Obsidian Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki concept, the idea is to stop starting from a blank chat window and start building a compounding knowledge graph. Obsidian handles the local storage. Claude acts as the brain. I wrote down the condensed notes on how to wire them together: The Stack: → Install Obsidian (your free, local text storage) and Claude Desktop Pro (the engine that reads and writes files). The Bridge: → Install the "Local REST API" plugin in Obsidian, copy the key, and use Claude’s MCP framework to connect them (claude mcp add-json obsidian-vault...). The Context: → Ask Claude to interview you. Have it ask about your goals, projects, and working style, then save it all to a CLAUDE.md file so it never forgets who you are. The Structure: → Create specific project folders (Inputs, Process, Outputs, Feedback) and open them as isolated vaults so Claude stays focused on one job at a time. The Automation: → Save repeated workflows as markdown "skills" and use Claude's schedule tab to trigger daily vault maintenance. Voilà! You end up with an AI that organizes your files, summarizes your notes, and remembers your entire context. Full guide from Yarchi here ↓
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🚨 Yarchi just published an awesome guide on building an AI "second brain" using Claude and Obsidian Based on Andrej Karpathy's LLM Wiki concept, the idea is to stop starting from a blank chat window and start building a compounding knowledge graph. Obsidian handles the local storage. Claude acts as the brain. I wrote down the condensed notes on how to wire them together: The Stack: → Install Obsidian (your free, local text storage) and Claude Desktop Pro (the engine that reads and writes files). The Bridge: → Install the "Local REST API" plugin in Obsidian, copy the key, and use Claude’s MCP framework to connect them (claude mcp add-json obsidian-vault...). The Context: → Ask Claude to interview you. Have it ask about your goals, projects, and working style, then save it all to a CLAUDE.md file so it never forgets who you are. The Structure: → Create specific project folders (Inputs, Process, Outputs, Feedback) and open them as isolated vaults so Claude stays focused on one job at a time. The Automation: → Save repeated workflows as markdown "skills" and use Claude's schedule tab to trigger daily vault maintenance. Voilà! You end up with an AI that organizes your files, summarizes your notes, and remembers your entire context. Full guide from Yarchi here ↓

Charly Wargnier

172,836 views • 1 day ago

THIS GUY BUILT HIS ENTIRE COMMAND CENTER INSIDE OBSIDIAN USING A SINGLE CLAUDE INSTANCE AND NOW HE NEVER LEAVES IT He calls it handro operator Here’s what’s actually running inside: > Live Claude usage tracking (tokens, models and real-time costs) > A ClickUp task queue with Claude generated action suggestions that can be executed immediately > Full calendar sync > A custom intelligence feed for signals and news (AI video, Reddit, frontier research, searchable by keywords and time) > An Intelligence tab with Gmail highlights, Slack activity and Fireflies meeting transcripts > The ability to reply to emails and Slack messages directly from Obsidian without ever leaving the vault He built the whole thing in a single day: Mood board → defined the specs → dropped everything into Claude with one prompt → got a complete dashboard UI kit → fed it back into Claude → Claude mapped and connected everything automatically The article below goes deeper into how to reduce token usage when combining Claude with Obsidian Save both the post and the article - you might end up combining the ideas into a single product later
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THIS GUY BUILT HIS ENTIRE COMMAND CENTER INSIDE OBSIDIAN USING A SINGLE CLAUDE INSTANCE AND NOW HE NEVER LEAVES IT He calls it handro operator Here’s what’s actually running inside: > Live Claude usage tracking (tokens, models and real-time costs) > A ClickUp task queue with Claude generated action suggestions that can be executed immediately > Full calendar sync > A custom intelligence feed for signals and news (AI video, Reddit, frontier research, searchable by keywords and time) > An Intelligence tab with Gmail highlights, Slack activity and Fireflies meeting transcripts > The ability to reply to emails and Slack messages directly from Obsidian without ever leaving the vault He built the whole thing in a single day: Mood board → defined the specs → dropped everything into Claude with one prompt → got a complete dashboard UI kit → fed it back into Claude → Claude mapped and connected everything automatically The article below goes deeper into how to reduce token usage when combining Claude with Obsidian Save both the post and the article - you might end up combining the ideas into a single product later

Bonsai 🌳

21,281 views • 21 days ago

a developer posted his Claude Code bill on Reddit: $170 in 10 days. someone replied: "I bought a Mac Mini M4. Haven't paid Anthropic since." most people scrolled past that reply. the dev community didn't. Apple Stores ran out of Mac Minis the next month. not from launch hype from devs running the math. the math: / Claude Code Max + ChatGPT Pro + Cursor + Copilot = $459/month, $5,508/year / one $599 Mac Mini M4 runs the same workflows locally / one env var (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL= redirects Claude Code to your hardware / $3/month in electricity. one box. silent. 5-inch square. the workflow stays identical. the bill stops. that's the trade. the developers who already made this swap aren't loud about it. they're billing the same clients on cheaper infrastructure and pocketing the spread.
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a developer posted his Claude Code bill on Reddit: $170 in 10 days. someone replied: "I bought a Mac Mini M4. Haven't paid Anthropic since." most people scrolled past that reply. the dev community didn't. Apple Stores ran out of Mac Minis the next month. not from launch hype from devs running the math. the math: / Claude Code Max + ChatGPT Pro + Cursor + Copilot = $459/month, $5,508/year / one $599 Mac Mini M4 runs the same workflows locally / one env var (ANTHROPIC_BASE_URL= redirects Claude Code to your hardware / $3/month in electricity. one box. silent. 5-inch square. the workflow stays identical. the bill stops. that's the trade. the developers who already made this swap aren't loud about it. they're billing the same clients on cheaper infrastructure and pocketing the spread.

dunik

199,995 views • 19 days ago

This guy turned a $250K cloud bill into a $2,999 Nvidia box on his desk. One box. One-time charge. Same size as a Mac mini. Runs the workload AWS was charging him $1,900/month for. He made $22,000 in a year just from the bill he stopped paying. The kicker: it speaks OpenAI-compatible API out of the box. Migrating his existing stack was 1 line of code. - No more cloud GPUs. - No more monthly meter. - No more "let me check the AWS dashboard before I run that." Full build, exact math, and what the box actually runs is in the article below 👇
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This guy turned a $250K cloud bill into a $2,999 Nvidia box on his desk. One box. One-time charge. Same size as a Mac mini. Runs the workload AWS was charging him $1,900/month for. He made $22,000 in a year just from the bill he stopped paying. The kicker: it speaks OpenAI-compatible API out of the box. Migrating his existing stack was 1 line of code. - No more cloud GPUs. - No more monthly meter. - No more "let me check the AWS dashboard before I run that." Full build, exact math, and what the box actually runs is in the article below 👇

ZEUS⚡️

13,528 views • 24 days ago

Noah Brier (Noah Brier) uses Claude Code as his second brain—it’s the coolest notetaking setup I’ve ever seen. He has Claude running on a server in his basement hooked up to a VPN. It stores, reads, and writes to thousands of notes in his Obsidian (Obsidian) vault. He does it all from his phone. I had him on the show to tell us exactly how he’s pulling this off. We get into: - The nuts and bolts of the Claude Code-Obsidian setup: Noah set up Claude Code on top of his Obsidian root directory, and he walked me through how he uses it to prep for an upcoming speech—creating a project folder, pulling in relevant research from his notes, saving transcripts from chats with other LLMs, and generating daily progress updates. - The “thinking partner” that lives inside Noah’s second brain: Noah points out that in the hype around AI’s ability to write, the fact that it can read is overlooked. That’s why he has an agent inside Claude Code with strict guardrails to stay in “thinking mode.” It logs his questions, tracks insights, and catches him up on research if he returns to a project after a few days away. - How Noah does deep work on his phone: Noah rigged a home server in his basement, put his Obsidian vault in it—and then runs Claude Code on top. Noah says that being able to think, write, research, and ship code from his phone has fundamentally changed the way he works. This episode of Every 📧’s AI & I is a must-watch for anyone curious about who wants to learn how to use Claude Code to build a true second brain. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:19 How you can do deep work on your phone: 00:04:28 Why Noah thinks Grok has the best voice AI: 00:06:14 The nuts and bolts of Noah’s Claude Code-Obsidian setup: 00:11:39 Using an agent in Claude Code as a “thinking partner”: 00:23:59 Noah’s Thomas’ English Muffin theory of AI: 00:35:07 The white space still left to explore in AI: 00:44:04 How Noah is preparing his kids for AI: 00:50:41 How he brought his Claude Code setup to mobile: 01:01:54
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Noah Brier (Noah Brier) uses Claude Code as his second brain—it’s the coolest notetaking setup I’ve ever seen. He has Claude running on a server in his basement hooked up to a VPN. It stores, reads, and writes to thousands of notes in his Obsidian (Obsidian) vault. He does it all from his phone. I had him on the show to tell us exactly how he’s pulling this off. We get into: - The nuts and bolts of the Claude Code-Obsidian setup: Noah set up Claude Code on top of his Obsidian root directory, and he walked me through how he uses it to prep for an upcoming speech—creating a project folder, pulling in relevant research from his notes, saving transcripts from chats with other LLMs, and generating daily progress updates. - The “thinking partner” that lives inside Noah’s second brain: Noah points out that in the hype around AI’s ability to write, the fact that it can read is overlooked. That’s why he has an agent inside Claude Code with strict guardrails to stay in “thinking mode.” It logs his questions, tracks insights, and catches him up on research if he returns to a project after a few days away. - How Noah does deep work on his phone: Noah rigged a home server in his basement, put his Obsidian vault in it—and then runs Claude Code on top. Noah says that being able to think, write, research, and ship code from his phone has fundamentally changed the way he works. This episode of Every 📧’s AI & I is a must-watch for anyone curious about who wants to learn how to use Claude Code to build a true second brain. Watch below! Timestamps: Introduction: 00:01:19 How you can do deep work on your phone: 00:04:28 Why Noah thinks Grok has the best voice AI: 00:06:14 The nuts and bolts of Noah’s Claude Code-Obsidian setup: 00:11:39 Using an agent in Claude Code as a “thinking partner”: 00:23:59 Noah’s Thomas’ English Muffin theory of AI: 00:35:07 The white space still left to explore in AI: 00:44:04 How Noah is preparing his kids for AI: 00:50:41 How he brought his Claude Code setup to mobile: 01:01:54

Dan Shipper 📧

30,792 views • 9 months ago

Video on how to set up a pre release #Toccata $KAS node for Mac users. It is so simple to do we should have 10,000 nodes running… IzioDev -Download the software for Mac at the link in Michael’s tweet -Open the folder. Copy the file path for Kaspad -Paste it in a terminal window, press space, then type “- - utxoindex” (no space between the two dashes). -Press enter and let it run. Use a mini pc or something without a display that can run 24/7. I am using an M1 Mac Mini.
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Video on how to set up a pre release #Toccata $KAS node for Mac users. It is so simple to do we should have 10,000 nodes running… IzioDev -Download the software for Mac at the link in Michael’s tweet -Open the folder. Copy the file path for Kaspad -Paste it in a terminal window, press space, then type “- - utxoindex” (no space between the two dashes). -Press enter and let it run. Use a mini pc or something without a display that can run 24/7. I am using an M1 Mac Mini.

₿RT 𐤊 🐈📈

12,166 views • 20 days ago

Obsidian + Claude Code builds a real second brain in 17 minutes. Claude Code reads entire vault, connects notes & builds a knowledge graph of everything you've ever written. Bookmark it. This one actually works.
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Obsidian + Claude Code builds a real second brain in 17 minutes. Claude Code reads entire vault, connects notes & builds a knowledge graph of everything you've ever written. Bookmark it. This one actually works.

0xMarioNawfal

68,129 views • 2 months ago

Perplexity just launched "Personal Computer", an always-on AI agent that merges their cloud-based Computer system with a Mac Mini. It accesses local files, apps, and sessions, orchestrates 19+ AI models, and can run 24/7. The Mac Mini continues to have its AI moment:
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Perplexity just launched "Personal Computer", an always-on AI agent that merges their cloud-based Computer system with a Mac Mini. It accesses local files, apps, and sessions, orchestrates 19+ AI models, and can run 24/7. The Mac Mini continues to have its AI moment:

The Rundown AI

20,847 views • 3 months ago