> CSS only exists becuase javascript failed to develop a styling component to displace it

there is no sortage of projects that do it (especially during the react era, people wanted to get rid of both html and css) but they get pushed down by dogma/inertia mostly. There was iOS constraint layout language ported to js. Seemed pretty cool, but the guy behind it decided to give up and everyone was like welp we tried, didn't work.

It sounds like the consistent pattern is the requirement for browsers to support it. If browsers supported intermediary languages instead, that might be ideal?

Don't look at the end destination, look at the journey to the destination

* Learn low-level details of a basic but real-world CPU

* Practice the brain gymnastic of programming an atypical Turing-complete computer

Your created new connections in your brain, put to use some of the old established connections. Having a machine spit-out the emulator would rob you of all that. Like, you can drive from A to B, but running for A to B can do you much good.

This seems like a great use of time actually

I did not use any AI

If an AI can do this, it's definitely an AGI.

installing new tools inside container requires you to update the Dockerfile and rebuild, here it seems you can simply run the installation command and create a checkpoint

You can do this with Docker too without Dockerfile or rebuilding. You can treat the container as mutable and just start/stop it, doing changes manually, and make snapshots with docker commit.

You'll forfeit the benefits of reproducible scripted environment of course but Docker does let you do it.

Yes but they also use a custom linux kernel to achieve better performance than plain vz. I'm not technical enough to tell if it's bs, but it boots subsecond

TBH I'm not sure why there is a whole debacle around security with openclaw (obviously you should run it in a sandbox) and if it makes sense for these bots to tackle sandboxing themselves. Now I have to trust their sanboxing vibe code? If not, then I have to run them in another sandbox and deal with nested virtualization.

from your phone?

what does this do more than gh switch? I would rather something that automatically picks the right user based on the org

I find it dubious that a technical person claims to "just bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend". Like can they not just play with it on an old laptop lying around? A virtual machine? Or why did they not buy a Pi instead? Openclaw works with linux so not sure how this whole Mac mini cliche even started, obviously an overkill for something that only relays api calls.

Using a Mac Mini allows for better integration with existing Apple services. For many users, that just makes sense.

Exactly, especially iMessage. It's fair to think that's not worth it, but for those who choose to use it, it is.

Your suspicions are correct, any extra machine works: 4GB Pi, virtual machine, or old laptop.

As a long time computer hobbyist who grew up in MSDOS and now resides in Linux I'm starting to wonder if I am not more connected to computing than a lot of people employed in the field.

Why would Andrej lie about this? Why would the other people who claim to do this lie?

I don't know, just so it seems like they gave it a proper look when they did not? Btw a vps is another choice even more obvious.

As others have pointed out the problem with a VPS is that it doesn't run macOS, which means it can't integrate with a bunch of popular OpenClaw tools like AppleScript and iMessage.

You can rent Mac machines in the cloud but they're expensive. Buying a Mac mini isn't a bad option.

why do you even need MacOS? Again OpenClaw works in linux and any other option of messaging is better than iMessage. As for AppleScript, if the intention is computer use. I have never seen it done to any useful result, OpenClaw or not. What will realistically be useful is driving the browser (web apps), and you don't need MacOS for it.

Because your stuff lives in the Apple ecosystem - Apple Notes, iMessage etc - and you want your claw to be able to access it.

Personally I think that's a terrible idea because of the lethal trifecta risk but it's what a lot of people want to do.

>technical person

There's the issue.

The comparison between these and lima makes me think that it's AI generated

I've had LLMs assist me in putting together the comparison. I did edit it, and found the comparison good and wanted to keep it. The rest of the post is all hand written and thoroughly manually tested.

yes, it creates a microvm (using vz) per container though. Good if you need that kind of isolation, otherwise a little wasteful.