I went through the installation and configuration wizard from Moltbot today. The text on the website may say that there is support for local LLMs, but there is no such option during installation or configuration. Only options for 'copy your API key from Claude/OpenAI/Brave/OpenRouter/etc here'.

So it is nice and all that their website makes those claims, but the software sure doesn't. Now I'm quite sure that it is possible to use a local LLM, but I expect it to be much more of a hassle than it is worth.

My experience with that software today, made the decision: I gladly look for anything else than Clawdbot or Moltbot or however else it will be renamed to in the future.

Don't think I'm the only one, but I make a serious effort to not store my data in the cloud. As I am of the opinion that my data is my problem and doesn't need to become someone else's problem on their computer(s). You can put as much lipstick and jewelry on that proverbial pig, but the cloud is nothing else than someone else's computer.

Heard of it today. Tried it. It really is focused on using not local LLMs, that is for sure. Last week I started playing around properly with LM Studio and its MCP support. My local LLMs can now search the internet, can track time, access the file-system, access git and gitlab, write n8n + playwright + Terraform scripts, RDP and some other things I find handy.

And that works with any of the local LLMs with tool support. There is still a knowledge gap between local and cloud LLMs, but the local ones become a lot more useful once these can access the internet.

Clawd/Molt sounds great as a concept. In practice today, it was a 'meh'-experience at best.

There are alternatives to BitLocker and/or whole drive encryption (or partial drive encryption). VeraCrypt is one. Although I haven't checked up with that software for quite a while now.

Aren't the people behind Trump/Project 2025 not staunch evangelist and/or Christian? At least pretending to be? And of the belief that medicine is only for supporting their "class" of people and not the scum that dares to live in "their" nation?

It is kinda in the name of that magazine...

You almost were correct with the statement in your post. Of course Big pharma will cure anyone from ailments that kill you, especially in your earliest years. Because that means they have the rest of your lifetime to make much, much more from you and your much longer lasting and more severe ailments. Of course big pharma cures you from other ailments in your pre-teen and teenage years as well. Because that allows you to build up a life and a much larger income for longer, so you will actually have serious money and assets to spend on getting yourself or loved ones back to health.

Big pharma is really in it for the money. Wasn't there also a company that made an existing medicine, which is/was used by many people and reasonably priced, 1000% more expensive, because their CEO felt they had to? There was literally no other reason than that.

Whatever else big pharma is trying to peddle with their statements...they are only interested in they money they can take from you. At the end of a life-time, that is much more money than in the beginning.

Less robbery from individuals? Yes.
But now the robbers just demolish and plunder ATMs. Or steal cars for the purpose of ramming through walls of any financial institute, jewelry stores etc. and then take what there is to get.

In the end, individuals lost cars, store owners lose their inventory, lose a boatload of money repairing damages, everyone sees insurance premiums go up, prices going up to cover what insurance doesn't decide to pay out...so yeah, the robbery that is happening in this day and age is very different than it used to be. But if the current way is more beneficial for individuals? Forgive me, but I have some doubts there.

I live in South-America, in a cash based economy. There are digital ways to pay, but cash is very much still king here.

My brother, who lives in the EU, has had recently a health scare and asked me to visit. I have no bank account in his country, or need for digital payment methods over here, so I don't have a bank card or a credit card. And here in South-America, banks have rules. Rules they can't get away with in the EU or the US. Rules with intent to rob you blind with every transaction you make. Because they simply can.

Banks are really unpopular here. Most people rather flock to 'cooperativas', which acts as a makeshift bank in a community. I do have an account there. But those are not accepted as official bank in the country of my brother, even though there are 2 here that are more than large enough for that.

So, cash is really my only option, when visiting my brother. As it probably will take too much time and effort to get a bank card there for a very short period. Credit card systems I despise on principle. Because those are representative of a system based on debt, not a system based on money, like bank cards are. Money and debt are concepts that are very interlinked, true, but very different all the same.

I have money, I have no debts, so I do not want no stinkin' credit card. Credit cards are also not that widely accepted in the country of my brother. Because store owners very much hate the surcharges credit card companies put on their transactions. Bank cards are way more reasonable in that regard. More often than not also finished faster too.

So, when I'll make the trip, I will be bound to cash only. Nice to know that I won't have to deal with whatever you are selling, as my perfectly legal tender will be accepted by someone else, selling whatever you are selling.

It is not that I'm against dealing digitally with transactions. In countries with excellent infrastructure, you can expect these to work at your convenience. But this South-American country does not have such infrastructure. And I have seen people putting their supermarket trolly back into the store, because somewhere sometime there appeared to be a problem paying digitally and them not having cash on hand to pay that way. On more than one occasion, actually.

Doesn't get old, the receiving from a smile of a young cashier girl when I indicate that I pay for my supermarket goods with cash. Yes, self-checkout, that is here not a thing at all. Then again, the closest supermarket by my home is rather small, and yet there are 10 cash registers ready to chip in when it would be busy. You never have to wait long here. And it allows me to talk a nice pretty young thing, quip a 'dad joke' or something, while she's doing the scanning. When I meet these cashiers in other public settings, they always greet me friendly or even start conversation themselves.

So enjoy your cold and heartless digital life, while I do the same with my mostly analog, friendly and cash-based life in a country where summer temperatures last about 9 months a year. Less far away from war than anticipated since the beginning of 2026, that is true. Then again, cash remains cash, even if the war with Venezuela decides to expand further into South America and comes even closer.

There will come a time that you, the consumer, will not get any power from the grid, no matter how much you want to pay. Energy-security, that will be the result of AI in datacenters in their current form.

AI, in its current form, deserves to die in the biggest bubble implosion man ever knew or should want to know. AI, as a technology can be a boon for consumers. Its current form sure isn't it.

But it won't be an electricity problem alone. Datacenters tend to consume a lot of water too for cooling. And once they're done with it, put it back into nature, too hot and polluted for nature to fix. And the results will cause harm in the health of persons living around these datacenters, or nearby towns if they use the same aquafers.

Conceptually, Markdown is great. But there are too many 'dialects', hence I agree that there is a lot of suck with Markdown. Then I was pointed to the existence of 'AsciiDoc'. No dialects, more capabilities,, decent enough documentation, not a great editor, not much adoption. As a whole, AsciiDoc is better than Markdown.

However, then I encountered the 'xWiki'-software. The online editor is good (because you can include LibreOffice when asked during the xWiki installation procedure). The editor is also online, can export in different formats, xWiki supports extensions making their own Markdown-like wiki text format very powerful.

Haven't looked back since.

3 motherboards I have here, all with built-in Intel NICs, can be installed via pendrive, but won't install working network drivers. Not with Win 10, Win 11, Windows Server 2019 or 2022, only Windows Server 2025 did. On each of the boxes that came with those mainboards, there was a logo 'Windows 11 ready".

Tried also with Pop!_OS and Linux Mint, the built-in Intel NICs worked immediately.

Thought I mention it, to show that experiences with Windows installations can vary a lot between users, reducing experiences from both to an 'n==1' experience at best. I don't contest that Linux installations won't work flawlessly, because they don't. But Windows isn't the 'be all, end all' when installing it, either.

But I can say that the main Linux distros take a lot less time to install than Windows 11 does.

According to a person with last name Yunn, who is considered a very important contributor to the concepts behind any/all transformer-based LLMs, tells that this type of AI/LLMs is at the end of its possibilities and doesn't imagine any serious progress with those anymore.

Only incremental progress is still possible, but at terrifying costs in money, hardware and energy.

The guy is already working on the successor of transformer-based AI/LLMs.

To me it sounds more and more that after each study of AI/LLMs in the workplace, everyone comes to the conclusion that the job of manager can easily be done by those AI/LLMs, but not the "person on the floor"-jobs, while (only) managers are convinced that they can replace the "person on the floor"-jobs.

Never heard of TVs with a cellular modem in it. Now I did hear about Smart-TVs that have their DNS settings hardcoded and won't use the DNS servers you configured in your network. Manufacturers do so, to not be blocked by any DNS tool, like PiHole or Adguard.

That is all nice and dandy, but if not connected via an Ethernet cable or WiFi, those hardcoded settings will not be of any use.

Bought a few years ago a 42" Smart TV to use as a monitor. But it wouldn't work just right without a network connection, so after a year of "fighting" with the TV, instead of enjoying it, it was put back in its box, went into storage for about a year and then just gave it away. The 10 years before that event, I didn't miss having a TV. Haven't bought a TV since either.

However, I have installed and configured a lot of these TVs for others.