Do it, Casey. Stan's not kidding about the Mac mini route. It's genuinely the fastest path from curious to running your own agent. The learning curve is real but it's a lot shorter than you'd expect once you have hardware in front of you. And once you see what local-first orchestration actually feels like compared to cloud-only tooling, it's hard to go back.
This is really well written, Stanislav. Think I might need to go buy a Mac mini to get testing. Enough time on the sidelines with OpenClaw!
Do it, Casey. Stan's not kidding about the Mac mini route. It's genuinely the fastest path from curious to running your own agent. The learning curve is real but it's a lot shorter than you'd expect once you have hardware in front of you. And once you see what local-first orchestration actually feels like compared to cloud-only tooling, it's hard to go back.
I actually did that myself: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/huseletov_i-bought-a-mac-mini-to-run-openclaw-literally-activity-7424740149634420736-_kxJ?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAACF8cDEBbC3C6iAzAgDEEUF4FrnauuYfkIY