people buy Mac Minis for all sorts of wrong reasons, but “iMessage” or “running local models” isn’t any of those. this is just an strawman argument, and the lack of research is telling. for local models you use Mac Studios, most people don’t, they prefer Kimi, Opus, or Minimax on subscriptions. the real reason people buy Mac Minis is to have an isolated hardware for it that they own. a hardware that has high value compared to its price. setting up VPS has headaches, there are also other remote OpenClaw-specific solutions you can use, but trusting them with your sensitive information is not easy. you can call giving AI access to your personal information “clumsy”, there could be some truth to it, but if you’re gonna do it anyway, you buy a separate hardware that doesn’t hold all the personal information you DON’T want the AI to have. so why did I mention “people buy Mac Minis for all sorts of wrong reasons”? because you don’t NEED to buy a Mac Mini. a $25 phone or old laptop does just that. but also you’re owning a Mac Mini, not throwing it away to OpenClaw, so you could call it a sort of “investment” before AI GPU mania affects Apple hardware prices? there are 1000 arguments against running OpenClaw, 1000 more about why buying Mac Minis might not be the best idea, but if you truly believe everyone bought Mac Minis to use iMessage and nobody thought of using telegram or WhatsApp, it shows a lack of context. I love @ThePrimeagen and @teej_dv but I was really surprised to see how they got this particular thing wrong.