I realize that a lot of big talk about the world and politics etc ... in a way it's "big talk porn". It doesn't do very much, I'm highly guilty of it. So I thought now: ok. 5 little tasks that are simple "today" kind of thinking. Here they are.

*Make a guess. Like "what card is on the other side of this face down card?" - a very simple guess like that. Congratulations you just exercised your psi muscle

*Send a digital message to a friend without physically handing the device *or* routing through an ISP. Congratulations, you just helped grow peer-to-peer internet.

*Plant a seed in dirt with your hands, when it matures cook it and eat it. Or preserve and jar it. Congratulations you just practiced food sovereignty.

*Write an express trust for something silly like your lawnmower. Congratulations you just migrated something a little further outside of de facto jurisdiction.

*For those preppers whom are non-pacifist. Take 2 pieces of a lower-80 and connect them together. Congratulations you've just progressed the power of independent militias.

"Congratulations you just migrated something a little further outside of de facto jurisdiction."

No, you did not.

You are clinging to your belief that words written on paper prevent bad people from stealing your lawnmower.

Which is the belief that you can dictate law (juris=law + diction=dictate).

Wake up.

The pen is mightier than the sword ...

... but I think you should have a pen and a sword.

Hey Tazz and everyone,

A slightly different topic. You once mentioned that you’d like to have an open‑source model running on your computer.

Right now Google allows you to use most , though not all, of their models for free in the free tier. One of them is Gemma 4 31, the latest model (open source), and it’s actually quite good.
You can access everything through Google AI Studio: https://aistudio.google.com/. (And there’s also the free tier. All you do is log in, go to the Dashboard, open API Keys, click Generate API Key, and that’s it - you’re in the free tier with a working API key.
Then you just paste that key into any app you want to use and select, for example, Gemma 4 31.
To set it up, you just log in with your Google account. In the free tier you don’t need to provide a credit card or any additional details.

You can use something like Msty or AnythingLLM (they’re similar to Ollama, but more focused on API usage).
And the best part - although I haven’t used Msty or AnythingLLM yet - is that models accessed through the API tend to have fewer restrictions.

You can also use OpenAI’s ChatGPT through these tools, and it should be more friendly for RV.

For the last two days I’ve been using models (Gemini) through the API with OpenClaw, and it’s simply more fun - they’re more open to different ideas.
I’m planning to set up Msty or AnythingLLM on my laptop with the Google API and maybe use it instead of, or alongside, my OpenAI subscription. I’ll see how it goes.
If everything works the way I expect, I might even switch away from the subscription plan. Who knows.

@Tazz:

"but I think you should have a pen and a sword."

Different tools for different purposes. The law of the bad guys only works because they use the sword if you don't follow.

So, here's a different task:

Declare that your lawnmower is rightfully yours. Declare why it is rightfully yours. Don't ask for permission. Congratulations, you just did what every slave fears to do.