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> I think most people are buying separate computers to run it on.

You must be joking.

>>jstumm+(OP)
I have a separate removable SSD I can boot from to work with Claude in a dedicated environment. It is nice being able to offload environment set up and what not to the agent. That environment has wifi credentials for an isolated LAN. I am much more permissive of Claude on that system. I even automatically allow it WebSearch, but not WebFetch (much larger injection surface). It still cannot do anything requiring sudo.

>>jstumm+(OP)
They are not. Many people are doing this; I don't think there's enough data to say "most," but there's at least anecdotal discussions of people buying Mac minis for the purpose. I know someone who's running it on a spare Mac mini (but it has Internet access and some credentials, so...).

>>jstumm+(OP)
Most tech enthusiasts I know have a myriad of computers laying around.

Spinning up a physical instance to try out some totally shady software is pretty standard stuff going back decades now.

>>plural+u2
Man, let me tell you about virtual machines, it’s gonna blow your mind.

>>sph+K5
Call me old fashioned but I like my tangible approach.

>>plural+jc
You also get to run both systems on bare metal. Nothing wrong with this.