Captain MoneyBeard

Resilient finance director & multicultural entrepreneur | Overcame mental illness thru grit & global pivots | Empowering you to chase bold changes

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Grabbed two old MacBooks Pros (2008 and 2012) and took them apart this afternoon.

2012 had a broken screen and 2008 was unresponsive... So, without doing any searching (oops) I thought I'd trade the screens.

Well... Tell y'all what! It turns out they upgraded the Wi-Fi chip... I discovered the connectors were slightly different; the screen cable was the same though.

In the end I deleted the Wi-Fi altogether! It's no longer supported by Apple so no need for it to (easily) go on the internet.

Plan is to make it a media station for my children.

Now... Hoping to get the disk drive to work, doesn't seem to be registering with the MBP. If I can't, I have an HDD caddy and can fill it full of media for them.

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Amazing how many small little items add up over the years... Especially electronic cables.

I have a collection now. I feel refined.

Has anyone else held onto retro cables that are severely outdated?

"[They] might come in handy one day!" -Granpa MoneyBeard

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@zabrodsk Nice! I'll have to dig into that when I get home.

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Started a collaboration with a friend using Claude Code - I will be using Grok Bot and Cursor - let's see if they play nice together.

Initial thoughts? Experiences with cross AI coding?

Let me know!

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@godsall_dev Was building a dashboard for a game system I was working on a while ago that involved a number of local models working together. They had one heck of a time talking to eachother and the 'chief of staff'.

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@zabrodsk Interesting! Seems like the GitHub repo for it is pretty straightforward; there's a waitlist for the flashy new interface though; from what I saw anyway.

Might have to come back to this for some local agents I've been playing with.

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@godsall_dev Sage advice, Adam! I was thinking the same sort of process; discovered through trial and error.

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@DVasylevskyi @sachintwtss That sounds incredibly useful!

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@TrophyHusband Form a Corp and get your company to hire you as a consultant?

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@CharlesShi20 🤣

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First PR send to have been successful. Waiting on my collaborator to approve the request and merge it into main.

Exciting times!

[Captain MoneyBeard @YoureNetWorthIt]

Started a collaboration with a friend using Claude Code - I will be using Grok Bot and Cursor - let's see if they play nice together.

Initial thoughts? Experiences with cross AI coding?

Let me know!

[Captain MoneyBeard @YoureNetWorthIt]

@CoachFerg25 For sure! Let's go!

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@veeramarni Good tips! We're working with branches and our rules force them to work in small batches on specific files per edit.

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@Joshua_WD We setup some rules in agent and contribution files and force them to read it along with 4 strict rules for the agents (and ourselves).

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If Windows stopped working suddenly, how screwed would you be?

I'll go first:

On my army of devices, I have dual boot on 2... Last time I booted Windows was when I finished building my latest PC 2 days ago and the SSD had Windows on it; doesn't anymore.

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@b1rkh0ff Howdy!

Went live with https://t.co/OE8MIVolSt a bit ago; used Grok build and elbow grease.

Currently working on an app to reduce food waste for families and just started a collaboration with a friend in a new program.

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@nonc3ai Followed!

I've been building solo for years. Now I've got my trusty Grok Bot companions!

The world is our oyster!

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@mmorgan695 Gotta go for your goals!