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Claude Usage Megathread

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Came across this today: Claude Usage Limits Discussion Megathread Ongoing Interesting Tidbids # From “B. CLAUDE CODE CLI WORKAROUNDS”: add this to ~/.claude/settings.json

Claude Token Burn

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Where did all my tokens go??? Interesting Reddit post on r/ClaudeAI. AI Summary # This Reddit post from the r/ClaudeAI community discusses a widespread frustration: users on paid plans (Pro and Team) are hitting their usage limits “absurdly fast” when using Claude for serious technical work.

Claude Local Replacement

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This post is highly work-in-progress; gathering thoughts and ideas for now. Goal # build a near-equivalent of Claude using locally served models using Ollama evaluate how close or far they are from, say, Sonnet 4.6 Mise-en-scène # Pieces:

Cli Tool for Ollama

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Chat tools # Did a bit of research (Gemini), and suggestions are: oterm: best all around, for general chat aichat: power-user choice, good for coding mods: nice, but more pure CLI tool elia: similar to oterm, but maybe better? If I can get it running… oterm # To install oterm, best to:

Trying Out Gemma4

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Set up # Google post: https://ai.google.dev/gemma/docs/integrations/ollama Alas, needs latest ollama but that version is not yet out on Omarchy.

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gizmo's freeware

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This is an excellent site containing reviews of best freeware in many categories. Some notable reviews: http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-anti-virus-software.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/top-freeware-picks-category-editors.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-firewall.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-cd-dvd-burning-software.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-pdf-writer.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-disk-de-fragmenter.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-drive-imaging-program.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-portable-programs.htm http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-non-adobe-pdf-reader.htm

Totes 'Doorman/Gentleman' umbrella

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I recently broke my favourite umbrella, the Totes classic black “Doorman” or “Gentleman” stick umbrella, and had a hard time finding a place to buy a replacement from.

Monday as first day of week in GNOME

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A lot of approaches on the Net specify hacking the locale files; e.g.: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=813945 However, a far simpler and certainly less intrusive procedure is to simply modify default LC_TIME: http://askubuntu.com/questions/6016/how-to-set-monday-as-the-first-day-of-the-week-in-gnome-calendar-applet Specifically: in /etc/default/locale add: LC_TIME=“en_GB.UTF-8” log out, then log back in

setting static IP in Ubuntu

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By default recent Ubuntus (e.g., 11.10) use Network Manager, which makes things simple: click network icon in system tray Edit Connections select the one entry that you see there (unless your network is not working) Edit… IPv4 Settings From Method drop-down select Manual the rest should be straight forward If not using Network Manager to manage network connections, you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces and add (adjust to own network parameters):