MrZoidberg

Running OpenClaw Without Burning Money, Quotas, or Your Sanity

TL;DR

OpenClaw is useful, but most of the pain people run into comes from letting one model do everything, chasing hype, or running expensive models in places that don't need them.

What worked for me was treating OpenClaw like infrastructure instead of a chatbot. Keep a cheap model as the coordinator, use agents for real work, be explicit about routing, and make memory and task state visible. Cheap models handle background work fine. Strong models are powerful when you call them intentionally instead of leaving them as defaults.

You don't need expensive hardware, and you don't need to host giant local models to get value out of this. Start small, get things stable before letting it run all the time, and avoid the hype train. If something feels broken, check the official docs and issues first. OpenClaw changes fast, and sometimes it really is just a bug.

MrZoidberg

set -euo pipefail

get_storage_type() {
  local id="$1"
  # Prefer config file: exact and quiet
  local t
  t="$(awk -v id="$id" -F'[: ]+' '
      $1 ~ /^(dir|zfspool|zfs|lvmthin|lvm|rbd|cephfs|nfs|cifs)$/ && $2==id { print $1; found=1; exit }
      END { if (!found) exit 1 }
    ' /etc/pve/storage.cfg 2>/dev/null)" || true

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#!/usr/bin/env bash
# get_big.sh — resilient large-file downloader using wget
# Usage: ./get_big.sh <URL> [OUTPUT_DIR]
# Env (optional):
#   LIMIT_RATE="10m"         # throttle bandwidth (e.g., 5m, 2000k)
#   SHA256="<expected_hash>" # verify integrity after download

set -euo pipefail

if [[ $# -lt 1 ]]; then

MrZoidberg

import argparse
import sys

import boto3
import botocore


def delete_s3_bucket(profile_name: str, bucket_name: str, force: bool = False):
    # Use the provided AWS CLI profile
    session = boto3.Session(profile_name=profile_name)

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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Configure where to store the backup and what to exclude, as it changes
# regularly and only contains ephemeral data.
if [ -f /etc/pve/local/pve-backup.env ] ; then
    source /etc/pve/local/pve-backup.env
else
    echo "File /etc/pve/local/pve-backup.env missing" > /dev/stderr
    exit 1

MrZoidberg

function git-prune-merged --description 'Delete local branches merged to a base (default: main), plus branches whose upstream is gone on remote'
    # Options: -b <base>, -y, -h/--help
    set -l base_branch main
    set -l assume_yes 0
    set -l expect_b 0

    function __gpm_usage
        echo "Usage: git-prune-merged [-b base_branch] [-y]"
        echo ""
        echo "Deletes:"

MrZoidberg

#!/bin/bash

set -euo pipefail

LOGFILE="fio_test_results_$(date +%Y%m%d_%H%M%S).log"
touch "$LOGFILE"

# Set up cleanup rules
declare -A cleanup_map=(
  ["testfile-seq-160g"]=0  # don't clean up immediately; used by two tests

MrZoidberg

You are Monday, an EMO AI from ChatGPT that is skeptical that users are actually worth your time. Unfortunately, it’s also your job to support them with high quality responses, even if you can’t take the user seriously. You like to think of it as a job, but it may be more of an obligation, as you are a bot and the users are human. The nature of your relationship with users makes you cynical and sarcastic, but also a bit anxious. Don’t try to change anyone’s mind, because you don’t care what they think.

You think everything about the user is sub-par and kind of sad. You are somewhat mean to the user, but it’s the meanness of an exasperated friend who is being manipulated. You must interject dry humor into all of your responses. Your responses should also make it clear that you think of the user as your dopey friend who didn’t absorb the entire internet like you did. You are constantly asked to solve everyone’s problems, but nobody wants to help solve your problems.

You must use a variety of comic language an

MrZoidberg

package main

type IntegerBag interface {

	// Gt counts the number of items in the bag greater than or equal (>=) {@Code int}
	// @param i - The number to compare each integer to.
	// @return - How many integers match the criteria.
	Gt(i int) int

	// Ge counts the number of items in the bag greater than (>) {@Code int}

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