Tag: architecture selection

The Six-Ship Dream of GrokBot Mode: The OpenMausBot Verdict, the Companion Mode Refusal of Bare IPs, and the Design Conflict of a Lid-Closed Mac

The dream of six free cloud machines and one GrokBot-style orchestrator went through a full feasibility review today: the OpenBot-versus-OpenMausBot selection settled on the latter (follower counts are not the criterion); Companion mode documentation nailed two hard rules — it accepts only https://c-….openmausbot.com or .ts.net MagicDNS names and rejects raw IPs and LAN hostnames by design, so every previously tried address was dead on arrival; and the route of using the Mac as the computer struck an essential conflict — MausBot operates the Mac graphical interface, so a locked screen means bound hands, and lid-closed-server and bot-at-work are mutually exclusive. The verdict: the Mac runs only serve (chat, memory, tasking, scheduled jobs), while the six Instabox machines serve as never-locked container desktops, awake forever.