> Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend.
Disappointing. There is a Rust-based assistant that can run comfortably in a Raspberry PI (or some very old computer you are not using) https://zeroclawlabs.ai/ https://github.com/zeroclaw-labs/zeroclaw (Built by Harvard and MIT students, looks like)
EDIT: sorry top Google result led to a fake ZeroClaw!