Looking for ideas. Apple offered me $500 for my old laptop, but when I sent it in they say, "Oh, a scratch. We'll give you $100." There's no way a perfectly functioning and upgraded M1 MacBook Air is worth only $100. So I got it back.

Now I'm looking for a good home for it. I don't want money, I want it to have a good life. Two conditions:

1. It has to help make the world a better place.
2. I'm not shipping it, so the transfer has to be local to Sydney.

@robpike @todd why not keep it and use it as a home server for your own personal assistant using MLX?

@czakka @todd

Assuming you meant this sincerely, I will answer. Three reasons.

1) I want to have fewer machines.
2) I don't need or want an assistant, automated or otherwise.
3) I engage with ML as little as possible.

You may feel differently.

@robpike @todd was definitely serious and thanks for your reply. If you have time, curious about the reason for #3.