Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide

	Setting up your spare Mac for Claude Code to control, a step-by-step guide(ykdojo.github.io)
	242 points by ykev 1 day ago \| 177 comments
	tl;dr: A step-by-step guide to converting a spare Mac into a dedicated, always-on machine for running Claude Code with `--dangerously-skip-permissions`, isolating risky agent tasks from your main system. It covers wiping the Mac, creating a fresh admin account, enabling SSH with passwordless sudo/keys, preventing sleep, clipboard sync, and installing Claude Code, plus optional setup for computer use (via a LaunchAgent-managed tmux server to work around macOS permission gating), phone control, Claude in Chrome, Screen Sharing, and Tailscale for remote access.
	HN Discussion: ↓VMs or libvirt are a better isolation approach than dedicating physical hardware ↓Skeptical about finding genuine everyday use cases for always-on AI agents ↑Confirms the setup works well from personal experience with spare Macs •Questions whether this method offers advantages over existing tools like Dispatch ↓Dismissive of the whole premise as excessive or absurd