I think you might benefit from the "superpower" plugin. Add the word "brainstorm" before your prompt and it does a little bit better at figuring out how you want things.

I don't like it and I haven't used it since before the whole nazi salute thing. I feel gross just accidentally following links to that place. Why would I support it or the people who use it?

That's a great reason for people like me to not use it, and I assume for people like you also, but it's not the question that organisations like the EFF need to ask.

No, the relevant questions for the EFF are the ones that the EFF put into their blog post to explain why they're not on X despite remaining on e.g. Facebook, which may or may not be the same as this tweet (I don't read tweets but did read the blog post): https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

Say what you want about an old laptop, they sure are a lot faster than a $150/mo azure VM. And to be clear, I mean a _LOT_ faster.

I looked it up for specifics.

Right now the closest I can see is that $121/mo gets you 4 Xeon Platinum 8370C cores and 16GiB of RAM [0] (storage not included!).

Somebody Geekbenched that config here [1] 1274 single core 4256 multi core.

Thats kinda terrible ngl. A mini pc with last gen mobile parts like Ryzen 5 7640HS gets 2610 single and 10768 multi core [2].

[0] https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-ma...

[1] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/17547159

[2] https://browser.geekbench.com/v6/cpu/17541586

All the big 3 cloud providers suck if you use them purely as VPS. I’ve tried AWS Lightsail (basically, slightly cheaper EC2) and it’s so much slower than what I’d expect from a similar spec VM from a normal hosting provider.

Hetzner, DigitalOcean, OVH, Vultr are some of the better-known ones. Personally, I’m very happy with SSD Nodes. Paying $90/yr for a 4 vCPU¹ / 16 GB / 320 GB SSD, had some downtime exactly once in two years (they’ve had to switch their IPv4 space in Tokyo). Affiliate link: https://ale.sh/r/ssdnodes

[1]: Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 (4) @ 2.199GHz – not great, I know, but to reiterate: that’s for $90 a year.

That’s saying a lot about azure, not the laptops.

I got stuck at a table with a Fox News viewer who was absolutely angry about the "situation" in England and Europe. He was so focused on the Muslim immigration epidemic causing people to be unsafe and was greatly concerned about how they treat their women. Yes, I see the irony of a fox news viewer being concerned about how women are treated.

It was eye opening to me just how deeply brainwashed these people are. This wasn't just him parsing news events, it was his world view being shaped with the opinion that these are awful, dangerous, unsafe places, ridden with crime and poverty.

Wait. Is that what's happening here? Are they expecting the international criminal to be given a right to privacy until he's convicted?

It implies to me they _shouldn't_ be releasing his name. In this case it sounds like they very much should be naming him.

Using superpowers in brainstorm mode like the parent suggested would have resulted in a plan markdown and a spec markdown for the subagents to follow.

Dunno man, Claude had a spec (pretty sure I asked it to consider and outline both options first) or at least clear guidance and decided to YOLO whatever it wanted instead.

It’s always “you’re using the tool wrong, need to tweak this knob or that yadda yadda”.

Superpowers, Serena, Context7 feel like requried plugins to me. Serena in particular feels like a secret weapon sometimes. But superpowers (with "brainstorm" keyword) might be the thing that helps people complaining about quality issues.