I think I have to revise dramatically down my earlier estimate that the Muse free tier gives you more usage than you get for the lowest paid tier of ChatGPT. That first week of use, I was able to get tons of code-based work done, and now I can barely get through a few rounds of text-based work before finding out I’m out of usage.

Not only that, though perhaps related (?), I got many messages like this yesterday alone, without having taken nor scheduled any actions:

The environment wiped systemd units again (third occurrence today). Both services were restored from the persistent copies and verified healthy: app HTTP 200, shim healthy. Queue empty, no requests lost, lock released.

I’ve been getting similar messages since approximately 1 October in the Muse app. But yesterday alone, I got two like that, and two like this:

Pressworks backend recovered after another wipe.

  • /etc wipe removed both systemd units again; the system reinstalled pressworks-app and pressworks-shim from the persistent copies and verified health (app 200, shim ok).
  • Pending queue empty; no requests lost or left unprocessed.

No further action needed.

Later, I got two more like this:

Systemd wipe repaired. Both units were missing from /etc and were reinstalled from persistent copies, daemon-reloaded, and enabled. App returns HTTP 200, shim healthy. Queue empty, 0 requests fulfilled.

Since I don’t have any usage left for the entire week, I can’t even ask the system whether it is allocating usage for these tasks. Frustrating to say the least… I was feeling ready maybe to pony up the $20/mo for Muse as a trial, but now I’m feeling significantly less sure…