I Tried Running Openclaw (ex Clawdbot) with a Free LLM. Here’s What Happened.

Sounds great. I have a headless server. I have Ollama. I have dreams. Here’s how reality crushed them — and how I eventually won. ⚡ Update (Feb 20, 2026): The free LLM landscape moved fast since January. Three things changed: 1. Anthropic banned Clau...