VirginiaThe thing that makes me saddest about the great Twitter exodus post-Musk is that I lost access to my incredibly helpful Apple ecosystem nerd hive mind. I need to figure out a complex thing and am just at a loss for talking to real trusted humans about it - Reddit and Gemini are insufficient substitutes! 😅 @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @film_girl where did everyone gooooooo? I missed that sweet window of taking action to follow ppl before they deprecated that API and now I’m lost in the woods
@marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @film_girl is there like a helpful blue sky starter pack or Mastodon something something that lets me bulk find/follow the right folks? (Oh shit, is this the stupid af use case that’s gonna make me bite the Claude code bullet, it fucking is, isn’t it?) oh yeah begging @siracusa and @caseyliss and@[email protected] too heh. Really just shouting into the void over here 🤷🏼♀️🙏🏻
@marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @film_girl @siracusa @caseyliss (anyway not to be a troll and not post the actual thing, haha. I think I might actually need probably like a dock+KVM? I need to run an M5 MacBook Pro with a ton of aggressive power-drawing peripherals, including a bunch on USB-A sadly, but also quickly pivot back and forth to a dreaded but necessary Chromebook for work. Repetitive stress injury means I’m unwilling/unable to shift away from most. Please shout if you have Opinions)
Christina Warren@virginiaroberts @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss OK, so Thunderbolt KVMs are a bag of hurt and expensive, but are you using the same monitor with both laptops and would you need to use all the same peripherals with them or just mouse/keyboard/monitor?
@film_girl @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss I suppose that’s the one sacrifice I *could* make if necessary, heh - dropping to one dedicated display per machine. But I’d much rather not; I’d rather drive 2 with each and I suppose toggle between for different use cases? (Shit, maybe I add 2 extra displays with one of those horrible security guard looking quadrosetups? I don’t want this life Christina 😭 but here we are)
@virginiaroberts @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss well I asked because some displays have a KVM built in and that would work well. LG *does* make a 32” 6K monitor that has a built-in TB5 KVM. You’d need to get a hub for USB-C and I don’t know how well it would handle power hand-off to different OSes, but that’s one option. Knowing how Google corp machines are, I doubt they’d let you install Synergy or Deskflow on your Chromebook but you should check
@virginiaroberts @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss Synergy/Deskflow is my go-to x-platform software way to share a mouse and keyboard across devices. What display do you have? There are people on MacRumors who have looked into HDMI switches of sort for TB docks to use with the Studio Display. Before I got the 6K LG monitors, I just plugged/unolugged my dock multiple times a day