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)
@film_girl @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss I was already resigned to shell out over £300 for a still-not-quite-sufficient thunderbolt dock, but it’s the bag of hurt part I’m really dissuaded by here. Even the highly recommended brands/models have soooo many Reddit posts detailing overheating issues, weird internal daisy chain USB spec limitations, this new fucked up video feed situation, I suspect you know the one I mean which name I’m forgetting… ♾️😱
@virginiaroberts @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss I’ve had great luck with my CalDigit docks but I don’t have the TB5 one. But the TS4+ has been great (as was the TS3+ and the TB4 Element when you just need USB ports.
@virginiaroberts @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss you might be able to find a way to do some sort of HDMI video switcher while keeping the rest of the dock plugged into the primary machine (I assume the Mac since your chrome book is going to be restricted a lot), and then plug the mouse and keyboard into the monitor’s USB if that exists.
@virginiaroberts @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss I don’t know if this works well or not but it’s a KVM TB Switch at dock prices. https://a.co/d/0eXUvILC
Amazon.com: SABRENT Thunderbolt 4 KVM Switch, Peripheral Sharing with 3X Thunderbolt 4 USB C 40Gbps, 2X USB-C Charging 60W (PD 3.0) | 4X USB Type A 3.2x2 10Gbps | Supports 4K@144Hz / 8K@60Hz DSC (SB-TB4K) : Industrial & Scientific
Amazon.com: SABRENT Thunderbolt 4 KVM Switch, Peripheral Sharing with 3X Thunderbolt 4 USB C 40Gbps, 2X USB-C Charging 60W (PD 3.0) | 4X USB Type A 3.2x2 10Gbps | Supports 4K@144Hz / 8K@60Hz DSC (SB-TB4K) : Industrial & Scientific
@virginiaroberts @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss meh. Reviews on this are really mixed. I’d look on the MacRumors threads around either an HDMI switch to use with a dock or USB4 KVMs in general
Casey Liss@film_girl @virginiaroberts do Chromebooks support thunderbolt? I’d be surprised if so.
If they do, I’d probably go with a CalDigit dock and wired keyboard/mouse.
If they don’t… uh… no clue.
Derek@caseyliss @film_girl @virginiaroberts Caldigit doesn’t do KVMs I believe, only single computer docks