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… ♾️😱
dxzdb@virginiaroberts @film_girl @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss Another “hive mind" place for Mac help is at macgeekgab.coml They are not too active here via @macgeekgab but the discord is a great active place to ask questions. https://discord.gg/XPrT4JQM2r or you can write to them directly to answer questions on the podcast.
@dxzdb @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss @macgeekgab oh amazing, thanks! Didn’t even know of them, and macrumours forums hadn’t even occurred to me… probably because the last time I did something like this out, I had the good version of Twitter to help 😅 much much appreciated all! Especially @film_girl my god I should’ve know you’d have good answers. Still more digging, but better directed now 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
@dxzdb @marcoarment @gruber @_Davidsmith @siracusa @caseyliss @macgeekgab @film_girl FMl y'all, it happened - I got the M5 MBP and they dropped those new M5 Pro/Max ones the next freaking day 😭😂 I'm gonna do the exchange though bc I'm convinced the better TB5 capacity will help with whatever KVM/peripherals/monitor BS I end up needing to pursue. Thanks again (and I still blame @marcoarment for my need to always get the pro version of freaking everything ever)