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Re: M5 MacBook Pro

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Post by manquer »

Noaidi wrote: post #509
manquer wrote: post #421

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What magic are you and everyone else doing ? I already have only 92% on my less than year old M4 14inch Pro. I haven't booted up the older M1 recently to check, but I remember it was throwing replace battery warnings well before I got the upgrade and that I think that triggering below 80%.

I don’t use it a lot and I keep it plugged in some majority of the time. It only charges to 80%. I also occasionally, probably every month, drain the battery to zero. Also, the majority of time it’s been in my van, which is pretty chilly most of the time. From my understanding, battery health is based on use and environment.

I have been monitoring temperatures closely with mac-stats https://mac-stats.com/ over the last few months.

It typically runs around 110-130 for CPU and the battery is 85-90 on light usage like say browser or slack.

However if i run a full compile of the repo or just about anything a bit compute intensive CPU jumps easily to 170-200 range regularly and battery to 120.

I am now frequently running the fans higher manually to cool it down[1]

I think Apple is optimizing for being quiet over battery and laptop life and have kept the fans low speed even if it would benefit the hardware to speed them up earlier under load.

[1] This is not because I can the temps all the time in the top bar. The palm rests do become noticeably hotter and bit uncomfortable than the noise would be.

Re: M5 MacBook Pro

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Post by mercutio2 »

godelski wrote: post #472
mercutio2 wrote: post #449

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It’s rare that I get feedback like this about a feature I owned for a decade. 1) The vast majority of users have only one contact-sync account, so it’s not an issue for them, merge works fine 2) For users that have multiple contact-sync accounts, they almost never want a feature to silently choose one account’s contact and delete the other account’s contact. So linking is really what these users want if the contacts…

Don't get me wrong, I don't have an issue with linking. I think that's the correct solution. In fact, it's kinda the only solution unless you can push info upstream, and you shouldn't assume you have those privileges or even know their data structure. But that doesn't matter because what the user cares about is how the information is displayed. It is primarily a display issue. No deletions needed The critical issue i…

Hold down option to highlight what accounts a contact is in, BTW.

Re: M5 MacBook Pro

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Post by godelski »

mercutio2 wrote: post #572
godelski wrote: post #472

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Don't get me wrong, I don't have an issue with linking. I think that's the correct solution. In fact, it's kinda the only solution unless you can push info upstream, and you shouldn't assume you have those privileges or even know their data structure. But that doesn't matter because what the user cares about is how the information is displayed. It is primarily a display issue. No deletions needed The critical issue i…

Hold down option to highlight what accounts a contact is in, BTW.

Thanks!

Though I am also struggling to know how I would know that had you not told me. I don't see it in the menu bar nor on the support page[0].

[0] https://support.apple.com/guide/contacts/keyboard-shortcuts-...

Re: M5 MacBook Pro

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Post by cromka »

lholden wrote: post #369
0xfaded wrote: post #52

To any Linux users, I recently bought a fully loaded M4 MacBook pro to replace my aging Lenovo and strongly regret it. I thought I would use it for playing with LLMs, but local dev on a Mac is not fun and I still don't have it fully set up. I'll probably replace it with a framework at some point in the near future. Edit: okay, that garnered more attention than I expected, I guess I owe a qualification. 1. Everything…

I ended up doing something similar a few years ago. Picked up a MacBook Pro M1 Max back when the M1 stuff was new to replace an aging Lenovo running Linux. I actually really loved my Lenovo + Linux, but the M1 was new and shiny and I desperately wanted better battery life. The hardware was great, but life on a Mac always felt a bit convoluted. Updating the OS was especially frustrating as a software developer because…

You can run Affinity Photo on Linux via Wine, though

Re: M5 MacBook Pro

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Post by 1-more »

cyrialize wrote: post #518
1-more wrote: post #66

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> I still don't have it fully set up Highly recommend doing nix + nix-darwin + home-manager to make this declarative. Easier to futz around with.

If you don't mind me asking, why do you prefer this set up over just using brew? I've poked around articles and other posts about this, but I'm not sure I quite get it. If I just need to install packages, would brew just work for me? I have a collection of bash scripts in my dotfiles for setting things up, and I've been meaning to adapt them for my linux laptop. It seems like Nix may be helpful here!

The big thing is undoing: if I want to uninstall something, I delete it from the text file and rerun my nix init. I also just decided to get more serious about having all my aliases and shell functions in source control, but then I need to be able to guarantee that I have my little dependencies like fzf, jq, fd, etc. Another option for those is to write the shell functions in nix-script so that they require their command line utilities when run for the first time. The other reason is that it makes me more disciplined about per-project dependencies. I use nix flakes for all my little projects too, so I end up with a project owning its npm or rails installs and database binary and database data and… you get the idea. It takes like 20 more minutes to get coding on something if I set it up that way but I let the LLMs handle that part. It's not quite "make the AI do the dishes while I make art" but it's pretty close!

Re: M5 MacBook Pro

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Post by artdigital »

manquer wrote: post #569
artdigital wrote: post #429

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Yes if it hits 79%, you can swap it under AppleCare+ at the Apple Store. My MBP M1 Max is on the second replacement and still great! I use Al Dente to further optimize battery and calibrate it now and then

I actually went to the Apple Store last spring with battery upgrade in mind, but Apple Store in Burlingame told me it will take 3-5 business days to do the change. I didn't have a spare laptop to work with at that time for a week so i held of[1]. This is probably a reason for lot of people opting out of upgrades. After the M4 came there was hype for the new screen which performs better in sunlight and M1->M4 seemed w…

I just purchased a MacBook Air on the spot to bridge the week and returned it when I got my MBP back

Also both times I did it, it took 2-3 days, not the quoted 1+ weeks

Re: M5 MacBook Pro

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Post by mercutio2 »

godelski wrote: post #573
mercutio2 wrote: post #572

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Hold down option to highlight what accounts a contact is in, BTW.

Thanks! Though I am also struggling to know how I would know that had you not told me. I don't see it in the menu bar nor on the support page[0]. [0] https://support.apple.com/guide/contacts/keyboard-shortcuts-...

This is pretty classic Apple: hide useful information, expose it to power users who discover it.

To be fair, on macOS, it’s a longstanding tradition that if you want to see more complicated stuff (in menus, in apps) hold down option.

But yes, it’s not discoverable.

Re: M5 MacBook Pro

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Post by cyrialize »

1-more wrote: post #576
cyrialize wrote: post #518

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't mind me asking, why do you prefer this set up over just using brew? I've poked around articles and other posts about this, but I'm not sure I quite get it. If I just need to install packages, would brew just work for me? I have a collection of bash scripts in my dotfiles for setting things up, and I've been meaning to adapt them for my linux laptop. It seems like Nix may be helpful here!

The big thing is undoing: if I want to uninstall something, I delete it from the text file and rerun my nix init. I also just decided to get more serious about having all my aliases and shell functions in source control, but then I need to be able to guarantee that I have my little dependencies like fzf, jq, fd, etc. Another option for those is to write the shell functions in nix-script so that they require their com…

Deleting from the text file and re-running the nix init sounds very, very enticing. I may check this out! Thank you for your response!
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