I know I’m a edge use-case, but I really hope this will work with my M3 Max MacBook Pro. It has DP over USB-C without needing an adapter and plays my favorite game (ever space) at high frame rates no problem, and it would be soooo epic in VR.

Glad I waited to buy immortals

Less contractors, more FTEs. Always a win

I am currently using a M2 mini with 8gb of ram for Plex/Jellyfin/SSH and Time Machine and the ram is plenty! But I am happy I went with 512 for the faster storage chips

I don’t have an answer for you but probably worth investing in a gpu that supports hardware decode

If optimized charging was the culprit, it should show a pause symbol on the graph. The issue is likely related to heat or a bug, but I would recommend leaving optimized charging enabled for long term battery health.

I don’t need to keep it on my phone. The thumbnail cache is only about 20gb

No, that’s what iCloud photos is for :) not sure why I’m being downvoted, it was my intention to say 128 is enough for most - including me.

Pirating cracked copies of software you own a digital license to is absolutely not a good solution to go recommending people online as if it’s something that is also easy to do and won’t have ramifications.

I wish that was how it worked, but that’s not the digital world we live in.

https://www.cnet.com/tech/gaming/this-is-what-happens-when-your-nintendo-switch-account-gets-banned-fortnite/

https://www.ign.com/articles/sony-pulls-discovery-videos-playstation-users-already-own-sparking-concern-over-our-digital-future

My photo/video library is 1.4tb but for most people (like my parents) 128 is plenty

heif is correct, it is an image format derived from heic for video. It is pretty spectacular especially compared to the aging jpeg, but yes best to stick with uncompressed formats for non-natural imagery such as screenshots of digital UI and text etc.

Edit: Reading this, looks like HEIF is the container and HEIC is the codec. You’re right!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format?wprov=sfti1

Care to explain that last part? As with any drm protected digital purchase, you are buying a license to use their copy not own the content itself. They are absolutely within their right to pull it whenever they see fit, similar to buying movies and tv shows from a service like iTunes or Amazon should the listening deals with the studios run out.

Typical 12mp heif image is ~1mb

Dont just go around telling people to jailbreak their switch acting like it’s easy and there no ramifications, that’s how you get your Nintendo account banned and all your digital purchases taken away from you.

Nope, it’s what used to be called iTunes money now.

Shouldn’t the keyboard be tilted back to be ergo not up? That doesn’t make sense to me, tilted up (like the wedge shape) puts even more strain on my wrists. Flat is better

I have the m3 max, but my partner has an m2 air (24gb memory) we’ve been playing together and it plays great! For the air settings on mostly high and ultra except shadows at medium, resolution set to native on the built in display with FSR set to performance taa on and a frame rate cap of 30. It holds a very solid 30 for extended sessions. Turning the settings lower than high/ultra don’t seem to have any performance benefit so it didn’t seem worth it to try and hit 60, which is ok for a game like this. I wouldn’t try playing it on a 4k monitor/tv or anything like that, which my m3 max has no trouble with at perfect 60 with everything turned the max, fsr on quality. I bet an m3 pro would be able to hit 60 on the built in display, maybe not on a 4k monitor.

I’m nervous about long term battery health with that mod, also lap comfort

While you’re definitely right the M3 is more efficient for day to day, all I know is when I boot up BG3 the fans are louder than they were on my M1, and ofc I’m going to push both machines to their max that’s what I paid for!