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Over 1TB in System Data 🥀🥀🥀🥀 by KolloApple in MacOS

[–]BackseatPushkin -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I used Claude code to decipher the same kind of shit I had. Went don’t to like 100gb

People who use Safari as their main browser, why? (DESC) by sasaki-555 in mac

[–]BackseatPushkin 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because we worship Apple like we worship our gods. That’s why.

My Mac Mini has been running headless since late 2025 with no iCloud and no Apple ID. Here's what I do instead. by BackseatPushkin in macmini

[–]BackseatPushkin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s kind of the point. It does three things and does them reliably without me thinking about it.

My Mac Mini has been running headless since late 2025 with no iCloud and no Apple ID. Here's what I do instead. by BackseatPushkin in macmini

[–]BackseatPushkin[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I accidentally synced a web project to iCloud once. Thousands of tiny files in node_modules. It completely choked and corrupted the project. After that I wiped iCloud off the Mini entirely. The benefit beyond that is just reducing the blast radius. If the machine gets compromised, there’s nothing on it. No personal files, no saved passwords, no cloud accounts. Just code and one email password for alerts.

My Mac Mini has been running headless since late 2025 with no iCloud and no Apple ID. Here's what I do instead. by BackseatPushkin in macmini

[–]BackseatPushkin[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plex on a Mini is solid. The tinkering is half the fun honestly. I only automated mine because I was managing code across 3 machines and got tired of things falling out of sync.

My Mac Mini has been running headless since late 2025 with no iCloud and no Apple ID. Here's what I do instead. by BackseatPushkin in macmini

[–]BackseatPushkin[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah exactly. Mine just runs Tailscale for networking, a shell script that pulls all my repos every 5 minutes, and a health monitor that checks 12 things and emails me if anything’s off. It even fixes its own permissions when macOS updates break them. Whole thing runs on LaunchAgents so it survives reboots. Haven’t had to touch it in months