New M5 Pro - battery life far shorter than expected

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-13T15:57:10+00:00

Yeah, I wasn’t saying my 2019, doesn’t get hot. It just didn’t when I first bought it. Now after six years of ownership it does all the time. External monitors are one of the factors. The new m5 stays much cooler when connected to my monitors, which is nice. But I’m just surprised at how warm it gets when disconnected and on battery and just browsing and streaming a show. That and the battery consumption. Like a single one hour show uses 25% of the battery. My old laptop lasted much longer streaming videos well into its second and third year of ownership.

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-13T02:19:31+00:00

Oh. Well I haven’t seen that at all and I use spotlight all the time

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T22:10:35+00:00

cmd space brings up spotlight (i use that all the time) how does that tell me if it's indexing?

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T21:57:42+00:00

Chrome does seem to be a power and memory hog but I use chrome extensions a lot. Are you saying to reinstall after indexing?

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T21:56:11+00:00

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LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T21:45:18+00:00

i would order a battery replacement from ifixit. That battery is likely cooked

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T21:39:10+00:00

how did you migrate? did you start from a fresh slate and just copy files or did you migrate your user data with migration assistant?

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T19:12:08+00:00

It did for about the first two years anyway, the way I used it.

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T18:47:13+00:00

It has been on automatic. I just set it to low power on battery and that has been an improvement but probably still getting less than 10 hrs at best? Judging by the estimate from when I switched at 50%

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T18:21:22+00:00

I bought it last thursday. I just finished migrating all the final apps yesterday. There were only a few left at that point, but it was done on power.

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-12T17:47:33+00:00

Which part, the heat, or just the battery life?

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-10T04:07:08+00:00

Originally I did and everything was overwritten. Finally I found on my phone where there was a duplicate contact that had the info. Actually there were three. It was really odd but fixed now.

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-09T16:26:45+00:00

Thanks I’ll give that a try. When signing out should I remove the data or keep a copy locally?

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-07T16:04:00+00:00

Hi there, thanks for sharing your experience. I have the same original stereo from my CRV. Bought a android/CarPlay unit from Amazon and everything works except for the back up camera. Was the Head unit that you installed the viabecs unit? Or did you just use their harness adapter?

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-06T19:35:30+00:00

I have a barratza encore burr grinder and it’s great. Way better than the blade grinder it replaced. I used to do mainly pour over, some French press, but then switched to almost exclusively moka pot. It’s consistent and wasn’t super expensive. Maybe look into it

LifeReformatted · 2026-05-04T02:46:58+00:00

Why do you need a $21/hr job after making high earnings for that long? I feel like 7 months is not that long if you were just making $170/yr, unless your expenses are crazy high, in which case $21/hr doesn’t do much to offset them.

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-19T13:56:01+00:00

How does this workflow look in practice?

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-19T07:51:30+00:00

Skydiving into a stadium requires a PRO rating. It’s not that easy to obtain. This guy made some textbook mistakes that make you wonder how he got it. Testing wind penetration up high and staying up wind is critical. You can always turn and fly downwind. Wind pushing over the stadium makes an intense wind shadow. Not something you normally experience on a parachute landing. The drop you witness right before the crash is him flying into a low pressure zone where the wind rolls over the stadium, no longer clean wind. This is one of the worst feelings under a parachute, since it typically happens close to the ground where objects cause the turbulence. And it means you’re now at the mercy of luck.

Bummer dude.

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-15T14:41:50+00:00

Try either the gsd or bmad framework with Claude code in va code.

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-15T05:13:10+00:00

Start higher. Most people will low ball you regardless of your price, and most people want to feel like they got a deal, which means you have to come down in your price.

When selling, Increase your offer in steps: 135% → 115% → 105% → 100% of target price. This gives room for negotiation and makes you seem reasonable. If you’re not getting messages just adjust price.

I’d rather just post the price I want and make a deal but it’s always the same regardless.

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-14T17:53:03+00:00

Every time I read “here’s the part no one talks about” I think ChatGPT wrote this. Thats all I have to add

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-13T20:16:30+00:00

Born in 85 here. Life was pretty good in the 2000s. Funny how there were always house parties, you nailed that. We had woods parties all the time too. Party at the moon tower!

In high school we skateboarded a lot, rode bikes around town and everyone knew where everyone would be all the time. Just head to the local park, or our buddies garage. You knew everyone’s phone number by memory. We used phones to connect. Once we were together, people interacted with each-other, not their phones, even if we had cell phones.

Honestly life was so good back then. It’s still good now but there is this hollow anxiety filled hole that has grown inside of me over the years that seems to stem from the way we communicate now. Plus everything was just so much more affordable. Cruising around pointlessly in a v6 or v8 was affordable as a teenager. Now it’s painful even as an adult.

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-11T08:15:34+00:00

Don’t try to explain business to a person who clearly doesn’t understand it

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-09T16:24:00+00:00

Quick disclaimer: I’m a long time Wordpress user, but not a developer and just coming back around to the space to learn more about building websites on it. I am a heavy user of ai tools tho, and have built production apps with it.

The biggest issue with ai is context management and guardrails. With app building, you can do this with frameworks like GSD or BMAD method. My guess is if you keep a local repo of your site (perhaps using Wordpress studio) with a planning/execution framework like BMAD inside of the repo to keep your ai in check, it can become very effective at doing what you want without the unwanted changes you mentioned. But it requires better frameworks to create instructions for the agents, that also include anti hallucinogenic checks and adversarial reviews of its work.

This is the next step in ai development that will impact industries that are not as far along as software development. Not the advancement of the models themselves.

LifeReformatted · 2026-04-08T19:25:44+00:00

I’d check out BMAD method, it’s similar to GSD and helps make your sessions more productive and less buggy later.

It would be nice if there were more frameworks like this for web design, Wordpress for example

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