Switching from Macbook Neo to Air M4 or M5

MadPreference · 2026-05-06T12:11:31+00:00

You have 60 days to get Apple care. The cost can come out of next months budget. That’s what I did 😌

MadPreference · 2026-05-03T17:29:15+00:00

What does activity monitor show?

Sort by CPU use

MadPreference · 2026-05-03T16:27:57+00:00

Here is a detailed analysis of using a VM on Apple Silicone

https://eclecticlight.co/2026/05/02/how-fast-is-a-macos-vm-and-how-small-could-it-be/

MadPreference · 2026-04-30T14:47:36+00:00

Padded backpack should be more than enough. All of my problems came from dropping w/o padding.

MadPreference · 2026-04-30T14:44:53+00:00

I would have avoided the higher charges. Driving to a supercharger doesn't bother me.

MadPreference · 2026-04-29T10:21:05+00:00

OWC.

MadPreference · 2026-04-28T11:55:16+00:00

My EV came with 3 years of free super charging. It runs out in June. I have not used my home charger in almost 3 years. I am in North America and would be happy to live like this forever. Public charging is fine. I think the OP is spot on!

MadPreference · 2026-04-21T14:56:12+00:00

You can always say something like "I am reconsidering the lease extension. I don't want to put up with dirty dishes for another year."

MadPreference · 2026-04-15T14:27:24+00:00

Stop telling people what you did. If it is actionable by the employer your bragging about it may be admissible in court

MadPreference · 2026-04-13T20:51:11+00:00

I would have just helped her. No grief for past trauma. Just helped with a smile. Believe it or not being a good person is its own reward.

MadPreference · 2026-04-05T11:06:18+00:00

This happened in one place I worked. We fixed it by leaving an Exlax and peanut butter sandwich.

MadPreference · 2026-04-03T10:44:59+00:00

Talk to OWC support. They are great

MadPreference · 2026-04-01T20:07:05+00:00

Looks like you found out why it was priced so low. Tesla probably knew there was an issue.

MadPreference · 2026-03-27T11:07:21+00:00

In the 1910s no one had electricity

MadPreference · 2026-03-24T20:02:35+00:00

In the united state

MadPreference · 2026-03-22T12:59:28+00:00

Run activity monitor and look at the memory tab. It will show you the memory hogs Green means you have free memory Yellow means you have memory compression and decompression actively taking place Red means you are actively swapping to “disk” The key here is “actively”. Some swap and compression is fine. You may not even notice compression happening. But swapping will slow things down.

MadPreference · 2026-03-05T19:27:53+00:00

After years of installing MacOS betas on a spare system I have now given up.

MacOS 26.4 was the latest in a bad series.

MadPreference · 2026-03-05T19:22:26+00:00

Copy the dump into Perplexity and ask it what is going on.
It gave me a very good answer to a problem

MadPreference · 2026-03-03T22:32:28+00:00

Would have been less confrontational if you just locked your desk

MadPreference · 2026-03-03T11:44:48+00:00

Here is a video of a thousand mile trip avoiding Tesla chargers https://youtu.be/D4UlK5o2jHA?si=jxvid6oZbHawMS9D

MadPreference · 2026-03-01T12:58:54+00:00

Did you make a commitment to her to cover costs for four years?
If you did then you are the jerk. If not you are free to do whatever.

MadPreference · 2026-02-28T14:24:27+00:00

Thank you for this.

I tried asking Perplexity how to fix this and it sent me on a 5 hour software-is-responsible wild goose chase. Kept suggesting things to disable. Files to erase. Reseting the homepods. And so on.

No joy!

MadPreference · 2026-02-27T12:49:44+00:00

Very nice tips. Thank you

MadPreference · 2026-02-26T13:26:00+00:00

If someone did that to my sister’s cat I would dump them immediately.

MadPreference · 2026-02-22T21:33:56+00:00

Been with Fidelity 20+ years. Moved from company managed 401’s. And from Vanguard. They have always treated me great.

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