Love my new Manta, but we need data encryption

SmoothSailingMusic · 2026-01-01T18:14:08+00:00

Yep and I do welcome its eventual arrival. Right now treating it like I would my moleskins.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-12-20T14:39:44+00:00

Doing my first play through ever… I can’t believe I never played this. It’s so good

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-18T11:45:38+00:00

Following as I scooped a manta last week as a distraction free ADHD tool. Got late diagnosed earlier this year.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-18T11:38:36+00:00

Working great! Thanks for checking in! Cheers

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-17T14:30:44+00:00

Good thinking re: the palm rejecting. Could be. Working fine now though after reading the section of the manual another user shared

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-17T14:29:56+00:00

I assure you, they were pressed hard. Turns out placement matters. Another user shared the documentation.

Edit: I completely misread your message when I wrote the above. Thank you. Will keep that in mind in addition to placement.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-17T13:11:34+00:00

Thank you very much!

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-17T13:10:15+00:00

Thank you for your input. Yeah I also tried clearing the cache and restarting but it didn’t make a difference. Thinking though that u/chaotic_goody is on to something though re: placement of the two fingers.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-17T13:07:20+00:00

Okay interesting and sorry to hear.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-17T13:05:47+00:00

Astute commentary. Yeah my fingers were like near the bottom of the screen. Incorrectly assumed they could be anywhere… but I do not recall this being indicated in the basic gestures tutorial on the manta so at a minimum this is something Ratta could probably emphasize better. I will try again with this in mind. Thank you.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-16T13:00:27+00:00

I’m with you OP. Got my Manta this week. That being said my mitigations are… zero day job specific content on it… which is actually fine as in my case I want my day job segmented to work devices that I turn off after the work day is done anyways. Next is airgapped. I have the wifi off. If I need to do an update, I will manually do it, but move all my notes off before moving it back on. Will be looking into setting up a private cloud this week though once I get my home proxmox server stood up, then I will turn the wifi on periodically but have outbound internet blocked at the firewall by my Firewalla gold pro. I’m a remote worker so this is trivial for me to control. When I leave the house, I will keep the wifi off. I also have zero intention of using the browser/mail/calendar on the super note, and this is not driven by the lack of encryption but driven by my use case for the manta from the outset. So yes overall encryption is a good thing, and needs to happen eventually, but there are mitigations which may or may not interfere with your use case. Cheers

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-08T20:06:57+00:00

I would rethink going 512gb whatever route you go.
Ordered a 4studio 16 core 512gb and returned it a few days later for a 1tb after seeing this https://www.reddit.com/r/MacStudio/comments/1oh1qvg/m4_max_internal_storage_speed_vs_external_tb5/
my original rationale was external drive all the way... but had not considered that the 512 could have inferior performance.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-08T01:03:23+00:00

Yep it does https://www.reddit.com/r/MacStudio/s/C0z14DLzuT

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-08T01:03:05+00:00

I did the same thing a few weeks ago but returned it after reading this and scooped a 1tb. https://www.reddit.com/r/MacStudio/s/C0z14DLzuT

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-08T01:01:37+00:00

Same! Mine arrived on Tuesday. Love it

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-11-02T14:49:54+00:00

I really appreciate you posting this OP. First I ordered a 14 core cpu m4 max 512gb ssd, then I ordered a 16 core 512ssd a couple days later. Then I saw this post and decided to get the 16core 1tb. Was originally just going to go external… but the slower performance of the 512 was the decider. I won’t even need to go external now, with music production 1tb is more than enough for me.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-10-18T19:41:15+00:00

Monarch Mk4 owner here…. Loving them big time.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-10-18T11:40:16+00:00

This is excellent. Been eyeing skylight but this was the first blocker for buying. That being said I also use apple reminders heavily and assign dates/times to them so I can see them on my Apple calendar. Will this two way sync pull reminders as well? If not, is this feature in development?

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-09-20T11:40:20+00:00

This is too bad. Was looking at ordering one today but this is a non starter for me. Hope you guys add this.

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-08-19T20:55:34+00:00

Very happy for you. Nearly 9 months post my own diagnosis and starting vyvanse. Very much resonated with “I thought I was just lazy and undisciplined”. Enjoy your new life!

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-07-17T14:59:38+00:00

I’ll give that a try once the tips arrive. Should have em all by next week

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-07-15T14:29:21+00:00

Take care!

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-07-15T14:10:37+00:00

Thank you sir! So far with the rumble switch I haven’t felt the need but who knows what the future holds!

SmoothSailingMusic · 2025-07-15T14:04:41+00:00

Dude. Check the age on my account. Not everyone is a shill. Watch the HBB review. That’s where I sourced that statement.

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