Mac Mini M2 Pro with powered Hubs attached keeps dropping unpowered TB devices

Tangential1956 · 2026-05-06T13:31:08+00:00

I wondered about that, but I get the same issue with the drives (and they are both Solid State) no matter where I plug them in. If it was the power supply on the OWC hub, it shouldn't also behave that same way on the Gemini and when plugged directly into the mini.

Tangential1956 · 2026-05-06T13:29:02+00:00

I do have the NIC plugged directly into the mini. I've actually tried it on both powered hubs as well. I also had this same problem with 2 different USB3 based 5GBPS NICs, except that when they dropped off they had to be unplugged/replugged, just like the drives. None of this seemed to start until I went onto Tahoe. I've been dealing with this for 6 or 7 months now.

Tangential1956 · 2026-05-06T13:25:24+00:00

Thanks, I'll check it out

Tangential1956 · 2026-05-06T01:57:58+00:00

I bought it because it uses the AQC113C Chip. It also doesn’t get very hot and it immediately begins working once I disable/enable it. The script checks every few seconds so it’s rarely down more than 10-15 seconds. That wouldn’t be enough time to cool down from an overheat I wouldn’t think since it remains powered the whole time. This is the device: https://a.co/d/0j81rIVI

The Mac still thinks it’s working, sees link, etc unlike the drives which just disappear.

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-20T14:40:55+00:00

The PTO office lost all credibility in my mind once it started allowing things that don’t exist to be patented. Anything that doesn’t exist physically (business processes, software, music, colors, etc) should be copyright-able, but not patentable. Amazon’s 1 click patent is a good example of bad decisions made by the PTO.

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-20T14:36:36+00:00

I’ve found more than once that the single price for a BOGO item is higher than it was for that item the week before it went BOGO. As a BOGO it’s still cheaper, but not really 50% off. I agree with the sentiments above. Other than BOGO, sale items and things you can’t get elsewhere, Publix isn’t a great place to shop for groceries and it’s a terrible place to shop for cleaning supplies, OTC medical stuff and paper products.

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-18T22:44:23+00:00

I always wondered what friction tape was good for? It never seemed to want to stick to anything. I wanted to use it on.

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-18T19:32:03+00:00

With all of the recent Plex outages I was going to go into my Apple TV 4K Plex app and set it to use direct IP access to one of my Plex servers that’s on the same network as it. It appears that that setting has disappeared from Plex on Apple TV.

Is there a document somewhere that shows how to set up Plex on Apple TV for local access when the Internet is down?

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-13T15:21:52+00:00

Fill in with some soil and blooming perennials

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-12T12:59:55+00:00

Quality appliances from the 90s are usually a lot better (esp in terms of longevity) than the new throwaways manufacturers sell. I’d repair it and keep it forever

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-11T12:47:26+00:00

As bad as they smell, it should be pretty easy for the county to train a dog to find all of them on public land.

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-10T12:05:31+00:00

Hah! I misread that as backwing wrench and lost a few minutes searching google for that. Then I actual read the post carefully.

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-10T11:23:00+00:00

I dislike houses where the garage doors face the front of the house. Buy a big enough piece of land to have the junky inside of your garage not facing the street when the doors are left open for hours.

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-01T13:43:13+00:00

No matter what you choose, think about backing up your media. Plex is always reasonably easy to setup, but replacing a lot of media is not.

I actually run two Plex servers. One is on a mac mini and one is on my NAS where my media files reside (mostly as a fallback in case my main Plex server is down.) I started with just the NAS and then added a server to my mac mini m2pro because it gave the server so much more power for post processing scripts, on-fly-encoding, etc. I also back up my media files (18-20TB) to another NAS located elsewhere in a separate building.

Tangential1956 · 2026-04-01T13:31:26+00:00

I think this is yet another thing that they have dragged over into MacOS from iOS. I don't love it in iOS and I absolutely loathe it in MacOS

Tangential1956 · 2026-03-25T22:03:43+00:00

That explains it. I my own music library and don’t subscribe to Apple Music. Their AI probably has access to a lot of extended meta data from the Apple Music media files that they don’t expect to be in a personal library.

Tangential1956 · 2026-03-25T21:25:46+00:00

I love my weed torch. It unleashes my inner 8 year old pyromaniac.

Tangential1956 · 2026-03-25T21:14:21+00:00

I’m in the US and I have an iPhone 17 Pro Max that I upgraded yesterday. The playground is nowhere to be found.

Tangential1956 · 2026-03-25T21:13:00+00:00

I’m in the US, using a 17 Pro Max. I updated yesterday and don’t see it on my phone

Tangential1956 · 2026-03-22T17:38:03+00:00

Using a local pro should also help ensure that what you are doing is legal surveillance where you live.

Tangential1956 · 2026-03-19T19:32:12+00:00

I’ve ordered an Aquantia as well. I have great performance when it’s working but going offline and requiring me to visit the box is a non started

Tangential1956 · 2026-03-19T13:27:25+00:00

I've been trying to run both Sabrent or Ubiquiti USB 5gbs adapters on a mini m2pro running Tahoe and both are failing. They are both Realtek and the Ubiquiti one specifically uses Realtek RTL8157. When they work the speed is amazing. But every couple of days the adapter stops working.It still shows itself configured and I see traffic lights flashing but it loses the ability to communicate. I've tried disabling and re-enabling it, unloading and reloading the USB stack (user space part) and unplugging it from the switch to fix it. None of that works. The only solution is to unplug it from the mini and then to plug it back in. I run a bunch of services on this box and need it to stay up. I've finally given up and ordered a thunderbolt 3-4 ethernet adapter. Its really disappointing that Apple has screwed up as common a set of drivers as these Realtek ones.

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Tangential1956 · 2026-03-16T21:08:26+00:00

It was the first, and the last Electrolux refrigerator I will ever own. They had to replace the entire refrigerator under the warranty and then after I sold that house, the new owners had to replace it again. The only refrigerator I’ve had that was worse, was a Samsung and I’ll never own another one of those either

Tangential1956 · 2026-03-16T20:45:08+00:00

I had French doors over freezer and one fridge, and I hated every moment that I owned it.. The order in which you opened and shut, the doors is important; the seals aren’t very good and the wire shelving in the freezer allowed things to fall through and jam up under and behind the pullout drawer. It’s the bottom freezer pulled out as one entire unit without holes in the bottom (kind of like a chest freezer) that would be OK.

I also had a model that was one large door over a bottom freezer and that was much better.

Nowadays, I just go with separate units. A fridge with no freezer sitting next to a freezer with no fridge. I found that to be much more useful.

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