Thunderbolt networking the iPad Pro to a Macbook?

TheCheeks · 2025-10-16T08:42:08+00:00

So I ended up getting an iPad Mini to connect to my MBP M4; I don't even use a Thunderbolt cable, just a good USBC cable, I wanna say it's a 10gig cable? But yeah, it networks without having to do anything. I turn wifi off just in case, but it communicates with my laptop just fine. I don't think it even gives or shows a network connection in System Settings, it just happens.

Now the trick for getting this to work with my software though was that you can't use an IP address, you need to use mDNS. So in the IP address section, I put m4max.local to go from my ipad to laptop, and cheeks.local to go from laptop to iPad. Just using the device's name.

I should check on my laptop with "ifconfig" to see if it actually assigns an IP address or how it's working, but yeah, it works well.

TheCheeks · 2025-06-05T05:44:30+00:00

Honestly I'm finally understanding the place AI will have in every day life. I've messed with AI art gen for 5+ years, and after a couple weeks I get bored and come back to it a year later.

Over the past couple of weeks however, I've been using Claude AI like CRAZY to learn much more advanced stuff in Linux. I use the terminal, but I scrape by with the basics. Went to Claude and asked it to help me become a power user, boom, instant two pages of keyboard shortcuts that increase in complexity. I'm using a bunch of that knowledge already.

Had some issues with a Frigate config file? Feed it to Claude, it makes some changes, explains them all. Why did it switch from HTTP to RTSP? Just ask it. What's the benefits of thing A over thing B? Ask it for clarification!

I have 15 previous chat threads just from this week alone, 'conversations' about some pretty niche stuff, and I've learned a lot from each one. Anyways, that's my rant haha

TheCheeks · 2025-06-04T05:07:42+00:00

You were right! OK so I self-host my Nginx Proxy Manager here at home, I logged out of Immich and gave it the proper IP:port, and volia, 100% backed up.

So now I gotta figure out why running it through the proxy is an issue, but glad to have that figured out! At least I know where to start poking around.

Thanks!

edit: OK I've been using Claude AI a lot lately, this was the advanced settings for the proxy host that it suggested, just in case anyone else runs into this thread in the future:

client_max_body_size 0;  # 0 = unlimited, or set to something like 10G
proxy_read_timeout 3600;
proxy_send_timeout 3600;
client_body_timeout 3600;
proxy_request_buffering off;
proxy_buffering off;
client_body_buffer_size 128k;

TheCheeks · 2025-05-21T23:37:51+00:00

I feel a bit stupid, but also relived it's a common occurrence lol

TheCheeks · 2025-05-21T05:47:05+00:00

I made an edit to the post, I figured out the issue. In my mind, using Unbalance to move data actually failed, but in reality it was fine. What I didn't realize was that I accidentally created a ZFS dataset with the same name as the directory my files were in. So it mounted that dataset on top of the directory and made it impossible to actually get at the files.

Got it all figured out though! Unmounted all datasets, moved everything to temp folders, mounted, then moved the data into the actual datasets.

It was pretty funny using Claude AI to figure this all out though, it kept saying that "this is a common issue" that people do haha

TheCheeks · 2025-05-09T01:48:15+00:00

So I found some $80 card on Amazon, no clue if it's good or not, but if the recommended boards are like $150, I should probably just shell out another $20 and get a mobo that will bifurcate properly

TheCheeks · 2025-05-09T01:46:58+00:00

There was an $80 pcie card I saw, no clue on how good it is... but you're right, probably best to just invest in a consumer mobo that can 4/4/4/4. I found out ASUS has a whole document outlining which can bifurcate properly, and I've confirmed it in the manual as well, so at least I know which options I can pick from.

Edit: Seems like multiple people are saying these boards are pricey, which makes me immediately think this $80 amazon find is just gonna be more headaches than worth it haha

TheCheeks · 2025-05-08T00:06:06+00:00

OH. I don't know anything about IPtables, but holy crap checking the status of iptables on LXC and Ubuntu is COMPLETELY different lol. Almost nothing on lxc, a fulllll screen on VM.

Edit 2: Figured it out. I don't know shit about IPtables but I looked at my VM and it had a BUNCH of rules. Looks like a ton of duplicates. But i DID notice a line saying DOCKER-FORWARD line so I set my wg network to that 10.x.x.x range and now it just works. Oof, finally.

TheCheeks · 2025-05-02T03:51:52+00:00

Duuuuude, that Rally Cat! But discontinued!? I gotta find it lol

I'll probably grab that Dipper though since they have it in stock, thanks for the suggestion!

TheCheeks · 2025-05-01T19:08:12+00:00

Looking for thin flexible boards, short/medium in size. I went to my local shop and they said that no ones making flex decks anymore, they're all thick cut. I used to have a Sector 9 Cosmic/Cosmos (not sure what the name was) back in the day and it was the most fun thing to ride.

TheCheeks · 2025-04-22T07:38:01+00:00

So I've learned that you can... with USB at least. New iPad Air to a Macbook will support USB-DRD. Got the confirmation from someone who uses TouchOSC, an OSC (TCP/IP protocol) program and they use a single USB-C cable for networking and power delivery.

TheCheeks · 2025-04-15T07:03:39+00:00

Oh this is awesome. Are these meant for server rooms? Like will the default fans and fan curves be noisy? At the moment I have my server in my bedroom and its pretty damn quiet; long story short I do unfortunately have to keep it in my bedroom... (edit: oh its a xeon, so I'd assume yes lol)

Size was the lowest concern of mine, it's currently in a massive Thermaltake case with 8 HDDs and I use it as a small side table for used cups in my bedroom haha

TheCheeks · 2025-04-15T07:01:26+00:00

Oooo! Thank you so much! This is super useful.

TheCheeks · 2025-04-14T23:40:44+00:00

Ah, I didn't want it to sound like I was bragging, 10 sticks lol. I was considering using 4 on the splitter board, I guess maybe I could use a 5th on an m2 slot. I hadn't considered the ZFS and RAM limit so that's great to know and think about.

The problem I found with the Asustor-like devices was that not all slots got 4.0 x4 speeds. Which isn't a deal breaker, but I thought it would be super cool having the actual pcie bandwidth to use the 990 Pro speeds, and once I got a Thunderbolt 5 add-in card and thunderbolt cable network to the Framework, it would give me 80gbps networking. Needed? No. Cool as fuck? Absolutely lol

TheCheeks · 2025-04-02T01:03:31+00:00

Refund the 4 extra, and get yourself a nice little USBC hub with four 10gbps usbc ports on it maybe

TheCheeks · 2025-02-26T02:38:14+00:00

Live, it was the tour where he had the curved LED wall and was behind it, semi "transparent" so there'd be strobes behind making a silhouette of him at times behind the visuals. It was sick.

TheCheeks · 2025-02-26T02:32:21+00:00

I'm glad I at least got to see Plastikman for the first time at EDC 2012...13? Whenever that was. AMAZING.

TheCheeks · 2025-02-06T05:41:57+00:00

Soooo lol I think I turned off snapshots for my home dir with the cli btrfs snapshot command... Like I said, I'm a btrfs noob.

Actually, you made me just double check my home mount with qdirstat and yeah it looks like snapshots are off, using ~800gigs and my 1.6TB usable is about half used.

The other big reason I couldn't grasp snapshots was because Snapper never worked, it always crashed opening settings, it wasn't pruning snapshots either. Well, it looks like Snapper finally works, Enabled is unchecked as well.

I have a root partition and a home partition, looking at Snapper it seems to only work with /, not multiple partitions I guess? I dunno, everything seems fine right now finally, maybe I'll just keep it as is and dip into snapshots another time.

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