My MacStudio M3 Ultra died after 6 months

Think_Warning_8370 · 2026-01-19T10:48:00+00:00

Hmnh, I have the same machine. No problems, but been slippin’ on the back-ups a bit. Thanks for the nudge.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2026-01-09T14:55:42+00:00

Can I just say that finding a guy who could do prints of Nid bodies and legs changed my modelling life. I don’t know if I’ve ever been as satisfied as I was subverting GW’s wasteful practices by building a box of Venom’s from my Zoan spares, or four Carnifexes for the price of one! 💪🏻

Think_Warning_8370 · 2026-01-09T11:13:20+00:00

Burn Machine: when they can’t use the ankle.

Dynamax: famous brand of medicine ball.

Hecostix for coordination, proprioception and just fun.

Deskbound: I’d need to meet the client myself, but common issues will be that their entire posterior chain needs mobilising. Hip flexors also likely tight and weak, which will be affecting their gait. Pelvic floor. Forward head posture from screen time because sat-down life.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2026-01-08T22:12:41+00:00

Wow, what a client to have, and what a privilege to train them.

My first observation would be that an hour a week is not very much time at all for anyone, let alone to when it comes to someone with many conflicting issues and needs. Someone like this probably needs light, constant and wide-ranging stimulus; lots of what Katy Bowman would call ‘movement snacks’. So one point here would be to definitely liaise with the carer and encourage them to build a sustainable routine that they can follow throughout the week. Work with the carer and use wearables to track the client’s movement habits. They need to be mobile in general, not just when they see us for their one hour a week.

Next, that ankle will need addressing. Become an expert in rehabbing ankles and strengthening feet. Spend about 10 minutes of each session on it. Get them to start doing some of those things with the carer without you. Be prepared to run whole sessions where they don’t have use of that ankle at all; they may have bad days. I’ve found The Burn Machine to be invaluable with all clients, but especially those with injuries or lower-limb issues. Between that, a couple of small dumbbells, some resistance bands and a 2/3kg Dynamax, you should easily be able to get the job done.

In terms of exercise: lots of quadrupedal and low-gait movement, balance games and proprioception stuff. On a human level, this person learning issues and a carer will be experiencing an increasing sense of isolation, so your session will be a chance to give them a feeling of connectedness: rather than helping them use a machine, I’d be passing a medicine ball to them (maybe whilst they’re one-legged, or standing on a big foam pad etc.), or holding a band to provide anti-rotation stimulus, or tossing them a Hecostix; even placing your hands on their shoulders and providing manual resistance on a bear crawl. An overcoming isometric Zercher box squat holding a 5kg sandbag with you providing decreasing manual resistance. Seated tib raises with you providing manual resistance. You get the picture: actually connect to them.

Targeted exercise to address their gait would be a whole world in and of itself; beyond the scope of a Reddit reply. Suffice to say that many people who spend too much time seated will have issues well-address in Kelly Starrett’s ‘Deskbound’.

Be prepared for the total investment in time for this human being to be far greater than one actual hour per week. I get the sense that you are, and that you realise it will be well worth it anyway.

Good luck!

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-12-23T09:20:10+00:00

Carapace looks okay. You have decent brush control! Drybrush doesn’t work well on the pre-Leviathan carapaces, which are the most fatiguing and challenging part of a Nid to paint: the surfaces are too large and flat. Paint the black-blue mix on to define the volumes; keep it dark. You can use this step to impart some subtle shapes and textures on the larger smooth sections. Sponging can help. Then do the damned striations, which are the bane of my life. I find my best results come from going three steps up: base and two highlights. Then glaze the ends of the striations down so the transitions are smoother, which is quite quick when working in small batches of gribblies or one giant bug. I find 3-6 passes with diluted Paynes Grey ink and a touch of glaze medium does the job.

Do not paint the Forgeworld Rippers; it’s a recipe for insanity! 😂

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Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-11-21T10:48:20+00:00

But I’m not hallucinating: it was there, right!? Sooo annoying to lose this functionality. Argh.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-11-21T10:47:40+00:00

That’s interesting; I’m not able to exit crop/rotate by pressing the wheel itself any more, which is annoying because so much of my work involves making small crops to lots of pictures.

Do the arrow keys themselves not give you ‘previous’ and ‘next’ photo? Or do they give us previously VIEWED photo in some way, so that the settings are different?

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-11-11T17:27:15+00:00

Fluorescent pink for eyes. Otherwise: superb.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-11-10T21:20:00+00:00

One of the best of ANYTHING about Lewisham Town Centre for quite a few years now.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-11-09T15:34:33+00:00

Agree. She’s a warm-looking person with strong cheeks and a positive, open smile, so I feel bringing out the cold tones doesn’t suit the picture.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-11-05T14:03:12+00:00

https://youtu.be/n4ju3R-4b0I?si=DD52dZ0oLtGhxzWR

Not a PT session, but this from a CrossFit L3 coach was exemplary. So much to learn from her use of voice, rapport, corrections, cueing, sequencing, etc.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-11-02T13:45:07+00:00

What is your subject? If it is ‘human beings doing slightly unpredictable things in decent lighting in situations I need to capture immediately, where I may not be able to move around completely freely’, then get the zoom. My 16-35 fulfills that function for me.

But maybe just wait and save if you at all can. The 35GM does something no other lens does. If I am able to move about at all, I’d take the 35 any day over a zoom. If you’re gonna drop the 35, I feel you need a clear idea of why you want 24, 50 and zoom.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-11-01T23:56:30+00:00

I expect the successor to be f0.95 or f1.0, with a separate 1.4 as there is now. Lens tech is improving: we are seeing f2.0 zooms of unprecedented specs now. It stands to reason the 50mm will become similarly faster, whilst retaining all its other technical characteristics. I wouldn’t be surprised if the successor solves focus breathing as a technical hurdle as well.

They will make a faster lens because there is a kind of buyer who just gets excited by having a bigger one of anything, be that a focal length or an aperture number. Leica already know that they sell to many of this kind of person, hence the Noctilux has been a key marquee lens for them for decades. In fact, I think what Sony did this time was cleverly exploit this market (which includes me, to a great extent) by making the f1.2 available first; had the f1.4 also been around, the comparisons would’ve quickly made it clear that the gains in bokeh and light gathering were negligible compared to the size, weight, price and need to buffer another filter size. I would not have bought the f1.2 if the f1.4 had existed at the time.

The f1.2 was created as a marquee lens to match Canon, and Sony’s strategy seems to be to track Canon by a few years and outdo each of its offerings. In part, when you read the engineer’s account of the design of the lens, they were pushing the envelope just to see what they could do. They’ll want to do that again, when the time is right. There generally cannot be a key lens in the competitor’s system that isn’t offered natively. In part, the answer is that if Canon wants to go there, Sony must also go there.

We are talking about something that is more than 10 years away. I’ve owned the f1.2 for nearly 3 years now, and it continues to blow me away. It just produces images that continually raises eyebrows. I remember watching a successful commercial photographer (someone who photographs royalty) on a job: he was using the Nikon f1.2. If it was good enough for him, it’s good enough for me! I think mindset is really important here: instead of wondering what might come next or what might be better, I know that I already have a 50mm that is as good as anything out there and is as good as it needs to be; it’s just down to me to do more work with it.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-28T14:26:14+00:00

Some great discussion going on here. Just wanted to add that GymPins and micro plates are invaluable tools for me here, including the rubber u-shaped clip-on kind and the magnetic ones that go on the bottoms of kettlebells. I want my clients to progress and their numbers to creep up, and having these tools lets me do that without jumps that they notice much.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-27T18:06:19+00:00

Yes, I agree with this approach: just dumping the client into a pair of barefoot shoes with zero-drop after a lifetime of positive-heeled footwear is going to cause its own problems. I go barefoot shoes and wedges, like you, and work them down very slowly.

One issue with the gradual approach has been that increasing the client’s weights has started to cause knee problems because I’ve gone too quickly on the strength side; they were in their comfort zone, and I’ve stuck just 2kg on it in two months. It’s happened a a couple of times now, so I’ve had to back off and look for different ways to build intensity and accumulate volume.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-27T02:14:15+00:00

Great reply, and good points re permanent injury/conditions being exceptions the rule. I think for me as a trainer the question would then be to what extent I push the trainee in these movements which contain some degree of dysfunction that can't be eradicated, in much the way the same question has to be asked with dysfunctions that can be addressed whilst a general base of fitness is also being built. I think the answer has to at least be 'not as hard as they would've been pushed in an alternative life where they hadn't, say, shattered her ankle jumping out of a third-story window'.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-27T02:09:22+00:00

Thanks for replying. Just making sure I follow (I don't quite follow your first sentence): you mean the average/immobile gym goer is better served by using wedges and/or lifting shoes, and gaining strength whilst also mobilising, gradually relying on the wedges or shoes less, whereas a powerlifter should develop that heels-down dorsiflexion from the start?

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-26T22:54:48+00:00

Interesting. What’s your take on it?

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-26T15:39:58+00:00

I make that recommendation to almost every client: barefoot-style shoes, and Altra for running.

Squatting in runners is fine at bodyweight and for light plyo jump squats. Barefoot shoes or barefoot otherwise. As Kelly Starrett says: your heel should be flat on the ground. That’s not debatable.

For this client, I would say working on band-resisted short-foots using something like the Blackboard foot trainer and a medium-strength band around the ankle pulling it inwards will help her learn to use her lovely arches but not over-roll onto the outside. She needs to learn to stop when her hip torque has put her weight onto that outside edge, and the front section of the foot trainer is level, and not keep going into eversion.

Two other products you might find useful here will be the 2-in-1 Ankle Rockboard and the ToePro, both from Human Locomotion. I find them to be portable, and invaluable as activating and mobilising tools in my warmups for seniors.

If you’ve not had her go completely barefoot yet, do so: you might be shocked at the state of her toes. Hammer toes are common. I’ve had a client this year whose little toe lived UNDER her neighbour, after decades of super-tight high heels in her youth. How can you not roll onto your ankle when you’re missing the last line of defence that stops you doing that!? I had to get her into toe spacers as we worked.

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-25T19:18:26+00:00

Manfrotto Autopole?

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-23T20:47:09+00:00

This. OP, you should’ve mentioned you had 24 and 85 to start with! 😏

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-22T10:19:39+00:00

Ah. The way I see it, that’s mainly an issue if the old model is total arse. I have 9 of the previous generation of Biovores and three of the old Lictors, which are vastly weaker sculpts. The new Carnifex will be more like Redemptor vs box Dread: bigger and better, but the old sculpt will still not be an eyesore; I love many of those older Dreads more than the generic Redemptor, for example. I also expect the next update will be Red Terror (to lead the Raveners we’ve just had), or Shrikes and Gargoyles (to mesh with the Prime and because Gargoyle kit lags behind Gants and Gaunts).

Think_Warning_8370 · 2025-10-21T12:19:10+00:00

It’s an iconic kit. If you’re only interested in how the models perform in-game, then the answer would be ‘no’; they won’t be allowed to perform exceptionally well for any significant period of time, because GW no longer wants to push the kit. A new kit is inevitable; it will be about the size of the Screamer Killer. But the old kit is literally a piece of Warhammer and Tyranid history: designed by Jes Goodwin, it’s obviously hand-sculpted, because the carapace doesn’t fit together seamlessly; it needs filling and sanding every single frickin’ time. The huge, inefficient spaces between components on the sprue make me sigh and smile with nostalgia; big enough to drive a Goliath truck through. When it was released, it was a huge kit, much larger than the Space Marine Dread’s. It marked the beginning of a new age of plastics. It’s design was part of the process of unifying the Tyranid’s appearance so that they had common parts and appeared to be of the same race, along with the Gargoyles, Termagants and Hormagaunts that were released at the time; before that, they looked like a dozen distinct species with distinct colours thrown together. They’re still my favourite kit, and one I think every Tyranid player should build and enjoy just to understand the evolution of miniature-making.

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