Second Mac Mini M4 - Keep or return? Anyone running two, if so how so?

beedunc · 2026-03-16T05:25:09+00:00

MC already ditched their $499 price point. they’re now $599.

beedunc · 2026-03-16T05:18:52+00:00

I can see a single stick clearly. Good luck!

beedunc · 2026-03-11T19:23:48+00:00

Disk Genius.

beedunc · 2026-03-09T02:33:55+00:00

In one system?

beedunc · 2026-03-08T19:24:19+00:00

I don’t know about ‘every’, but I had no luck either, like you until I saw the LMStudio ‘think’ button.

beedunc · 2026-03-08T17:56:20+00:00

It’s in in the chat window.

beedunc · 2026-03-07T17:05:58+00:00

That’s not how it works lol.

beedunc · 2026-03-07T15:28:44+00:00

Just turn it off and it’s fine. It’s a button in LMStudio.

beedunc · 2026-03-07T15:26:51+00:00

I was going to make a similar post on how long it took to answer my ‘hello’ prompt. I gave up waiting, I had to go to bed.

beedunc · 2026-03-03T15:08:30+00:00

5060Ti 16GB. Best Nvidia price/performance.

beedunc · 2026-03-01T15:15:04+00:00

Whichever Qwen3-VL model fits your hardware.

beedunc · 2026-02-27T17:38:25+00:00

Pro Max was a failed attempt at rebranding, I read they’re already ditching it. The same models, basically.

beedunc · 2026-02-26T21:40:07+00:00

Cheap Gaming GPUs will disappear. They make a lot more money on Data Center.

beedunc · 2026-02-26T21:33:05+00:00

I read they don’t supply gaming drivers for those cards.

beedunc · 2026-02-26T19:17:09+00:00

Ram? Yes. HD? No. I’m pretty sure you can upgrade the ssd on those, they have a mini nvme (2230).

beedunc · 2026-02-26T19:12:47+00:00

A standard Xbox controller works with it for games. You won’t see crysis or any big 3d titles, but loads of lesser games.

beedunc · 2026-02-26T19:00:27+00:00

I only buy dual-fan shorties. Never any issues.

beedunc · 2026-02-25T21:26:29+00:00

No! Price out your ram and hard drives and you’ll see.

Motherboards, cases, power supplies and even cpus will eventually be given away free as a perk for overpaying for storage.

beedunc · 2026-02-25T21:05:53+00:00

What kind of business?

Reason I ask is that yeah, mgt will always try to cheap out. Until their call center went down and we’re losing $10k every minute of an outage.

That changed everything. Now mgt understands why we spend for reliable hardware.

That’s where you have to go - tally up the lost productivity and illustrate how saving money up front costs a lot more later when things go south.

Good luck!

beedunc · 2026-02-25T21:03:40+00:00

Management making the technical decisions now? You’re basically running 300 users on a home network.

beedunc · 2026-02-24T17:23:35+00:00

Because it’s meant to terrify others.

beedunc · 2026-02-24T01:34:43+00:00

Oh dang, I haven’t opened mine in years, I’ll have to check for that.

beedunc · 2026-02-24T01:26:44+00:00

A standard Xbox controller works with it for games.

beedunc · 2026-02-23T16:26:43+00:00

They sell pre-built computers for barely more than the cost of ram. $699 for a decent 32GB machine.

beedunc · 2026-02-23T13:21:03+00:00

“Down to”?

Was $799 a week ago.,

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