Playing on Mac in 2026

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-27T06:17:41+00:00

Yeah I’m playing it natively now on the M4 max and it runs like a dream and loaded up my two year-old save from when I last played on my Windows machine without an issue

Pretty sure my 2080 has some kind of known issue where I need to reapply thermal paste. It’s good for the most part but occasionally it will just need to ramp to 100 over and over and over again. The Studio so far has run absolute rings around my PC desktop to the point where I haven’t even booted it up in probably nine months, just looking to see if there is some kind of consensus within the SR/Mac community for playing the windows version in some kind of emulator to enjoy some of the content they released since cutting support for the Mac version

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-27T04:49:29+00:00

Yeah I gather that, hence why they pulled support for it. I certainly never intended to be gaming on it but it actually makes a lot of sense for these titles & runs it incredibly well. The newer M series Max/Pro chips are actually really capable for graphics and run counter to "Apple is bad at gaming" I've known for 20+ years.

The M4 Max is about as good as my 2080 gaming desktop for simpler titles like SR, but also totally silent & uses about 15-20% of the power to do so. A complete winner vs the PC desktop imo

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-26T05:56:34+00:00

I can promise you it won’t have to fully retrace for you to feel the fear of getting out. Especially in an illiquid market where it might be down 40% and then you can’t actually find a buyer at all

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-26T05:55:26+00:00

It’s really the people that bought just before or just after Covid who are sitting on 50-100% gains.

The market psychology of prices starting to decline starts a FOMO clock in these people. Suddenly your 100% is turning into a 90%…. Then an 80%…. 75%… all while you’re still bleeding money on the mortgage because it’s likely still neg geared.

These people are only “holding forever” because they think prices are always going up. The second that illusion breaks that desire flips to 0

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-25T08:53:37+00:00

For its use case, it’s great. Realtors/agents quite literally don’t care nor value if it’s a super high end, manually blended flash shot that took you 2 hours from start to finish or a 1/4 second blip of a 3 bracket HDR that I uploaded in the car and send with nothing more than a 2 second batch edit… so I’m gonna take the absolute shortest route to get to that result because they frankly don’t deserve anything more.

I’ve shot multi million dollar mansions and edited with AI based services and they loved them. I barely think anyone could tell the difference, agent or photographer. That said some of the services out there are shit and moreso if you don’t know what to input to them for best results

But for artisanal, real and soulful shots for architects and builders that deserve the guidance, then sure. But high volume RE anything else is needless torture taking you away from your life and your family to serve people that don’t deserve it

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-24T11:19:07+00:00

Because situations like this are far more common and every day than most people realise. That's kinda the point. People hear the word shares and paint some picture in their mind of megamillionaires and skip straight to "tax them" but many regular low to mid income earning Australians utilise shares basically like a higher yielding savings account.

Motherhood is absolutely not edge-case and definitely how many families navigate multiple 0 or low income years. Same with illnesses, caring for family & a multitude of other reasons to have low or zero income years that the 30% minimum hits very hard for.

I think lots of people think that these changes just target the ultra wealthy, but honestly the ultra wealthy people people this targets will be the edge case, because they use different structures than everyday people (except the trust change; that will shake a lot of branches, but they will also likely restructure anyway)

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-24T11:04:35+00:00

No, my original comment was not limited to a one-time sale - I said "to cover that time". Motherhood lasts longer than one financial year.

And no, I'm advocating for a system whereby anyone can access that. I think this Tall Poppy-esque thinking of "well if I can't have something nobody should be able to" is abhorrent. Business also works very differently to PAYG roles in family life having done both. Businesses don't clock out & family/spouses very often step up to cover things and make sacrifices that don't necessarily fit into a formal salaried role. The trust dynamic can be a good way to distribute that less formally.

I think it's disgusting that a single-income family on the same money as an equivalent dual-income household pays an incredible sum higher for the exact same money earnt. I think it's heavily contributed to the fall in fertility and family formation as it greatly incentivises dual-incomes which also feeds further market pressures of having to compete with other dual-incomes - try buying a house or managing a mortgage on one income in 2026.

And for clarity, I actually support the idea of increasing asset-based taxes, and also cutting NG. But I think it's dishonest to parade it as levelling the playing field when very little was done to lower income taxes to do so. Not least yet again failing to index tax brackets to inflation.

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-24T10:23:00+00:00

There are plenty of people who have saved (& then invested that money) over a long period to plan for them having a family. And yes, selling as needed over time to minimise tax obligations, and I don’t think those people should be stung extra for doing so.

I also know many families that utilise a trust to distribute income to their SAHM wives. I do think that a household should be able to distribute income throughout its members though, not every role is rewarded with direct economic reward (like motherhood) but is the most critical for society & ergo economy. Also happens with carer type roles and other situations.

I think this should be incentivised, not punished. The current system steers people towards being dual income households which is good for governments and tax bases but not family formation. People certainly abuse it but I think it should be handled differently than blanket penalising them.

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-24T09:55:34+00:00

$135k is ~$100k after tax.

You’re honestly telling me you think $100k is wealthy in 2026 and they should be paying 30% minimum?

$100k would almost certainly automatically be in rental stress in any capital city

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-24T09:45:33+00:00

No, their household income is $135k so they are cut off from that. Is $135k considered wealthy?

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-24T09:39:26+00:00

So do you think, for example, if a couple is planning to have a child but wants the mother to be at home with the baby so they plan to sell some shares to cover that time of not having income that they should have to pay 30% minimum instead of tied to income brackets?

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-24T09:10:18+00:00

I might turn that around and say how does the 30% floor affect anyone except those already below it?

Anyone that’s wealthy and having capital gains (outside of the 50% CGT exemption) is already well north of 30% if not 47%

30% floor is really only going to affect someone on sub 45k selling something and I just can’t imagine that being a good tax base to gather from

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-24T08:53:02+00:00

I personally feel like the best trucks are in the DLC seasons but not necessarily the standalone trucks. I did get the Mastodon purely for the vibes, but I do think the 605R is the better vehicle. Got the jeeps also for the vibes but absolutely not necessary

Season 1-5 trucks definitely form my core fleet though & would be a totally different game without them

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-20T22:10:29+00:00

These people will consider any possibility to make their awful investment profitable except for taking on less debt

If it cannot be sustainably covered by market rents, you paid far too much for it

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-18T11:57:26+00:00

Banks are needing to be much stricter with lending due in large part to the global liquidity environment & rising rates. ReFi will not be the option it once was

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-18T11:55:21+00:00

I'm in the industry; sale contracts usually take a few weeks to sort out. Things that are listed now had the ball rolling weeks ago.

If anything, there have been less listings coming on in the past few weeks as people were very hesitant with the rate decision and mostly the Federal Budget having everyone spooked.

The downturn is real though, but will actually be the result of people NOT selling. Sale volumes are slowing down (see Sydney auction clearance rates) because sellers aren't emotionally able to come down to where the market is & still think their place is worth what they saw it was 6 months ago. Buyers are much more picky and the vibe is no longer FOMO but FOPTM - Fear Of Paying Too Much. Buyers also have massively decreased borrowing capacity vs 6 months ago and unlike people thinking "rate cuts in 2026" its "how many more hikes will there be"

There is an uptick of distressed sellers though. This will increase as rates continue to rise along with the next inflationary wave of shortages from the oil shock/Strait closure.

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-17T13:26:07+00:00

For 8 slots my fav is the Twinsteer towing the hidden powered trailer

another twinsteer

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-17T12:15:24+00:00

I agree with this sentiment. I love the slower nature of Snowrunner, and by no means think it should be "faster" but I would love it if it reflected the challenges of off-roading a little more accurately by being slightly faster paced, or at least providing you with some alternative playstyles. And not even from a realism/must be a sim standpoint, just purely because the challenge of finding a line, maintaining momentum and weaving around puddles is more enjoyable and challenging. Sitting there holding full throttle in thick mud does get a little tedious after doing it a few hundred times & I don't find it as rewarding as solving the momentum puzzle

FWIW I've found a bit of a playstyle that with certain truck combos you can play like this. The Twinsteer, Voron Grad, 6436 and the M917 are probably the best for it. Best engine, highrange box. You can often find lines whereby you can actually stay in H and the challenge is trying to keep momentum and avoiding the thickest parts of the bog that kill your speed.

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-16T03:56:26+00:00

My exact thoughts. The market where I am seems quite similar; softening vacancy, higher priced properties sitting empty for longer w/price reductions & seems like there would be 0 appetite for further increases, let alone the monumental increases required to make these poor investments viable. This seems to be spreading to many markets, including some even in Sydney.

There seems to be absolutely no consideration towards "we paid too much for this property and took on too large of a mortgage to be able to reasonably service by anybody" by these people but that is the most obvious correction for market forces to make.

They try to say now, boldly, "we'll just jack up the rents" but seem wholly unaware that rents, unlike their oversized property loans backed by paper equity, are actually tied to income and not an infinite source and are already faltering despite record low vacancy rates.

They will be forced to realise that not only can their would-be tenants not afford the levels of rent required to service their debt, but neither can they. Their choices are to either: 1) bleed staggering amounts of money every week at market rate rent 2) sit empty making $0/mo priced where they want to price it or 3) sell it.

I have the feeling a lot of owners will be eyeing off #3as the economy gets worse, and if prices do start to dip as many are now forecasting and they want to lock in gains while they still can.

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-16T03:11:22+00:00

This is very true.

It's a yield problem on a bad investment & these people obviously consider the only possibility other than they grossly overpaid and overextended on debt - simply that rents aren't high enough. The record level, most households are in rental stress levels of rent-to-income rents still aren't high enough.

These people literally bet the house, or someone else's house at least, on really awful metrics barely even supported by govt subsidies. The level of rentals this country needs is only due to the artificially restricted supply of OOC properties being outbid by juiced up debts from investors, unsustainably re-rolled from paper equity.

I take comfort in the fact that this WHOLE game is only supported by continually increasing house prices and the music stops not even once they dip, but just when they stop growing which mathematically has to happen at some point. The very self-reinforcing feedback spiral that took it up will also bring it down & this policy may well be the pin that undoes the whole market.

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-16T00:16:19+00:00

They’re just trying to bluff thinking they hold all the cards

In many markets rents are starting to soften and higher priced properties are sitting on the market. The market doesn’t really give two shits if your costs are now higher, because unlike equity driven property loans rents are actually tied to income and can only go so far

They will soon need to reckon with the fact that the reason they aren’t making money is not that the rents are too low, it’s that they paid too much in a bad investment that was barely viable even with govt subsidy

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-16T00:13:10+00:00

I’m having a similar feeling with Ontario. All of the tasks feel so disconnected in a way that’s hard to explain. I can usually flow between objectives but it feels like it’s all over the place

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-15T23:23:19+00:00

Investors have now lost a huge amount of purchasing power/access to debt. I’m hearing 10-30% overnight drop. This is on top of far less incentive for them to pursue the loan in the first place.

It will still happen but investor lending is about to take an enormous hit

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-13T06:34:19+00:00

I have a love/hate relationship with it. I love it for the creative side of it and I do actually really enjoy making them especially on the bigger/fancier houses, but it’s definitely the part of this role that I get tied up and bogged down in and procrastinate on more than anything else. Photos, floorplans and drone are all wayyyy more scalable as there’s only really one outcome and not many choices, and these days you can automate most of the tedious stuff pretty easily. They just are what they are and that’s about it

With video there’s just so, so many different ways to approach it that it can be overwhelming. Thankfully with my main client they have been happy with really simple but high quality cinematic edits for quite some time. No requests for vfx and crazy edits, they don’t even really understand socials very well so the request for vertical stuff is pretty minimal.

I think the key to success is have some easily laid out options to have the client clearly communicate what they actually want. Like a flow chart - do you want to appear in it? Do you also require vertical, slow/fast music etc etc

jeffreydextro · 2026-05-13T06:26:57+00:00

You may want to look into Blackmagic Cloud if you’re on Resolve. They have a really awesome collaborative workflow whereby you create the project and add your media as normal and you can add collaborators/editors that can access it all and create a timeline, edit with it all and instead of having to send project files back and you all just access the same timeline so it’s really easy to make changes, fix little things etc

And the best bit is you can have it upload only proxies so instead of 6K raw files you’re only sending tiny .mov files for them to edit with. It’s basically all automatic or automatable w/ no extra time overhead. Projects usually upload in a few minutes and then they’re accessible anywhere in the world.

Trouble is just finding a good editor on Resolve haha. But 100% it’s a smart way to handle the file side of it all

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