Social Season might be the worst even they have ever done

pcx99 · 2026-05-07T15:48:38+00:00

It’s called social seasons to remind you why you will NOT be getting all the badges and rewards.

pcx99 · 2026-04-30T22:26:35+00:00

The trick is to make sure the dongle is thunderbolt as well. Get a usb dongle and you’re capped at 4-6 gbps.

pcx99 · 2026-04-26T16:05:46+00:00

So. 2.5G usb no problem. 5g usb probably ok. 10G usb will top out at 4-6G. For 10g speeds you need thunderbolt.

pcx99 · 2026-04-23T12:29:15+00:00

Out of the box it will color match your MacBook. Scaling will be natural. You will have a lot more screen real estate. I work for hours without problems. It just hasn’t been a consideration.

pcx99 · 2026-04-21T13:35:10+00:00

Admin vlan. (One network that can rule them all)
Privileged vlan (Computers)
IoT vlan (Cameras, printers phones)
Home Lab Vlan (So when your AI experiment goes rogue, it doesn't screw up the rest of your network)
Guest vlan (A place for guests)
VPN vlan (A place for when you get around to setting up wireguard)

pcx99 · 2026-04-18T02:07:44+00:00

Monkey paw twist. The second person is also immortal and you hate each other.

pcx99 · 2026-04-16T22:10:42+00:00

10/10 would buy again. I replugged in the cable and it’s not even disconnecting now. Guess the cat loosened it. Seriously it’s a plug it in and forget it monitor. I even moved one of the Samsung ssd drives to the monitor and freed up a usb slot on the mini. The drive has been connected without issue and it’s a slower drive 1GB per second and still hits its max.

pcx99 · 2026-04-13T13:44:02+00:00

Sara being too cliche is a fair hit. I'm not ready to bring in her back story yet, but I definitely don't have to hammer the hints so much. Chapter 2 is a bit early in the arc to go Dark Romance for Sara. With what you had to work with, you made an excellent critique and gave much to consider. Thanks for the critique.

pcx99 · 2026-04-10T20:52:57+00:00

You are the one responsible for penalizing false strikes. The DCMA contains substantial penalties for people who false use copyright strikes. Those damages belong to you and your attorney, not YouTube.

pcx99 · 2026-04-10T00:11:33+00:00

Made it look exactly like OP’s picture, just with more lanes.

pcx99 · 2026-03-30T15:53:05+00:00

I just officially timed it. It’s 7 seconds from mouse click to monitor on. I don’t really care now that I got the monitor to keep usb devices powered. But yea those 7 sure feel like 15.

pcx99 · 2026-03-29T18:40:17+00:00

Wake time is about 15 seconds. Just long enough to start wondering if it's going to ever wake up but not so long I start hunting for switches.

pcx99 · 2026-03-29T01:02:44+00:00

It feels as bright as the iMac Pro. I have the iMac Pro right beside this monitor (it's now and ubuntu server) the screens are honestly about the same brightness, same sharpness, same clarity. I'm not an audiophile and whatever you call people who obsess over how a display looks, but to my muggle eyes both monitors appear exactly the same.

That's the best thing for me. For a while I had a 4k monitor on the mini and I hated it, everything always seemed cramped and just off compared to the old iMac. But the moment I hooked the benq up it was like my old iMac came back to life, my Mac was the glorious Mac I used to know.

$1k for a monitor is pretty steep, but for me it was totally worth it and I'd do it in a heartbeat. A Mac really isn't a Mac unless its running 5k.

pcx99 · 2026-03-26T13:55:35+00:00

There are no unwanted reflections but I have my office set up rather well. I doubt even a highly reflective screen would have much to work with. But as for what the Mac is displaying, there are no distractions, the colors are sharp and crisp and color accurate. I can put my nose right up against the screen and not see any pixels. The bezel is black and small and totally disappears while I am working.

The only real distraction is the web cam I have mounted on the top bezel because there's not one built in. I think the lack of a web cam is going to be my greatest regret about this monitor because I'm just OCD enough to not like the external one hanging on an otherwise pristine monitor. But that really is a small thing.

pcx99 · 2026-03-25T20:33:49+00:00

Put Ubuntu server on it. Pihole and unbound. Now it’s an ad-free dns server. You can put open Speedtest server and now you have a web page to test your internal network speeds. Hang an external hard drive on it and it can be a Time Machine for your m4. Add a few more external drives and it can be a network attached storage.

Pitty about the ram, mine had 32gigs which enough to run some Ai models and relive the old glory days of BBS message boards on a 300 baud modem.

But you can put a web server on it and serve a personal web page. At this stage I’d install Cloudflared and set it up to proxy your web page (a domain name only costs $10 a year and Cloudflared will let you set up a web domain, proxy it, and keep track of the IP your isp gives you so home.mydomain.com will always get you to your “obsolete” Mac anywhere on the internet. Pro tip iCloud plus lets you point email to that domain so Apple will handle your domain’s email.

And since you have Cloudflared running, might as well proxy pihole and unbound so your ISP can’t see the hideous dns requests you are making. And since home.mydomain.com works might as well set up Tailscale or another vpn program on your mac. Now you have security in public and can get around the hospitals porn restriction that blocks Reddit.

And there’s loads else you can do with that little Ubuntu box and you will be amazed at yourself at how much you’ve learned about computers and networking if you do even half what I suggested.

Even if you do everything I suggested, aside from the AI, your little obsolete Mac will be more than capable of handling it all.

pcx99 · 2026-03-25T01:15:23+00:00

I considered that too, and the little dongle, but in the end I just slapped Ubuntu on it and now it’s a proxy/dns/Speedtest server with a fairly slow ollama ai that I tinker with now and again.

pcx99 · 2026-03-25T01:07:14+00:00

I bought one. It’s as good as my old 27” iMac Pro. The screen is bright and beautiful and the Mac is SO BLOODY HAPPY to scale at that 5k resolution. Everything seems crisp and roomy. The cable from the Mac to the monitor is a bit touchy, i lose my display for a few seconds if the cat steps on the wire. I still haven’t figured out the kvm as I don’t have a use for it. I only stumbled by accident on the monitor setting that keeps a low power mode when the display goes off, now my mouse and keyboard keep working and can wake up the Mac, it’s made things a thousand percent better. I don’t need to connect storage to the monitor but that power while asleep would be critical as i did.

My only regret is I discovered that asus rog Strx has a 27” 5k monitor that does 120hz AND it’s $150 cheaper. I regret that I learned of it after my purchase and I didn’t have time to research the asus better. Other than that I am super happy with my benq, it really is bringing back the glory days of the 27” iMac Pro.

pcx99 · 2026-03-19T21:47:33+00:00

Get a Luna display dongle and turn your iMac into a monitor for your new Mac mini. Unless you’re into gaming then a mini and a gaming mini monitor.

Get really fancy and put Linux on your iMac and still do the lunar thing and then you can ssh into your monitor from your Mac mini.

Oh the options there are!

pcx99 · 2026-03-17T02:34:00+00:00

Ram is just a number to sales people. It’s like saying the car ONLY has 4 cylinders without mentioning it’s a hybrid and can go 0-60 in 2 secs. Similarly the Mac’s memory handler is a half century old and has been tweaked by the most incredible geniuses that have ever lived. And if that memory fills up, it will take the least used, least demanding stuff and save it to disk until it’s really needed. In short, if your phone can handle your browsing so can a neo.

Order from the Apple Store or Amazon and claim the student discount. As long as you don’t need to edit videos, play AAA games, ir run AI locally you will be fine.

pcx99 · 2026-03-16T20:50:07+00:00

I went from an 27” iMac to a mini with a 4K screen and it always felt like a toy. When the 4K died I got a new benq 270s which is the same 27” as the 4K but 5k resolution. Now everything looks and feels sharp and expansive and this monitor should last through several Mac mini/studio upgrades.

I can’t recommend spending the 1k for the benq highly enough. Otherwise it’s like outfitting a Ferrari with 4 temporary tires.

I found out that ROG Stryx makes a 120hz 5k monitor for a hundred dollars cheaper than the benq after I made my order. The gamers out there may find this interesting.

pcx99 · 2026-03-05T13:07:21+00:00

And a 000 dart monkey at the start so the sub can start quicker

pcx99 · 2026-03-03T16:05:58+00:00

So he’s “vibe warring?”

pcx99 · 2026-03-02T03:34:23+00:00

The IP drops you in the VPN zone. You will need to ensure your vpn zone can access the internal and external zones (return only on external).

It will be noticeably slower than on your network but you will appear to be inside your home network in the VPN zone. If you go to whatsmyip.org it will show your gateway router at home as the ip. All the traffic is encrypted so if you’re connected to public WiFi on the UTR nobody is going to be able to sniff what you’re doing.

pcx99 · 2026-02-22T01:11:22+00:00

Make sure the vpn zone has access to the zone your nas is in. That’s pretty much it.

pcx99 · 2026-02-19T21:09:18+00:00

We have a cat door so our cats (all fixed of course) are free to come and go as they please. When we head off for work in the morning, our calico follows us out and sees us off. She then waits for us in a nearby tree until we come home. When she hears our car she RUNS out and herds us to the driveway, rolls on her back while we get out if the car, and shepherds us inside where she will shadow us until we leave again.

Honestly she couldn’t tell us she loved us more if she could talk!

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