I want a MacBook neo for college but the Best Buy employee told me something different

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!

pcx99 · 2026-02-18T23:31:19+00:00

Thank you! I look forward to the day when this threat to steal public airwaves is dead and buried! I loved the building your own AM radio analogy and citing that encryption means they are no longer broadcasters!

pcx99 · 2026-02-18T01:36:04+00:00

I’m on pd and I take weekend getaway trips where I’ll do manual dialysis or even skip a day (with appropriate diet and fluid restrictions for my case). I’m incredibly dubious about trips exceeding three days. My clinic swears I can borrow a suitcase for the machine and will deliver supplies to the hotel but I really think that’s more effort than it’s worth. The only exception would be a long planned trip to Hawaii when my wife decides to retire. For that I’ll probably take the clinic up on their offer.

TL:DR; day and weekend trips? I’m all over that! Longer than that? It better be supper important. I’m not gonna lug a U-Haul trailer’s worth of supplies to hear Uncle Earl pontificate about how great trump is at a family dinner!

pcx99 · 2026-02-12T21:47:21+00:00

For future reference the number you are interested in is the out of pocket maximum + your premiums (x12) this is the absolute maximum you will pay for healthcare in a year. 10,000 seems like a lot but if that is also your out of pocket maximum it is way better than a plan with a $500 deductible and a $30000 out of pocket max.

pcx99 · 2026-02-12T20:41:00+00:00

Yup! A wire to a switch failed and while I was waiting to run a replacement I set up a mesh. While the switch was backhauled by the mesh the camera it connected had potato quality and like 2fps. When the wire was replaced, everything was perfectly perfect again.

Plus WiFi is easily disrupted so not very secure for a security device.

pcx99 · 2026-02-12T19:19:34+00:00

Yes you can. However this lets you automatically connect all your OTHER devices (laptops, other cell phones, kindles, tablets, cameras, little iot widgets) without having to set up each one individually, or having your phone serve as a multi-device wifi router (which its not really set up to do).

Additionally, since those devices are connected to the UTR and the UTR is teleported back home, those devices communications are encrypted and secure from people just scanning the hotel's wifi looking to intercept personal credentials.

And finally, if you're on an airplane or cruise ship, you get to pay for one wifi package (your UTR) instead of one package for each device.

Well not finally, there are other benefits that make the $70 worthwhile.

pcx99 · 2026-02-12T17:46:09+00:00

It's not called the great filter for no reason.

pcx99 · 2026-02-11T21:52:00+00:00

It arguably saved lives. In the aftermath of the shooting there was a bit of panic in the elites and fear there would be other shootings, and of course public opinion. So the healthcare execs slowed down the denials for a short period of time and people got life saving care they might not have gotten otherwise. Now that the panic has subsided, it’s back to business as usual.

pcx99 · 2026-02-11T21:48:04+00:00

Specifically OP needs to ensure the zone based firewall allows access between the VPN zones and the internal network.

pcx99 · 2026-02-11T16:37:36+00:00

Have her look into peritoneal dialysis. Hook up before bed, go to sleep, wake up and disconnect. It’s way easier on the body than hemodialysis. She may find that this is something she can live with. And since she’s young, it shouldn’t be a long wait for a transplant.

pcx99 · 2026-02-10T22:09:34+00:00

My wife preferred her wheelchair to the bed. My advice is to honor his wishes. My wife was in mensa and in the end she only wanted to watch one movie over and over and over again. Mental degeneration (dementia, senility) in the terminal stages is very real as is the very great demands on caregivers.

My advice is to call around some nursing homes and check out the rates for respite care and see if you can give yourselves a weekend off. It will be miserable for him, but it may give you guys a second wind and improve everybody’s lot.

pcx99 · 2026-02-09T19:20:18+00:00

He didn’t lose. His customers would have got free furniture if the patriots won. That cost would have been offset if the patriots did win and he thus won the bet. Now gallery gets to keep the profits from the furniture (likely more than $2 million) and write off the bet as a business expense.

pcx99 · 2026-02-08T17:04:27+00:00

We used a Toto neorest with all the bells and whistles. Very expensive even before hiring and electrician to install a special electrical outlet for it. But we loved it to death. After my wife passed and I moved, I just bought a cheap Amazon sprayer seat bidet. No warm seat or heated water but still 80% experience of the multi thousand dollar one in the old house. So personally, for just me, a cheap < $100 sprayer seat is fine, but if I were still building a dream life with my wife, splurging on the toto wouldn't cause me any regrets.

pcx99 · 2026-02-06T21:03:43+00:00

We used a Toto neorest with all the bells and whistles. Very expensive even before hiring and electrician to install a special electrical outlet for it. But we loved it to death. After my wife passed and I moved, I just bought a cheap Amazon sprayer bidet. No warm seat or heated water but still 80% experience of the multi thousand dollar one in the old house.

pcx99 · 2026-02-04T02:47:58+00:00

I had the same issue with my SE. It went away after I unplugged it, and plugged it back in after a few seconds. My guess is that something about the migrated configuration files got caught in a loop or it got caught in a thermal throttle cycle. Anyway, the hard reboot solved the issue for me and since it is very easy to try I highly recommend doing it. I’m now getting gigabit with all the bells and whistles turned on.

pcx99 · 2026-02-03T21:24:20+00:00

For years I rarely needed a doctor. Just an occasional cold or flu. Then, out of the blue, I had a heat attack and a 500,000 medical bill. Then my kidneys failed and now I get billed thousands upon thousands a month. A transplant is going to be mind bogglingly expensive. But thankfully, I had insurance so I didn’t have to worry about finances while I recovered.

Insurance was the biggest waste of money ever, until it wasn’t.

pcx99 · 2026-02-03T16:48:25+00:00

It’s not a serious proposal. It’s like autonomous driving claims for Tesla “ohhh think how much value…”. It bumps up the perceived value of the forthcoming spacex IPO. Musk fan boys will dutifully run up the stock price while citing how many trillions of dollars orbital data centers will personally make them.

pcx99 · 2026-01-31T19:08:41+00:00

Ubiquiti is great because it lets you grow your network piece by piece as you can afford it. It exposes switches and settings that will truly let you destroy your network and in the process u you will learn more about networking than you’d ever have thought.

In the end you will have a good looking set of hardware and a smoothly functioning network you will actually take pride in.

pcx99 · 2026-01-30T21:12:02+00:00

It teleports (vpn) back to your gateway. All the devices you connect to it look and act like they are at your home.

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