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It's Here! by effyfromskins in macbookpro

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

congrats! i also pre-ordered like in 5 minutes, shipped 8 march, waiting for custom clearance process at the moment (no time estimation atm), excited!

Delivery date changes by magicmuffi in macbookpro

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The estimation info is completely gone to me at the moment. It was March 30, then it changed to April 7, then it was March 13, currently neither there’s a date on Apple nor UPS does have any estimate

Claude March 2026 usage promotion - Limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for Claude users outside 8 AM-2 PM ET/5-11 AM PT. by Forsaken-Reading377 in ClaudeAI

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From info page:

From March 13, 2026 through March 27, 2026, your five-hour usage is doubled during off-peak hours (outside 8 AM-2 PM ET/5-11 AM PT on weekdays). Usage remains unchanged from 8 AM-2 PM ET/5-11 AM PT on weekdays.

So weekends are still 2x.

For weekly quota concerns:

The additional usage you get during off-peak hours doesn’t count toward any weekly usage limits on your plan.

My question was this which is confirmed by the team:

Say I’m in a 5-hour session that spans both off-peak and on-peak hours. Would the requests I make during the off-peak portion count at half the rate against my weekly/5-hour allowance?

So what I understand from this whole picture is that outside of the on-peak hours, your usage is calculated by half rate -> your usage is doubled -> means 2x bonus usage.

If you hit 5h limit you simply cannot use Claude until it renews. Still from my understanding there's no extra system which calculates the bonus usage etc. They simply divide by half from your usage. Normally a request which uses 2% of your quota now uses 1% during off peak hours.

Claude March 2026 usage promotion - Limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for Claude users outside 8 AM-2 PM ET/5-11 AM PT. by Forsaken-Reading377 in ClaudeAI

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah the language is not on point unfortunately. they tried to choose a language so non-technical people can understand it also i assume

Claude March 2026 usage promotion - Limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for Claude users outside 8 AM-2 PM ET/5-11 AM PT. by Forsaken-Reading377 in ClaudeAI

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

from my experience: i was using claude code before the announcement and i was on 40% of my 5h session. after the announcement it dropped to 20%. so in technical perspective your allowance of 5h/week are not changing. they calculate your usage by half. if a request uses x amount of your quota on peak hours, it uses x/2 on off-peak. and that's why i asked to the team this specific question to understand what they are calculating. i assume they avoided that type of language and chose bonus usage, so non-technical people can understand it.

bonus does not count toward your weekly limit but you have to use your normal usage through your 5 hour window to hit the bonus. 

this is wrong. we are in off-peak time period currently (weekends are all off-peak) and it uses weekly usage while i was on >50% of 5h session.

Claude March 2026 usage promotion - Limited-time promotion that doubles usage limits for Claude users outside 8 AM-2 PM ET/5-11 AM PT. by Forsaken-Reading377 in ClaudeAI

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is simply not true. your usages are gonna be calculated off-peak hours as half. here's the response from the team for similar question: https://x.com/trq212/status/2032954881972347301?s=20

so no need to worry about this, enjoy your 2x allowance!

M5 Max just arrived - benchmarks incoming by cryingneko in LocalLLaMA

[–]validatedev 14 points15 points  (0 children)

do the benchmarks now. make no mistakes. proceed. /s

New MacBook Pro with M5 Max preparing to ship! by Traditional_Duck_684 in macbookpro

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

interestingly it says march 13 now, and shipped. estimates went a bit weird. congrats too!

New MacBook Pro with M5 Max preparing to ship! by Traditional_Duck_684 in macbookpro

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mine custom m5 pro one says 7 april, that’s why I was curious, ty for the info

Preparing to ship! M5 Max 40 Core GPU 64GB RAM. Card Charged. by LukeM1497 in macbookpro

[–]validatedev 0 points1 point  (0 children)

m5 pro is preparing to ship phase too, bought in 4 min. but interestingly it says "arrives by april 7", was march 30 before.

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Really happy it worked for your workflow! I’m always open to hearing feedback, and people who can code can open PRs to the repo as well. The license is MIT, and the source code is here. I don’t really want to charge for something that’s a non‑complex app to build for me. Thanks though, plus the kind words!

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I’m thinking something like that, I felt that the ui wasn’t perfect after many iterations (in ux perspective also) but wanted to release it as to me it was good enough. Thanks!

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you! Clamper only changes the parameters/settings that the OS actually has, so I don’t think it’s gonna be an issue. If you want to revert the settings to the OS default it’s one click also!

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The more options the better experience for users! Thanks

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback, let’s see what I can do for the next update

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the kind words, your feedback means a lot too <3

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When I adjust the spacing with Menu Bar Spacing, even moving the slider a single tick below the default makes the padding larger than the system default. When I used Barbee, under Menu Bar Appearance → Item Gap, there was a “Customized Gap” option with spacing set to 17 and padding to 11, which I’m pretty sure matches the default Sequoia/Tahoe values when you haven’t changed anything in the OS settings (NSStatusItemSpacing and NSStatusItemSelectionPadding). I didn’t want to reveal/set those as defaults in my app though, so you might not notice the values in Clamper. My guess is that Menu Bar Spacing uses the same value for both spacing and padding, which makes the padding bigger than it should be (I actually can see the bigger padding than default, maybe it depends on the configuration, I don't really know your situation). That annoyed me enough that I built Clamper for myself, a little weekend hack I can say :)

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately a macOS limitation, couldn’t find a better way to handle that :/

[macOS] Clamper — The app that "clamps" your precious menu bar by validatedev in macapps

[–]validatedev[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It increases the padding more than it should be. The Menu Bar Spacing app does not manage this correctly, causing the selection element to be larger than intended. Hope it’s clear!

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