akulbe

I bought a full spec M5 Max MBP. Yesterday.

I'm relieved.

$7349, and as of today, it'd be $10149

That's why I updated, as well.

No, M5 Max MBP with all the options.

I wanted a Studio, but if I was going to get a Studio, I'd get something older because they crippled the current models.

I have an M2 Max, as well, and I wonder what I could get for it on resale... or maybe I should just keep it.

WOW. I'm glad I bought the beast yesterday.

The same spec machine I got yesterday is now $2800 more.

I have an M2 Max MBP with 96GB of RAM. What models and setup would you use for this kind of configuration?

Which means that the bubble pop will be that much worse too.

Do subscriptions make the ads go away? If not, it's hard to see much value proposition in them.

Framework.

Checked that. It's not off.

Mac-to-Android texting with the Messages app is broken for me, as of macOS and iOS 26.5

I'm just curious to know if other users have experienced this, before I go to extreme troubleshooting steps.

I can send direct from the iPhone, but the forwarding from the Mac feature is broken for messages destined for Android devices.

I spent a couple hours on the phone with Apple Support and did extensive troubleshooting, and they finally told me I should reinstall macOS. Seems pretty extreme, to me.

How is that machine for local inference? It's a serious consideration for me, but getting to hear more from folks that already have it would be helpful.

One of the things I'm wondering about is what I'm missing for $LLM to create files on the local FS like Claude and Codex do. What I see instead is stuff just printing to stdout, rather than files on the filesystem.

What am I missing?

Any chance you'd be willing to talk further about your setup? I have 2 x 3090s in a local machine, and I'm still left with questions about how best to use stuff locally.

Follow the money.

That's all at the very bottom of the crash report.

OP - I don't know if there's anything else I can do to assist, other than the bug report output I put in the gist, but let me know. I'm happy to help.

Sorry... it's DOA for me. Just installed it, and I can't even open it. Immediately crashes on open. Repeatedly.

https://gist.github.com/akulbe/26b71df4a3fd069dd71824f000c9a...

Is this a direct shot at things like OpenClaw, or am I reading it wrong?

No, the reason it's happening is because they must be vibe coding! :P

I still have my Windows 11 machine, but I haven't booted into it in a couple months now.

The "Windows is going to be an agentic OS" announcement was the last straw.

Linux and Mac it is.

https://x.com/profstonge/status/2001631029799608525

More evidence as to why it’s not worth it.

Absolutely not. Total waste. Nothing but regret about it. I graduated 13 years ago, and I'm still paying on it.

The valuable "education" came after, wasn't related to the school curriculum, and was mostly learned on the job.

Some professions require the pedigree, in those cases, you have no choice but to play the game.

If you want to get educated, take the courses that align with your chosen vocation, don't bother with following a degree track. It's not worth the money/hassle. Also, and this is key, marry what you learn with hands-on doing of the stuff you're covering in class.

Get into an internship/apprenticeship. Learn a trade.

The "you have to go to college to be successful" mantra is a lie. And we've saddled ourselves (and our kids) with this idea and the horrendous debt that comes with it.

It's a terrible, terrible idea.

"I have never let schooling interfere with my education" - Mark Twain

Am I the only one who thinks 120Hz is still low for a display of that size?

My 38" LG goes up to 144Hz. I would have figured something larger would be at least that much.

What are you pivoting to?

Is there a better alternative to GPG?

This article was good, but the blaming the us-east-1 outage on layoffs doesn't seem accurate.

LG 38" ultrawide.

Moved to it from 2 Dell displays. After years of dual displays, I'm glad I made this switch.

No, we cannot be fine without reading. That's my strong opinion.

I think AI is definitely a tool, but if we outsource all of our thinking, I think that it will become detrimental to our existence, that we certainly would not thrive from doing so.

Reading is one of the primary ways we learn, and engage our minds.

I came here to say this, but you beat me to it. :D