A balancing act for sure. I’m torn on the topic. With some much excitement right now but so little history there’s a lot of uncertainty where to “plant your flag”. Part of me wants to setup my own instance simply so I maintain control of my identity should .world suddenly disappear. On the other hand now I have the responsibility of making sure I don’t make myself disappear. The mental debate will continue.
muddybulldog
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Quite apropos. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome start. Need compact mode.
Submitting posts was definitely a Pro paid feature.
Possible but not “out of the box”, per se. some technological assistance is needed and if it doesn’t already exist within your own or your ISPs infrastructure it’s beyond the capabilities of a typical consumer.
Commonly used to indicate the domain related to “machine learning”.
Fair enough. Thanks!
If you don't mind me asking, do you see private instances as being sustainable for an individual, in the long run? I went that route with Mastodon and realized that with the nature of how it all works there would be a lot of overhead, for some time to come, with having to perform pre-fetch tricks to see follow-ups and stuff like that.
My initial impression is that Lemmy might be easier to contend with because each instance has it's own channels (pardon if that's the wrong term; I've been here all of 5 seconds) so the whole conversation is instantly available anytime you select a post. Just weighing whether going the private route is a good choice before I really start branching out and establishing my "identity".
Literally, first thing I thought when I opened the app was, "ugh, no compact mode". Glad to see this on the roadmap.
I picked up the first generation with the M1 Max. As much as I would've liked the Ultra, for geek cred, I couldn't justify it for what I do.
Fantastic machine. Runs quiet and cool. Tackles everything I throw at it without issue. While I'm no pro I spend quite a bit of time in Final Cut and not having to hear jet-plane like fans all the time almost justifies the cost by itself.
I will absolutely not miss the Intel days. The last several years have been abysmal. Having to follow along with Intel’s roadmap actually made some product releases objectively worse than their predecessors. I was so disgusted with the 2017 series of MacBook Pros I was convinced I’d never buy another Apple desktop or laptop. The move to Apple Silicon fixed that. I’ve since picked up a new 16” MacBook Pro and the Mac Studio.
Now we just need them to cleanup MacOS itself. Having been daily driving the Sonoma beta, it looks like they’re on a good path on that front as well.
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It's a pretty niche product and most of the advantages over the Mac Studio are really not consumer facing.
While the cooling solution in the Studio is quite good, the Mac Pro's larger chassis should allow for even better cooling which may allow for greater sustained workloads, such as video transcoding and all types of rendering.
While the Studio makes sense for end-users, if you have have a shop that does distributed computing, rendering, etc. the rack mount option is appealing as you can have all the horsepower and supporting infrastructure, e.g. networking, power, tucked away neatly in a closet as opposed to sprawled across your workspace.
Thunderbolt is great for attaching external consumer storage, but if you have petabytes of video and audio stored on a fibre-channel NAS or DAS, with multiple users accessing it, that's not the type of thing you're going to sustain on people's desktops.
Its primary target is medium to large scale, distributed computing. It's not a high end desktop, it's a server class device.