Euro plugs don’t hurt like Lego when you step on them in bare feet.
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Blue eye burning LEDs for me.
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At first I thought this was a topic about the movie “The Thing”.
Then I saw the mentioning of micro usb ports on gear and realized it was something far worse than The Thing.
Yes indeed. Kill them with fire!
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Good point. I stopped using Mac about 8 years ago. At that time I had a first gen mac air. The small one. I loved that little computer. I recall hearing there are settings to make the gui behave like older versions. However, this is not the case with my wife’s computer. It is confusing for both of us. She didn’t understand the old way, no there’s no sense in trying to return it to some sort of “classic” state.
Haken audio…
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Should not be allowed to exist.
Or the people who use them 
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They work just fine - in zero gravity.
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In space no one can hear you patch 
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This is Major Tom to Ground Control.
I’ve lost all my Knurlies.
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I agree with most of your complaints about MacOS and the Intel Unibody laptops. However, I went from constant back pain when I had a 15" pre-unibody MBP to the much lighter unibody MBP. Going from back pain in my mid '30s to zero back pain in my mid '40s is pretty much the opposite of what everyone else I know reports.
The M1 Macs are fantastically powerful. I’m not happy that Apple goes to great lengths to prevent you from using an external drive as anything but temporary removable storage, but otherwise I have few complaints about my Mac Studio.
The Mac Studio is the closest I’ve managed to come to a SparcStation IPX since the '90s. Sadly, Sun got BSD much more right than Apple has.
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Add utra-bright white LEDs to this list please; they’re just as bad as the blue ones (which are terrible). I bought a roll of washi tape that I’ve used to cover all the blue and white LEDs in my studio; it works pretty well but now half of my studio looks like it’s cut itself shaving.
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That’s not true, you can install the OS on an external drive. I’ve done it to test OS issues.
Unless that’s a new thing with M1, which I haven’t had a chance to try.
After a quick look…
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It’s new for the Mac Studio. IIRC there is also a second M.2 header on the motherboard that doesn’t even work with an SSD pulled from a different Mac Studio - must be Apple installed/blessed.
I had hoped that I could put my Home directory on my external drive, but that was problematic too. I setup the mount point and changed my home directory under user settings to point at a copy of my Home directory on the SSD. After a software update I was only able to boot to recovery mode.
After more wrangling, I managed to get my system running again without any data loss. The best I can do now is replace the contents of my home directory with a link farm that points to subdirectories on the SSD. A few things like Desktop, Library and Pictures must be on the internal SSD for reasons fathomable only to Apple. (It seems likely that the real reason is that apple wants you to pay $600 to upgrade from 512B to 2TB rather than paying Samsung $220 for a slightly better SSD).
I ran my prior machine - a 5K iMac with a Fusion drive - entirely off my previous 2TB Samsung.
This person claims to have booted their Mac Studio from an external SSD with caveats.
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Space cake
Energy-saving LED lightbulbs for the home. I will go vegan and never drive a car again if I can keep my old school bulbz.
What bothers you about LED bulbs?
My main complaint is that they are built with cheap power regulators, so fail well before the LEDs themselves are close to death.
LED advantages:
- run cool, won’t burn the place down if a moth lands on them
- cost nothing to run
- effectively immortal, so you can build compact lamps without replaceable bulbs
- Color temperature is adjustable by picking the right LEDs or combinations of LEDs: all of my LED lamps have adjustable color temperature, so I run them more blue in the morning / day and more red in the evening
- Dimming PWM rate is far faster than 60hz, so none of the fluorescent flickering issues
Disadvantages:
- Expensive
- 120v (or 240v) is waaaay too much voltage so 95% of what you are paying for is power regulation
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Trim pots for main functions of eurorack modules
Modules without reverse voltage protection, c’mon guys it’s like .06cents worth of diodes OR
Modules without shrouded headers
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There are actually LED dimming stickers for this purpose. They are a transparent dark gray and they work magnificently. I used some on my old walrus fathom because I’m pretty sure you can see that LED from the international space station.
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Link? I have a couple mods that are frying my eyes out. 
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Thanks for the thoughtful reply. I’m almost embarrassed to say that what bothers me about LED bulbs is the quality of the light. The dimming behaviour is subtly but perceptably notched like a 90s digital filter and I can never seem to get them really dim - stickers help? - ; the colour spectrum always seems off, (cold, septic or … something), and the flickering is still a thing… I dunno. I don’t want to have to interact with my lights using an app, futz with expensive bulbs and different brands… maybe I’m a curmudgeon but sorry, kill with fire.
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