Today was all about infrastructure.
My current home computer is a:
Yep. I bought it 2017. It was a very nice machine in 2017. I had all these dreams of programming again. (see how I am still justifying the purchase, when I could have purchased a much smaller machine). For a writer of fiction today it is still very nice and probably overkill. But, alas, the keyboard has been acting funky for a few months. Every once in a while the spacebar doubles up (no it is not the "space after period" setting). I have fidgeted with every setting I can find, and have spent several sessions googling for answers. Nothing. I just go back and fix all the extra spaces in final edit. (I was going to say "in post" - like I am a creative or something).
My old self would see this as a sign that I need a new computer.
But my new self said let's go the Genius Bar. So I actually made a reservation and went to the Apple Store. They took it in back and cleaned it and did whatever geniuses do, and then brought it back out. Problem still persists.
I could feel my old self getting excited. The new M3 pros look awfully nice.
Thankfully the configuration I would want was not available in the store. This forced my creativity to kick in. My new self said, you have an external monitor, just get a an external keyboard. Voila! No more random extra spaces. :-)
But I still was in the infrastructure mood. I started thinking that I was not happy with my current backup strategy. My wife's desktop has timemachine going to an external SSD. I have no idea if it still works. I set that up so long ago... and my laptop does not have timemachine going anywhere. Source code is in the cloud (github), photos in icloud, but really nothing for the laptop itself. Since you can not use timemachine with iCloud, I clearly need a NAS. (Especially if I am going to be migrating laptops eventually).
I do a bunch of reading on the web, and come up with a potential Synology enclosure + WesternDigital drives set up. Being my new self, I decided to phone a genius to make sure I was not doing something completely stupid. Thank you Scott H!
So now I have the NAS on my local network and am waiting the 13+ hours for the RAID to configure.
Plenty of time to spec out a new Macbook Pro.... (That dream of programming again might happen after all).
try new macbook air with m3. I am not coming back to mbp, really not needed, plus you get extra light device to move around
ReplyDeleteI agree they do look good. The new MBPs have an HDMI port which would be handy for my second monitor (though I guess I could run USB-C->HDMI converter on the Air). Anyway, now that I have a working keyboard I can take my time with the decision. Thanks for the suggestion!
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