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Sure you can… until you run out of memory and it throttles because there is no fan. Then it uses swap memory until it chews away at the 256Gb drive. It’s possible to run these things just long enough to say “look, I told you so”, but I would never try using it professionally, especially if you’re running Adobe bloatware. Power isn’t the issue.

I’d almost always recommend the base Mac mini instead of a MacBook Air specifically because you can actually upgrade the internal storage after you buy it and it has fans. I still wouldn’t load up on a bunch of huge programs at the same time because memory will eventually be the bottleneck like it is with the MBA, but it’s far more reasonable to use for work for about the same price. The value proposition for the MacBook Air just isn’t that great generally speaking as well as when compared to other options Apple has.

This isn’t coming out of slow motion. iOS slows down audio too and none of the audio here is ramped.

I don’t think it requires iCloud or anything else apple. I’m not sure how “casting” works if you have a non-Apple mobile device, but that’s the only issue I can think of. Jellyfin works (I think it is called swiftfin) as well as Infuse. I also use Tailscale to watch things on my Apple TV from my NAS.

Theres probably some Roku specific blocklists out there, but I got tired of playing whack a mole with all the new connections every week when I had my Roku. My partner also just wanted to watch tv without me fiddling with filters constantly, so I swapped to an Apple TV. It’s been nearly perfect with adguard (it even stops all ads on Hulu).

Just to prevent you from falling to your own outdated claim, here's a correction or two:

Window snapping and arranging windows in the corners is a thing now (and with hotkeys too, a million years late- I had to look this up since I've been using Rectangle for a long time)

Some mac laptops have HDMI ports. If you get a mac without an HDMI port, it's in apple's "paperweight class" of machines and shouldn't be bought. Macbook Airs are just expensive mac flavored chromebooks.

The repairability sucks, but I still use my 2014 macbook pro daily because it still works really well (though those old intel chips make the fans go wild even after repasting everything and cleaning the fans). I was able to buy a cheapo replacement battery off ebay and it's working great after a fairly tedious process of using IPA and dental floss to release the old battery. It is no longer supported by apple through software, though I use OpenCore legacy patcher to update to the newest system so I don't have to worry about an old system without security updates connecting to the internet. I've tried installing various Linux distros on it and none of them are very happy with the process. Most of the time it's the stupid broadcom wifi chip and other times only a single speaker works and I'm too much of a dunce to troubleshoot things like that. Tails OS becomes nearly useless on an old macbook because of the broadcom issue. But also, I'm not about to go buy a thinkpad just so linux will work properly- I don't need more devices in my house, I'll just use what I already have.

Adguard on my router has apple services at 7% of all blocked domains in the last 24 hours (545 times). Adobe is 14% in that same window (1135 times). I hate it here.

I’ve never actually gotten the App Store “Tor browser” working tbh. I also don’t bother with Firefox because it doesn’t feel meaningfully different. I get by with privacy, malware, and advertisement blocking from my router while using SearXNG. It’s definitely not the best for privacy, but honestly, just getting rid of google maps from my life has been such a pain in the ass it’s hard to delve further.

Firefox and Tor browser exist (on the App Store) though they might both run on the safari “engine”, I’m not too sure. AltStore is technically an App Store alternative, though it is extremely limited and kind of a pain. File management is available with the default Files app.

After reading the lack of consensus in the comments, I'll just be over here using decimal time, confusing everyone around me. ;)

Year is the most significant (read: big) unit in the list, but it is the least significant (pertinent to daily life) unless you're a time traveler. Of month and day, month is more significant than day in both size and pertinence, so it gets ordered first. But when sorting things into folders or file naming conventions, biggest category descending down to smaller categories is always the best.

(again, from what I'm aware) Dense materials might not be ideal for insulation, but their density makes them pretty good at thermal mass, so their uselessness at insulating would be moot because the end-result is similar enough to insulation regardless of r-value. They store mid-day heat well into the night and they store midnight coolness well into the day. Cob houses have no insulation, but the mass of the walls means that with proper airflow designs, passive heating and cooling is possible. Though it really does depend on the climate of these kinds of buildings to be effective, otherwise insulation is definitely the way to go.

Air gaps are a pretty cheap insulator (at least as far as sound insulation goes). The concrete walls should provide thermal mass for more stable temperatures indoors.

Take this with a grain of salt or the ramblings of a random person online, but something I heard somewhere is that thermal mass and thermal insulation kind of have opposite methods to come to a similar goal. Thermal insulating materials typically have awful thermal mass and materials with high thermal mass typically have terrible insulating properties.