WikiTech Accidental Tech Podcast

Product

Mac mini

12 mentions in 2 episodes

A compact desktop computer from Apple that the speakers describe being used for AI tasks and server purposes despite not being designed for such uses.

Mentions

711: Hot Dog on an Actuator

  • 0:00

    the M6 Mac minis in my transcript machines. So now that I, well, the single Mac mini, the one of 48 is an M6.

  • 23:43

    New Mac minis have some issues, caveats, if you will, about their storage.

  • 1:53:13

    I'll sacrifice this and I'll put this bad boy attached to my M1 Mac Mini.

  • 1:54:39

    The second you disconnect screen sharing it locks the Mac Mini. Okay fine.

  • 1:55:58

    So the solution I could choose is to disavow screen sharing for the purposes of this one computer and only ever log into it via like the GLInet

710: That New Mouse Pad Feeling

  • 1:46:48

    So I run a bunch of Mac minis. You do. When I first launched the Overcast transcription.

  • 1:50:36

    I ended things with them. And I started to realize like, you know, when that exploit came out, I'm going to bring these in house.

  • 2:02:28

    it just so happened that last week, I installed both of them in the data center on two different Mac minis.

  • 2:06:08

    the worst you can do is hose the Mac mini I've given you access to

  • 2:06:40

    getting M4 Mac minis or whatever, what the server of hardware would bring

  • 2:09:41

    As we see right now, that's why Mac minis were so hard to get last year

  • 2:12:32

    running Macs as servers just sucks. I'm doing it because the hardware and software