My brain isn’t artificial. I hope.

Artificial is the distinction between biologically made or made by humans, does that mathematically matter?

Google has a chat product?

I found it simple enough. There’s a “browse anonymously” button after the eccentric terms.

I like Tailscale and we pay for it at work but it has a number of serious bugs that affect our work that they seem to lack the resources to fix. Hopefully this helps.

Maybe try out promising alternatives such as netbird, teleport, zerotier, etc

> My favourite thing about using a website? It can't send me attention grabbing notifications. It can't harass me for perms.

But it works the same as for apps. You get prompted once on iOS at least. You either opt in for notifications or you don’t. There’s no difference.

What is this and why do I need to request access?

It's an archive and you are requesting access to the original physical master recording.

I’m British. It guessed I was Turkish.

How so? They don’t prevent you installing other operating systems.

The comment in the article is in the context of rack mounting them which is a common thing to do with Mac minis. Having it on the bottom makes it hard to press as you can’t lift them up when they’re secured in a mount.

> Having it on the bottom makes it hard to press as you can’t lift them up when they’re secured in a mount

Hard rebooot is the only situation where you should be using the physical power button on a modern Mac. If you're installing Macs on a rack, presumably you can sudo shutdown -r.

The button on the bottom is trying to tell you that the system is built to be well behaved on stand by.

Exactly this.

I am working on a solution to make it easier to hit the button from the front of a rack shelf, but the fact I have to mess with 3D printing just to hit a power button is silly.

Older Macs also had the power button on the back, which was also annoying, but at least a Mac that's secured to a shelf could have its power button pressed pretty easily.

The Mac mini _requires_ a mechanism to press up from the bottom in any permanent-ish install.

Serious question: why not mount it upside down?

Genuine question: why not just use a managed pdu and be done with it? No need to even get up and go to the DC/Rack.

I mean they aren't designed for rack mounting? It's a consumer product, likely <0.1% of units produced will end up in a rack.

I would have thought that them being slightly higher than 1U would have precluded people from rack mounting them "flat" in the first place. It seems like it would be more efficient to rack mount them standing on their sides, and then the air gap between them would be enough to reach the power button easily.

Where? I'm in the UK. One of my network switches has 595 days of uptime so I haven't had power issues in at least that long, but it seems like more than 3 years since the last disruption when something blew at the substation round the corner and was fixed within minutes.