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Q: I've got an ubuntu server installed on a mac mini (no probs) but the install broke and now I'm clueless on how to make the computer to start from usb stick! Anyone knows how to do it?
Holding Alt key does not work #ubuntu #linux

So I solved my mac-mini conundrum. It turned out that the problem originated from using 'wrong' computer monitor (a monitor attached to a docking station). When I hooked up the computer directly to the screen everything worked fine when holding the alt button. #linux #homeserver

Mac mini M2: Apple startet Austauschprogramm für bestimmte Modelle
Käufer des 2023 erschienenen Mac mini M2 können die Maschine unter Umständen nicht mehr anschalten. Allerdings sind nur bestimmte Modelle betroffen.

I recently bought a Mac mini M4 Pro with 64 GB RAM. I am not disappointed. #macmini

In which I recommend that if you’re building or upgrading a moderately serious music-listening system, you use Qobuz and include a cheap Mac Mini: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/06/22/Qobuz-and-Others

Qobuz and Mac

Small data point for folk who are playing with the #Mistral Nemo 12b Q4 #AI model.
We're now using it for code reviews at @…, and an m4 mac mini is only 30-…

I trapped all the devious little build-, file- and plex servers in a cage so they can’t be bratty any more

... I still can't believe that I found an m1 Mac Mini with 16 GB of unified memory for $275.

Over the past few months, I've been building out a home server that was originally purely to run on-prem LLMs. Since I wanted it to run killer AI, I named it "Delores." Over the weekend, I received a Mac Mini in the mail that I got a good deal on and set it up to augment Dolores. I was trying to figure out what to name it and eventually went with "Teddy."
From my laptop, iPads, etc, I can remote into an Ubuntu VM, Windows VM, or (now) MacOS and do whatever I am looking to do.

projects in the near future:
1. my mac-mini server runs ubuntu server and need apps. I'm thinking about Heimdall and a next cloud instance that I can reach via tailscale. I will also use it as an exit node for my tailscale network.
2. Making the server sleep when not in use and use an old RPi to 'wake it up' also over tailscale.
3. Making a portable router out of a Radxa Rock 4c that also use tailscale as a vpn alternative using the exit node.