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Apple says it plans to move some production of Mac Mini to Houston from Asia later in 2026, as part of its efforts to invest $600B in the US over four years (Rolfe Winkler/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/apple-plans-to-ma

So, I have #Discord on my Mac, but I can't use it because it's unbelievably slow. I mean, unusable.
My Mac is an M2 Pro Mac Mini, and has no problem with anything else. Anyone have any thoughts?
Web version is ok, but limited in some ways.

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“Clawdbot can execute Terminal commands, write scripts on the fly and execute them…”
I don’t even trust myself to do those things before 9am most days!
I just do not think I can be convinced I need a “digital assistant” in my life or on my computers (with elevated permissions, no less). https://mastodon…

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"Claws" is becoming a term to describe OpenClaw-like agent systems that usually run on personal hardware and are a new layer on top of LLM agents (Andrej Karpathy/@karpathy)
https://x.com/karpathy/status/2024987174077432126

TB5-Zubehör: Kabel mit zwei Metern, Dock im Mac-mini-Design
Mehr Peripherie für die schnelle Strippe: OWC und Satechi haben frisches Thunderbolt-5-Zubehör im Angebot.
https://www.hei…

OpenClaw is What Apple Intelligence Should Have Been
Yep.
I run my instance on Ubuntu Server in a Proxmox VM in my home lab, but it would be nice to take advantage of some of the Apple-specific workflows on a dedicated Mac Mini.
https://www.jakequist.com/thoughts/opencla…

I'm not into audiophile stuff btw, just decent quality things really.
For example, I have a pair Bose 901 speakers that are ~50 years old and they sound fantastic.
But it's not even that, if properly engineered even stuff which hasn't the primary purpose of sound reproduction can sound good.
My 15-year old Apple Thunderbolt Display, the 8-year old iPad Pro and the 5-year old Mac Book Pro all sound great.
But—
The speakers in my 2025 LG TV? They shouldn't have bothered installing them but instead put them right into a landfill.
Speakers in my Asus gaming monitor? Like someone dragging a nail on a chalkboard.
And, weirdly, the Apple HomePod mini is pretty bad at reproducing music. A 10-year old Bose SoundLink mini beats the pants of it. 🤷

Extremely frustrated with #Backblaze today. They actively block restores to non-Apple formats on a Mac - even natively supported ones like ExFAT. I explicitly want to restore to non-Apple format to achieve platform agnosticism. Now I have 8 TB stuck in their cloud and have to decide which bothersome way outside my elderly Mac Mini server I want to struggle with in order to get my data back.…

@… Kul, ser ut som det jag tänkte göra imorgon. På en Mac Mini om jag får ihop det.

Black Friday 2025 bei Apple: MacBooks, Mac mini und AirPods auf Preistiefstand
MacBook Air, MacBook Pro M5 und Mac mini sind aktuell zu ungewöhnlich niedrigen Preisen zu finden – abseits von Apples kommendem Shopping-Event.

It is 2026 and I am posting this toot from my 2014 Mac mini running Monterey and LibreWolf. 4 gigs of RAM is a little paltry but it works.

Thinking of reinstalling my computer from scratch to iron out all its kinks and tardiness from years of software experiments and trials. Just need to make sure all files are backed up... as I don't want to reinstall the computer from a backup – which would defeat the purpose.

My other task is I want to turn my old Mac mini into a home server. But that needs many hours of focus... haven't done something like that before.

I think my main concern is getting tech issues ou…

Tencent Cloud, DigitalOcean, and Alibaba Cloud add OpenClaw support, giving users access to the AI agent service; many OpenClaw users run it on a Mac mini (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/04/cloud_hosted_openclaw/

I wonder if it is just an effect of old hardware, but boy, the new @… OS release is a crashfest on my 2011 Mac Mini. The App Center crashed on me at least 7 times before I had enough and downloaded Zorin (because I’ve also wanted to give that a spin). It looked very nice, though, and it’s nice that Flatpaks show up now by default.
BTW: Elementary is …

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