Aaron Parecki

Dave - Post. Color. Gear. https://twitter.com/PostColorGear • Oct 19
Yeah, I hear you. And to be clear, if someone has the money to spend and wants one of them, more power to them. That's awesome. It just ZERO sense for ME to put that money down on a computer, right now.

and like you said, when I think $4000, I think more lenses.

Yeah for sure, I have no issue with people buying them! If I hadn't bought this M1 Air in June I probably would be buying one right now.

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 6:02pm -07:00
Dave - Post. Color. Gear. https://twitter.com/PostColorGear • Oct 19
With the amount of creators purchasing the new $4000 Macs, I need to either:

1. limit my expenses per month.
2. up my YouTube game.
3. Call my credit card company and up my limit.
4. Ponder how much lucrative illegality is worth it 😂

That's the same config I was looking at, and could not bring myself to do it. I just keep thinking about all the other things I could buy with $4000, like a 32x32 SDI matrix, or 10 Lumix G7 cameras, or...

Portland, Oregon • 55°F

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 5:49pm -07:00
danj https://micro.blog/danj • Oct 19
@jessekelber Oof, that sounds good. I've had a weird Linux laptop for the last few years, but I just can't seem to love it. I had a 2011 Air for six years and it basically ruined me for any lesser computer. 😍

The 2010-2011 11" was so good! I used that thing for years!

Portland, Oregon • 55°F

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 5:48pm -07:00
danj https://micro.blog/danj • Oct 19
@aaronpk Good to know! I don't do much video editing—most of my work is prose or code—but there have been times where 256GB storage feels tight.

In Canada, the 8/256 Air is $1,299 and the 16/512 is $1,899... The Pro would be a ridiculous indulgence for me, as hot as the new form factor is. 🤓

Hey, maybe in another year or two we'll get a redesigned Air with MagSafe and an M2, and that'll be your huckleberry. (I'm tempted to hold out for that machine, in fact!)

I still want the old 12" size back! That was my favorite form factor by far. A 12" Air with magsafe and the SD card slot would be amaaaazing

Portland, Oregon • 56°F

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 5:43pm -07:00
danj https://micro.blog/danj • Oct 19
@aaronpk Been thinking of swapping my 21.5" iMac for that M1 MacBook Air. I keep getting lured by upgrading to 16 GB RAM and/or the 512 GB storage, but I probably don't even need those! Does the 8 GB Air ever feel RAM-constrained?

Yeah I'm definitely maxing out the RAM and it always is using swap, and I do have to use external drives to work on any video projects because those are way too big for the internal drive. But at the time I bought it, it was clear there was going to be a new launch in the fall, so I didn't want to spend any more on the computer than I had to. But now, looking at the specs, the $1449 Air with 16/512 is a lot more appealing than the $4000 config I'd get on the Pro.

Portland, Oregon • 56°F

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 5:33pm -07:00
hawaiiboy https://micro.blog/hawaiiboy • Oct 18
@aaronpk thanks for that. I’m going to pick up the Air at Costco

It is surprisingly good, especially for $999. I'm not sure I would spend more than that, because once you start getting closer to $2000 it probably makes more sense to go with the new M1 Pro processor.

Portland, Oregon • 56°F

Mon, Oct 18, 2021 3:06pm -07:00
MaAAARRGHco Hengstenberg https://twitter.com/nice2meatu • Oct 18
See my last tweet Aaron. It's cool for what it is but that price tag got me sweating. 😅

On a completely different note: nice to see you at @btconf in Düsseldorf soon-ish. 🤟

haha yeah exactly, it's super great! I'm just not thrilled about spending $4000 on a computer.

I'm excited for @btconf too! 🤞

Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 1:51pm -07:00
Sigmund Judge https://twitter.com/sigjudge • Oct 18
I went with the M1 Max for the multiple display out capability without the need for lots of Display Link adapters. Currently looking to see if theres a device out there that simplfys Zoom scraping. Any ideas?

Yeah that's definitely a limitation of this M1, but as my main day-to-day computer I don't actually need more than one external display anyway.

I'd definitely take a look at ZoomISO and DeckLink cards or an UltraStudio, which is far better than multiple displays anyway.

Portland, Oregon, USA • 55°F

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 1:49pm -07:00
ZAKtalks TECH 🇨🇦 #CES2022 https://twitter.com/ZAKtalksTECH • Oct 18
HUGE THANKS to @nomadgoods for the care package! 💚
I LOVE the pen! 🖋️❤️👍

that's quite the care package! looks great!

Portland, Oregon, USA • 53°F

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Mon, Oct 18, 2021 12:01pm -07:00
an absurd parody of womanhood https://twitter.com/beka_valentine • Oct 18
i think it'd be good to use something as a bearer token which isn't an alternative to an email address but which instead acts as a way to say to an email server "hi, you know me, please let me talk"

I keep thinking about the very real gesture of giving someone my business card. What I'm actually doing is giving them explicit permission to send me a message later. It would be amazing if this gesture had some tech behind it so that I wasn't just giving them a public identifier

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

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Sun, Oct 17, 2021 8:55pm -07:00
Irenes (many) https://twitter.com/ireneista • Oct 18
the core idea of the email-replacement layer is that, instead of giving out an email address which functions as a bearer token giving people the right to email you, you'll go through an oauth-stye authorization where you give each sender a unique, revokable token.

We should talk, this is very much in line with a lot of things I've been working on

Portland, Oregon • 52°F

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Sun, Oct 17, 2021 8:31pm -07:00
M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday • Oct 18
After techtober. Here’s one of the stations.

love it! I'd be very interested to hear how that camera between the two monitors works for you! I tried that briefly but wasn't having much luck with it for my livestreams

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

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Sun, Oct 17, 2021 7:01pm -07:00
M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday • Oct 18
You should see my setup 😝

I would love to! Trade you studio tours? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS-jr31Ia2A

Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F

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Sun, Oct 17, 2021 6:49pm -07:00
M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday • Oct 18
I’m aware. I set up concert staging with LED walls, tons of lights and line array speakers. I doubt most people are maxing out their basement circuits to make YouTube videos 😅

Absolutely, but @robertoblake is not most people 🙃

Portland, Oregon, USA • 54°F

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Sun, Oct 17, 2021 6:43pm -07:00
M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday • Oct 18
Guess you gotta find out if $13K for a few extra circuits is worth it to you.

$13K can buy a lot of extension cords but also 🔥🔥🔥

Portland, Oregon • 54°F

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Sun, Oct 17, 2021 6:40pm -07:00
M. Brandon Lee | THIS IS TECH TODAY https://twitter.com/thisistechtoday • Oct 18
no no no no no no. Don't listen to that. You could get it up to code this year and check it in two years and it will be out of code. Leave it alone. You're grandfathered into it. Plus, futzing with electric = more issues. If it works fine, just leave it.

agreed! But if you want the upgrades because you want extra circuits to rooms or 20A circuits in places that's a different thing.

Portland, Oregon • 56°F

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Sun, Oct 17, 2021 6:15pm -07:00
Roberto Blake 🇺🇸🇵🇦🗽Creative Entrepreneur https://twitter.com/robertoblake • Oct 17
Having to rewire the house for proper internet because the house is from the 80s and wasn’t really setup for it. This is so there can be direct lines for Ethernet ports through the house. Another $10K.

This is why I'm so excited to be building my own house, and I'm going to try as hard as I can to make all the wiring last more than 30 years but who really knows

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

Sun, Oct 17, 2021 5:43pm -07:00
Sara 🍑y https://twitter.com/saradietschy • Oct 17
The natural bokeh on the wide is so good on the iPhone 13 pro now who cares about portrait mode 😂

such a good cat

Portland, Oregon • 57°F

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Sun, Oct 17, 2021 5:41pm -07:00
Blort™ (Unofficial) 🚫 https://social.tchncs.de/@Blort • Oct 18
@aaronpk
I like to call this the "pre-edge case discovery phase"

accurate

Portland, Oregon • 60°F

Sun, Oct 17, 2021 5:26pm -07:00
Ben Werdmuller https://twitter.com/benwerd • Oct 17
I’d like an AirTable-like app that works locally on the desktop and saves files to my filesystem. I have Excel and Numbers but they’re not right, exactly. What would you recommend?

Too bad. There's no profit in desktop apps that save files locally.

Cloud all the things so we can charge recurring subscriptions and for cloud storage.

Portland, Oregon • 49°F

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