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Guido X Jansen
@gui.do

My Mac Mini (M2 Pro, 16 GB) kept choking when running many parallel LLM sessions + local test suites. Needed way more memory ➡️ swap overflowed ➡️ trashed the CPU ➡️ many forced tea breaks for me 😅 Meanwhile my game PC has 48 GB RAM + RTX 5070 and was doing.... nothing. 👀 Time to make same changes 🧵👇

Guido X Jansen
@gui.do

Before: 🖥️ Mac Mini as my main desktop 🐧 ThinkPad laptop on CachyOS 🎮 PC dual-booting Windows (games + video calls) or CachyOS (headless development box)

Guido X Jansen
@gui.do

Now: * PC runs CachyOS fulltime as my main machine: daily apps, dev work, some gaming via Steam/Proton, ALL video calls (+ @stream.place? 😅) * ThinkPad still for when I'm on the move. Windows only boots for the few games that need it (if any?)

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Guido X Jansen
@gui.do

I think the MacMini stays for now, but mainly for testing the @sifa.id iOS app in the iOS Simulator, not really using it for anything else anymore. Probably headless for development and then VNC in to it for click demo's? Anyone else using a Mac just for iOS development? 🤷

Guido X Jansen
@gui.do

Best parts: A) all my tmux sessions now all live on the PC, so ThinkPad and Android phone (Termux + mosh) attach to the SAME tmux sessions (over Wireguard when remote). So I start something at my desk, pick it up on the laptop or phone and the Claude Code conversation just... continues 🤯🚀

Guido X Jansen
@gui.do

No notifications on mobile because I don't want that tbh, I walk away from the desk for a reason 😅 If there's something I want to check in on on mobile I still can.

Guido X Jansen
@gui.do

B) I now have the same keyboard shortcuts on every machine (synced with chezmoi), and keyd gives me Mac-style keys: Alt sits where Cmd used to be. The different shortcuts between Mac/Windows/Linux were driving me nuts 😵‍💫 NO MORE! 🥳

Guido X Jansen
@gui.do

Not everything went smooth: 🚫 Elgato Cam Link Pro (PCIe) only gave black frames on Linux, so out it went. A Cam Link 4K USB stick does the camera now. Slot is used for NVMe adapter ⚠️ Elgato Prompter pushed me from niri to KDE Plasma (niri couldn't drive it on NVIDIA)