You mean like SNW which is peppered with regular jokes about the captain’s appearance, especially hair? Especially the musical episode where the Klingons aggressively sing and dance “why you only call me / when you got your problems”. Took that one pretty far.

“She’s got Marty Feldman eyesss”

Not in Canada last time I checked, but pretty sure they do in the States.

Yeah that was a lemon. New one seems good though.

As a repair tech I think the Mini is one of the most reliable computers made. A few models were underpowered if people bought low end versions, especially the 2014’s with 4GB memory and laptop hdds.

Also because if the cable plugged into the forward edge, leaving the cable in, like 20% of users would, will destroy the charge port before warranty is done.

Power button is already on a flex cable, could have put it anywhere really.

Move the mouse or touch the trackpad, or press any key on the keyboard and it wakes up quickly. BT OK.

Many macs that I work on haven’t been shut down for months, usually just rebooted after system updates.

Sleep on a mac mini is very low power: if you use the computer every day it’s less energy than booting up.

I repair macs and just hate the battery job on your model. It would be reasonable to have Apple do it. It’s expensive, but it’s a better quality battery than the third party stuff you get by DiY or going to an independent shop.

That said, it may be messy and time consuming, but you can buy the battery off of amazon and use iFixit to guide you, and save $150.

In a lot of cases, especially five years ago, this is correct. Lately, with Apple silicon processors, the low end machines are a good deal. You won’t find a NUC with similar low-power performance, capable of 4k video editing without fan noise or a hiccup, at anything close to the same price. It SMOKES the competition at the $600 price bracket.

But yeah, if money is an issue and you’re already invested in macOS software, buy a used M1 mini for $300 and you’re good, or if really broke, buy an off-lease business desktop for $125 and put linux Mint on it.

As everyone else says, battery replacement time.

The freemium and excellent little macOS utility Coconut Battery gives details that will confirm why you need a replacement.

iMac G4.

The iMac G5 started the fat monitor on a leg design.

I’m the one who is awake by the fire when the sabretooth shows up at midnight. I’m the one going around telling everyone to get outside, the house is on fire. I’m the one who is suddenly at the bottom of the small cliff, still steaming and naked from the hot tub, doing first aid assessment on the partier who fell off. I’m the one who burns for 14 hours and gets the team to push that working build out minutes before going live.

There’s dopamine in there. We’re starved for it daily so we can go hard in some way when it counts.

Hey watch it with that ‘never’ commitment eh!

A long time ago business class Brother printers weren’t always that easy or reliable, and the HP’s were rock solid and straightforward. If Brother enshittifies, the rankings will change.

Because I can dictate instantly into the Reminders app, without even unlocking my phone, it leaps over executive disfunction issues quite often.

Hold the power button for 2 seconds and say “add oatmeal and blueberries and coffee to the Groceries list” then go back to my task.

When I get to the store the list is grouped by type, mostly.

Or I say “remind me to call the doctor’s office at 9AM tomorrow” and it goes into the default list and the task notifies me at the right time. For the stuff I inevitably brush off, there’s a widget on my home screen that nags me so I can nurture my guilt lol.

So, I am leaning heavily into Apple’s built in ecosystem for keeping track of things (more private, in theory, as well). I have a about a dozen lists that I add to verbally. Some of those lists are geographically activated so I get notifications when I drive into town that I need to pick up a package, etc.

Why are you calling a polite irish male voice “she”?

It will be interesting to run this with Lulu installed and see how badly it leaks data.

There are still supply chain issues, or synthetic shortages. So many annoying ‘out of stock’ listings for PS5’s in Canada, and prices are locked at MSRP mostly.

It will run macOS 11 Big Sur, which isn’t fully out of date yet.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/102662 “How to download and install macOS”

You will want to install via USB probably. See "use a bootable installer " on the link above.

I would wipe/install.