Mac mini review–a testament to Apple’s stubbornness

Re:Mac mini review–a testament to Apple’s stubbornness by akvadrako on Friday November 23, 2018 @11:29AM (#18517381)

I guess it depends what you are working with. Some things are just a pain to keep synced, like large files, lots of repos, installed packages, containers, customizations, etc..

For a while I did have an iMac at work, iMac at home and small laptop for whatever. But it was too much hassle.

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Re:Mac mini review–a testament to Apple’s stubbornness by cbzoiav on Friday November 23, 2018 @12:30PM (#18517776)

So use an external HD! A 2.5" usb3 SSD will fit in your pocket. Comes with the added advantage that you save the copy step of transferring files to colleagues.

Additionally depending on OS / hardware similarity at each end you might even be able to make it bootable and carry your toolset everywhere too.

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Re:Mac mini review–a testament to Apple’s stubbornness by mercer on Saturday November 24, 2018 @09:44PM (#18525138)

I've tried doing just that, and it's still somewhat inconvenient. There's quite a bit of stuff that resides somewhere in the $HOME dir, from config to application files. I considered symlinking part of it, but then you have the problem that nothing works without the SSD connected.

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Re:Mac mini review–a testament to Apple’s stubbornness by crtasm on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @08:13AM (#18542017)

Install macos + your environment and data to the external drive and boot from it?

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Re:Mac mini review–a testament to Apple’s stubbornness by mercer on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @08:50AM (#18542223)

> ...but then you have the problem that nothing works without the SSD connected.

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