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I think tiling makes much less sense on a laptop and more sense when you use a large display.

I had a similar experience initially. I disliked many of the defaults. But it's quite easy to use an agent to customize everything to your liking. And I haven't really run into a situation where I couldn't accomplish what I wanted.

I'm still deciding how I feel about hyprland. I use a unique hyperkey shortcut to focus each app and I usually want that app (chrome, ghostty, etc) to take up the entire screen rather than caring about having tiled splits in a workspace, so I'm generally putting each app to its own workspace. I'm sure there's more to learn about hyprland and I can imagine it being superior to what I'm used to (macOS with some hammerspoon binds for window management/layouts).

It's understandable why you'd think this but it seems either didn't read much or were selective about her bio. Briefly:

* After spending time in research on parapsychology and the paranormal,[5] her attitude towards the field moved from belief to scepticism.[6][7] In 1987, Blackmore wrote that she had an out-of-body experience shortly after she began running the Oxford University Society for Psychical Research (OUSPR):[8][9]

* She is a Fellow of the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (formerly CSICOP)[12] and in 1991, was awarded the CSICOP Distinguished Skeptic Award.[4]

* Susan Blackmore has made contributions to the field of memetics.[19] The term meme was coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 book The Selfish Gene. In his foreword to Blackmore's book The Meme Machine (1999), Dawkins said, "Any theory deserves to be given its best shot, and that is what Susan Blackmore has given the theory of the meme."[20] Other treatments of memes, that cite Blackmore, can be found in the works of Robert Aunger: The Electric Meme,[21] and Jonathan Whitty: A Memetic Paradigm of Project Management.[22]

This is all from her wikipedia, which is about a one minute read.

As I recall, her consciousness textbook is fairly opinionated but it still gives a fair tour of the mainstream theories. She happens to be an illusionist like Dan Dennett. There's no "woo" in her coverage of the topic.

Consciousness: An Introduction by Susan Blackmore is exactly what you're looking for. Make sure you get the latest edition.

https://www.amazon.com/Consciousness-Emily-Troscianko-Susan-...

She has another book called Conversations on Consciousness that's basically transcribed interviews with prominent figures that's also worth checking out.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/254499.Conversations_on_...

I'd be surprised if it wasn't enough–can always use external storage.

Decided on the 16" M1 Max. Debating rolling the dice with shipping delays on upgrading 64GB mem or simply picking up the default configuration in store next week...