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M4 Mini finally arrived today. It only took AMZN a month to ship it. I've had a longstanding tradition of naming my Mac Minis (now 4 in number) after film directors. Previous machines were Kubrick, Fellini and Ulmer. The M4 is Kurosawa. I'd say I forgot how much of a PITA it is to set up a new machine, but that'd be a lie. I remember, and it always is one. Google is reasonably painless. Still haven't gotten my password manage up and running yet. Steam initially locked up and refused to play nice, but after a force quit and restart it acted fine. I have no real interest on gaming on this machine but I figured I'd give it a bash. Tomb Raider 2013 works just fine and looks quite good. It's not really my kind of game (I got it free with the GPU I bought in late '13 and played it for 38 minutes) but trying out again it seems ...fine. The M4 plays it at 1080p constantly above 120FPS. The real headaches will be slsk, Transmission (torrent client), inheriting my Backblaze backup state and ...actually setting up Kurosawa s a server to replace Fellini. I have to get my two Windows boxes to play nice with it as well. This process should take well into next year.

I dunno, I enjoyed reading it. His enthusiasm is evident, and as much as I'd love to be a cranky fun-hating git it's nice to see someone having fun with the hobby for once. Still, pontificating at length about minute perceptual nuances is thoroughly pointless given how completely subjective and unreliable all that stuff is, and I've learned to not do it.