Remember [that April post agonizing over device choices]? Back then I listed a bunch of candidates, weighed them one by one, and confidently declared I would “stick with the Fydetab Duo.” Well… it turns out humans can’t escape the universal law of zhen xiang (something you dismissed turns out to be great), and in the end I bought the MacBook Neo after all.

I recently got a Mac Mini to use as a server. I initially thought that since macOS is based on Unix, it would be pretty much like Linux — just set it up and go. But once I actually started using it, I ran into quite a few pitfalls. Here’s a record of the main issues.