About the Mac mini I bought under the trap of consumerism

by Poster May 10, 2025 111

It's another menstrual sticker for Mac mini, there are so many Apple users playing... Well, I can't control that much anymore. Who told me to share so much? Let me explain my background. I am born in the 90s, and I will soon be 30. I am not married and have no savings. I am currently working as a front-end developer in Chengdu Internet. My job is regarded as a youth meal, and I don't have a high salary. I am pure cow horse Why is it consumerism? The main reason is that buying a Mac is not just needed. This post is going to have plenty of excuses/reasons for me to buy it, so I'm consumerist. I bought the MBP M1Pro 32G 512 at the end of 2021, and I was comfortable working on the front end. For the next three years, I became accustomed to carrying the computer to and from get off work every day. (Not to mention Niu Ma will buy his own computer to commute to and from work, the win issued by the company is not easy to use, and it is easy to interrupt my work when meeting or going home), so I don't think I need a Mac mini. But is there any science and engineering man who doesn't like electronic products? Since the Mac mini changed its mold to ➕ State Subsidy last year, he has seen countless plants in the V2 community and Bilibili. The Mac mini beggar version went from 3500 to 3200 and then fell below 3000 to 2899. There is a lot of discussion, but I am consumerist. How can the beggar version fit my imagination? 16 ➕ 256 does not satisfy me at all. My MBP was running out of storage during the period of 23 years, and I hated every pop-up window. At the end of 23 years, I spent 1,800 to expand the capacity to 2T, and there has been no problem for more than a year. Just writing code so far takes up only 6-700G. To sum up, if I want to buy a Mac mini, the most ideal configuration is to have a storage of 1T and above. The MBP is 32G, and with the DeepSeek wave during the Spring Festival, it is natural to rivet 64G of memory. In addition, in the previous v2 discussion, many people bought it as a server, so many people would suggest buying a 10-Gigabit network, but I can't use it. So I just bought Gigabit, which is enough. The most common front-end development is that downloading npm packages requires a network hahaha. After listing the requirements, the one-step Mac mini configuration I imagined was 64G 1T Gigabit network, so the processor naturally went to the M4 Pro. It was added to the shopping cart before the Spring Festival. This configuration of ➕ National Subsidy is 16999-2000 (National Subsidy). I have been thinking about it since I got 14999. When chatting with friends, I occasionally say I want to buy it Before the May Day holiday, it was still 14,999, but JD gave me an extra 12 interest-free installments. Isn't this a pure temptation for me, but I still resisted it because I saw v2 and still reviewed Mac mini as a dusty product. After the holiday, I chatted with my friends about 618 coming soon, what to buy, and mentioned the Mac mini, and my friend told me that I could find a college student to add education discounts and get it cheaper. I always feel that as a front-end developer, I may only need 64G in 5% of the scenarios. No need to buy it. --- I was visiting Pinduoduo today and wanted to buy a telescopic pole. As a result, when I looked at the JD 360 camera, I clicked on the shopping cart again. With the education discount mentioned by my friend last week, I tried my certification and it broke! Gou Dong actually passed it for me, which means that I can get the configuration in front of me for 13700? The state subsidy ➕ education discount ➕ is interest-free for 12 periods. The capital bombarded me indiscriminately. I couldn't help it anymore. I had to place an order. ! [] (https://i.imgur.com/JyTwRKr.jpeg) I'm starting to list my consumerism psychological excuses 1. As a front-end developer, in addition to completing work tasks, I also hope to participate in GitHub open source contributions. 2. Next, participating in open source can allow me to get free GitHub copilot for free, so I have been doing free prostitutes since I was exposed to open source in 22 years, which is also one of the motivations. 3. There are 87-key keyboards and touchpads at home and at work respectively. Writing code with a laptop on my back when commuting to and from get off work will hardly interrupt my thoughts (the touchpad is also what consumerism made me buy) 4. Still because of open source, I received an airdrop worth $2,000 from FLT last year. I am not very good at playing web3, so I cashed out. 5. Let's talk about open source. I naturally came into contact with lobechat with ai and contributed some code. The author also gave me the right to use the api key for one year. I contributed to the development of nextjs and ollama to eat a lot of memory. It's time to upgrade 6. Still because of open source, antd sent me 500rmb encouragement just a few days ago. 7. I also bought the Tuozhu A1 printing machine for my birthday last year because of various excuses, which can draw pictures and print brackets by myself There are so many reasons, why don't you just buy it directly? So many plays …. Hey, think about it, I'm almost 30. On the one hand, I don't have any savings, and on the other hand, I haven't started a family yet. So I still have some concerns …. The above pile of reasons are completely trapped in the trap of consumerism. Seeing that everyone buys it and wants it, they continue to rush, and a month's salary is consumed The post also summarizes some poisonous chicken soup about consumerism that I have heard from my college life to now: 1. Money is earned, not saved. Carpe diem. 2. How much you spend now will definitely earn back later. 3. Buy what you like, money just stays with you in a different way 4. Owning the same product at the age of 35 is different from owning it at the age of 25. 5. Please add something to other comment areas... Well, what's the purpose of it now that you buy it? I think I probably put it at home and continue to carry my MBP to work. Part of the content can be controlled remotely at the company. (Do you have any recommended solutions here) Go to work during the day and go home after work to develop nextjs with Mac mini. Continue to participate in open source contributions. In case another airdrop hits me. That's all I'm thinking of for the time being. If 618 conditions permit, I'll get another Dell U2725QE (there is a high probability that it will be pushed to Double Eleven, and my wallet will cry to death ok long-winded for a long time, I thought that I could look at the impulses of my youth by myself in the future, and then look at the messages in everyone's comment area, which may be helpful to me end I hope the comment area can be as friendly discussed as deepseek ! (https://i.imgur.com/2ntUvH0. jpeg) ! [] (https://i.imgur.com/DtOv08k. jpeg)

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Anonymous428 May 11, 2025

2 macs don't feel very meaningful, or just have one
Anonymous5033 May 11, 2025

Use self-mockery and rhetorical questions, label yourself with poisonous chicken soup, use a sense of humor to alleviate the discomfort caused by impulsive consumption and the pressure of external evaluation, and avoid serious analysis. But you have to open a post for everyone to discuss. Obviously, you want everyone to agree with you, but you don't want to accept questions. Your open source contribution is quite a lot, and it pays off. But what does buying this Mac mini have to do with your open source? Does it not work without it, or is it just the icing on the cake? If most of the open source work of the equipment at hand can be done now, where is the high-end demand reflected?
Anonymous2597 May 11, 2025

@ Anonymous5033 Spicy!
Anonymous8294 May 11, 2025

I thought/said 2999
Poster May 11, 2025

@ Anonymous5033 opens the post mainly to share. Everyone has a tangled time. I have a friend around me who consumes completely the opposite of mine, so there are often collisions of opinions. As I get older, it is normal to think carefully about every expense. The idea of saving money passed on by my friend is mainly to let me save money, whether it is getting married or buying a house, it is the start-up capital. In addition, I also discussed the purchase of this macmini with him many times. So I am very entangled in myself, so I will post it. Obviously, you want everyone to agree with you, but you don't want to accept questions. Obviously, there are all. I can listen to them selectively if I question whether to listen or not. Since it is sent out, let's communicate with each other or see if there are people around me who have experienced similar experiences. It would be nice not to attack me personally "But what does buying this Mac mini have to do with your open source? Even seeing that everyone has it, I also want psychology. But it can't be completely worthless. With the memory up, deploying ollama locally to debug nextjs projects can be regarded as a handy weapon.
Anonymous3321 May 11, 2025

@ Poster "On-premise ollama" Testing the local AI speed, I feel that this consumption is not a loss. The 64G video memory of the N card is not something that can be bought for more than 10,000 yuan.
Anonymous2775 May 11, 2025

@ Anonymous13094 Good idea, it does what you think. (In addition, it's best to buy what you want to buy as much as possible before talking about the partner)
Anonymous8295 May 11, 2025

If there is a yardstick to measure whether something should be done or not, and you say that you don't want to do what you shouldn't do, then it's okay for others to help you analyze it. After all, yardsticks are relatively objective. As a result, you say, "I know this is the trap of thinking about fees, but I just want to buy it, right or wrong is not as important as my willingness", then... others have nothing to say, right? It's a bit like the relationship between shooting and drawing a target. If the target has been drawn, if you hit the target, you hit it. If you miss it, you miss it. If you obviously miss it, you still hold your neck and say that my target was drawn in the wrong position. I originally wanted to hit here People do something willful according to their own ideas, and it's a kind of free and easy to accept it generously. After buying it, they can turn over the pages. As a result, afterwards, they start to find a bunch of reasons to prove that "I'm not willful, but reasonable". Aren't people tired of living like this? I want to do the "right" thing, but I am unwilling to restrain my impulse. In the end, I can't end up well at both ends
Anonymous6105 May 11, 2025

I had a surprise after buying my mac mini The same python crawler code, about 500 concurrent requests at a time, mac mini 0.8 s to crawl, but 9950 x86 takes 4-5s. I guess it is the network card IO processing here PC host and mac there is a performance gap In short, it helps me a lot, greatly enhances a part of my workflow, and it has good silent heat dissipation, low power consumption, and is invincible.
Anonymous8296 May 11, 2025

Earn your own money and spend it yourself. Even if you burn it, it's your own business.
Anonymous11938 May 11, 2025

Carpe diem, I don't think there's a problem
Anonymous2928 May 11, 2025

Since you buy it, you can sell it
Anonymous1831 May 11, 2025

It is consumerism to work hard to think about the use scenario after buying it. Of course, rich brother is at will
Anonymous8125 May 11, 2025

How did you get through the educational certification?
Anonymous59 May 11, 2025

Good guy, the 2999 stuff added to 1.3 for you
Anonymous6968 May 11, 2025

How did you pass the education certification?
Anonymous13560 May 11, 2025

In this case, talk directly to your best friend. Don't abuse AI every day. In any case, it's just a praise. Don't go anywhere to gain recognition.
Anonymous2178 May 11, 2025

Can educational discounts also be used for 12 interest-free periods?
Anonymous2022 May 11, 2025

If it can really become a productive force without too much living burden, it doesn't hurt to buy it. At worst, you can sell it second-hand and recycle part of it.
Anonymous1600 May 11, 2025

Things are impermanent, life is short, carpe diem, try your best to strive for what you should strive for