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While I suspect it is silent for most tasks, the M4 mini isn’t fanless.

For my music studio I’ve enjoyed the M1 mini since it is totally silent and am eager to read some noise tests on the new M4 mini.

Yep, same here. I have a dedicated gaming machine because I’m afraid to expose my banking information.

This is what I do as well. Still requires some stirring but not as much.

I’ve had success canceling without fees by calling and talking to a human.

I hope you find some answers soon!

FWIW, I have a similar athletic history & am about 9 years into chronic fatigue syndrome. Mine’s likely post viral, but I can also remember a 24 hour race where I finished not feeling like myself anymore. I’ve had extreme exercise intolerance and all of the typical CFS symptoms. I’ve been to dozens of doctors and several top institutions with no answers yet.

3 years into it, I was diagnosed with mild sleep apnea — even though I’m not overweight.

I’m finally feeling somewhat better after eliminating all caffeine (I only had 1 8oz cup every morning), plus 4 months off of any exercise, work, and as much stress as possible. Some of my mysterious and long-lasting symptoms, such as various food intolerances & dizziness, suddenly resolved.

I stopped drinking alcohol a long while ago too, thinking even my occasional drinking could impact my sleep and recovery.

I still experience post-exertional malaise if I go above zone 2, but I can now tolerate zone 2 workouts without the typical crashes that would occur 24-48 hours after exercise and would last for days.

I’ll likely be on a nice e-bike soon, so that I can keep my heart rate more stable and low over hilly terrain.

I'm a neuroscientist who published on central sensitization and chronic pain. Unfortunately, I was forced into retirement by chronic fatigue syndrome.

The linked article and others have convinced me that CFS can be caused by viruses.

There's one important and tricky question: is a viral infection necessary to trigger CFS in humans (such as long COVID or in this linked article), or is an extremely stressful series of events (which could include the physical stress of a severe viral infection) sufficient?

Giving a certain interpretation of their comment, I think the physician could be stating that they've seen patients with CFS that has been triggered by stressful events alone. I think this can coexist with the linked research if CFS can be triggered by stress OR a virus.

When chronic stress is mentioned as a factor, that should not be interpreted as being a psychological predisposition ("it is all in their head"). Instead, it is a predisposition on a cellular level.

The brain regions involved in central sensitization are tightly linked with those involved in chronic stress. Animal models of chronic stress lead to central sensitization of pain, as do animal models of chronic illness. Chronic stress causes an immense amount of remodeling in the brain and the rest of the body.

Proving or disproving that CFS can be triggered by chronic stress alone is difficult because CFS is a diagnosis of exclusion. Diagnosis can take a long time. We humans are always getting viruses and occasionally enduring stressful life events, so it is difficult to untangle the two.

If we look at my personal history, my diagnosis took several years (above average for CFS patients). I can point to 3 stressful life events and 2 viral illnesses that might have preceded CFS onset. The cause for my CFS remains a mystery.

Without a mechanism and diagnostic test for CFS, I think this question will remain unanswered.

I think it is contentious to say that CFS is an endpoint of central sensitization. It might be, but it also might be related to mitochondrial dysfunction or another mechanism-- too soon to tell, in my opinion. Central sensitization is certainly a component, but I do not think it is proven to be the only component. I should say that I'm extremely biased towards believing in central sensitization as the cause of many things because that was the primary focus of my research.

Again, without a mechanism and a diagnostic test for CFS, much is murky. Viral infection can at least be a cause. I think we're far away from having a tidy answer like the story of H. pylori and ulcers though.

My family in Texas has told me that some electricity cooperatives have been disincentivizing solar by charging different rates to customers with solar or charging fees when customers with solar produce excess power.

I think it depends on what you do in music. I also just play for fun and do not care about trying to gain absolute pitch (not that this is an option from what I've read).

My friend's brother has absolute pitch. I've played 10 note chords for him & he can pick out every note and also tell me if each note is in tune, sharp, or flat.

He is a high school band director. I can imagine that this is a very useful skill for his job.

Wow this is so interesting! So you are saying that the person with absolute pitch often has lost the ability to intuitively follow relative pitch, such that they are having to transpose in their heads?

I had always assumed they could still intuitively match pitch and just had an extra information overlay.

Do these people you know who dislike transposed covers also dislike genres of music with dissonant elements, such as certain types of jazz or microtonal music?

Just like with audiophile gear, a bike doesn't have to be extremely expensive to reach the point of diminishing returns.

AC power is becoming more common on flights, and I speculate that you will be able to use Bluetooth headphones.

Otherwise, yeah probably a multiple battery solution.

I don't really see myself caring about the movies during a flight use case.

For working during a flight, I'd greatly prefer the Vision Pro, as I am easily distracted by my surroundings and would value the improved ergonomics over being hunched over a laptop (I'm flying in coach). And for reading PDFs and web browsing, ergonomics again seem superior to a smartphone or tablet.

I'm with you. Had the same exact problems, and I returned mine.

Interestingly, the Quest 2 seemed less buggy when I had one.

I returned my Quest Pro due to annoying and frequent software bugs. It was a great device when it worked, although I'd prefer a slightly higher resolution.