to bounce on your point, there's the distinction between creative & non creative work. Sure, tools might help the creativity, but it can't replace it, and their article discusses how it can make it worse.
Accurate requirements gathering requires a spark of creativity...
Maybe the Mac is the straw that breaks the camels back.
You might have other leakages elsewhere (water heating is always a good one) that just fall below the threshold…and the Mac tips it over the GFCI?
Way to check would be to disconnect / isolate earthing downstream of GFCI and try with Mac then..
also to measure the GFCI leakage current (electricians usually have the instrumentation to do so)
The fault only happens the instant the connector mates with the back of the mac. If I connect the cable into back first then plug it into the wall socket, there's no issue.
Agreed. Also, to cite AirPods Pro as breaking the mould on a secrecy culture…it was pretty obvious that the airpod product would develop to have noise cancelling. The stakes for secrecy were much lower.
I am building Miasma (https://miasma.app); a little toolbar app for macOS that shows air quality readings based on either public sensors nearby or you can choose your own from PurpleAir or SmartCitizen. Also shows some metrics of potential pollution sources like traffic, aviations, power generation, and lately I added some global warming stats and calcs.
I am far from being able to program competently, so this was a stretch goal for me (using up all that lovely creative energy people had early in the pandemic) on a topic I care about. Code is horrible (with my minimal knowledge now even I can see that) but there wasn’t anything reliable enough in the App Store at the time.
There’s no way I can monetise it (albeit on the even worse iOS app I did I show ads, as much to learn how to integrate them rather than derive any income) so it is purely a passion project.
There have been over 1000 downloads, and based on the numbers using one of the data feeds I can see there are regularly 20 people using it throughout the day when their devices are on. Small wins.
