I agree 100% and also have an OWC dock that should be compatible with sleeping. It works great with my other machines. Like you said as well, these M-series Macs seem to have major issues with just about all external devices.
Twelve South will come out with some ridiculously over priced thingie.
Oh ok! If decades of enterprise IT experience won’t sway you, please don’t let the cognitive dissonance or countless studies readily available shatter your fantasy realm
That's NOT a good practice.
it’s not such an issue with modern operating systems aside from wayward programs (looking at you Chrome)
Doesn't change the fact that bugs and issues will accumulate.
Not everyone has the same use case as you. What if they need to use it once a week? Having it sleep idle for 6 of the 7 days provides no benefit. This is what I do for my lab that has.......16 computers for various scenarios.
Very easy to 3D Print something like a vertical stand or even something simple like a lever that sits under the power button, a bit like a seesaw. My mind is working on this !
THIS! Mac is still absolutely atrocious with external devices making it nearly impossible. Combine that with Thunderbolt/USB docks and it can be utterly frustrating. Better to just turn off every night so you have a clean slate in the morning.
I will back that up I have tried all the suggestions under the hood. macOS is just plain atrocious with external devices and docks it just isn't funny.
It is that the Mac Studio has the ports I need, so I do not need to even use a dock and almost too limiting. This is why I CANNOT use a Macbook Pro as much as I want to with my recent frustrations with Apple's pro desktop market attitude. I need the IO and macs are horrible with docks.
Yep can confirm this. Many decades of IT experience as well. Been through many NAS and servers that are running just fine, but a power cycle and suddenly a drive failure.
I’ve got decades of Professional IT Experience as well, you’ve got a point re power cycling computers, peripherals etc possibly could cause damage but probably unlikely basic computers like a Mac Mini and a external spinning hard drive.
Windows 11 still needs to be restarted often. And with default settings restart is better than a shut down since it has the fast startup. I have had several times where my GPU driver was messed up even after a shut down due to the fast startup. Restart fixed it.
That comparison is a little flawed, given that TVOS doesn't have an "off" state. An Apple TV with power is always booted up and either running or sleeping.
