I believe David mentioned monitor stands. I bought one from IKEA and it looks OK and its fairly cheap:
@ismh86 Don’t sell your kidneys on Facebook marketplace. You made those yourself. They go on Etsy.
Also, on the renaming of wifi - ideally, your IOT is a different network, I know TP-Link has that out of the box. I set the IOT wifi to the old name and password and created the main network with a new name to avoid this problem.
Stephen Hackett mentioned that he occasionally uses his MacBook Pro as an extra screen to the left of his big monitor. When I do this I have found that the dock moves back and forth between my MacBook Pro and my monitor which is less than optimal. It appears that this is a known issue. Has anyone include Stephen found this to be a problem and if so, has a work around been developed?
I use the Dock on the right side of the screen, so it stays put. If you use it on the bottom, it will appear on whatever screen is active at the moment.
Very meta, but just wanted to say thanks keeping this forum going!! I love the discourse platform, I think it’s far superior to chat platforms like discord or other comment platforms. Like you said, it’s a great resource to have the full archive searchable and organized. 
Just finished the episode and wanted to say I’m really looking forward to @MacSparky ’s Alfred field guide. I got the lifetime license around 2013 I think and still feel like I’m only using 25% of what it can do.
I did the same but I think I’m only using about 5%!
Since he’s running a unifi network you can actually use the same SSID but just assign the IOT devices to their own segmented VLAN away from all the main computers via VLAN Magic. Super easy to override and not have to change SSIDs.
I keep hearing about Alfred, but what does it do that attracts people to it? I currently use Spotlight and Keyboard Maestro to enhance my workflows.
Where does Alfred fit in?
You’re going to want to check out this evening’s episode 
EDIT: Started writing this before new episode. Haven’t finished it, but yes, a lot of overlap here.
I think of it as the original ray cast (which Alfred was preceded by quicksilver, but I digress). Besides the spotlight replacement, the two main things for me are its workflows and what they call universal actions. Alfred Gallery is their “app store” but everything’s free, lol. Anyone can make it do about anything they want, and then share it if so inclined.
Universal actions are custom commands that can be executed on a variety of file types and media.
And then some workflows have their own universal actions.
So some examples;
- I have a workflow to control my timers in toggl, using their API, just from Alfred.
- I work exclusively off external drives and my average project duration is ~3-4 weeks, so I don’t have a dedicated folder I work out of, so there’s a great workflow to quickly add and remove folders to a quick list to jump directly to (and browsing folders without using Finder is great)
- I can add and browse subreddits and hacker news.
- I made a workflow to increment my project file for premiere, basically just a bunch of keyboard shortcuts but it’s all in Alfred.
- I made some custom online searches so I can jump right to searching stock libraries.
- Raindrop made a workflow to search their bookmarks which is really good, and you can search browser bookmarks too.
- I use a workflow to change the current URL to a specified browser.
- I use a workflow to search menu items every day.
- Search for emojis
- Search safari / browser tabs and history
- Check network speeds
- Open meeting links from calendar invites
- Interact with ChatGPT API
- Toggle stage manager
- Search for open application windows
- Run Shortcuts, thus accessing Homekit, among other things etc.
- Clipboard history & snippets
Oh and their remote app on iPad sits in front of my keyboard all day, just having pages of buttons for triggering my most frequent Alfred tools.
Basically I like having it all in one tool. I’ve tried Keyboard Maestro once or twice and it can do anything but Alfred really rides the line very well between power and simplicity. Fewer tools to manage is what I strive for.