Nilrem404

I finally bought in to the apple m-series hype and picked up an M1 Pro Macbook Pro refurbished.

It seems like everyone has a load of different utility and QOL apps that they use to help make MacOS more usable for them.

What are your go-tos, and how do you make use of third party MacOS apps and tweaks day to day?

Obviously interested in all of it, but here is what I am rally trying to solve:

I live in an apartment, so unfortunately I cannot run full fat rack mounted equipment for space, heat, and noise reasons. Also, a partner who isn't keen on the sight of it

I was thinking maybe some small thinkcenter or dell micro PCs + a NAS (Thinking QNAP because they are cheaper). Lower TDP would be great too. Power costs are a concern.

Thinking about Nextcloud, plex, jellyfin, home assistant, local backups, etc... I know that it evolves quickly