> Like most of Apple’s best products, AirPods simply work. This hasn't been true for a few generations now. I just bought a $3K Mac Mini. I'm a developer, and

> Like most of Apple’s best products, AirPods simply work. This hasn't been true for a few generations now. I just bought a $3K Mac Mini. I'm a developer, and I wanted a big, beefy machine to replace my aging Macbook Pro. It's a great machine. Very happy with it. But there are a lot of little annoyances that, five or ten years ago, I never would have expected from a Mac. For example, the screens no longer shut themselves off after ten minutes. I've tried playing with the Energy Saver settings, but they just ... stay on. The screen saver never kicks in, either. This worked for like a week, and then just stopped. My external speakers stopped working for a while, too. I rebooted twice and they came back. I have two monitors hooked up to it, and MacOS keeps getting confused about which one is my primary monitor. None of this is a deal breaker, but it adds up. Apple doesn't "just work" anymore. It mostly works, it's mostly great, but they aren't the magical, invulnerable products they used to be.