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I couldn't believe it either but when you enable it the settings of macOS you get this popup:

> When you dictate text, information like your voice input and contact names are sent to Apple to help your Mac recognize what you’re saying.


Elsewhere it says:

"When you use Dictation, your device will indicate in Keyboard Settings if your audio and transcripts are processed on your device and not sent to Apple servers. Otherwise, the things you dictate are sent to and processed on the server, but will not be stored unless you opt in to Improve Siri and Dictation."

And:

"Dictation processes many voice inputs on your Mac. Information will be sent to Apple in some cases."

In conclusion... I think they're trying to cover all their bases, but it sounds like things are processed locally as long as the hardware can handle it.


Very neat idea! I implemented it into my self hosted remote coding agent: https://stanislas.blog/2026/02/netclode-self-hosted-cloud-co...


Unfortunately Hetzner volumes have pretty low iops for databases


We have a small database with low access rates. We'll be fine, at least for a while.


Maybe https://github.com/spinel-coop/rv will be the answer when it's ready


It doesn't seem like they are available with `import Darwin` indeed


I merged https://github.com/angristan/MacThrottle/pull/2 to make it work on macOS 15. macOS 14 probably works, feel free to try it out and open a PR to lower the required version if it's the case


My M4 Max Macbook Pro can run for a while at like 105°C and fans to the max before throttling, when it starts throttling it doesn't exceed that threshold, and then the temperature goes down for a while before throttling stops


Interesting, yeah iStat Menus reports the wattage of the charger, sometimes I've charged my mac with like a 5 or 10W charger and I didn't have that issue But now that rings a bell, I think a coworker had that issue recently. I wonder why that happens


Agreed, half of these questions are answered in the post. Also, looking at the account's comment history confirms that it's karma-farming with comments or something like that


Oh really? TIL, I thought it was dependant on the app developer. I can look into it, thanks!


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