Can someone help me?? Every once in a while I'll get kernel panic and my Mac will enter a boot/reboot cycle that takes about 6X before it finally loads up. Today I progressively disconnected some USB devices until it finally loaded. Does anyone know what is wrong? or how I can fix?

In the event you find your number pad on your keyboard not working, press your Option button 5 times to toggle on/off. You may have inadvertently activated Mouse Keys navigation. This was a 20min lesson. 😆

I have barely scraped the surface on Aflred but I find it very useful. Alfred enables hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. https://www.alfredapp.com/ Most commonly, I hit the Option key + spacebar to a spotlight like box that acts as a text launcher or triggers other actions. This is a huge area of improvement for me and I'm curious what others are using along these lines. I used to use an open source tool like this called Quicksilver but have not checked to see if that project is up-to-date. The pro venison of Alfred also has more automation thigns that you can do but I have not delved into this yet.

Show us what you are working with! Here is my current work set up at the Fruit stand:1. Macbook Pro M2 Max - 32 GB RAM 1 TB Stroage 2. Magic Trackpad for my off-hand - for change of pace, zoom, and other Mac gestures 3. Dell 34-inch monitor 4. Logitech Ergonomic Keyboard 5. Logitech Mouse for the primary hand 6. iPad Pro Max for personal comms at work and note-taking 7. iPad keyboard case 8. Apple Pencil for iPad 9. Ball of Whacks - creativity toy for fidgeting while on calls

productivity tip: I use my Stream Deck to launch shortcuts with a single button press. It’s great for opening multiple web browsers or starting apps in seconds. Check out the Stream Deck: https://www.elgato.com/ww/en/p/stream-deck-mk2-black And GPT for help with creating shortcuts: https://chatgpt.com/g/g-BoPsR70M0-apple-shortcuts-gpt