On this topic...anyone know the best way to export an entire iCloud Photo Library at full resolution?

Tesla is behaving like a company which doesn't realize the competition is catching up fast. For a long time they were the only game in town if you wanted an actually-good EV, which let them get away with some of their weirder and worse decisions, but now there are lots of good options available and it's no longer necessary to put up with this. I think they're in for a bad couple years if they don't return to putting the customer first.

A sad story to read. It reminds me of a similar story, a neurosurgeon (who also was a postdoc neuroscientist) had lung cancer and wrote a memoir of his experience, When Breath Becomes Air. The book wasn't published until about a year after he passed. If you ever get a chance, you should read this book.

I just got an M1 Macbook Air this week to replace my 2014 Macbook Pro. Performance is cool (lots has already been documented about that), but the battery life is on another level. Charged it on 4 days ago and after about 7 hours of use, it's still at 48% at the time of writing this post. Ditto to what you said about "a beautiful marriage of form and function".