Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

Why is that? Haven’t used it in a while but used to depend on superduper.

Alba holding the option key takes you straight there without going thru About This Mac.
And I have used CCC to create bootable HDD clones up to at least 10.13, and that machine wouldn't run anything more recent.

Apfs means there’s lots of volumes on a disk, and cryptographic signatures of volumes means a naive bit for bit copy won’t boot. The CCC and super duper maintainers are doing heroics but seem to be on the verge of giving up on the bootable clone use case for apple silicon.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2021/03/10/the-role-of-bootable-duplicates-in-a-modern-backup-strategy/

and https://bombich.com/blog/2021/05/19/beyond-bootable-backups-adapting-recovery-strategies-evolving-platform

Great, thanks for the info. I just updated my home computer from Mojave to Monterey (I know) and it froze near the end. I waited hours then finally gave up. Rebooted and installed again but instead of updating my system disk it did a clean install, so I was afraid I’d lost lots of settings and things. Was esp worried about losing iTunes/music playlists. So I did a migration from my time machine and almost everything is back in order.

Macs last so long now for a lot of people that I think they don’t realise how good migration has become over the past five years or so.

yeah I was always pro super duper because just cloning back to my start-up disk from a day or two ago seemed easier than some sketchy "maybe there's some stuff I can dig out of time machine" but really this worked incredibly smooth.

My only problem now is I can't get back to a song I was working on in ableton, probably because it uses some plug-in that's not playing nice with Monterey. I think I had already wiped all my 32-bit relics but who knows.

ugh it's not 32bit that's an issue, it's probably aggressive gatekeepering from OSX on these plugins that I have to figure out a workaround.

For calstars

@siracusa the "cleanest" way to get rid of the notch without having to deal with a suboptimal resolution is to just set a 16:10 resolution:https://t.co/N2E0RkHypS

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they don’t realise how good migration has become over the past five years or so

oh and it was running 10.13 uneventfully, without errors on the drive. Can't recall if it was APFS but I doubt it.

Alba holding the option key takes you straight there without going thru About This Mac.

oh yeah! I'm used to asking for diagnostic info from my folks over the phone, which involves the minimum number of clicks and least opportunity for confusion ...

Adam Engst! TidBits! Man I had forgotten about them.

huh

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-service-repair/

World that cover batteries?

The initial phase of the program will focus on the most commonly serviced modules, such as the iPhone display, battery, and camera. The ability for additional repairs will be available later next year.

"Intellectual property considerations cannot be allowed to stand in the way of a customer's right to repair equipment that they have purchased," said Bruce Perens, an open source pioneer, venture capital firm board member, and CEO of a stealth startup, in an email to The Register. "Apple is simply acknowledging this fact before right-to-repair is legislated and they have no choice."

Apple may also be recognizing the growing importance of revenue from services as opposed to hardware sales. If, as some analysts have predicted, services come to represent the majority of Apple's profit by mid-decade, the Cupertino titan will have more incentive to focus on retaining customers (and associated monthly subscription fees) and less pressure to convince them to buy shiny new iThings every year or two.

https://www.theregister.com/2021/11/17/apple_diy_repair/

"CEO of a stealth startup"? I may need to use that.

So did some kind of lawsuit or pending EU regulation trigger this event?

the Register article i link there makes it pretty clear this is getting out ahead of legislation yes

Gotcha. Though it doesn't seem like any of those actually passed yet and even with the current administration I'm sure manufacturers of all stripes can keep delaying and killing those bills, at least for the US I have no faith

Well there is this - https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2021/07/ftc-ramp-law-enforcement-against-illegal-repair-restrictions

i have a wellness allowance to spend by the end of the year and can't think of anything so ... i guess i'm getting an apple watch (eligible as a fitness tracker)?

does anyone have them? they are bad right?

No they’re great. I barely use it but it’s nice to glance down and see if it’s worth taking the phone out of your pocket when you get a call or msg. That alone is cool.

yeah trying to get off my phone around the kids, and this seems like it might help with that?

Lol
Apple doesn’t even have to market this shit. Its acolytes do it in their heads

At risk of sounding like a dreaded acolyte, when the pandemic started I got pretty OCD about closing the rings on the Apple watch fitness app. Within the first six months I lost 25 pounds and a year later I still kept it off, have no problem hiking 6+ miles up into the San Gabriels, and generally just feel better from hauling less of me around. I didn't do anything other than let the fitness app nag me to get up and move around.

Apart from all that physical tracking stuff, I use the timer and that's it - but the fitness tracking is essential.

My primary watch use cases are shopping lists, transit times, controlling podcasts/music, Apple Pay, todo/calendar notifications.

I refuse to buy a watch that needs to be charged.

"winding"

"automatic"

I'm happy with my Casio digital watch. I've had it for a few years, and I think it's still on its original battery.

i have a seiko automatic and i'm smug about it

I don't even own a watch.

i haven't needed a watch to know what time it is for years, but i like the apple "watch" so far (3 days).

I don't like to carry a phone with me at all times, so it's useful for me to have a watch to be able to check the time. But I admit I'm unusual.

it’s very nice not to have to fish one’s phone out to glance at the time. this of course assumes that one is ever not looking at one’s phone which is admittedly a bit of a leap

ah i'm not looking at my phone for the time. it's a mixture of not needing to know the time, being at a computer, having lots of clocks, and never leaving the house on account of the novel coronavirus.

btw the lovely Emma B now owns a 16” M1 MBP. i kept gushing about it, “the most sophisticated laptop ever made” etc and she’s like, yeah it seems good. doesn’t give me any trouble. a little on the heavy side tbh!

I was being flippant in an "I don't even own a TV" way. ("Sorry, I don't television watch.")

For the same reasons o. nate and Tracer mention, I got into this weird spree of buying $1 watches off of Wish a few years ago. It was nice walking down the street and casually looking at the time. But I'm just not a wearables guy. I'd take the watch off at my desk and forget about it.

And while I didn't miss having to fish through my pocket to find my phone, I do like being able to bury it somewhere. With the watch, I wasn't crazy about always having the time of day within eyeshot. I like being able to check my watch, but I don't think I'm up for having my watch check on me.

Found a great MBP configuration that I could justify spending the $$$ on: 14" M1Pro 10-core, 32GB RAM, 4TB HD. $3559 with an edu discount. Good grief this thing rips.

I'd take the watch off at my desk

just found your problem, pplains

what, are they making desktop watches now?

iclocks

I really need to learn to use 3d modeling software so I can ironically join the group of weird apple superfans who insist on mocking up products they think apple will announce

They're churning out ideas like "tall mac mini" but I could contribute to the dialogue by showing them "mac that is inexplicably wide" or "monitor that is round for some reason"

you should follow nanoraptor

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— Dana Sibera (@NanoRaptor) March 8, 2022

Cube G4 ruled
Except when it randomly rebooted

I think Ned still has his?