Big Sur
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Unlike previous updates, this has seems to be less than "smooth."
Multiple restarts and a slow installation. Mine took about 4 hours onto a clean (reformatted) drive. Another 3 - 4 hours to transfer data from a backup.
I did a "clean"install, by the way - onto a wiped drive with no data, importing my stuff from a cloned drive.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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I'm sick of my old OS X installation which, after five years or so, is just too fvcked up. Too many environment variables fvcked up. Too many conflicting installations of stuff.
So, today I did a clean install on the MacBook.
I've also (reluctantly) ordered a M1 Mac Mini and will soon retire my 2014 iMac.
I'm used to operating systems getting worse over time, but Big Sur actually has some good stuff, too. The thing I'm most excited about is zsh.
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When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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When you shake someone's deep sense of self-worth, leaving a scar in their ego, they will persistently try to diminish you through petty arguments & obsessive captious criticism of your actions, just to soothe the wound.
- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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What model of Mac mini did you get?
Also, why reluctantly?
There seems to be just one model. I ordered it with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
"Reluctantly" because I'd have liked more RAM and maybe a proper graphics card.
I hope I won't be disappointed by the 34" display I ordered. It has a lower resolution than the 5K display my iMac has.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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The big thing for me this week was that Adobe released Apple silicon versions of their apps, which replaced the old Intel versions. Shit runs even faster now. Today I had Ae, Illustrator, Rush, and Photoshop open at the same time, no problem. (Remember, I just got the MacBook Air.)
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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There seems to be just one model. I ordered it with 16GB of RAM and a 1TB SSD.
Did you pick it up yet? If so, how is it?
Next week, probably.
Of course I'm not so insane to pay for such superfluous toys with my own money, hence I have to go through some bureaucracy to get it...
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I'm not so insane to pay for such superfluous toys with my own money
That was one of the big perks of our group practice. We had a "slush fund" that could be used for any "professional or educational" expense. So, that included meetings, and things we needed to do our jobs. I took advantage of that every year by getting a new desktop for myself every other year, and a new laptop the alternate years.
When I became an "independent contractor" for my group in 2015, I lost that benefit, of course.
Which is why my current computer is 2014 vintage.
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"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Next week, probably.
Of course I'm not so insane to pay for such superfluous toys with my own money, hence I have to go through some bureaucracy to get it.Annnnnd?
I have the package, but I haven't unwrapped it yet.
I've read about quite a few problems with the ARM processor related to Homebrew and a couple of programs I need. Rosetta does seem to be make things complicated, and things get messy when programs containing X86 and ARM code are mixed, or the same program exists in parallel for both.
Maybe I'll give it a try soon, but I hope that time will work in my favor.
