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This is bad. - Just recently I broke my system badly. So I decided to erase my system and re-setup from time machine. After several unsuccessful attemts I realized that my Time Machine backup (1.45 tb) exceeded my ssd capacity (1 tb). I did research, and learned not to prune my Time Machine backups. As that may corrupt it. So after several days and failed attempts to restore from time machine and after some research…
Mac use to be for tinkerers, that is not the case anymore, I loved to tinker with them 10 years ago, it was the only (reliable) platform you could work with sound. You bought a machine that would run years, people in studio would run many years with them, then they started to close it down more and more. I stopped working with sound but my old machine almost 20 years old still runs, out of tinkering with it i got int…
managed software, managed hardware, managed people
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I only was offered to select top level folders. Nothing below them.
Did you try to reinstall the mac and use migration assistant to restore from the Time Machine backup?
I had only 600-700 gb of data on my Mac. Installed OneDrive, did not know that I had configured my NAS to do 800gb of cloud backups to OneDrive. And Time Machine downloaded that data into its backup. Although I had configured OneDrive not to download that folder to my Mac. So time Machine screwed up.
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Maybe. But what are the options? Windows? Not really. Linux/Debian/Ubuntu is great, in theory, but it lacks tools: Acorn, Keyboard Maestro, OnniGraffle, Alfred App, MS Office, MS Teams, and a dozen more. Plus Apple silicon. I test LLMs locally.
And here I am running Linux on M1 Macbook. Graphical interface is superior, native docker support is superior, development experience is superior, backups for sure are superior than Time Machine. For work purposes online office on the web is sufficient. It is not for everyone (like photographers), but for software developers it works very nicely.
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> Apple turning our devices into jail cells. > These tech titans need to be regulated. You say this as though anyone buying a Macbook in the past decade reserves the right to be surprised. New Trump administration isn't going to budge on this - he's actually rather upset at the EU for how they've been treating his good friend Tim Apple. Chances are, he likes this lockdown and wants Americans to accept it. If you're a…
> If you're an American owner of Apple hardware, you've involuntarily signed yourself up for the Apple Isolationist program. I use iPhone because I try not to use any Google products. I didn't sign up for no nothing, I have no other choice.
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Please, do tell me where else can I run 32b models locally without quantization
64GB of system RAM and partial offload to a laptop 3090 or 4090 will run 32b unquantized.
No one really complained with 15.1 and macOS completely blocking software that is "untrusted". You know the "move to bin" popup, which you used to unblock in the past by cmd+clicking the binary, or later via the settings menu for privacy & security (insane in its own right!) Since 15.1, you're done and dusted. Unsigned/untrusted binaries simply will not run on macOS, regardless of how much you trust them to be. Thank…
> "App" Not Opened
Apple could not verify "App" is free of malware that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy. [ Done ]
The upper right of the dialog has a ( ? ) button that opens https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/apple-cant-check-ap... which says:
> However, if you choose, you can still open an app that isn’t allowed to open by manually overriding Privacy & Security settings.
There's a link to the settings, under which you have to scroll down and find a second copy of the above message and then click "Open Anyway", with then gives you a third warning:
> Open "App"?
Apple is not able to verify that it is free from malware that could harm your Mac or compromise your privacy. Don’t open this unless you are certain it is from a trustworthy source. [ Done ] [ Open Anyway ]
Continuing on requires authentication, and the prompt offers a fourth warning: "You are attempting to open an app that may harm your Mac or compromise your privacy."
According to https://developer.apple.com/support/compare-memberships/ you do need a full $99 Apple Developer Program membership to have apps notarized.
This is bad. - Just recently I broke my system badly. So I decided to erase my system and re-setup from time machine. After several unsuccessful attemts I realized that my Time Machine backup (1.45 tb) exceeded my ssd capacity (1 tb). I did research, and learned not to prune my Time Machine backups. As that may corrupt it. So after several days and failed attempts to restore from time machine and after some research…
Apple doesn’t care. They want you to subscribe to their iCloud plans and “abstract” away backups so that you lose the ability to own your backups.
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This isn't me trying to convince you to use Linux, but the listed reasons (other than LLM testing) aren't real deterrents (and there are plenty that exist for many people, no use pretending not): > Acorn GIMP (or Glimpse, if you want a more modern UI) or Krita can definitely do pretty much anything Acorn can. > Keyboard Maestro GNOME and KDE have been able to do this out of the box from pretty much the beginning. The…
Keyboard Maestro is a lot more powerful than what you're thinking of. A sequence of shell commands bound to hotkeys is in no way an adequate replacement.