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The last of the first snowfall melted away and now we have a fresh snowfall to shovel. It's colder out so it's coming down as light, flurry, powdery stuff which is easy to move around.
I didn't realize how much had fallen when I stepped outside for my morning walk. Seeing the amount of snow I ditched the walk and started shoveling. I would have cleared everything in one go but I wasn't wearing my back brace and my gave give me a gentle reminder to take it easy. So, no backache today.
Sunday I was vacuuming the house when I tripped on the power cord. My head was heading right for a corner of a wooden cabinet and I managed to twist myself and merely thumped on the floor. No damage done but it was a scary moment.
The pile of e-waste MacBook Pros is shrinking as I swap out the old hard drives for SSDs and use Open Core legacy patcher to upgrade them. I'm not quite halfway through. One of the problems with Open Core is that for every change in Apple Firmware you need to create a new boot USB disk. And if you want to install a different version of Mac OS you'll need to make a different USB disk. Since I'm working with older Macs this can take up to 2 hours. In the pile there's four different firmware versions. However, most are either 9,2 and 8,2 so two boot USBs will cover most of them. The 9,2 are handling the latest Mac OS (Sonoma) fairly well although the 8,2 are acting cranky. I might have to make a new boot disk with Monteray or Ventura for the older systems. I need to pause soon because I've run out of SSDs to install.
I didn't realize how much had fallen when I stepped outside for my morning walk. Seeing the amount of snow I ditched the walk and started shoveling. I would have cleared everything in one go but I wasn't wearing my back brace and my gave give me a gentle reminder to take it easy. So, no backache today.
Sunday I was vacuuming the house when I tripped on the power cord. My head was heading right for a corner of a wooden cabinet and I managed to twist myself and merely thumped on the floor. No damage done but it was a scary moment.
The pile of e-waste MacBook Pros is shrinking as I swap out the old hard drives for SSDs and use Open Core legacy patcher to upgrade them. I'm not quite halfway through. One of the problems with Open Core is that for every change in Apple Firmware you need to create a new boot USB disk. And if you want to install a different version of Mac OS you'll need to make a different USB disk. Since I'm working with older Macs this can take up to 2 hours. In the pile there's four different firmware versions. However, most are either 9,2 and 8,2 so two boot USBs will cover most of them. The 9,2 are handling the latest Mac OS (Sonoma) fairly well although the 8,2 are acting cranky. I might have to make a new boot disk with Monteray or Ventura for the older systems. I need to pause soon because I've run out of SSDs to install.
