Posts by Ishura 13 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Jan 2025
> Apple generally makes security updates for macOS available for three years after release. So Intel hardware under macOS 26 Tahoe should linger at least until late 2028.
This time around, there's no "generally" or "should" required, as Apple has taken the rare step of explicitly stating it:
> macOS Tahoe will be the last release for Intel-based Mac computers. Those systems will continue to receive security updates for 3 years.
I think there would be too much screaming (plus potential legal threats, etc.) if Microsoft was to simply announce that Windows is being discontinued in x years. It seems to me that the current plan is to drive the wedge in further and further, causing more and more people to abandon it "of their own accord". I also suspect that Microsoft is surprised by the number of customers who are continuing to put up with it.
> I still find the odd one of them at home and can instantly tell what it is and what it is for by colour and shape alone
Does anyone make USB mice and keyboards with green and purple plugs? It would be so much easier to figure out which peripheral you're unplugging by looking at the colour instead of having to trace the cable, but for some reason seemingly every single manufacturer decided to switch to black plugs when they moved from PS/2 to USB. Well, apart from Apple, who started with semi-transparent and then eventually settled on white.
We had one come around a while ago, and they said they wanted 100% participation. Fine.
"Do you take the bus to work?" "No."
"Have you ever taken the bus to work?" "No."
"What would it take to get you to take the bus to work?" "Having the bus stop closest to my house not also be the bus stop closest to work."
That reminds me of the time I needed support with an HP "Data Vault". Every mention of this thing had dropped off HP's website, although the "MediaSmart Server" (same hardware, slightly different software, as I understand it) was still mentioned and supported.
When I asked HP I got told "no, that's not an HP product (despite having an HP logo on it), you need to ask HPE instead", while simultaneously sounding like they were chastising me for not knowing that in the first place.
Although Time Machine has some cleverness, there's a folder on the drive (I think it's called "Latest") that just contains a plain copy of all your files. You can manually restore any files you need via Finder without needing to do a formal TM restore.
I may or may not have done something similar at my work. I'd set up a VM and had configured a DHCP server on it, and then started hearing "is your network working?" from various people in the office. I was confused, because my VM was definitely _not_ set to bridged mode... but software isn't bug-free so I reached around the back of the machine and yanked the Ethernet cable anyway.
I honestly don't remember whether that immediately fixed connectivity again or not, but every time I booted up that VM over the next couple of days I was sure to disconnect the cable first, just in case!
I had some "fun" with a piece of software when they added non-English language translations to it. What it would do was query the OS and get the prioritised list of languages that the user had chosen, and then _ignore English_ and instead show the UI in the secondary language. The UI would only come up in English if that was the _only_ language configured on the system (or if none of the other languages were ones that the software supported).
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