FiveMinute Boot Time is my new retro Afro-punk electro-folk Slayer cover band.
Apple makes it hard. Before Big Sur, one could download macOS point updates as Delta or Combo updaters for use with more than one Mac. It’s even harder under Big Sur because point updates are not applied to clones even though the main boot-up drive from which the clones are made do get updated. Since I have or am responsible for three Big Sur Macs & four clones thereof, I need something relatively simple.
Therefore today I downloaded the macOS 11.2.3 installer & used Disk Drill (via Setapp) to create a bootable installer on a spare 250 GB external USB-C SSD. Right now it’s updating the iMac’s clone to make it into a bootable 11.2.3 system.
@variablepulserate When my parents were courting Mum mentioned her grandfather had designed King Edward VII’s coronation robes. Dad then said his family also had a connection to royalty, & related the tale of Sir Simon Fraser, triple traitor. One of my older cousins has retained a sword used at the Battle of Waterloo, carried by a member of Clan Fraser. A certain degree of research was needed to determine whether he’d fought under Wellington’s command or Napoleons’s, there were Frasers on each side. (He was on the victorious side)
@variablepulserate I am very well arare of that. In fact, the last man publicly beheaded in England was a Scots ancestor of mine, one Simon Fraser.
@variablepulserate I once helped a woman with a “stuck” 30-pin cable in her iPod Nano. She had borrowed the cable from her son & was only accustomed to the newer slimline style. The one she had borrowed was the locking type, with catches at each end that had to be squeezed inward together to release the connector.
@variablepulserate Way back when the iPhone 5 was released I was warned by an early adopter not to get anything with a Lightning cable as it was hard to remove the plug easily. She reckoned it was a design flaw, I explained it was a design feature meaning the connection would be more secure.
March 1 & 2 were when my ALDI-Mobile $99 Super Pack for my spare phone became due for renewal. ALDI-Mobile uses a base Pay As You Go plan of a minimum $15 per year. The Super Pack includes 15 GB of data, unlimited SMS & calls, but any international calls or MMS messages come from the PAYG credits. With sufficient of the latter, you can offset the cost of the Super Pack.
At the end of March 2, 2021, I had $20.05 accumulated in PAYG credits so I used all of them & paid an additional $79.95 for a further 365 days of usage of the data/calls/SMS component, then bought another $15 PAYG because otherwise I’d have around $35 of credits & I only use about $5 of them per year. They require you to purchase a minimum od $15 per year at renewal. if you don’t, after a few months they take away your phone number as that’s associated with the PAYG section.
The Men’s Shed uses my old iPhone SE with a similar plan because of the generous extra data available when the 15 GB runs out: $60 buys &0 GB of data & you can roll over up to 200 GB per annum.