Working with a seriously sick external SSD used as part of the MacBook Pro’s backup strategy. Can’t even use DiskWarrior on it - it gets to the stage of constructing a replacement directory then triggers a kernel panic.
I tried four different start-up drives on two High Sierra Macs, same error each time. I’ve erased it & am now trying to re-clone it with SuperDuper! app.
Clone sucessful, booted the system OK.
Do not buy Kingston V-series SSDs. The reason they’re cheap is because they’re crap.
@streakmachine My ”cheese grater” G5 needs a new video card. I can start it in Target Disk mode & connect it to the eMac, G4 PowerBook or G4 PowerMac & tell that machine to use the G5 as the start-up drive and it works, albeit slowly.
I’ve found a Mac reseller that also deals in older machines like the G5, so when I can afford it, I’ll get it grating again.
I’m planning on hanging shit on one of the darts players tonight, if the fucken prick shows up, that is. Stupid cunt parked his car facing east beside mine in a supermarket car park (weather today features a strong westerly wind).
Dickwad opened one of his back doors, the wind caught it and bashed another dent into me car’s rear quarter panel.
I told him he was a stupid old cunt, that he knew the wind was likely to catch the door and should have held onto it harder.
The local Catholic church has recently opened up its commercial kitchen & hall on the first Sunday evening of each month to provide a free 2-course roast dinner to families in need or to those who are finding life difficult at the moment.
If I was a church-going type, that would fit in with the religion I was raised under. I found out about this via the Catholic charity I volunteer for once per month.
@streakmachine Why not an iMac Pro? Shitloads of cores available with that beast.
I have repurposed the 12South Bookarc
which I bought to use with the 2009 13-in MacBook Pro I used to own. I also used it with the 15-in 2011 MBP that died last year.
I removed the silicone protective insert and now use it in the kitchen to hold the paper filters for my Hario V60 coffee dripper. It can hold a full pack of 100 filters.
@jussipekonen About 4 weeks ago I had to travel 340 km to attend a funeral. The route was a mix of 20% suburban roads, 50% single carriageway rural highways & 30% freeways. For most of the way I used the cruise control and found the driving experience to be much less stressful. Including rest stops I did the trip in 4 hours & 20 minutes. I had allowed 5.5 hours.
Whipped up some 35% pouring cream to go with a coffee prepared in my Hario V60 dripper. That was very fine indeed. Smooth Guatemalan medium roast beans, freshly ground. Sweetened with a mix of local honey & Lyle’s golden syrup (I’m out of sugar again).
Heavenly match, so smooth.
@phoneboy I tried lard in preference to dripping or ghee. It’s three times the price of dripping but definitely not three time as good.
Lard here is pig fat; dripping or tallow is from cattle. I’m told that roast potatoes are best done in duck fat, but that’s too expensive for me.
/@hazardwarning @variablepulserate
@phoneboy In the early 1990s Mcdonalds in Australia shopped cooking their chips (I refuse to use the word fries in this context) in beef dripping. By no coincidence whatsoever, that’s also when the flavour of the product changed & not for the better.
Any frying I do at home is with the products of live or dead cattle: beef dripping if I can’t get any ghee.
With a growing Asian population in these parts, more & more little Indian/Sri Lankan grocery stores are popping up locally. It’s actually reasonably easy to source ghee now. The best stuff I’ve found is a lille rarer, being 50% buffalo/50% cow’s milk sourced.
// @hazardwarning @variablepulserate