For nigh on three weeks my 2017 MacBook Pro was unusable because only one of two Thunderbolt 3 ports was working and intermittently at that. This meant it couldn't be charged or backed up.
The day before its replacement (M1 MacBook Air) arrived I was surprised that I was able to charge it fully and then make a clone & a Time Machine backup without further charging needed. This allowed me to set up the new M1 MacBook Air via Migration Assistant from the Time Machine backup.
The for the following 10 days the MB Pro was sick again, refusing to recognise any power or drives connected to it.
Suddenly it's all sweetness and light. Both Thunderbolt ports work and I've been able to install a basic version of Monterey on it, with only a couple of utility apps & Carbon Copy Cloner added to the standard Apple apps.
Basic stripped-down version of Monterey installed on the old MacBook Pro. Virtually no content in the Home folder. Ran Geekbench 5 on the 2017 MB Pro & the M1 MacBook Air. No contest: single core M1 double that of the Intel; multi-core M1 3.5 times the Intel & GPU M1 is 2.4 times faster.
finally managed to get Catalina onto the intermittently awkward 2017 MacBook pro via an old Time Machine backup. Next I added a new admin user account & deleted the other accounts after I uninstalled/deleted the non-Apple apps. A few supplementary updates & it’s currently OK.
But it’s not reliable.
Gave my 2017 4k iMac (quad-core 3.0 GHz/16 GB RAM/1TB SSD/Radeon Pro 555 2 GB dedicated graphics) a simple Handbrake conversion. It took 31.5 minutes. The same video with the same conversion parameters was done in 13.3 minutes on the M1 MacBook Air (7-core GPU/8-coreCPU/8GB Unified Memory/256 GB storage).
No side effects yet from my 3rd Covid 19 dose. It was NOT a booster, I'm immunocompromised & need 3 doses to bring my antibody production up to the same level as normal double-dosed folk. The first two injections were Astrazeneca, this latest was Pfizer.
Ferociously angry with the courier Amazon used to send a large package to my address. The company is under the impression that its name is "Couriers Please." I submit it would be far more accurate to rename themselves "Couriers Displease."
The package was sent to the wrong address. It had to go to Unit 4, number 4 x-street, somewheretown. Nope, these useless arseholes sent it to Unit 5, number 4, my next-door neighbour. So I was able to retrieve it, but you'd think the delivery person would confirm the unit number that's clearly on each front door and the adjoining post supporting the porch. I have expressed my displeasure & opened an enquiry case with said courier.
I heard that by law you need to turn on your headlights when it's raining in Sweden.
How the hell am I supposed to know when it's raining in Sweden? @streakmachine