Meistersinger
Well-Known Member
You think Windows 11 is the pits? Mac OS 12 (Monterey) is really hacking me off!
First off, Apple is repeating a major mistake by creating their own CPUs, that are completely incompatible with everything! Case in point, I worked tech support for an Apple Contractor from 2002 to 2004, when the flat panel iMac was introduced, in addition to the iPod and iTunes. My biggest beef with the iPod and iTunes, was iTunes ability to lose songs that I had already imported. While this issue has improved Omer the years, it still have issues with Apple Music losing songs I imported. Many were the time I was ready to ask my former pastor, who, with his wife, graduated from the same university as me, and spent 20 years as a developer at IBM (and his wife was a business consultant for IBM) before entering Concordia Theological Seminary—St. Louis, to write a new backend in DB II to eliminate that issue.
My latest gripe with Tim Cook and company is with Monterey refusing to install on a 6th generation Mac Pro (aka the trash can) if the installer detects the ssd is not the exact same model coming from the factory. If this happens, forget about having Monterey installing the latest EFI firmware on the machine. Monterey has also been known to brick a few older machines, that are supposedly compatible (and I’m not talking about machines where their owners installed Open Core in order to run anything newer than OS X 10.14 (Mojave) thereby delegating them to the junk pile.
since Apple decided to no longer support Intel, I guess, once intel support is completely dropped, Linux Mint will be my new best friend. Before I bought the trash can, I was running MacOS, Windows 10 and Linux Mint 20 on my Cheese grater (aka Mac Pro 4,1 that I flashed the firmware to 5,1, installed a usb 3.1 card, and 2 ssd adapters, and was booting Mac OS 12 Monterey, Linux Mint with Open Core wile running Windows 10 in Legacy Mode (since Microsoft’s version of UEFI tends to brick Apple’s (Actually, Intel’s implementation) of EFI
And frankly, I was leery of purchasing the trash can, as my health to taken a serious downturn, now that I have Chronic Kidney Disease type 3(a) to contend with, in addition to type 2 diabetes, PTSD, Asperger’s, serious depression and hypertension to deal with. I had a blowup with my PCP (whose specialty is Internal Medicine), asking why he hasn’t put me on an insulin pump, as I haven’t been able to get my A1C levels below 7.0, and having more than enough trouble walking, let alone standing still for any length of time without severe pain in my lower back. The only thing he has done so far is refer me to an endocrinologist, and a pain specialist and physical therapy and imaging. I’m surprised be hasn’t referred me to a nephrologist, to begin dialysis. At least he, or the endocrinologist didn’t put me on Farxiga, since the last time a doctor had me on that medicine, I ended up in ICU near death, since I’m allergic to that medication. Someone perform Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, as I might not be around much longer…
First off, Apple is repeating a major mistake by creating their own CPUs, that are completely incompatible with everything! Case in point, I worked tech support for an Apple Contractor from 2002 to 2004, when the flat panel iMac was introduced, in addition to the iPod and iTunes. My biggest beef with the iPod and iTunes, was iTunes ability to lose songs that I had already imported. While this issue has improved Omer the years, it still have issues with Apple Music losing songs I imported. Many were the time I was ready to ask my former pastor, who, with his wife, graduated from the same university as me, and spent 20 years as a developer at IBM (and his wife was a business consultant for IBM) before entering Concordia Theological Seminary—St. Louis, to write a new backend in DB II to eliminate that issue.
My latest gripe with Tim Cook and company is with Monterey refusing to install on a 6th generation Mac Pro (aka the trash can) if the installer detects the ssd is not the exact same model coming from the factory. If this happens, forget about having Monterey installing the latest EFI firmware on the machine. Monterey has also been known to brick a few older machines, that are supposedly compatible (and I’m not talking about machines where their owners installed Open Core in order to run anything newer than OS X 10.14 (Mojave) thereby delegating them to the junk pile.
since Apple decided to no longer support Intel, I guess, once intel support is completely dropped, Linux Mint will be my new best friend. Before I bought the trash can, I was running MacOS, Windows 10 and Linux Mint 20 on my Cheese grater (aka Mac Pro 4,1 that I flashed the firmware to 5,1, installed a usb 3.1 card, and 2 ssd adapters, and was booting Mac OS 12 Monterey, Linux Mint with Open Core wile running Windows 10 in Legacy Mode (since Microsoft’s version of UEFI tends to brick Apple’s (Actually, Intel’s implementation) of EFI
And frankly, I was leery of purchasing the trash can, as my health to taken a serious downturn, now that I have Chronic Kidney Disease type 3(a) to contend with, in addition to type 2 diabetes, PTSD, Asperger’s, serious depression and hypertension to deal with. I had a blowup with my PCP (whose specialty is Internal Medicine), asking why he hasn’t put me on an insulin pump, as I haven’t been able to get my A1C levels below 7.0, and having more than enough trouble walking, let alone standing still for any length of time without severe pain in my lower back. The only thing he has done so far is refer me to an endocrinologist, and a pain specialist and physical therapy and imaging. I’m surprised be hasn’t referred me to a nephrologist, to begin dialysis. At least he, or the endocrinologist didn’t put me on Farxiga, since the last time a doctor had me on that medicine, I ended up in ICU near death, since I’m allergic to that medication. Someone perform Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, as I might not be around much longer…
So if I buy a new computer, that computer comes with Windows 11 and somewhere on that computer this AI-thing lives? Creepy.
