Amy @a@asentientbot.ca

i have 10 sata hdds, and for years they would occasionally disconnect or get stuck repeatedly trying to spin up, often hanging or panicking my pc (thank you macos).

anyways, they were all powered on molex-to-3x-sata dongles, and in november on a whim i cut off the molex plugs and soldered the sata plugs directly to the psu cables.

it's been stable for a few months now, so im tentatively concluding those 4-pin connectors are not reliable..? is it just my cables or a known thing with molex?

unsolved secondary problem called "i have like 6 of these now and nobody wants to buy them For some reason"

bit confusing (for me), a trace for boot rom was broken resulting in no sign of life and cycling S4 - S0 lines. thankfully there were test points at both sides to solder to. it's the "rare" i7 config as well!

ordered it months ago but didn't try to fix it until today.. i've been feeling yucky and i'm happy to accomplish something minor 😋

@billgoats deeply unfair that we may chat with women about arbitrary subjects, but chats with men are limited in topic to football

@gewt even the available ones seem to be weirdly expensive? ive had amys.website for ages at $20 cad/year and considered amys.computer for my home ip, but it's $100+ everywhere for some reason 😓

🟢 💭 (how my Moto e4 used to sort "Die Young" by Kesha in the Y section of music app bc it thought it was in German or something)

@semifor yay glad to hear it!

i have a number of macbooks from this era (with the 11" air as my main laptop) so im always happy to see others still enjoying them too! maybe i should finally try linux on one? but im happy with monterey for the most part

@semifor you're right about the path! but ironically, the script doesn't work on macos bc apple ships an ancient bash and zcat, and no sha256sum at all. i messed up the script to work anyways and i *think* this is right http://home.amys.website/temp/firmware.bin (from macos 10.11.5) hope that helps!

@semifor the script looks like it's just extracting from the driver bin and isn't hardware specific at all? but do reply if im wrong since i have an 11,5 mbp on monterey and won't mind getting it out later

@samhenrigold lol it continues, my dad just bought the yearly chestnuts and ~1/4 were excellent and the rest were moldy inside 😓 worse ratio than usual actually. did u ever buy more?

@alicela1n definitely, but they haven't historically been willing to trade lower per-sale margins for a bigger market share.. maybe it's changing now that they make more on services? fingers crossed

@alicela1n true.. maybe the second scenario is more likely and it'll be $849 or something. i really don't think we're getting a genuinely low price *and* full macos though, since it would replace the 13" m4 air for almost everyone.

im worried it'll end up like the 11" air or iphone 12/13 mini: a really good product that doesn't sell because it's priced too close to the bigger/better model

boring prediction: that rumored 12" macbook will be one of two things:
- genuinely cheap but with ipad-like limitations (e.g. only appstore apps, no xcode, single usb-c port..)
- a full-fledged computer but priced only like $100 below the regular macbook air
hope im wrong, but "low-cost" apple devices are always one or the other. they won't risk cannibalizing their other product lines

@buherator we're not safe on macos either 😓

@aronia wait constantly or only if moving your head/eyes? neurotypical afaik and the latter is very visible