Interesting Links for 17-03-2022

[andrewducker]

Why comments are usually terrible, and how to make them better

(tags:comments web )

I can see 29 distinct colours. How about you?

(tags:colour eyes genetics )

The happiness of love turns to sadness when unspent.

(tags:love dogs death sadness grief )

Disney employees are staging walkouts over company's response to the 'Don't Say Gay' bill

(tags:Disney LGBT )

Ukraine-Russia peace talks make significant progress as 15-point plan to end war drawn up by officials

(tags:Ukraine Russia war )

Americans overestimate how big minorities are (I'd be very surprised if Brits didn't think the same)

(tags:USA minorities polls demographics viaJennieRigg )

His software sang the words of God. Then it went silent.

(tags:Jews singing religion computers death lgbt )

UK sets out action plan to tackle inequality based on recommendations from a commission that concluded there was no systemic racism in Britain.

(tags:UK racism )

Why Russians Support Putin's War Against Ukrainians

(tags:Russia Ukraine war polls )

France ends gas heaters subsidies, boosts heat pumps in bid to cut Russia reliance

(tags:France heating electricity Russia )

Russian war in Ukraine 'largely stalled on all fronts', UK claims

(tags:russia ukraine )

In-flight surgery with a coat-hanger and silverware

(tags:surgery airplanes )

Comments

Re: Trope Trainer

[bens_dad]

I am not to hot on macs, but I imagine that "you" could make a virtual machine image of the old machine.
At the least can you make a copy of the old machine's hard drive, perhaps on a dvd ?

Re: Trope Trainer

[bens_dad]

Actually, if you still have the Trope Trainer installation media, "you" should be able to install it inside a generic MacOS virtual machine that is old enough. Apple UK have old MacOS install images at https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT211683.

... but if it was trying to phone home, it might have installed updates that aren't on the original install media :-( so keep (the disk from) your old machine.

If your new machine has the new "Apple Silicon" ARM M1 CPU, running the old system in a virtual machine might be more complex.

Re: Trope Trainer

[cellio]

I have the original installer somewhere, but there's a license key that it won't be able to validate so I don't know if I can reinstall it now. I should figure out how to make a VM image of that old machine; thanks for the suggestion. (My new Mac does have the M1 CPU. I don't know anything about running VMs yet, but the first step is to capture an image in any case.)