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Today's Topics:

   1. Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh, as
      fast and wide as you can. (J?rn Nettingsmeier)
   2. Re: Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh,
      as fast and wide as you can. (David Runge)
   3. Re: Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh,
      as fast and wide as you can. (Albert Graef)
   4. Re: Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh,
      as fast and wide as you can. (Louigi Verona)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 10:37:19 +0100
From: J?rn Nettingsmeier <nettings@stackingdwarves.net>
To: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List
        <linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org>
Subject: [LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your Macintosh,
        as fast and wide as you can.
Message-ID: <839b300f-71a8-3d88-e127-b7fc3edc5b87@stackingdwarves.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

Here's me, having to deal with a 48 channel live recording over the
course of six shows. Since my MADI gear is kinda heavy and the rental
company had a Dante system on offer, I dusted off the 2013 Macbook pro I
bought used, purchased a Dante virtual soundcard license from Audinate
and happily tracked the first three shows with Ardour.

On the train on an off-day, I started a rough mix-down so that the
client can begin the selection process. In the middle of exporting, my
Mac shuts down and boots into a PIN unlock screen, telling me it has
been locked via "Find-my-Mac".

For the record, this Macbook had been purchased from a reputable large
online dealer, and it had been factory-reset and completely installed
from scratch.

The first thing I find as I frantically research this issue (on my
proper laptop, that is controlled by me, not by some iFuckwits), is that
this iFeature even contains the option of a remote data wipe.
My excuses to my fellow passengers who got in the way of a stream of
expletives suddenly bursting forth from an otherwise unobtrusive
business traveller, as said traveller notices he doesn't have a
screwdriver to yank his data drive out of this ransomware machine, and
cannot even be sure it's off when it says it's off because of course the
battery cannot be removed without major surgery, either.

Was able to salvage the data at home using a real operating system on
real hardware, and today I'm going to find an authorized mac reseller
and give the guy at the guru bar a day he will remember and testify
about at the next Apple employee incentive day.

Long story short: don't.



--
J?rn Nettingsmeier
De Rijpgracht 8, 1055VR Amsterdam, Nederland
Tel. +49 177 7937487

Meister f?r Veranstaltungstechnik (B?hne/Studio), Tonmeister VDT
http://stackingdwarves.net


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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:27:29 +0100
From: David Runge <dave@sleepmap.de>
To: J?rn Nettingsmeier <nettings@stackingdwarves.net>
Cc: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List
        <linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org>
Subject: Re: [LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your
        Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.
Message-ID: <20171204102729.GE16499@dvzrv.localdomain>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"

On 2017-12-04 10:37:19 (+0100), J?rn Nettingsmeier wrote:
> Long story short: don't.
Holy...

Glad you got your data at least. This would also freak me out a lot...


--
https://sleepmap.de
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:40:16 +0100
From: Albert Graef <aggraef@gmail.com>
To: J?rn Nettingsmeier <nettings@stackingdwarves.net>
Cc: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List
        <linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org>
Subject: Re: [LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your
        Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.
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On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:37 AM, J?rn Nettingsmeier <
nettings@stackingdwarves.net> wrote:

> Long story short: don't.


Holy cow.

I like funny war stories like these. Of course it's only funny if you're
not bitten yourself. :( I feel with you.

At least you got a 2013 MB which is still half-decent hardware compared to
the fancy shiny thingies they sell for premium prices these days. Where you
can gain root without a password and need a USB-C dongle of substantial
size to connect to just about *any* kind of useful, non-snowflake
peripheral. Well, at least it connects to your power supply, isn't that
great? :)

Take care,
Albert

--
Dr. Albert Gr"af
Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
Email:  aggraef@gmail.com
WWW:    https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2017 11:52:30 +0100
From: Louigi Verona <louigi.verona@gmail.com>
To: Albert Graef <aggraef@gmail.com>
Cc: The Linux Audio Developers' Mailing List
        <linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org>, J?rn Nettingsmeier
        <nettings@stackingdwarves.net>
Subject: Re: [LAD] Forgive me, for I have sinned, or: toss your
        Macintosh, as fast and wide as you can.
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You realize, of course, that this is probably a bug and that this was not
intended by Apple? You should also understand that millions of people are
using Macs everyday and their data doesn't get lost, right?

Because, if not, I can supply many-many stories where I would loose data
because of stupid Linux machines, lose gigs because suddenly the music
software wouldn't start, although it did just yesterday. There are enough
problems that stem from software not having an owner that from it "being
controlled" by someone else. And then after bashing Linux, I can finish my
email with a dramatic "don't".

Any system can fail, and it is never at the right time. And in my
experience, proprietary systems are generally much more stable than floss,
and are less likely to fail suddenly and without warning.

For instance, when preparing for the Sonoj convention, I had Carla start
crashing on me and I could not complete music examples. I eventually had to
revert to FLStudio to make them.

At the Sonoj Convention, 10 minutes before my dj set, Mixxx has deleted all
of my tracks library and I had to frantically search for a fix. I found a
workaround, but could not include a couple of new tunes into the set.

Did I write a post blaming floss for that? No.






On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 11:40 AM, Albert Graef <aggraef@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 10:37 AM, J?rn Nettingsmeier <
> nettings@stackingdwarves.net> wrote:
>
>> Long story short: don't.
>
>
> Holy cow.
>
> I like funny war stories like these. Of course it's only funny if you're
> not bitten yourself. :( I feel with you.
>
> At least you got a 2013 MB which is still half-decent hardware compared to
> the fancy shiny thingies they sell for premium prices these days. Where you
> can gain root without a password and need a USB-C dongle of substantial
> size to connect to just about *any* kind of useful, non-snowflake
> peripheral. Well, at least it connects to your power supply, isn't that
> great? :)
>
> Take care,
> Albert
>
> --
> Dr. Albert Gr"af
> Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany
> Email:  aggraef@gmail.com
> WWW:    https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef
>
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--
Louigi Verona
https://www.patreon.com/droning
https://louigiverona.com/
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