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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
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I write programs to make my life easier/better. A couple of examples:

Example 1 – My T-Mobile plan has a limited amount of unthrottled Hotspot data in each monthly period. So I wrote a program to keep track of my Hotspot data usage. It does this:
* Prompts me to enter the amount used today. I get that info from the T-Mobile app on my iPhone.
* It then produces a nicely formatted report with the following fields:
Day and date
Amount used today
Amount used in period
Average daily usage over the last 30 days
Prediction of amount that I’ll use in current period
Number of days remaining in current period
(The T-Mobile app also reports that, but often incorrectly)

Example 2 – I value the Clippings (Notes and Highlights) of my Kindle books. The Kindle has them in chronological order. A lousy organization if you read book A awhile, then book B awhile, then book A, etc. So I wrote a program that sorts my Kindle Clippings multiple ways. The most significant order is author name. The 2nd most significant is book title. 3rd most is location in book. A MUCH more useful order.

Example 3 – I hate spreadsheets, especially Apple Numbers. So I wrote special purpose relational database programs to replace all spreadsheets that I’d previously created on my MacBook.

I’ll just add that I consider writing programs to be great recreation!

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Originally posted by Pipe Smoker:
I just had an interesting thought architect.

Boot up your Sonoma Mac in Target Disk mode connected via a Thunderbolt cable to your High Sierra Mac (that doesn’t have the weird Tim Cook “protections”).

Then, operating from the High Sierra Mac, perhaps you can delete the stale Homebrew stuff from your Sonoma Mac.

Maybe a brain fart, but something to try.