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Beancooker
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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!


I forgot I asked you that question. Thank you for the answer. I can understand how it could be fun recreation. Back when I had access to a sql server and had the MS sql server platform in my computers, I very much enjoyed writing reports and then modifying and making them better and more user friendly for the end users.
Those are about the only things I miss from my job in Washington, that and working for sane people.


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I'd fly to Turks and Caicos with live ammo falling out of my pockets before getting within spitting distance of NJ with a firearm.
 
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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.


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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.
Last time I used "target mode" the systems were connected via a parallel SCSI cable, what is used now, USB? Besides, I don't think High Sierra will "see" the new APfs container-based architecture. Recovery mode seems like a more realistic option.

But, I am at the beach this week so it will have to wait.
 
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Re: “what is used now, USB?”

The Thunderbolt form of USB-C. Ordinary USB-C won’t do.

ETA:
“When it [Target Disk Mode] was first introduced, the Macs had to be connected using a FireWire cable, but since Apple stopped using FireWire on Macs, you can now use either USB or Thunderbolt cables. However, if one of the Macs you are connecting is running macOS 11 or later, you must use Thunderbolt.

You can connect either Apple silicon or Intel-based Macs or one of each. On Macs with Apple silicon, the feature is called Mac sharing mode. If you want to connect an Intel-based Mac to a Mac with Apple silicon, the latter has to be the target disk.“

https://macpaw.com/how-to/target-disk-mode-mac

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How are you getting along with Homebrew architect? Did you find a way “to uninstall the old stuff in /usr/local”? Did you try my Target Disk Mode idea?

BTW – I found a nifty utility on Homebrew: fdupes (find duplicates).

% fdupes . -r

Will find and report all files with identical contents in and below the current directory. Even if they have different names and reside in different subdirectories.

And it’s fast! checksums are used to identify candidate duplicates, then the candidates are subjected to byte-by-byte comparisons to be sure. But it’ll bog down if you give it a really deep directory.

I was amazed and appalled by the number of duplicate files. And glad to get ‘em outta there (when that was appropriate).


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Architect, have you found a way to deal with your ancient Homebrew install so that it doesn’t interfere with your new Homebrew install?

Editing $PATH ought to help with that.


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Architect, have you found a way to deal with your ancient Homebrew install so that it doesn’t interfere with your new Homebrew install?

Editing $PATH ought to help with that.
I believe I was successful at cleaning out the old, and reinstalling without your target mode "trick." Still not working, though, something to do with my Ruby install (which I believe is included in macOS). I have since updated from Sonoma to Sequoia so I probably have to do it again.
 
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something to do with my Ruby install (which I believe is included in macOS)

Yes. ruby 2.6.10p210 is present in macOS 24.5 (Sonoma). Likely present in Sequoia too.


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% ruby -v
ruby 2.6.10p210 (2022-04-12 revision 67958) [universal.arm64e-darwin24]
% uname -a
Darwin hostname.redacted 24.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jul 14 11:30:30 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T6020 arm64
% brew list

/usr/local/Library/Homebrew/version.rb:196:in `initialize': Version value must be a string; got a NilClass () (TypeError)

and many lines of error messages. Same error on every brew sub-command I've tried.

I will try the uninstall and reinstall again.
 
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I will try the uninstall and reinstall again.

Did that work?


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I will try the uninstall and reinstall again.

Did that work?
Frankly, I haven't tried yet. Getting it up-to-date and working is not vital to me as I have two "real" BSD and four flavors of Linux available to me. So I can run real Unix utilities in any of these if I want. None of them are VMs, I have flirted with the idea of running other OSs in VMs on one of my machines, but haven't found any OS that gives me something I don't already have.

I also have three or four systems that are currently off-line, one a big honking multi-CPU machine scavenged from a security company that was abandoned when they downsized, but which has the "wrong" RAID card, trying to develop a step-by-step plan to consolidate functionality, reduce power consumption, lower cooling requirements, etc. without having to spend much money.
 
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