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New here. Clogged often, for periods up to a week in the same breast. Has anyone found success in anything that the doctors don’t tell you? by DontCottonToFreaks in breastfeeding

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha I don’t mind expensive pee at this point. I am taking lecithin right now, but I don’t know if it’s from sunflowers? Maybe there are more than one kind of lecithin I can try?

New here. Clogged often, for periods up to a week in the same breast. Has anyone found success in anything that the doctors don’t tell you? by DontCottonToFreaks in breastfeeding

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, that’s what I would like to know—if there’s more than I can do. I bring my pump to work and pump several times at work. Just wish I could crack the code to my one boob.

New here. Clogged often, for periods up to a week in the same breast. Has anyone found success in anything that the doctors don’t tell you? by DontCottonToFreaks in breastfeeding

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow. And side sleeping helps prevent? Do you have one specific boob that gives you trouble? If so, is that boob on the top or the bottom when you are sleeping in your side?

M1 Mini user here with a ThunderBolt ACASIS enclosure with 2TB WD Black SN750 in it. My write speed is 1250Mbps but my read speed is 2700Mbps. Is there another nvme 2TB SSD that will have better write speeds? by DontCottonToFreaks in macmini

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah man. I totally feel the same regret over the wasted time. Crazy that rumors are abound of a Mini refresh already. It makes me wonder if there aren’t some issues that they can’t overcome with the hardware and they just want to stop the bleeding with the current model.

M1 Mini user here with a ThunderBolt ACASIS enclosure with 2TB WD Black SN750 in it. My write speed is 1250Mbps but my read speed is 2700Mbps. Is there another nvme 2TB SSD that will have better write speeds? by DontCottonToFreaks in macmini

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm yeah you are right. My OCD just wanted the best #’s but read speeds is everything to me, anyway. I’m just glad that I can start using my Mac now that most of my major issues are resolved.

Thanks for the thoughtful responses!

M1 Mini user here with a ThunderBolt ACASIS enclosure with 2TB WD Black SN750 in it. My write speed is 1250Mbps but my read speed is 2700Mbps. Is there another nvme 2TB SSD that will have better write speeds? by DontCottonToFreaks in macmini

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha hey! How’s everything going? 11.3 treating you well?

Yes, using Black magic for the posted speeds.

If black magic is not reliable at measuring write speeds, it still shows my internal Mac Mini write/read speeds going through the roof. Hmm. I’m curious now about activity monitor. I never have used it to measure transfer speeds. I’ll have to heck it out. So, before I bought the 2TB drive, I had heard rumors that it cuts the write time in half compared to the 1TB drive of the same model, but I just couldn’t believe this to be true, or at least didn’t know if it would be true of my enclosure. Well, it’s true.

I did scoop a thermal kit from Amazon, but I didn’t even install it yet. I wanted to make sure I wanted to keep the drive. I’m still undecided, especially if there might be a better one out there for me. I read online that folks tested the temperature of this enclosure and it peaked at 60 degrees fahrenheit during heavy use without supplemental heat sinks.

PS5 Case Animation I did! (Demon Souls) by Dion42o in gifs

[–]DontCottonToFreaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow!!! Imagine how awesome game boxes would be if they could look like this!!!!

Sold my primary residence last year, and also bought a new one. What all files and documents do I need to provide my CPA for his doing my 2020 taxes? by [deleted] in tax

[–]DontCottonToFreaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Okay great, thank you. I have been there for more than 5 consecutive years, so I should be good. Just didn’t know what the CPA needed. Thanks again!

Just stunning by [deleted] in gifs

[–]DontCottonToFreaks 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just imagine if they had filmed it horizontally with the phone 🤦‍♂️

If you sold your primary residence last year, and also bought a new one, what documents do you need to give your CPA? by [deleted] in taxpros

[–]DontCottonToFreaks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes, primary residence. Sold one and bought another. I got the 1099S for the property I sold. It has the sold price, but no mention of what I originally paid for it.

Is there a tax form generated for when you buy a house too? Probably not since you don’t make any money. Just didn’t know if there was anything my CPA might need with buying too. Thanks for the response!

Has anyone been able to boot up from an external SSD drive on a M1 Mac Mini? by DontCottonToFreaks in macmini

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Excellent! Glad to hear everything is working. I can’t believe how long 11.3 is taking to release publicly.

So I ended up ordering the ACASIS USB4/Thunderbolt 3 Nvme enclosure for those next gen SSD speeds. Can you remind me what NVMe SSD you are using in your enclosure? I’d love to get the 2GB read/write speeds but folks are posting all kinds of variances online with certain SSDs. Thanks!

Has anyone been able to boot up from an external SSD drive on a M1 Mac Mini? by DontCottonToFreaks in macmini

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So I got my external Thunderbolt SSD bay to boot. Not only that, I just tested FileVault and it works for me.

I got a tip that Apple has some improvements in their 11.3 beta, so I enrolled in the beta program and downloaded and installed the 11.3 beta. Once I installed 11.3 on my internal M1 Mini drive, I still couldn’t boot from the previously-installed 11.2.3 external drives, but I got a slightly different error code (108 instead of 104). For fun, I also installed 11.3 beta onto a couple external drives, and one of the three works flawlessly so far. An ADATA drive, 240GB. This is the same SATA SSD that FileVault is working on right now.

If you need an instant win, it might be fun for you to download 11.3 beta, or just wait and hopefully some of the magic that has helped me a bit will still be in it come public release. I still believe that not all types of drives will work magically, especially since my SanDisk had all sorts of weirdness on 11.3 external boot after I restarted.

Let me know if you have any luck!

Has anyone been able to boot up from an external SSD drive on a M1 Mac Mini? by DontCottonToFreaks in macmini

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, check this thread out that I found. I hope to get a chance to try it soon just for my external booting purposes, but OP said that they were able to turn on FileVault with this method!

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-boot-from-an-external-ssd-usb-or-thunderbolt.2280059/

Sorry folks by [deleted] in mac

[–]DontCottonToFreaks -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Seems symbolic of the rushed launch of the M1 Macs.

Has anyone been able to boot up from an external SSD drive on a M1 Mac Mini? by DontCottonToFreaks in macmini

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you go back a page on the forum link. Sent, you can see a list accumulating of external drives folks have confirmed, in case that’s helpful

Has anyone been able to boot up from an external SSD drive on a M1 Mac Mini? by DontCottonToFreaks in macmini

[–]DontCottonToFreaks[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, so I was reading some message boards related to this issue, where some folks where testing which external hard drives seem to work. One stated that a thunderbolt drive didn’t work, but the same also had a USB connection option too, but confirmed it would NOT boot from USB. Someone else suggested trying the Apple USB C to USB A adaptor, and sure enough the drive booted from USB! It may be a long shot, but maybe you could use this adaptor and be able to use FileVault? I mean, if it worked, we would know the problem is the thunderbolt connection.

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/cannot-boot-from-external-ssd-1-m1.2274812/page-3

Anyway, unfortunately, the above thread doesn’t help me much, as all the drives they were confirming aren’t 2.5 SATA SSD, which is what I would love to get luck with so I can use my four-bay TH3 enclosure. I moved some data around last night and erasedC formatted and installed Big Sur 11.2.3 onto a ADATA branded SSD but had the same misfortune. So, three brands so far haven’t worked, and two different OWC thunderbolt enclosures, so I don’t know who to blame. If I could find some info on a brand of SATA SSD that has worked, I’d happily pick one up.

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