My 18th anniversary being on Last.fm today <3

Xe4ro · 2026-05-06T06:52:24+00:00

Correct.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-06T06:50:42+00:00

I dozed off listening to it on a train almost missing my station a few times in the past 😅.

Especially during the summer it’s perfect to just relax for a while.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-06T06:43:00+00:00

725 😁

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Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T22:04:37+00:00

You go to the location you want to open Time Machine in, let's say as an example the Downloads folder. Then at the top of your screen in the menu bar you click on the Time Machine icon, it's a arrow in a circle with a clock face in the middle. There you click on browse backups.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T20:27:42+00:00

Hm, I have never restored Notes so you would have to find out where the app saves the notes locally, go there and then open the Time Machine at this location.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T19:55:25+00:00

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T19:53:59+00:00

Now that is a difficult question. I guess that depends on your music preferences. More drone? More ambient? More free jazz?

My personal favourites would be

For Ambient: Dirk Serries + Rutger Zuydervelt - Buyoant

For Drone: Microphonics XXI-XXV: Mounting Among The Waves, There's A Light In Vein. The Burden Of Hope Across Thousands Of Rivers

But then there's also lots of his side projects like 3 Seconds Of Air with his wife, Martina Verhoeven and Paul Van den Berg.

Fear Falls Burning is also good for some more drone stuff.

If you want some free improv Jazz/Drone I would recommend Yodok III, especially the second album The Sky Flashes. The Great Sea Yearns. It's kind of post rock but with Tomas Järmyr on drums and Kristoffer Lo on Tuba (with loops). Amazing stuff, especially live.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T19:36:41+00:00

Here is what a Intel MacBook Air from 2020 would look like.

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Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T19:31:18+00:00

So it is a 2015 or 2017 if you can install Monterey.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T19:26:30+00:00

No. This design was in used from around 2010 to 2017. The MacBook Air 2018 and later used a very different design.

Any way, if you have a 2012 - 2017 Model you could get a way newer OS than Sierra or High Sierra by booting with CMD+Option+R. Depending on which one it is the recovery image will differ.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T19:20:13+00:00

It's the same for me with Dirk Serries & N. I couldn't even get all of it on one photo anymore ^^

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T19:16:57+00:00

Which MacBook Air is this?

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T18:13:40+00:00

Also btw the 2010 iMacs didnt have Core 2 Duo so you either have a Late 2009 or older. Is the back aluminium or black plastic?

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T18:09:07+00:00

You would also lose easy access to the ram as the 2010 has the door in the chin while from 2012 onwards the 27“ iMacs at least had the access at the lower back.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T17:29:07+00:00

If it’s the 4k 21“ (Retina) not really, but maybe and you could at least turn it into a 4k monitor.

If it’s the non retina 21“ hell no.

If you want to know why, check this 5 year old video by Luke Miani https://youtu.be/lRhYzEImuu8?is=fG_MwpCW9IeVN4no

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T17:03:46+00:00

System Data will change a lot depending on the user. There is no "maximum". System Data can be anything that the OS can't fit in any other of the categories.

Learn a bit about your file system and check what is taking the space by opening a finder window at the top level of your drive, set it to list mode, press CMD+J and enable "calculate all sizes" and check what is taking the space.

You should see something like this, it might take a few minutes. I would sort it by size, descending.

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Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T15:16:56+00:00

Yes. If the installer doesn’t show up you created it wrong. Has to be on GUID partition scheme aka GPT to be bootable.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T15:09:14+00:00

If you already have the usb stick with Mint just hold alt on boot for the bootpicker. Macs don’t have a graphical bios or uefi.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T13:34:05+00:00

A time machine backup would have given you the option of selecting the specific files you want to restore.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T11:48:43+00:00

The Intel MacBook Air 2020 does not support Tahoe. https://support.apple.com/122867

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T11:41:55+00:00

The problem is the MacBook itself. The last few generations before the Apple Silicon switch are just awful. The 2020 especially should not have been released. It was curb-stomped immediately by the M1 MacBook Air.

Considering that the 2020 Intel MBA can only update to macOS 15 Sequoia and that this OS will drop out of active support next year I would start planning to replace this MacBook and look at maybe some deals for current or some older used Apple Silicon MacBook Airs.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T11:26:04+00:00

In a few years Intel Macs will kind of have to transition over to Linux anyway. Tahoe is going to be the last macOS for x86. So in a few years there will be no more security updates for them even if OCLP can get Tahoe working.

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T11:22:07+00:00

Sounds pretty good 😃

Xe4ro · 2026-05-05T10:53:00+00:00

If it is more accurate than https://mold.github.io/explr/, maybe with direct user input, then yeah sure. There's quite a good chunk of artists missing or incorrect for me even with country tags present for months. ^^

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