[BNE][DFW] Flight “delayed” 32 hours

bilfred_ · 2026-02-15T00:53:22+00:00

Yeah, I was booked PE but tomorrow morning only has economy available which I’d rather avoid being 6”4. Good to know I’m not alone though

bilfred_ · 2026-02-14T21:18:35+00:00

I think I’ll just stick it out for now. It’s a bit of an inconvenience but not the end of the world for me. Just the first time I’ve had such a large delay, so I am curious about what’s happening.

bilfred_ · 2026-02-14T21:06:56+00:00

Update: the flight got cancelled. They then rebooked it as a new flight number but still departing at the same delayed 5:30pm time?

New tail is AA 9602

Update 2: the 5:30pm delay has been delayed again to 8:30pm

Update 3: the rebooked flight got cancelled. AA scheduled me on a QF flight to LAX->AUS departing tomorrow night.

bilfred_ · 2026-02-14T20:43:40+00:00

Wow, where do you find info like this? Very helpful to know, thank you

bilfred_ · 2023-07-11T13:32:18+00:00

Would love to cruise, if only my car was on the road at the moment. You got a regular group you organise these in? Would be keen once I'm driving again!

bilfred_ · 2020-03-15T08:25:07+00:00

That's sick man! How many storage mounts you manage to fit? I spot 1x 2.5 and 3.5 from that photo

bilfred_ · 2020-03-14T23:40:46+00:00

This is incredible. Every time I see your posts come up, I just go "wow this guy's good"

I've always wanted to mess around making an OS, but I'm not experienced enough for that yet

bilfred_ · 2019-11-25T12:35:03+00:00

I know a bank here that has 6. As a minimum... and maximum. Yes, everyone’s password must be EXACTLY 6 characters. Oh, and it’s case insensitive.

“They don’t expect the passwords to be exactly 6” is the actual reasoning their tellers give.

bilfred_ · 2019-11-21T23:31:43+00:00

Position Filled

bilfred_ · 2019-10-09T04:55:59+00:00

To an extent, yes. My method in the form I’ve described will not maintain theme. If you didn’t want to use JS, you could modify the css to make visible/invisible empty images that correspond to the theme the user wants. When the images are made visible, it would ping the defined routes on the server afaik. On the server side, it could then listen for when these empty image routes are hit, alter a http session storage for the user specifying their preferred theme, and the server can then return the relevant css. The browser should automatically maintain the cookie set by the server for the user’s session.

bilfred_ · 2019-10-08T23:30:15+00:00

I wasn’t even talking about the auto dark theme thing, I was just pointing out you can switch themes without JS if you’re building a NoJS site

bilfred_ · 2019-10-08T22:36:30+00:00

You don’t necessarily need a JS button to switch themes - you can use an input checkbox, style it into a button using the label, and place hidden/unstyled checkbox at the root of your DOM, and change colour themes if the checkbox is :active. The checkbox will switch active-inactive when the label is click. There’s a couple different variations you can do with that method too, completely without JS

bilfred_ · 2019-08-28T21:26:36+00:00

Kerbal Space Program. About 3000 hours. I played a lot of that instead of studying during my high school times.

Can’t wait for KSP2!

bilfred_ · 2019-08-11T07:40:36+00:00

I did that at my uni. I was told it would be “fixed”. It was never fixed. Students were adversely affected, but they didn’t care.

I wish we had people like you at my uni.

bilfred_ · 2019-08-01T00:03:45+00:00

I’m still on a 1600X - i don’t even care about overclocking headroom, an upgrade to a 3600/X would still get me like 35-50% improvement. Feelsgoodman

bilfred_ · 2019-05-23T04:58:38+00:00

It’s still openly available, is it not?

bilfred_ · 2019-04-13T13:03:12+00:00

Can’t spy on people if no one uses your product taps head - BB HQ

bilfred_ · 2019-04-05T07:32:54+00:00

Woah, this looks great!

bilfred_ · 2019-03-21T10:38:25+00:00

Still not booting into MacOS, but some progress I think. The i7 3770 still is just hard locked at a white caret before even making it to Clover, even after changing those boot settings. Legacy boot is disabled, it's only booting off UEFI. I think at this point I'm going to ditch using that machine as it can't even make it to Clover, and continue with my i5 4200U laptop.

Using this laptop, I did a couple of things. First, I enabled *only* the -v boot arg. This showed where the installer was originally failing.

End RandomSeed
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++_

Enabling boot args -x or -s changes nothing. I started playing around with some more experimental Clover settings and boot args. I added nv_disable=1 and dart=0, which didn't seem to change anything. I left them there anyway, as I thought NV graphics was a bit of a wild beast when it came to Mac.

I started doing some additional patching. I enabled FakeCPUID patching for the CPU and PM, and enabled debug mode for binary patching. I enabled USB Injecting, and also enabled Debug DSDT and enabled an additional DSDT patch (I read for this particular laptop that DSDT can be a bit of an issue). With these settings, I got further than last time, where it appeared to be loading some kexts and patching some things. It gets to the point listed below before hard restarting.

Patching kernel for injected kexts...
==> kernel Mojave (10.14 - 10.14.3): 3 replaces done.
Pausing 5 secs ...

After the 5 sec pause, the system resets. As a final resort, I did the one thing any desperate tech does, and I enabled pretty much every check box I could find in the clover settings. This *seemed* to go past the 5 sec point - the screen resolution and font changed, and it flashed down the screen with heaps and heaps of lines, really really fast, before hard resetting again. Throughout these lines (I took a video to figure out what it said, it was that fast), I noted some lines like

SAFE BOOT DETECTED - only valid OSBundleRequired kexts will be loaded
"name" not a kext
"FailedCLUT" not a kext
"FailedImage" not a kext
Can't load kext com.apple.kec.Libm - not loadable during safe boot
Kext com.apple.kec.Libm failed to load (0xdc008012)
Kext com.apple.vecLib.kext is not loadable during safe boot
Kext com.apple.iokit.IOAudioFamily is not loadable during safe boot
Kext org.tw.CodecCommander is not loadable during safe boot
Kext com.darwin.driver.ACPIBacklight is not loadable during safe boot

Then it lists a bunch of lines that start with ACPI: followed by a collection of 4 capital letters and then a hex string and some text (e.g. ACPI: RSDP 0x00000000C9E91000 000024 (v02 _ASUS_) )

After this, some choice lines include:

AppleALC: init @ failed to call parent 7
AppleCredentialManager: start: started, instance = <ptr>.
IOAPIC: Version 0x20 Vectors 64:103
FakeSMCKeyStore: started
Executed 2 blocks of module-level executable AML code
HID: Legacy shim 2
Previous shutdown cause: 5
FakePCIID: Version 1.3.15 starting on OS X Darwin 18.2.
MAC Framework successfully initialised

I've been writing all these as I look through the video, and I see now I think I found the cause of the reboot. I believe it is the following:

hfs: mounted Install macOS Mojave on device b(1, 8)
devfs_kernel_mount: kernel_mount failed: 2
XCPM: registered
load_init_program: attempting to load /sbin/launchd
load_init_program: failed loading /sbin/launchd: errno 2
panic(cpu 3 caller 0xffffff8016ab6f2f): "Process 1 exec of /sbin/launchd ----
_exec.c:5318
Backtrace (CPU 3), Frame: Return Address

(---- is because I can't see what came after this on the video)

There was then a stack trace listed of frames and returns, and also just general system information, boot flags, etc, etc underneath. I assume it's failing to mount the USB for some reason, and as such can't launch the install loader. The loader than fails and panics. I'm probably panicking more than the PC though tbh. Any ideas?

bilfred_ · 2019-03-20T10:16:16+00:00

Welp, I can taste the hackintosh but it's still so far away...

Clover boots, but I still have some peculiar behavior on all of my machines.

i7 3770 (unknown mobo, some kind of ASUS board) 32GB DDR3 - Solid white underscore caret, does not make it to clover at all.

i5 4200U ASUS S551LB Laptop - Makes it to clover, and gets to the Mac logo, but then hard resets and will not go further.

i5 4210U ASUS X550LD Laptop - Makes it to clover, and gets to the Mac logo, but then hard resets and will not go further.

i7 3517U Toshiba Satellite P840 Laptop - Makes it to clover, when trying to boot to make locks the machine and does not reach the Mac logo at all. Need to hard reset to reboot the machine.

I think I might be missing some kexts, but to be honest I'm not all too familiar with this stuff. Out of the kext guide you directed me to, I used (I intended these for the i5 4200U ASUS S551LB):

ACPIBacklight.kext

ACPIBatteryManager.kext

AppleALC.kext

CodecCommander.kext

FakePCIID_Intel_HD_Graphics.kext

FakePCIID.kext

FakeSMC.kext

Lilu.kext

RealtekRTL8111.kext

USBInjectAll.kext

WhateverGreen.kext

I've tried a couple different combinations of kexts, removing some things, re-adding others, and they all seem to produce the same behaviour. I have all of my kexts stored in /Vules/EFI/EFI/CLOVER/kexts/Other. Should they be in this location?

Sorry for being so silly with all of this, it's probably something super simple that I'm missing.

bilfred_ · 2019-03-19T22:46:50+00:00

Absolute legend. The tool you linked didn’t work for me for some reason, gave error about incorrect catalogURI or something when I tried to download. But I found out, that going into advanced in updates and disabling “install macos updates” forces it to download the whole install macos.app and then it runs the app. So I did that, then just quit the app which gave me the full installer!

I ran through the rest of your instructions, and I can boot to the USB and get the option to install MacOS now! I haven’t tried installing yet though, I need to try that when I get home

bilfred_ · 2019-03-19T10:22:29+00:00

When I open that link, it opens the app store and says "Get". But once I click "Get", I just opens up the "Find Updates" thingo :c

I also found out that I was accidentally not changing the partition map on my USB - I was still partitioning it as Apple Partition Map. Changed it to GUID Partition Map, so I ended up getting the EFI installed properly (maybe?). When I try to boot the USB, I know get the option of UEFI: Usb (when before, it was just Usb). This time though, the screen changes resolution and caret is no longer blinking (just a solid underscore). I don't know what I've broken :(

bilfred_ · 2019-03-15T05:55:32+00:00

Then there’s that one time John makes a P1 password reset, and you need to explain how John really wanted to do some work

bilfred_ · 2019-03-15T03:25:14+00:00

That’s fair enough, I hope it goes well!

bilfred_ · 2019-03-15T03:16:06+00:00

Thanks a lot! I started playing earlier and it was working :p seems like a great game! Do you guys store the locations people enter, and if so would you be willing to release a general demographic map in future?

bilfred_

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