On Sun, Aug 08, 2021 at 07:38:07PM -0700, Yasha Karant wrote: > Apple products and the Apple OS (currently based upon BSD) are > proprietary. If one needs service (hardware or software), one > effectively must use an Apple store (at least in the USA). The > colleague is retired and has little money (this is the downward > mobile USA economy save for the neo-liberal profiteers). She got a > used/refurb Lenovo Carbon X1 and I just installed a working Linux on > it -- everything worked "out of the box".
I am sympathetic with people on fixed income. All of us heading in that direction. But as the saying goes, a stingy person pays twice, a fool pays forever. A frugal person would do a careful evaluation after assigning $$$ numbers to the value of the data and to the number of hours spent (now and forever), as balanced against the $$$ cost of hardware, software and services. Cheapest solution may be a backblaze subscription. You never know until you do the numbers. You cannot have something for nothing, you have to spend real $$$ somewhere and you should never value your time at $0/hour. P.S. This would be $10 please. Payable to my paypal. -- Konstantin Olchanski Data Acquisition Systems: The Bytes Must Flow! Email: olchansk-at-triumf-dot-ca Snail mail: 4004 Wesbrook Mall, TRIUMF, Vancouver, B.C., V6T 2A3, Canada
