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Re: No one else will be, so *I* am proud of my work today. Mini from14.3 through 14.7 to 15.3.1

From David <David.is@home.today>
Newsgroups uk.comp.sys.mac
Subject Re: No one else will be, so *I* am proud of my work today. Mini from14.3 through 14.7 to 15.3.1
Date 2025-03-13 10:03 +0000
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On 11/03/2025 01:21, John wrote:
>     
>     So, I've been putting it off for ages because I wasn't sure I could
> restart the G.I.M.PS. (https://mersenne.org) program MPRIME inside the
> Terminal once I had stopped it but today (actually, yesterday, Monday)
> I upgraded my free Mini from 14.5-ish to 14.7 then to 15.3.1 which I'm
> told (by the Software Update Wizard) is the latest OS.
> 
>    It took a while. The 14.3 to 14.7 step went wonderfully. Not a
> single issue but the 15.3.1 step was a bugger. The download took
> *hours* as the thing slowed my router down to a grinding halt. It was
> like a 300-Baud modem at times.
> 
>    Still, even the longest download eventually ends and this one was no
> exception. The actual updating took about 30 minutes and some blank
> screens but there was absolutely no problems. Not one.
> 
>    Okay, maybe a littly one: "Apple Intelligence" wanted to run itself.
> But even that was a simple "kill-it-with-fire" to make it go away. The
> switch is *Click on the half-eaten-apple" at the top left edge of the
> screen, then look inside the "System Settings", then under "Apple
> Intelligence And SIRI" and it's a simple toggle. I'm happy with that.
> I don't think Aplle could have made it easier.
> 
>    And MPRIME? Well, it died with "segmentation fault" errors a couple
> of times but I did manage to get it running inside a new Terminal
> shell. I'm not going to investigate the errors, though I would have
> when I was doing this for a living. I don't care enough. It's running,
> I'm not about to fiddle with it. Truthfully, I know very little about
> how MPRIME works so my fiddling about would be idiotic at best. :)
> 
>   Conclusion? Apple have made some bloody *solid* software! I am very
> positively impressed with how *easy* the process was.
> 
>   And as the "Subject" line says, I'm rather proud of how well I
> accomplished it.
> 
>   I did good. Apple did gooder. My little Mini did very, very good.
> 
>   She's an M1, so 15.3.1 might be the peak of upgrades for her. I'll be
> more confident next time if it isn't.
> 
>   Oh, and *no* I am not going to switch "Intelligence" on, ever. I just
> hate the very notion of it.
> 
>   But everything else seems to work, even BOINC.
> 
>   My thanks to everyone on these Maccy Usenet groups who helped me over
> the years. I would never have been brave enough to try this without
> that. :)
> 
>   Hold on ... Yerp, BOINC and MPRIME are still happily whirring away.
> I'm pleased. :)

You SHOULD be on 15.3.2 ;-)

FYI, my real-life Ukrainian chum posted this question:- 
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/256004656?sortBy=rank&page=1

HTH

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No one else will be, so *I* am proud of my work today. Mini from14.3 through 14.7 to 15.3.1 John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-03-11 01:21 +0000
  Re: No one else will be, so *I* am proud of my work today. Mini from14.3 through 14.7 to 15.3.1 Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-03-11 07:37 +0000
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