Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: David 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: Thu, 13 Mar 2025 10:03:07 +0000 Lines: 60 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net q21thUe2Yo1Kkz5F0k0KBwEdwizn4CT0PSiHntoLOOmt+K1F/Z Cancel-Lock: sha1:1Mkps9KnEse1CHR4pHVVvOMlE3M= sha256:xmkeL9bm4b3OTFKh4AyleQkhuAwqrasQKjv2zADkpvc= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.sys.mac:180656 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