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Re: Sequoia 15.3 released

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On 9 Feb 2025 19:50:35 GMT, D.M. Procida
<daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> wrote:

>On 9 Feb 2025 at 16:26:59 CET, "John" <Man@the.keyboard> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 6 Feb 2025 14:39:27 +0000, jbrennand <brennand@ntlworld.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Anyone installed it yet?  Any issues spotted ?
>> 
>> I installed it over 15.1.1 on my MBP a couple of days ago.
>> 
>> It took a while. The process was as boring as fuck as there were
>> months and months and MONTHS of "process will take another 9 minutes"
>> interrupted by dark screens.
>
>Look, what is this nonsense?

 It's called "exaggeration for humorous effect" or "jesting" or simply
"taking the piss out of the interminable wait states that an install
goes into". 

 It was meant to be taken as saying that the installation of 15.3 was
not quite instantaneous. 

 It was also boring. 

>
>I was just thinking: 15.3: who cares about 15.3, whatever that is?

 Loads of people do. Many of them work for Apple. Even more work for
publications dealing mainly or peripherally with I.T. and technology.
A few are users. 

 "15.3" is a version of the operating system used by many of Apple's
Mac-type computers. It can be downloaded from the Apple Store, I think
and some PC's running fairly recent versions of OSX/MacOS or whatever
they call it this week will prompt the user to install it over their
currently running version. My MacBook Pro's OS did. 

>
>I remember back in ~1995 installing System 7.5; perhaps it was 7.5.1. It came
>in a cardboard box that gave me a nasty cut under my fingernail as I opened
>it, and contained something like 10 floppy disks, that had to be fed patiently
>into a Macintosh IIvx.

 Yeah, well, I remember doing a twenty-odd floppy back-up of something
then doing a restore from that back-up some time later. The restore
actually worked. It seems that I was appropriately careful in doing
the back-up and labeling and keeping the discs. 

 

>
>Another 9 minutes pah.

  Are you saying that "9 minutes" isn't a long interval between
starting and finishing a background task on a machine? If so, then I'd
maybe agree that it's a lot shorter than trying to download a 60MB
file over a 300 Baud line but it is still tedious compared to many
things we do today. 
 
 But it is the blank screens that don't have countdowns or
thermometers ("progress bars") telling us something is actually
*happening* that really bug me. 

 Though even those are not quite so bad as I exaggerated them as being
in my original post. 

                                            J. 

>
>Daniele

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  Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Jaimie Vandenbergh <jaimie@usually.sessile.org> - 2025-02-06 14:50 +0000
  Re: Sequoia 15.3 released David Kennedy <davidkennedygm@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 08:54 +0000
    Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-07 09:03 +0000
  Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-02-07 13:10 +0000
  Re: Sequoia 15.3 released John <Man@the.keyboard> - 2025-02-09 15:26 +0000
    Re: Sequoia 15.3 released D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> - 2025-02-09 19:50 +0000
      Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-09 20:31 +0000
        Re: Sequoia 15.3 released nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-02-09 22:19 +0100
          Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-09 21:33 +0000
            Re: Sequoia 15.3 released nospam@de-ster.demon.nl (J. J. Lodder) - 2025-02-11 09:08 +0100
              Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Alan B <alanrichardbarker@gmail.com.invalid> - 2025-02-11 10:17 +0000
                Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Chris <ithinkiam@gmail.com> - 2025-02-11 10:57 +0000
                Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Frederick <fred@ypical.demon.invalid> - 2025-02-11 15:22 +0000
                Re: Sequoia 15.3 released D.M. Procida <daniele-at-vurt-dot-org@invalid.com> - 2025-02-14 11:23 +0000
                Re: Sequoia 15.3 released Martin S Taylor <hogwash@mRaErMtOiVnEstaylor.TcHoImS> - 2025-03-05 15:56 +0000
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