Comment by mdaniel

Comment by mdaniel 2 days ago

6 replies

> Cylindrical "Trash Can" Mac Pro

My favorite Mac, by far. I upgraded the RAM in it. Can you even imagine a Mac that has upgradeable RAM? Pearl clutching. I also tried plugging 4 different 4K monitors into it just for the novelty. I miss my trashcan

Also, if you were to serve your get.sh (et al) as text/plain it would enable browing them versus them downloading and having to open it locally. Or, as your footer implied, linking to GitHub would also be super handy

Wowfunhappy 2 days ago

> Also, if you were to serve your get.sh (et al) as text/plain it would enable browing them versus them downloading and having to open it locally.

Thanks, I'll look into this! I'm not immediately sure how to do it. The site is hosted via a very minimal Cloudflare worker, because it's free for static assets but unlike e.g. Github pages supports unencrypted http (which is useful when bootstrapping a new Mavericks system). I haven't changed the content type of anything.

My Github is https://github.com/wowfunhappy but you actually won't find either script there, the website is the canonical version! This type of thing is why my github isn't linked!

philwelch a day ago

> Can you even imagine a Mac that has upgradeable RAM?

Well now I feel old. Not only can I imagine it, I used to routinely buy RAM upgrades for my Macs because it was more affordable than getting a Mac with more RAM in the first place. As I recall one of the early aluminum PowerBooks even had a really thoughtful design that made it easy to access and replace the RAM, battery, and hard drive.

  • mdaniel a day ago

    Yeah, back in the day they used actual Philips head screws, I presume for that purpose. The user hostility is just outrageous, IMHO

    I've been thinking harder and harder about https://getupgraded.com/macbook/ to really get it in my mind that I don't own any Apple product, I just lease it from them for a while

    • philwelch 2 hours ago

      They also used Torx screws for a long time. Honestly the process for upgrading RAM was always variable. Power Macs had a door with a hinge, but the original iMac needed a lot of disassembly to get to the RAM slots.