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   goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 21:25:55 JST goatsarah

   Increasingly getting the impression that MacOS Sonoma is a lemon, and best avoided.

   Interestingly, when it bricked my M1 Pro MBP, and I had to recover from the recovery partition, it reinstalled Ventura.

   And the new Macs ship with Ventura, with no Sonoma upgrade available.

   Now seeing that the 14.1 update has screwed a load of webcam stuff used by remote workers.

   I think I'm gonna keep my MBP on Ventura for now. My Mac mini server is on Sonoma, but all that's doing is hosting Linux VMs.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 23:03:57 JST goatsarah

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     • Fiona Craig
     @FionaCraig From what I can tell, the problems with Sonoma are mostly on Apple silicon.
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     Fiona Craig (fionacraig@mastodon.scot)'s status on Thursday, 09-Nov-2023 23:03:58 JST Fiona Craig

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     @goatsarah Thanks for sharing - I'm still running Monterey on my old Intel MBP for now!

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 00:55:16 JST goatsarah

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     • Madagascar_Sky
     @Madagascar_Sky maybe? The friendica server I’m posting this on is running on a Linux VM on that Mac Mini M2.
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     Madagascar_Sky (madagascar_sky@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 00:55:18 JST Madagascar_Sky

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     @goatsarah
     '...hosting Linux VMs.'

     is this the new '..torrenting Linux ISOs'?

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     Miguel Arroz (arroz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:08:29 JST Miguel Arroz

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     @goatsarah Sonoma is by far the worst release in years, maybe ever, since the initial version of OS X. It keeps getting generally worse, not better, but this year was a huge leap backwards.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:08:29 JST goatsarah

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     • Miguel Arroz
     @arroz in staying with Ventura on my MBP. I am very nervous, having upgraded my Mac Mini server to Sonoma. It’s behaving though, touch-wood.
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     Gen X-Wing (breadbin@bitbang.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:16:39 JST Gen X-Wing

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     @goatsarah I always keep a version behind these days. :(

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:16:39 JST goatsarah

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     • Gen X-Wing
     @breadbin Wise.
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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:26:39 JST goatsarah

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     • Miguel Arroz

     @arroz I’ve got 2 UTM Linux VMs on my M2 Mini and they’re solid at the moment.

     I’m just not gonna touch it. Probably hold off on further upgrades until 14.2 at least.

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     Miguel Arroz (arroz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:26:40 JST Miguel Arroz

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     @goatsarah I’ve been having lots of stability issues with VMs running on a M1 mini. Not sure if it’s a UTM or an OS problem but never happened on Ventura.

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     Miguel Arroz (arroz@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:35:18 JST Miguel Arroz

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     @goatsarah I have two Linux and one FreeBSD. Since Sonoma they randomly hang after running for a few days. After this latest update (14.1.1) I had a hard time trying to even boot them up. UTM couldn’t start the VMs at all, didn’t get to the phase where it shows fhe big UTM logo in the window just before handing the console to the guest OS.

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     goatsarah (goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org)'s status on Friday, 10-Nov-2023 04:35:18 JST goatsarah

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     • Miguel Arroz

     @arroz That sounds profoundly buggered indeed.

     Touchwood I’m ok. The 6 days uptime is because of a power outage 6 days ago.