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Recover files from a sick Mac

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/10/recover-files-from-a-sick-mac/

<p>Gone are the days when you could pop the hard drive out of a sick Mac and connect it to another to recover its contents. This article explains how you may be able to transfer some or all of the contents of a modern Mac’s internal SSD to another Mac.</p>
<h4>Any Mac: Thunderbolt</h4>
<p>As long as you can get your Mac up and running, the fastest way to transfer files from its internal storage is back-to-back Thunderbolt networking, easily set up in Network settings. All you need is another Mac with a free Thunderbolt port and a suitable cable to connect them directly.</p>
<h4>Apple silicon: Share Disk</h4>
<p>If you can get an Apple silicon Mac to start up in Recovery mode, or Fallback Recovery, then you’ve got a good chance of salvaging whatever you need from its internal SSD.</p>
<p>Connect it back-to-back with another Mac using a Thunderbolt 4 (or 3) cable. Start the sick Mac up in Recovery, pass through to Options and authenticate as necessary. In the <strong>Utilities</strong> menu there select the <strong>Share Disk</strong> command.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><a href="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/target1.png"><img alt="" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-91015" height="573" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/target1.png" width="940" /></a></span></p>
<p>Select the volume you want to share, and when necessary unlock it with the password required for its encryption.</p>
<p>On the other Mac, that shared volu

Explainer: Mac firmware version numbering

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/07/explainer-mac-firmware-version-numbering/

<p>Firmware engineering must be among the least glamorous of the specialities, but it’s literally among the most fundamental. As regular users seldom need to come into contact with firmware and its versions, how those are numbered is kept as a dark secret. This article reveals what I have gathered.</p>
<p>Although you will come across different usage elsewhere, I here draw the distinction between:</p>
<ul>
<li>True ROM, including Macintosh ROM (Classic Macs) and Apple silicon Boot ROM, is set in the factory and normally can’t be changed;</li>
<li><em>Firmware</em> that can be updated in place includes Mac OS ROM (PowerPC), EFI Boot ROM or bootloader, and LLB/iBoot (Apple silicon);</li>
<li>The operating system including any kernel, in Mac OS, Mac OS X, OS X and macOS, which are usually updated repeatedly.</li>
</ul>
<h4>PowerPC: Open Firmware</h4>
<p>Classic Macs using Motorola 68K processors have their own Macintosh ROM with opaque hexadecimal versions. After the introduction of PowerPC models in 1994, that changed with the Power Macintosh 9500 of 1995 to support Apple’s version of Open Firmware.</p>
<p><span class="alignnone"><img alt="firmware2002" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-83205" height="1200" src="https://eclecticlight.co/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/firmware2002.jpg" width="1600" /></span></p>
<p>Their ROM and firmware version numbering is elaborate, with a ROM revision, here shown as $77D.45F6, a Boot ROM version of $0004.25f1, and a Mac OS RO

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T2、自動運転トラックの「関東−関西間1日1往復」実証に成功。手動運転の2倍の輸送能力を発揮可能に

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Firmware updates for macOS Tahoe, Sequoia and Sonoma

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/18/firmware-updates-for-macos-tahoe-sequoia-and-sonoma/

<p>Of all the important features of Macs, firmware must be among the dullest, although it’s also one of the Mac’s major benefits. Because Mac hardware, firmware, and its operating system are all made by Apple, the firmware in our Macs should always remain secure, robust and up to date.</p>
<p>That wasn’t always the case, though. Older Intel Macs could be difficult and sometimes impossible to update their firmware. Some particular configurations were notorious, and most became unreliable if you replaced their internal storage. After a long campaign with tools like <code>eficheck</code>, switching first to T2 then Apple silicon chips has proved decisive. With firmware updates distributed in and installed by macOS updates and upgrades, it’s almost unheard of now for a recent model to be running out of date firmware, unless it’s also running out of date macOS.</p>
<p>This has been important for system stability, where flaws in firmware can turn the most stable Mac into a series of kernel panics and crashes, and essential for security. All the user has to do to secure their Mac’s firmware is to keep macOS up to date. Vulnerabilities in PC firmware are <a href="https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/resources/data-center-solutions/blogs/4-infamous-firmware-vulnerabilities/" target="_blank">relatively frequent</a> and notoriously hard to address.</p>
<p>Now that support for Intel Macs is waning, and there are only a couple of iMac variants lacking T2 chips

Apple silicon Macs have 2 types of Thunderbolt ports

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/06/apple-silicon-macs-have-2-types-of-thunderbolt-ports/

<p>If you have an Apple silicon Mac, take a look at its Thunderbolt ports and you’ll see that, other than being marked with the Thunderbolt lightning symbol, they all look identical. In fact they’re not: one of them is different from the others, although nothing in or on your Mac will tell you that. One of them is the <strong>DFU port</strong>, and works differently.</p>
<h4>Why two types?</h4>
<p>Apple designed these new Macs to provide two important features that depend on how their Thunderbolt ports work:</p>
<ul>
<li>the ability to start up in a special Boot ROM mode to allow them to connect to another Mac and have the entire contents of their internal SSD replaced, giving them a new set of firmware and setting them back to factory condition in a Restore process;</li>
<li>the ability to start up from a bootable external disk while remaining in Full Security mode.</li>
</ul>
<p>Neither of those is available in Intel Macs with T2 chips.</p>
<p>Because starting up using the Boot ROM alone can only support a plain USB-C and not Thunderbolt connection, that <em>Device Firmware Update</em> or DFU mode uses a Thunderbolt port that also supports DFU. However, as a result that port isn’t able to operate fully with a bootable external disk. Hence, every Apple silicon Mac has one Thunderbolt port designated as its DFU port. That’s used to connect it to another Mac when in DFU mode, but can’t be used to install or update macOS on a bootable external disk

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Is your Mac dead, in DFU mode, or alive?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/02/04/is-your-mac-dead-in-dfu-mode-or-alive/

<p>You pressed the Power button on your Mac, and nothing happened. It didn’t show signs of starting up, so is it dead, or just pretending? The distinction might seem obvious until you consider DFU mode.</p>
<h4>Power reaching the Mac, no sign of life</h4>
<p>Simple mains/AC power problems have caught many out: if your Mac isn’t showing any signs of life when it should, ensure that power is reaching it in the first place. Never put yourself at any risk of coming into contact with any live cable, though. Good checks are to verify that the mains socket/receptacle delivers power correctly to another system, and that the Mac’s power cable also does its job. If you’re in any doubt about the electrical safety of either, stop immediately, make everything safe, and obtain professional advice.</p>
<p>If you’re confident that power is going into your Mac, the next and more difficult question is whether the Mac’s hardware is dead, or it has entered DFU mode. DFU mode is the fallback for all Apple silicon Macs that encounter a problem early in the boot process, whether it’s in ROM or later stages before the kernel starts. This also applies to Intel T2 Macs that encounter problems when loading iBridge firmware for their T2 chip, as explained below.</p>
<h4>Is it in DFU mode?</h4>
<p>Most Apple silicon Macs and T2 models that have entered DFU mode show no obvious signs of life. This is even true of MacBook Pro models with MagSafe 3 power cables: in

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I've just realised that various UK government have actually been working for decades to prevent the events in Terminator 2 from occuring! 😲

The end of the movie is in a Steel Mill, so clearly the best way to prevent the future depicted is to close all the steel mills 🙄🤦‍♂️

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Manchester Monday 2nd February 2026.

A7-BOF, Boeing 777-3ZGER, Qatar Airways, taxiing to Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, 17th January 2023, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

10 photos behind the link.
https://mancavgeek.co.uk/2026/02/02/14504/

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#AvGeek #aviation #planespotting #photography

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日本郵便、T2と協力して自動運転レベル2搭載トラックの単独便定期運行を開始

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://smart-mobility.jp/_ct/17818084

Should you restart or cold boot?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/01/27/should-you-restart-or-cold-boot/

<p>There are two ways to restart a Mac that’s already running: you can either use the Apple menu command <strong>Restart</strong> (or an equivalent in Terminal), or you can shut it down, leave it a few seconds, and start it up afresh in what’s known as a <em>cold boot.</em> This article examines whether there’s any difference, and which you should prefer.</p>
<h4>Differences</h4>
<p>When a desktop Mac starts up from cold, its power supply starts providing power to its internal components, and when the boot process starts they are all initialised from their power-off state. There’s one small exception to that in the internal clock, possibly part of the Always On Processor (AOP) in Apple silicon Macs.</p>
<p>It’s commonly held that a regular (or warm) restart doesn’t interrupt the power supplied to internal components, as Intel Macs may not undergo power-on self-testing (POST) when only restarted. That doesn’t appear to be correct, though, as it’s easily demonstrated that Intel Macs with T2 chips do undertake a POST during a restart. Apple silicon Macs don’t appear to perform a similar form of POST. Neither does there appear to be any difference for peripherals, which are shut down before being started up again whether the Mac is booted warm or cold.</p>
<p>It’s also most unusual to attempt a true cold boot, particularly in a laptop. To remove all power from a desktop Mac requires it to be disconnected from its mains p

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