Tuesday, September 1, 2020
Ran in place to the remainder of Daddy and the Muscle Academy on Kanopy. Breakfast at home: small bowl of oatmeal with milk and blueberries, water. Unloaded photos from my iPhone X. Continued OneDrive and SharePoint sync troubleshooting. Resolved an account request for Tanja K and Nicole F for BioP. Read NNGroup's email newsletter. Restarted my MacBook Pro because the trackpad was occasionally not responding to taps. Resolved some duplicate folder problems in OneDrive. Mid-morning small meal: leftover five-spice chicken with noodles to which I added some ramen noodles. Taps not working still, so I rubbed the trackpad with a bit of water and quit BetterTouchTool. D7 styling work: add instagram social media icon (for TKP), resolve 'sliders have double arrows'. D8 styling work all day: css restructuring (ITCSS). Granted web editor access to Tanja K. Responded to a request from Marissa L about training videos. Followup with David N about OneDrive and SharePoint sync problems. PC Intranet work. Followup with OSACA about a job posting request. Dinner at home with Patrick: falafel in pita with toppings, water. Showed Patrick how to see Mailchimp activity and Google Analytics for his website. I washed dishes. Dessert: small bites of Patrick's pineapple-upside-down cake, previously frozen. I washed more dishes. At 8:00 pm I began setting up the new Mac Mini to replace the 2012 MacBook Air with a bulging battery. I used a wireless Magic Keyboard borrowed from Sam, a very old Microsoft Trackball Optical USB that I had planned to sell but never got around to it, and a bunch of ethernet cables. At about 8:30 pm all the power cables and ethernet cables and peripherals were in place and connected, so I turned on the Mac Mini and began the accounts transfer process. The transfer speed was unexpectedly slow—under 20 MB/s if you trust the value presented by Migration Assistant—even though I was using all CAT6 cables, and I don't know why. I wondered if wifi would have been faster, but figured at least it's not worse, and it's probably not good to stop this process in the middle and start over. The time remaining estimate varied wildly throughout the process—do not trust it. In case anyone was wondering like I had: no, it's not possible to perform a normal setup on a Mac Mini if you have a display and a pointing device but no keyboard. macOS includes an onscreen keyboard as part of their accessibility tools, but there is no way to access it during the setup process. When transferring data from another Mac, the setup will at one point ask you to recreate passwords for the accounts that migrate. I don't know why this step is necessary if those accounts already have passwords. It could simply use the same credentials. Small meal: small bowl of oatmeal with milk, cinnamon, and diced white nectarine. I washed more dishes. Successfully set up Luna Display so that my iPad Pro can pretend to be a touchscreen Mac Mini: automatic login, then add the Luna Display app to Login Items so that it starts automatically. Installing Catalina updates took another 30 minutes or so. Encountered some problems. Didn't get to bed until past 1 am. Late small meal: leftover mango beef, water.