A change of pace here. As with this website, I build my own using my knowledge of servers to code and program that which you see. When I started this is hard to say as it evolved due to need as I grew more familiar wiht building websites. My best guess is that I have been doing this for around twenty years now, slowly but surely learning more and more as I struggled and retained. Hours of learning using the internet and bits and pieces of information which I cobbled together, experimented with, and, eventually, began having success.
What I fell short on was good knowledge of Mac computers of which I have two, this one which is a Mac mini I purchased recently and an old late 2014 iMac with Retina screen. It is that iMac which I write this about.
About one month ago I was working with it and it crashed and could not be brought back to life. I thought well, goodbye old friend. Then I remembered Copilot A.I., from Microsoft. I had used it a year ago and was not overly impressed but had heard recently that it had been upgraded and was getting high marks from pundits of A.I. This is the gritty and arcane stuff I read and learn about in my spare time. Nerd? Probably. Off kilter upstairs? Absolutely!
I worked with Copilot for three hours yesterday moving from screen to screen to ask questions, report progress and illustrating what was happening on the iMac screen. I had to purchase a 4 TB Crucial SSD and put the operating system on it so that I could plug it into the iMac and try to bring it back. Turned out the “Fusion” drive of the iMac was terribly fragmented, had to be wiped clean and begun over. None of which I could have realized without A.I. An expensive experiment but after three hours of coding and figuring out what had gone wrong the iMac is back from the dead and working as it always did.
Unfortunately, the erasure of the “Fusion” drive also wiped my old version of Lightroom from the hard disk and cannot now be replaced. Then again, I have this Mac mini as a fall back the only down side is that this is not an Apple Retina monitor, it is an ASUS middle of the road monitor so we will have to see what the future holds. I can easily make do rather than spend over a thousand for an Apple monitor.
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