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In a long shameful convoluted story, I find myself with a new tricked out MacBook Pro 16", and a Time Machine brain transplant from the last machine. Not yet fully cloned. New MBP runs only Catalina. Apple has seen fit to -- get this -- prevent users from writing to the root directory of the filesystem.
Now I need to figure out how I want to map a nearly four-decade-old directory structure to the absurd dictates of my new environ.
jojo69's hell may be different - dunno.
Good
news, everyone.
While it is not really well documented, there is a workaround.
Apple has created a new type of symlink-like filesystem construct. Using this synthetic link, one can create a 'ghost link' in the root of the filesystem. This link can redirect to another place in your filesystem, like any normal symlink. It does not, however, exist on disk. It is instantiated at boot. One configures these links through an fstab-like mechanism: a new file /etc/synthetic.conf.
After creating a link using this mechanism and rebooting, my filesystem looks like it used to. I am now happily restoring over 400,000 files -- over 220GB -- from Time Machine to this new phantom filesystem location. So all my old scripts and such should work just fine.
More info at man synthetic.conf.
Why Apple's second-level support was utterly unaware of this workaround is a mystery. But there you go.
how do you feel about macos being slowly and now rapidly disfigured into a cellular phone-home applianceOS ?
Think what you want about COVID19.
The current crisis is actively being used to :
eliminate HK, Iran, France, etc protests
decimate short term economic activity, creating debt demand for individuals and overextended businesses that wish to continue operations
global QE-infinity, an attempt to spark real price inflation
create new laws without scrutiny
trial balloon physical&psychological submission ("social distancing")
pay selected winners (airlines, pharma, tp manufacturers, banks of course, etc)
distract from, justify, and create popular clamor for market manipulation (see above)
dislocate discussion of the above via direction to controlled, virtual platforms
1M USD is pessimistic in the medium to long term : currently observing 5778
5000ea stimulus distributed through new FEDCOIN
CUT YOUR LOOSE!!1
How long you people think we will be under quarantine ?
46 days (roughly, average)
Yeah, I agree. In 2017, I was getting phone calls from friends of friends asking for advice about whether to invest in BTC and a range of alts popular at the time. I was shocked by their lack of knowledge. Yes, just wanting a get-rich-quick scheme, an approach which backfired on all of them. I did months of research back in 2013 - it paid off - and I guess I assumed everyone else would do the same. I was proved wrong. Thankfully to their detriment and not mine.
this market wears the scalps of gutless noobs once every 4 years
- People remain at home.
- Those who are carriers can't spread the virus to other people.
- Those who don't have it can't get it.
- In total isolation with 100% follow-through rate, it would only take 14-28 days for the problem to subside completely.
- Seeing as how that is not a viable alternative, I think 60 days of fairly stringent quarantine measures is reasonable. People do have to go out to get food and supplies, and people do have to be present at workplaces to deliver them.
- Everybody else whose employment is deemed non-essential will suffer financially.
- A relatively large amount of people are going to die from inadequate medical care.
This is the best case scenario.
Do you disagree with any of these premises or conclusions?
- Shutting down the US economy for 6+ weeks will destroy a majority of small->medium businesses and raise da unemployment thru da roof
who benefits?