A Geek Goes Flying

About my Mac Pro My 3.33 GHz 6-core Mac Pro died after sitting for a month or so. I shut it down normally and when I went to turn it back on, nada.  I found and watched a couple of potential replacement units on eBay and Facebook Marketplace, and then kind of back-burnered the project. Then a seller sent me an eBay offer , which I accepted because they were relatively local (vs. $95 in shipping otherwise, and these things have a habit of getting bent TF in shipping), and because it was a nicely equipped machine for $200: 12-core (2x Intel® Xeon® X5650 CPUs @ 2.67GHz), 28 GB RAM, 500GB SSD, and a USB 3.0/eSATA card. (It’s still running the ATI Radeon HD 5770 1024 MB GPU, but I can transplant the RX 580 Sapphire easily enough.) Open Core Legacy Patcher Getting the Installer with an Unsupported High Sierra / Safari Setup First thing was to build an OpenCore Legacy Patcher-based installer on a USB flash drive. So I headed over to pick up the latest (1.0.1) OCLP app and ...  Huh. ...

Not sure why it took me more than 0.1 seconds to figure this out, but when in doubt, RTFM ... Had to hit the “Default” button at the bottom of the list of profiles and now whenever I open Terminal.app or (while using the application) open a new window, it opens using my super-kewl l33t theme. Terminal.app running my l33t theme   MacBook Air stand with keyboard, mouse, timer Meanwhile, I’m liking the combination of a Moft Z stand with a Tokyo60 keyboard (black colorway, with Boba U4 switches and Cyber keycaps) , Pebble mouse , and Remy's Ratatouille Adventure Kitchen Timer ‡ . The MacBook Air is a 2012 Core i5 1.8 GHz with 8GB RAM and an aftermarket 256GB SSD, with a small High Sierra partition and the rest setup with Monterey courtesy OCLP . (The power cord is a USB-C to MagSafe 1 adapter connected through the Apple MagSafe 1 to 2 converter , currently hanging off a 100W UGREEN wall wort .) (I’m killing time while watching paint dry emails sync from our hosted Exchange server (...

This took a couple of minutes to figure out, until I realized it probably had something to do with the fact that I have SIP disabled to run Monterey on my 2012 Mac mini. I would open Zoom and the app would pop up the usual window asking to grant it permission to access the microphone (or camera). Clicking through to open System Preferences would reveal a Security & Privacy pane with Microphone selected, but no apps listed to grant permission to, just: “Apps that have requested access to your microphone will appear here.” I tried the incantations I found elsewhere ( tccutil reset Microphone , etc), but nothing got it going. Until I found tccplus . I downloaded this release from Github:  https://codeload.github.com/jslegendre/tccplus/zip/refs/heads/master  and the wrapper hotfix discussed here  ( direct URL ) and ran  tccplus Wrapper.app  and let it download tccplus when prompted.  Then it’s simply a matter of selecting which application you want to grant...