The scale apparently doesn’t give a damn what the watch says
Finally starting to see a clear path forward from my MrJackpot kernel panic tribulations
My head is still spinning after returning home from the last home game of a very strange 2020 season:
- Games with fewer people aren’t as stressful overall, but it still takes me several hours to wind down after the final whistle blows.
- Immensely thankful everyone on our team stayed healthy all season.
- I don’t walk nearly as many steps on game day since we got a Cushman for IT.
- Five regular seasons already? 2016: 5-3, 2017: 7-1, 2018: 5-3, 2019: 6-2, 2020: 3-5
- The people in the Vikings organization are extraordinary and it’s a pleasure to work with them year after year.
- Three stadiums are now newer than us in the NFL, but next year will feel like opening the building all over again.
Just a few things to clean up this week in the building, then on to 2021…
Seven down, one to go 🏈
The iMac kernel panics have stopped, but unfortunately it’s because the SSD is now dead 😡
Stunned by the passing of Tom Hanneman – how did we get so lucky to have him on air in MN for almost 50 years?
The stability saga with my upgraded 2017 Retina 4K 21-inch iMac, MrJackpot, continues. The latest:
- All panics still involve IONVMeController.cpp in the crash report.
- Definitely caused by the Aura Pro X2 SSD from Other World Computing.
- Upgrading to Big Sur initially did not change the number of crashes (which were averaging about once a week while sleeping).
- The latest Big Sur update (11.1) has made things more unstable, causing multiple crashes a day (even during normal operations).
- I turned off screen sleep in Energy Saver and unchecked the following: Put hard disks to sleep when possible, Wake for network access, Start up automatically after a power failure and Enable Power Nap.
- Also ran this command from Terminal: sudo pmset -a standby 0 autopoweroff 0 hibernatemode 0 (which OWC support suggested in a July email). This initially seemed to slow down the number of crashes, but did not stop them completely.
- So far, the system starts back up with no noticeable file system damage (need to hold the power button for ten seconds, wait, then single press the power button to get the kernel panic multi-language message to appear (above), which then automatically starts the reboot process after a few seconds.
At this point, I don’t know what else to do until I can buy an M1-based iMac next year. I thought about buying an M1 Mac mini with an LG 4K display now, but that’s a pricy option. I sent a follow-up email to OWC support, but frankly I’ve been disappointed in how they’ve handled this issue (which seems to have impacted a large number of people). I’d been a happy customer of theirs since I started my Mac support career at NWA in 1996, so it’s sad and frustrating to be in this situation…
Time to retire? 35th…IN THE WORLD @TwoDots
Great reminder from Demme and @jtimberlake about how fun it is to work in the concert industry
Thrilled that I found OEM replacement ear pads for my ancient MDR-V6 headphones
Got the breakfast burger take-out from @redcow_mn tonight and it was stupid good 🍔
Once I found the right screwdriver, it wasn’t too bad (new battery on a Dell XPS 15)
…but they are warm, convenient, free and no one else in my building uses them for exercise.
This December round of software updates has been…rough
Even though it wasn’t a concert, it was nice to be near @FirstAvenue again
