{"id":12205,"date":"2020-07-06T10:00:13","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T15:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=12205"},"modified":"2020-07-06T01:26:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-06T06:26:25","slug":"requiem-for-an-imac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/requiem-for-an-imac\/","title":{"rendered":"Requiem for an iMac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WChTqYlDjtI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I have in the past rambled about my <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2019\/11\/decade-milestone-of-the-week-1\/\">late 2009 desktop iMac<\/a> and how I was going to <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2015\/11\/obsoletely-fabulous\/\">ride it until it died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at 11:53 PM on June 15, it did. Specifically, the hard drive woke from sleep but the monitor did not. Backups are important, kids.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve been moderately flailing around trying to figure out how to do things I did every day. This involved buying my first HDTV and my first powered USB hub since 2000 (!). A <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2016\/02\/iphoto-places-thrown-onto-apples-abandonware-heap\/\">raft of applications<\/a> I <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2018\/12\/the-last-appleworks-user-on-earth\/\">routinely used<\/a> are inaccessible* and a handful more do work on the MacBook Pro, but can go no further OS-wise. The iPod will never be synced again, and yes, I still have an iPod and will lovingly cuddle it as long as I can.<\/p>\n<p>Then less than two weeks later I whanged my Fitbit against the car and broke the screen. When it rains it pours.<\/p>\n<h5>*Except, ironically, for now, those that run on my 2004 iBook, but I have no room on the main desk for it.<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have in the past rambled about my late 2009 desktop iMac and how I was going to ride it until it died. Well, at 11:53 PM on June 15, it did. Specifically, the hard drive woke from sleep but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2020\/07\/requiem-for-an-imac\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12205"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12208,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12205\/revisions\/12208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}