Omnibus reply!
($20 in maple money)
last century I had a Molson Money jar of cash I found for Molson™ Goldens which was alway full!
now I will read the "rest of the story"!
I have no idea what this means. Golden was what got exported to the U.S. Although it’s possible it was just Molson Canadian re-branded (much as some American stuff sold here does), I don’t know for sure, and I have no memory of their American promotions (I was probably too young, and I also didn’t really drink things like beer until I was well into my twenties.)
And then there is this, not free but the soldering requirements are only middle level. If their advertising is accurate it seems quite a nice solution.
Interesting fix!
Owing to the retail cost for buying that board, it would have been a reasonable deal back in the mid/late 2010s when many more of the 2011s were in use and not yet replaced by newer models — at a time when buying them used still had them going for north of €200–300.
These days, however, when 15-inch 2011s are practically being given away locally, €49, plus HST/VAT and shipping, not so much. The Tiresias could come in handy for anyone who intended to continue to use their MBP before selling it to someone else who would also be using it.
For those who never intended to sell theirs, this is probably more effort than what’s needed.
Wow….I happen to have a 2011 15” MacBook Pro that only needs a battery sitting in my garage but after reading this horror story of a post, I’ll probably turn it in to the recycler and save myself this future pointless nightmare…
The “Cursed Daughter of Update” was a play on the flood of comically bad horror B-movies from the 1950s, given some of the most absurd sequel monikers (i.e., “Swamp Monster”, followed by “Groom of Swamp Monster,” and “Son of Swamp Monster”, then “I Was a Teenage Swamp Monster”, and so on).
What I shared wasn’t presented as a nightmare. It was documentation of my experiences on a weekend project. Maybe one day that documentation could help someone else finding themselves along the same path.
That’s why I write!
I have 2 of 2011 15" MBPs. The early one is already a goner and beyond salvation, so basically scrap. The late one still works perfectly and is occasionally used by my wife for some music stuff. I've been pondering that should I be smart and do a pre-emptive strike and kill the problem GPU before it shows any signs of trouble and thus avoid bigger problems in the future? Or do I take the risk and see if I have the one and only perfect, non troubled, MBP 2011 in the universe?
After all the documentation and threads and fixes I’ve read through (and I’m
still not done), the Radeon 6xxx dGPU failure on the 8,2 and 8,3 tends to creep in, rather than to be a rude, abrupt surprise without signs or foreshadowing its failure.
For now, if the late one still works as it was designed originally, just keep going with it. If you’ve no plans to sell it, the RealMacMods fix (which is a big part of The Tiresias steps anyhow) alone might be enough. I’ll continue to test this laptop with the now-removed R8911 (
pencil graphite may be just enough to supplant the removed resistor as an “undo”, if need be).
Ps. I am sure somebody in our forum will gladly try to resurrect and keep alive your MBP if you don't want to do it yourself. No point in giving it to the recycler.
I am adamant about this:
For folks on here
who know better, working to make sure disused Macs find homes with other Mac maintainers and collectors, unless they’ve been absolutely torn asunder (like being dropped from a high-rise building onto pavement or compromised by
zealous airport security) is an absolute must. It keeps a dwindling parts supply from vanishing as precipitously and suddenly.
In
cradle-to-cradle life cycle analysis of consumer electronics, it is less costly and resource-intensive (i.e., carbon-positive) to upcycle and to re-purpose internal components for other machines than it is to blunt-force recycle the entire component at once — or, worse, to “toss it out”.
[I mean, people still leave functional computer hardware by curbsides (both
@TheShortTimer, creator of
The Freebies Thread, and I can attest this, as I’ve built a Pentium tower server, all from curbside parts, back in 2006 — the same year I found and brought home an SGI Indigo [!!!] being binned at my university). So the notion that “tossing out” of computers doesn’t happen the way it used to is, unfortunately for the waste stream and the environment, a woebegone myth.]
I'm surprised that there hasn't been more interest in this post - the amount of work that's involved in compiling and maintaining this directory (with new additions to the SW franchise) in such meticulous detail has to be exhaustive.
With respect to information science and knowledge curation (music, books, academic articles, developing web sites, and so on), I’m highly organized. (If I could afford to, I’d study a masters in library information science, and I would have begun, like, yesterday).
I’ve probably always been this way. But this doesn’t carry over to an obsessive fastidiousness over my everyday shared life with those around me. That’s to say a museum-like, obtusely austere aesthetic (around which I was raised, due to a specific, long-estranged, and controlling parent who insisted everything be visually perfect, dust-free, and untouched, 100 per cent of the time) makes me anxious. I like a home in which guests who come over can feel like they’re at home, as well.
(Then again, the aesthetics of museum austerity — not necessarily self-same as
minimalism — are generally indended to do just that and to serve only the person engendering that aesthetic.)
That preface leads to how I ended up with the
Star Wars directory:
I set it up in early 2022, after all the
Star Wars stuff had multiplied under Disney’s steering, when one of the kids I look after spoke with interest to watch “all of the Star Wars” (the kid was entranced by Grogu, of course, because Grogu — “baby Yoda” to those who don’t watch Star Wars — had appeared in either Fortnite or Roblox).
So I asked, “Do you want to watch the movies and shows in the order they were made, or would you like to watch everything in order of when it all happpened in the faraway galaxy?” They chose the latter.
That’s when I found someone (or several someones) on Wikipedia had done
the canon timeline work in a visual chart. So it wasn’t terribly difficult to collect together all the digitzed Star Wars stuff I had in one place and coming up with a directory-friendly-but-human-readable way to order and sitinguish where all the flood of new stuff belonged in chonological context.
Unfortunately, the kid lost interest in Star Wars shortly after the Grogu cameo/promotion vanished from the game(s), as is usually the case. Oh well.
The Force is with you.
Oh, I’d love to believe that, but I’d reckon the real-world antithesis, The Curse, never leaves me.
