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Egg Freckles
Personal blog · eggfreckles.net/noteshardwareculture
Egg Freckles is a personal blog at eggfreckles.net about hardware and culture. Since 2011, 13 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Burning a Lion Boot Disc”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Egg Freckles for practical Mac OS X notes, such as clean Mountain Lion installs and Lion boot discs, plus a history of Apple's ADB bus and a week with Linux.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Burning a Lion Boot Disc2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-06-09
What Hacker News says?
Doesn't have the intro you posit and maybe a slight off topic in places. But perhaps informative. http://eggfreckles.net/notes/my-week-with-linux/
Comment linking /notes/my-week-with-linux/
on “IRecognition: I am no longer Apple's Target Market”Submitted Why I Carry a Newton as a story · 164 points
HN discussionHere's a fun story about the creation of ADB by Woz: https://eggfreckles.net/2013/12/27/adb-the-epitome-of-early-...
Comment linking /2013/12/27/adb-the-epitome-of-early-apple/
on “Linux Kernel Is Still Seeing Driver Work for the Macintosh II”Submitted The Last Mac Pro as a story · 60 points
HN discussionIt’s pretty easy: http://eggfreckles.net/notes/installing-mountain-lion-clean/ I have used this procedure many times, it works like a charm. However, I do want Apple to provide a more obvious way of doing just that. It would be great if their tool for creating a bootable recovery manager worked just with the OS X install app as a source. But to be honest, I do not think that doing a clean install is a good idea for…
Comment linking /notes/installing-mountain-lion-clean/
on “Thank you Apple”Submitted Apple's History of Skeuomorphism as a story · 19 points
HN discussionThere you go: http://eggfreckles.net/tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
Comment linking /tech/burning-a-lion-boot-disc/
on “OS X Lion Recovery removes need for physical media”Submitted Burning a Lion Boot Disc as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Future of Handwriting Recognition as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Killing the Xserve (2013) as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Immutable Design as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple’s Greatest Keyboard as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Security Screws as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted GoJGo as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is this menu for? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Merits of a Clean Install as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Burning A Lion Boot Disc as a story · 1 points
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