Barriers to living in more remote areas with high quality of life are being removed, but self-sufficiency is important. Changes in macOS do not help.
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How not to lose data, and how to protect private and sensitive data, when your Mac goes off for repair.
Don’t let a repairer see a dirty Mac: they may refuse to complete the repair under warranty. Give it a clean first.
Enjoy being a computer owner-user-maintainer while you can: those days are NUMbered.
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