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TECHNOLOGY
Everything I’ve Added or Changed on my M1 MacBook Air So Far, Hardware and Software
Pimping out my ride
Yes, I know that my desk is a mess. I have excuses and have detailed those in another story you’d easily be able to find if you must know why I have offended social norms by keeping my workspace in such disarray.
Hardware
Some of the things you see on my desk were inherited from my Intel Mac Mini. The USB-C to USB-A hub from Amazon came from there along with the three external drives. The OWC dock is new and I did talk about that at the same time I explained my messy desk.
Two of the drives are for local Time Machine backups. Time Machine automatically switches between them; if your system is set to backup every hour, it will use a different drive every hour. These drives are plugged into two of the USB-C ports on the OWC dock. I plug that dock in every morning and leave it long enough for both drives to complete their backups. I then use the OWC Ejector menu bar app to unmount everything on the dock with one click.
What about backups when the Time Machine drives aren’t connected to a laptop? Well, Time Machine will make “snapshots” — copies of what needs to be backed up — and store them on the internal drive and any other…
