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Re:macOS Sonoma drops support for another wide swath of Inte... by arprocter on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @12:18PM (#36215078)
Obligatory mention of OpenCore Legacy Patcher

This 2013 iMac that got cut off at Catalina runs Big Sur flawlessly from an external SSD

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Re:macOS Sonoma drops support for another wide swath of Inte... by ykl on Tuesday June 06, 2023 @02:34PM (#36217157)
OpenCore Legacy Patcher is such an amazing/impressive project.

Thanks to OCLP, hello from an ancient 2008 Mac Pro that nonetheless is running Ventura 13.4 flawlessly (albeit with a newer GPU). :)

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Re:macOS Sonoma drops support for another wide swath of Inte... by highwaylights on Thursday June 08, 2023 @04:11AM (#36238727)
Love OCLP, but there’s definitely a trade-off in terms of root-of-trust security.

I keep an old iMac for family browsing and some school work that’s running Ventura thanks to OCLP, but not allowing anyone to sign in to iCloud on it due to not having a trusted bootloader.

This is perhaps overkill and it sucks that it’s a choice that needs to be made at all.

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