Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, July 27, 2025, and this is show number 1055. Before we get started, I want to let you know that there will be NO LIVE SHOW next Sunday, […]
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CCATP #818 — Adam Engst on New Mac Migration
Adam Engst recently wrote a post on TidBITS describing his journey migrating from a 27″ Intel iMac to an M4 Pro MacBook Pro. He entitled the article Switching from a 27-inch iMac to a 14-inch MacBook Pro: A Fresh Start. I asked him to come on Chit Chat Across the Pond so he could walk […]
Continue readingNC #991 Migration Assistant Failures, Cato from Auli, Kensington Thunderbolt Hub, Pawport Pet Door
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, May 5, 2024, and this is show number 991. Tuesday at 7 AM Pacific Time, Apple has an announcement, widely believed to be for a new set of […]
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Why Does Everyone Say Migration Assistant Works Great?
Nuke & Pave is Rigorous and Predictable If you’ve been listening to me for any length of time, you know I’m a huge proponent of doing a nuke and pave of my Mac (AKA clean install) around once a year. You can just search podfeet.com for “nuke and pave” to read all of the articles […]
Continue readingNC #913 Tailscale, HomePod Repair, Synology Migration
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, November 6, 2022, and this is show number 913. Welcome to the podcast where we’re not going to talk about a billionaire making everyone angry, we’re never going […]
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The Great Synology Migration of 2022
Synology Migration Assistant showing wizard to transfer data A few weeks ago I told you that I’d made the decision to buy a second Synology. My plan was to back up the new Synology DS1522+ to the only slightly older DS1019+ and decommission my Drobo 5N2. Drobo appear to be frozen in time after going […]
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The Day the Drobo Died … Again
A Walk Down Memory Lane Over the years I’ve regaled you with tales of our various network-attached storage (NAS) devices. Steve and I use our NAS for storing sensitive financial data that we don’t want to be stored in the cloud, along with hosting our PLEX video library Steve has ripped from our DVD/Blu-Ray collection […]
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Nuke and Pave – the 2022 Edition
Last week I announced that I was going to do yet another nuke and pave because I was exhausted from all the weird problems I inherited from Migration Assistant. I am happy to tell you that I started the process on Monday, and by Tuesday evening I was about 90% complete. Even though it went […]
Continue readingNC #904 Panel on Memory and COVID, PhotoReviewer, Migration Assistant Disaster, Affordable EVs
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, September 4, 2022, and this is show number 904. mp3 download The next Apple announcement event is scheduled for Wednesday 7 September at 10 am Pacific Time. Steve […]
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Migration Assistant is a Disaster – Time for a Nuke & Pave
Why I Used Migration Assistant for the First Time If you have been following along with our home game for a long time, you know I’m a huge proponent of doing a Nuke and Pave to your Mac when getting a new computer. A nuke and pave means a full reinstall of macOS followed by […]
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