

Least to blame is companies that don’t support good hardware that can have failures. Some engineer somewhere designed the hardware and blame government for not checking the engineer was licensed or clawing back licenses when people ship garbage hardware. So now the blame shifts engineers for working on products they know can’t be reliable and doing what management asks. For most people, understanding that interference can happen helps them find practical remedies. Now, if the Mac works without any accessories, you have to blame the accessory or purchaser of the accessory of you insist on a blame centric worldview.

The inverse square power law means that a signal that is very weak a few feet away can cause severe interference right next to the Bluetooth and WiFi disrupting the 2.4 GHz signal. For me, it’s just a matter of keeping the Mac charged long enough, so I’m either going to need a) A dock that supports what I’m doing or b) I’ll have to replace the battery.Blame physics. Sure enough, the drive mounts on my iMac 2017 iMac and I’m trying to clone it using carbon copy cloner, but alas my battery will only hold a charge for five minutes and it says “replace now“īut I can see why that guy assumed it was impossible, because he obviously tried and failed. If you can’t use it to extract data, then what is it for?)īut recently, I bought a LaCie drive and it came with a thick orange cable with the thunderbolt icon so I thought, what the hell I’ll give it a try. I actually gave up on this project after someone here posted it was impossible to extract data in TDM mode on a 12” Macbook (which I thought was odd because you can put the Mac in Target Disk Mode. In fact, just finding the right cable was a massive undertaking because the so called “Thunderbolt 3” cables I bought from Amazon, B&H, Adorama and eBay all turned out to be regular USB-C cables. Click to expand.It can’t be just any regular USB-C dock it has to support Thunderbolt 3.
