{"id":3957,"date":"2015-10-07T12:25:26","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/?p=3957"},"modified":"2015-10-07T12:25:26","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T16:25:26","slug":"it-just-worked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wrote-about\/it-just-worked\/","title":{"rendered":"It Just Worked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I installed the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/osx\/\">latest Mac OS<\/a> this weekend. It was uneventful. I sat down to play Destiny on my couch. It was an afterthought. I had heard El Capitan was out so I figured what better time than a lazy Sunday afternoon to install it.<\/p>\n<p>I pulled up the Mac App Store, clicked the big banner announcing its arrival into the world and let it start to download. I forgot all about it as I ran around the planets of Destiny chatting with friends and slaughtering aliens.<\/p>\n<p>I finally noticed my computer was needing my attention. So I agreed to reboot it and it did. Installing the new OS in the process.<\/p>\n<p>When it finished, it looked and acted exactly as it had before. I noticed nothing different. If I hadn&#8217;t sat through the download and upgrade cycle, I would not have believed it did anything. <em>I did check the version number to be sure.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And there it was. A new Mac OS.<\/p>\n<p>No fuss. No mess. My computer might as well be an appliance. It works as its supposed to. It does its job admirably and doesn&#8217;t cause me problems.<\/p>\n<p>Besides adding syncing to the Notes app on iOS. I don&#8217;t know what else the new OS gives my aging 201 MacBook Pro. But it doesn&#8217;t make using it any worse. And that is the point I&#8217;m at with my technology.<\/p>\n<p>If it doesn&#8217;t give me anything new, at least don&#8217;t break anything.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I installed the latest Mac OS this weekend. It was uneventful. I sat down to play Destiny on my couch. It was an afterthought. I had heard El Capitan was out so I figured what better time than a lazy Sunday afternoon to install it. I pulled up the Mac App Store, clicked the big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"New Post - It Just Worked","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[924,922,923],"class_list":["post-3957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wrote-about","tag-el-capitan","tag-mac-os","tag-upgrade"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3967,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3957\/revisions\/3967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peroty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}