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Longer version: My apartment complex got hit by a massive lightning strike on Thursday. The think there were three contact spots, one was right over my apartment. I could literally see little strings of electricity floating in the air.
Everyone is fine, including my bunny, who just thinks I'm a big scardy cat (she's not wrong).
I thought all my electronics had escaped unscathed until the next day when I finally went to work on music... And noticed the light on my mac mini was blinking an amber SOS. Literally. That's how Apple lets you know it's super borked.
There's a long story here about me trying to figure out how to get it working here that includes a lot of self recrimination for not backing up my fucking music work station for the last six months, but it's really not worth going into. The moral is that I sent it off to a place that appears to be able to fix the logic board.
Why bother? I hear you ask. Well, did you know that with the M1 Mac Minis that they solder the HD to the logic board (motherboard for you PC folkies) and then put an encryption cypher on the CPU that is used to secure those chips? Oh yes, indeed, it means I can't take the HD off of the board and, even if I could, it wouldn't help because I would need that CPU in order to make my HD work.....
Hence I'm sending it to a specialist in hopes they can at least get it alive long enough to pull the data off. But only time will tell.
In the mean time...I guess I won't be doing any music or video work since I don't have a computer until it gets back and I don't want to throw money at a new one until I know this one's fate.
