There are articles and vids out there with X and BlueSky post screenshots.

Vapid, not valid. Meh.

M1 Max MacBook Pro. The setup involves a Thunderbolt 3 to Thunderbolt 2 adapter chained to a Thunderbolt 2 to FireWire 800 adapter, which in turn is chained to a FireWire 800 to 400 adapter, which is then connected by a cable to the device. It's dongles all the way down.

Getting Thunderbolt ports isn't the problem; Apple's Thunderbolt-to-FireWire hardware does that, too. Without FireWire device family support in the kernel, FireWire hardware can't be used, period.

Admiral Ackbar: "It's a trappist!"

I depend on FireWire audio interfaces, so everything from Tahoe on is dead to me for the foreseeable future.

My problem is that I don't do audio recording often enough to justify spending the thousands of dollars it would cost to buy all new hardware, but I do it often enough that I can't upgrade my operating system and lose the capability. It's that really annoying middle ground that Apple really doesn't support well, though to be fair, I've gotten thirteen years out of it after Apple stopped shipping built-in FireWire ports, so I guess that's not too horrible. :-)

I tried getting off of FireWire a long time ago, precisely because I suspected that this would eventually happen. But to keep costs down, my plan was to buy a MOTU LP32 ADAT-to-AVB bridge so that I could keep using 16 inputs from my existing interfaces and supplement that with a MOTU Stage-B16. The problem is, the LP32 has been on permanent back-order for about two years now, with no sign of things improving.

I'm also a late adopter after lots of bad experiences, so I just downloaded Sequoia so that at least I won't be stuck on Sonoma forever. I'm hoping that by the time they stop shipping security updates for Sequoia, either MOTU will have the LP32 available again, someone will have figured out a way to get IOFireWireFamily to build and run on later OSes, or I will have found some other low-cost solution for a large number of inputs. Not holding my breath, though, on any of the above.

Correction: kaboom

I think the real issue is warm parts of China selling to cold parts of India without including the features that aren't needed near the factory. We know lots about battery chemistry, but rural farmers have had more immediately relevant things to know about up to now and don't have a good source of information on this new thing the government is pushing, so they skip things that sound like luxuries and end up with something inappropriate for their purpose.

potential hurdles include ensuring that the methods used for startup, operation and shutdown avoid instabilities

"Instabilities" = that giant boom that Marvin the Martian always wanted to hear.

Don Q-uixote

They create a longer leverage on the port of your device which may cause damage to the ports of your computer.

The issue is: how many people did AI displace?

When you move around between meetings you don't want to lug around a hub or an adapter just to get your wired headset or mouse working well.

The USB-C is also a lot more sensitive than USB-A, they wear out faster. Something I have observed at work and it doesn't matter what marketing says, the USB-C isn't as good from the resilience and wear perspective as the connectors it replaces.

The good thing with USB-C is that it's at least possible to insert two ways instead of one.

Adapters is often a good way to break your device because they offer a lot more leverage on a soldered connector.

Hmm no: I trust a coal miner to produce better code than an AI vibe coder.