Putting Mac OS X Tiger back to work › With a little love, everything has a use › The perfect music and PDF reading workstation [01AK]

So I transferred my music and PDF libraries to the iMac—this was easy to do by creating a local WiFi network from the iMac, a functionality that has been removed in macOS(!). Indeed, modern macOS has replaced some (but not all) aspects of this functionality with what is called “Internet Sharing”, but this feature does not work reliably and in many cases the needful functionalities are unpredictably grayed out and disabled without any message explaining why. Death by a thousand papercuts... But I digress: I set up a local WiFi network with a file server easily using the old System Preferences application (don’t get me started on the bizarre redesign of System Settings introduced in macOS Ventura), and easily transferred everything I wanted to the iMac and then I was off to the races.

I listen to music and study papers on this machine, and it gives me so much joy to use this masterpiece of practical industrial design every day—I even write referee reports on it using an ancient version of OmniOutliner, a venerable piece of software that I have to say has not improved much in the past two decades. After installing a copy of Scrivener 2.5 (don’t worry, I own a license for Scrivener 3.0 and you should too!), I find myself creative writing in my free time like it’s 2006.