Quote: “Here, we estimate that about 67%–76% of all new infections are caused by unvaccinated individuals, implying that only 24%–33% are caused by the vaccinated. Furthermore, we estimate 38%–51% of new infections to be caused by unvaccinated individuals infecting other unvaccinated individuals. In total, unvaccinated individuals are expected to be involved in 8–9 of 10 new infections.”

Maier, B. F., Wiedermann, M., Burdinski, A., Klamser, P., Jenny, M. A., Betsch, C. & Brockmann, D. (2021). Germany’s current COVID-19 crisis is mainly driven by the unvaccinated. medRxiv. https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.11.24.21266831

Das Handelsblatt widmet sich der Frage, welche Antigen-Schnelltests die neuste Corona-Variante namens “Omikron” erkennen können. Mit Verweis auf Sandra Cieseks Tweet sind offenbar die Tests von Roche, Siemens und Flowflex zuverlässig in der Erkennung der Omikron-Variante.

Telgheder, M. (2021, 1. Dezember). Covid-19-Antigen-Schnelltests: Wie sicher sind die Ergebnisse von Schnelltests? Handelsblatt. Abgerufen am 4. Dezember 2021, von https://www.spektrum.de/news/welche-corona-schnelltests-sind-zuverlaessig/1954489

Ciesek, S. [CiesekSandra]. (2021, 28.November). Für Omikron funktionierende Schnelltests. Twitter. https://twitter.com/CiesekSandra/status/1464925734741368837

Spektrum der Wissenschaft berichtet über die Analyse eines deutschen Forschungsteams zur Zuverlässigkeit von Antigen-Schnelltests.

Ergebnis: rund jeder fünfte Test misst Mist…

Gelitz, C. (2021, 29. November). Covid-19-Antigen-Schnelltests: Wie sicher sind die Ergebnisse von Schnelltests? Spektrum der Wissenschaft. Abgerufen am 4. Dezember 2021, von https://www.spektrum.de/news/welche-corona-schnelltests-sind-zuverlaessig/1954489

Current Status of Catalina 10.15.3: 

• h264 hardware acceleration: weird or buggy (Symptom: Avidemux can’t scan timestamps in transport streams)
• mp4 system integration: buggy (Symptom: in certain cases mp4 encapulsated x264 videos cannot be opened within Ableton Live 10.x)
• Finder: weird or buggy (Symptoms: apps can’t be closed and remain open in Finder, no matter what, shutdown only via terminal then)
• SMB-Sharing: SMB1 support dropped (Symptoms: you can’t connect to your Fritz.box NAS anymore)
• Specific drivers: not [yet?] available (Symptoms: Novation Nocturne just doesn’t work at all anymore)

My recommendation: stay with Mojave a little longer, Catalina is immature. I am going back to a working macOS now and do a full restore of my properly working Mojave from mid feb 2020. Estimated restoration time for 1TB SSD: 90mins.

In case you really wanna go Catalina and burn your own fingers, let me recommend you to perform a full backup of your Mojave installation [overnight]. Depending on the disk size, this can take a cpl of hours. Carbon Copy Cloner is your tool of choice in this case…

So ten years are over. In order to use latest music production tools (Ableton 10, Reason 11 and Cubase 10) I had to upgrade my old hackintosh and set up a new one. Luckily the community and the technology has made so much progress in the meantime that lots of adaptations required to get a hackintosh to work in vanilla mode ten years ago are just not necessary anymore. For instance, nowadays UEFI has become standard on motherboards. Back then, you had to build a pseudo Apple EFI 1.x emulation on top of the BIOS. That has become a lot easier and me likey mucho.

Ok, so much for the history lessons, let’s make a long story short. After reading mainly here, here and there I set up my system with the following configuration (yes this article is a refreshed version of my older post over at TonyMacX86)…