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Thanks all for the advice, and @salad for a bit of patronizing to make the point. I'll explain the Apple procedure to Pa slightly more sympathetically and yes, if worse comes to worse I'm sure he'll have the receipt somewhere that he can show.
I get it that this is a rookie problem, just dealing with a dad who's much worse with tech than he'd like to think and was very miffed to hear that things are more complicated when he thought he'd sorted me out. Just old dogs and new tricks, y'all know how it is!
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Does anyone know how to set up a Mac that has been used by someone before? My dad has given me a Macbook Pro M1 that he has barely used. He wiped it but I think might have not switched off Activation Lock. Now when I start it up there's no way of getting around Recovery Assistant.
And my old man has given me what he thinks is his Apple ID and pword but that's not allowing me to get in. And he can't remember the pword of the machine. Classic boomer.
I was thinking to go to an Apple store and see what's up. My dad lives in Africa so comms are complicated but maybe he tries resetting his Apple ID and giving me the logins. But is there some alternative? I know there are some special startup options where you hold certain keys on a restart...
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Cheers for this, also to Chack and Alf0nse. It's my first shinsplint and came as a surprise as I've been pretty careful about the 10% weekly increase, mobility, progression running mainly... Felt like I'd been hoofed in the shin on Saturday and Sunday but calming now. Still limping a bit but my physio helped a lot yesterday and I hope to do some treadmill on Friday and see how that goes.
It's a bummer but if any week's not a bad one to sit out it's when snow and sleet arrive. Just really hoping that I can get back at it soonish and it won't be an interminable or recurring problem. Doing all the shin splinty exercises right now.
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Balls. Did a few longer runs in the week and Friday a long-ish one in the morning. Felt fine and went through the day but towards evening a pain in my front lower shin had developed. This has grown after a short slow jog on Saturday and small walking. I can actually hear the tendon creaking when I move my foot up and down so pretty sure it's shin splints.
Real bummer but what now? I'll have to do a bit of walking to get to the office and was thinking I'd go for a swim to see if that helps. I can see plenty of stretches and rehab exercises for once the initial pain subsides but not sure how much of that I can do now. Are there any gentle movements that will help?
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@salad No worries at all, it's an obvious point! But yeh, the old man is very frustrated and starts harping on about "bring back the good ole days" etc. He said maybe I'd be better selling it for the cash, at which point I suggested we drop this and wait until he's back in the UK (rather than tell him it's effectively an expensive paperweight haha).
Heartfelt thanks to all, it's actually quite simple: if he can't find the pword anywhere I'll tell him to reset his Apple ID and pass on the deets. Failing that we'll try the proof of purchase route.