The Big (Sur) (Upgrade) Questions

Aware in advance “32-bit Macintosh applications” wouldn’t run under a future revision of their operating system, I sought out alternatives for some, bought upgrades for others, and just sort of stopped using some neither option seemed possible for. As it turned out, the more or less simply amusing application I’d spent the most time getting running command-line-driven and Python-powered alternatives of a sort for received a substantial upgrade in the end. When system 10.15 did arrive, though, the “never upgrade under any circumstances ever” crowd had bugs to feast on and I lapsed into supposing that while I hadn’t installed systems 10.7 or 10.10 on my computers, I’d gathered the courage to move on to their successors (even if this would keep me from titling a post about upgrading “Catalina Caper.”)
( Jumping numbers )