I was determined to put an end to my ongoing nightmare and get my Mac Mini up and running. After yet another run to the electronics mall, I tried to plug in the wall socket…
…with this voltage converter plug…
…and the voltage converter…
…to this adapter…
…and then this Chinese plug…
…to the exotic Mac Mini power brick plug…
…into the discontinued Mac Mini power brick…
…to the Mac Mini plug…
…and into the back of my Mac Mini…
I pressed the power button on the Mac Mini.
Nothing happened.
Fuck.
So I replaced the this adpater going into the voltage converter……with this one…
…pressed power and my Mac Mini powered on for the first time since 1 December 2014!
I then tried to connect the DVI-to-HDMI cable from my Mac Mini to the TV in my living room. That worked fine, but I couldn’t figure out how to plug in the miniplug-to-RCA cable to get audio.
Fuck.
One more trip to the electronics mall and I got this…
That worked.
Difficult, difficult, lemon difficult.
But now I can finally balance my checkbook on Quicken and stream video to my TV.
Best. Tomb Sweeping Day. EVER.