I can tell it’s some 32-bit millisecond counter without even opening the article. 49 days period is too specific.

And since I did not hear anything about MacOS network stack catastrophically breaking on any servers, the impact should be small.

The biggest online store in my country has 4GB flash drives permanently on sale for $3.

A Debian live image fits into 4GB flash drive. If you search stuff for sale you can probably find them cheap, and 4GB is practically the smallest size you can buy.