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Continue reading →: tech: Apple Home long-term frustrations and vital tricksI’ve been trying to be all Apple Homekit for the last three years and it has gone so, so. Some things work, but some of the time is how I would summarize it. Still, I miss it when we go to a hotel and I can’t just say, “Siri turn…
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Continue reading →: Mac: Latest OLCP tricks disable dGPU, searchpartyd spinWe’ve now transitioned four very different machines: MacBook Pro 2017, MacBook Pro 2014, MacBook Air 2012 and Mac mini 2011. TL;dr. Here is the latest update on getting all these old Macs to run, so a summary of the outstanding problems Here are the details on how we fixed the…
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Continue reading →: home: New Guide for Apple Home Smart Humidifiers 2024
There are not many of these actually, I can only find four of them. Of these, the most reasonable seems to be the AirVersa Humidor. I like the look of the SmartMi Rainforest, but it’s hard to justify paying $300 for a humidifier no matter how beautiful. They don’t seem…
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Continue reading →: wp: New touches for Menus, Footers and Blogrolls
OK, now that I have some reasonable stability with WordPress, I might as well do the final tweaks to make it work well. It is pretty confusing to change appearance because WordPress has its primitive mechanism, so most theme builders are building on top of that. I’ve been using the…
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Continue reading →: wp: JetPack Connection now fixed by deleting cookiesI figured out what was going on here and the fix because I saw that on my phone there was no connection problem, but not in the web application. The fix is to delete the cookies for wordpress.com and then the connection works. There must be stale data there. One…
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Continue reading →: Re: Reblog
Reblog via Drew Harwell Learning how the Friends plugin works. Reblog just takes from my friends feed that are combination of mastodon posts and RSS articles and sticks them on this site. New: Cops are going into pharmacies and walking out with people's most sensitive health information. No warrant or…
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Continue reading →: wp: Outstanding WordPress bugs with redis, Disqus, and JetPackWell things are working pretty well, here are my outstanding bugs: Of these, the Redis one is the most concerning, if it keeps happening, it looks like it is PHP log time.
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Continue reading →: wp: Now make WordPress integrate with MastodonThis isn’t super well documented but Alex explains it pretty well. As more people try to migrate to the fediverse there are four distinct goals for Mastodon WordPress integration I think in order of difficulty Keeping your content on your site with ActivityPub, Those were the simple things to do,…
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Continue reading →: wp: New fix for redis max memory worked!It took a while for all this to propagate, but looking at the Digital Ocean plots, you can see what was happening was lots of thrashing as the redis cached into the disk-based swapfile. While the memory load remains high at nearly 100%, you can see the CPU utilization has…
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Continue reading →: wp: How to fix WordPress crashes due to Redis memory
OK, so after I got the performance of WordPress up to decent with the help of redis and other tricks, this site went from a horrible 9 seconds to a very decent 1.5 seconds. But, I did find that it would become unavailable 4-6 times a day. I thought this…
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