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Continue reading →: web: New Google Workspace AI, browser sync, and OLCP fixesOK, some gentle reminders on making everything work. The first is that if you are using Google Workspace, you currently have to allow Bard for all your users. This also enables Google AI Studio which you can use to manage your prompts for vision and test them and NotebookLM which…
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Continue reading →: Mac: New life for MacBooks 2010-2017 with OpenCore Legacy Patcher
Well, I’ve had some pretty good luck with OCLP to update old Macs to the latest MacOS Ventura, and Sonoma. Right now I’ve got running and it’s a pretty good list. The main thing to do is to make sure you are using the latest Open Core Legacy Patcher. So…
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Continue reading →: tech: Easy tips on listening to AudiobooksWell, I find that I’m way more efficient listening to audiobooks than having the time to read. For some reason, I can multitask pretty well particularly when driving or trying to reset Apple Home problems (argh!). So if you are like me and you have a book that you need…
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Continue reading →: tech: New 32″ monitor? waiting for next Apple Cinema Display…OK, this is a painful one, but our trusty Benq BL3200 which five years ago was an amazing 2550p monitor has been rained on (roof leak, argh!) and now has a failure in one of the vertical pixels which is pretty annoying, so time to check out rtings.com and get…
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Continue reading →: web: I Love Fedistar for a Mac Mastodon clientsMan, there is “let a thousand flowers bloom in the world of reading Mastodon”. In contrast, you get just one for Threads and in some ways, there are so many clients. I haven’t settled on a client for iOS or the Mac yet, but here are some notes on the…
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Continue reading →: vid: Great Final touches on Final Cut Pro with Faux HDR, Voice Isolation and De-ess in Final Cut Pro
I think I finally have a handle on most of the Final Cut Pro features that I need but didn’t understand six months ago. Here’s a great list that I haven’t found compiled on the Internet somewhere. Faux HDR from SDR video This is copied from the work I do…
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Continue reading →: wp: Unexpected a Theme can break redis object cache and debug cross-postingOk, things seem to be working great, but when I tried to switch from SwipeWP Theme to Pen theme and remove some plugins, I got a redis error, the actual redis object server crashed and even when I rebooted, it crashed again. I’m not sure why, but beware of this,…
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Continue reading →: wp: So happy, now adding back in Mastodon pluginsI have a whole host of these which allow amongst other things, the ability to use this server as a Mastodon web client and you can also view this blog as a Mastodon server. Pretty neat, but let’s see if it slows the system down. It takes about 10 seconds…
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Continue reading →: wp: Great! All-in-one SEO plugin conflict causes 10x more CPU
OK, now we are getting somewhere, I finally disabled All-in-one SEO because I saw how much resource it took looking at Query Monitor. I noticed that both Monster Insights and SEO All-in-one were putting up Headline suggestions, so I tried that in the quest to keep reducing, and suddenly things…
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