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Continue reading →: photo: Darktable tips and tricksWell, I can’t stand the idea of paying so much for Adobe Lightroom, so I ended up using DxO for years and years, but now DxO is sort of doing the same thing with annual upgrades, so to go from my current DxO 4 to DxO7 is $226, so this…
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Continue reading →: web: Using Figma with existing Tailwind.js sitesWhen you have a site that you’ve been working on and want it to be nice looking, it’s sort of the last thing you have time for. So here are some tips. Figma is a great online design tool that lets you do full wireframes and handle multiple pages. The…
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Continue reading →: tech: Synology Deleting Files and Shared Folders tipsMan, Synology has made some great strides in simplicity, but actually, the way it handles all the file ideas from volumes and shares to shared folders and trash is a little strange. So here are some tips and tricks:
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Continue reading →: Mac: Dozer, Bartender, and Menu Bar cleanupMan, there are just too many things on the Menu bar. I bought and paid for Bartender 5 and I have to say it’s nice that it is so customizable, but it’s a little too customizable, so I’m putting that one away and going back to Dozer. This is the…
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Continue reading →: Mac: OLCP Update, Sticky Trackpad and Bartender vs DozerOK, two quick things, I have a long post coming up on getting your Apple Home devices to work (tl;dr this is way, way, way too hard). OpenCore Legacy Patcher Long-Term Use But some quick hits for today, I have an old MacBook Pro 2014 (so just nine years old),…
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Continue reading →: tech: NordVPN Threat Protection off when using ChatGPT historyOK, a quick note, I found that on some machines, my ChatGPT session would not show any history. Lots of experimentation, but NordVPN Threat Protection blocks the history on ChatGPT. Ghostery works fine and you can use a VPN, but not Threat Protection. Go figure. I also had to turn…
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Continue reading →: tech: Synology RS2423+ Drive Screws needed and SSDsI thought that I had a bad Seagate EXOS X20 drive for my new Synology RS2423+. It’s not the end of the world and it has happened before. And Seagate has a nice user interface for generating RMAs and registering your drives. Note that their five-year warranty is from the…
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Continue reading →: photos: Getting ready for Eclipse 2024 ND10000 filtersWell, it’s time to get ready for the coming total eclipse and the last time we did this in 2017, I had a Canon 5D Mark II and got an elcheapo solar filter and it worked OK. I had a 70-200mm lens and got some decent images, but nothing that…
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Continue reading →: tech: Installing your Synology DS1824+Ok, my new Synology RS2423+ has been sitting on the floor of my server room for months and now it’s finally time to get it running. It took a long time because I first wanted to make sure my Synology DS-2413+ was backed up, this is an awesome 12-drive server…
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Continue reading →: Tech: Transition of MagSafe 3-in-1 Chargers systems as Qi2 and power increasesOk, here are the links, and the deeper technical issues but basically, MagSafe can charge at 7.5W, 10W or 15W and the more expensive devices support this. The bigger change is that Qi2 is coming, these only work with iPhone 15, but will be compatible with them. So if you…
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