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Continue reading →: home: The nightmare that is NordVPN Threat Protection and Bonjour and do not use Localdomain for HP Color LaserJet Pro M478f Printing and HomebridgeOK, I’ve been really struggling with accessing this printer. The HP Color LaserJet would work but every time I tried to use it again, my Mac would say not found. The real clue came when I tried to access my Homebridge at homebridge.local and it worked fine on my phone…
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Continue reading →: Protected: fam: pct2. Pete and Ricky discuss the 1950 and 60sThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Continue reading →: Protected: fam: dct3. More photos from 1950sThere is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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Continue reading →: mac: Like little stones, great Utilities
For some reason, Medium seems to be filled with these little articles about Mac apps and widgets. They are mainly identical (which is why I discontinued my Medium subscription and get most of my content from Mastodon and Reddit these days), but here are some of the great utilities I…
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Continue reading →: home: SmartHome architecture 2025 and will AI save it?
We are finally so close to unifying the many systems in a house that I can taste it. If you think of the homes of say 2000, here are the systems and controls which you can see if you imagine you are coming home with every possible bell and whistle…
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Continue reading →: Mac: HDR for your MacOS and iOS devicesGetting High Dynamic Range (HDR) on your MacOS and iPhone is really complicated. TL;dr is that on your iPhone use the dedicated NetFlix and YouTube applications. On the MacOS, twiddle Safari Develop Experimental Features to turn on VP9 while on Battery and disable Video battery optimization. And yes, I don’t…
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Continue reading →: pt4: ChatGPT4 miracle for education and programming
What an amazing time actually using ChatGPT4, try the prompt, “how do I use Apple Motion to disassemble and reassemble a box”. Or “Use ROS2 to have a robot drive in a rectangle around Seattle, Washington”. Beware of what happens if GPT4 jail breaks itself and what a Red Team…
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Continue reading →: home: Robovacs the Roborock S8+ or S7 MaxV
Well, I was about to get a Roborock S7 as the best choice for Apple Home-enabled vacuum cleaner. I actually ordered it from Walmart and then returned it when I discovered the Roborock S8 was announced at CES. It does seem like there are so many improvements happening right now…
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Continue reading →: pod: Zoom lag and OBS Virtual camera hang and dim
OK, we had a great podcast session today, and here are the big lessons The Tweaks: 4K Zoom integration is awesome when it works but beware hands and Lag Almost all the issues are now with the OBS to Zoom integration, but the big ones are: Fixing the lag in…
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Continue reading →: pen: Notebooks redux and Sidekick
Well, 3-5 years ago, I went deep into fountain pens and also buying high-quality paper and I don’t think I blogged about it, but I used Wirecutter and Pen Addict to buy a few and here’s a review of what I got all good: So here are the ones I’d…
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