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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@_maxobermeier/116093143224789780
Neat
idea! Simple widget and a really nicely designed app to boot 🌱

18 February 2026 @ 7:48 pm

Sheesh - just needed to use brew on a relative’s new Mac Mini (old printer needed drivers) and the first result for “homebrew install” was a sponsored link to an Evernote page that looked semi-official. It had the usual copy & paste terminal command with a dodgy base64 encoded url.
Stay frosty out there folks!

14 February 2026 @ 4:08 pm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@dmnelson/116038179866777494
It seems wild now, but back when I was working at a Mac reseller as a student, the easy end-user upgrades were a selling point. #righttorepair

9 February 2026 @ 7:54 am

macOS mystery disk space reporting strikes again: My 1TB drive was filled with 600GB of APFS snapshots that none of the usual tools were able to clear.
They turned out to be failed time machine backups that you can clear in Disk Utility, but that's not shown or explained anywhere, they were just lumped in with "System Data".#macos

7 February 2026 @ 12:34 pm

Does anyone else get battery anxiety watching Stranger Things? I mean it’s the 80s and they’re running around with battery powered torches and radios all day – didn’t things have like 90 minutes of battery life in the 80s?

29 December 2025 @ 11:19 pm

Does anyone like Spatial Audio for watching TV or films? Whenever we’re watching something on Apple TV and the audio seems weirdly off or quiet, it’s always Spatial Audio that’s somehow been switched on again.

8 November 2025 @ 9:28 pm

The “Automix” option in Apple Music just did a weird crossfade, slowing “Call me Al” from 128bpm down to 100bpm to match “Ldn” by Lily Allen.
Thought I was having a stroke for a second, it sounded very weird.

28 September 2025 @ 3:29 pm

iOS 26 has some debatable UI choices but I’m seriously impressed how much snappier it feels – at least on my old iPhone 13 Pro.
#ios26

16 September 2025 @ 9:11 pm

Not having an easy WOL option on UniFi gateways is such a pita and weird omission given how easy they make everything else.
You can SSH in and do it that way, but it should be a simple button in the otherwise stellar app. #unifi #ubiquiti

7 September 2025 @ 7:55 pm

What are the odds – we go away for 3 days and a lightning storm took out the DSL modem at home (at least that's what I'm assuming it was…)

16 August 2025 @ 7:52 pm