I’ve made another new laptop purchase in the past couple months: I bought a refurbished 2020 MacBook Air from Apple.com. It has a 10th gen i3 Intel processor, 8GB of RAM, and 256GB of storage. I bought it to replace my struggling 11 year old MacBook. I bought a Lenovo Yoga 7i, but was struggling to get comfortable with it for my web development work. I made the call to get the Mac so I could directly migrate both my work computer user and my personal computer users, with the plan to use it for development and use the Yoga for other stuff.
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I accidentally made a 147GB file filled with grep output and almost filled up my hard drive.
It seems the WiFi in my aging 2009 Macbook is dying.
Continue reading post "#3461"The recent Firefox Developer Edition update (91.0b6) seems to have broken CSS rendering or something.
Continue reading post "#3459"Purchase: New laptop, Lenovo Yoga 7i
Last month, I finally bought a new laptop with plans to replace my aging 2009 Macbook as my primary computer. It is a Lenovo Yoga 7i, purchased from MicroCenter. It is a switch from Mac, which has been my primary OS for pretty much since I’ve been using computers, but it has touch screen and I hope to switch to the open world of Linux.
Continue reading post "Purchase: New laptop, Lenovo Yoga 7i"Broken Bitlocker recovery link
Apparently, Microsoft gives the wrong link for their Bitlocker recovery key page on both the Bitlocker recovery screen on the device and on the Microsoft account web page.
Continue reading post "Broken Bitlocker recovery link"The installation of a new version of nodejs via MacPorts took nearly two hours.
Continue reading post "#3312"I successfully switched my regular Firefox profiles back from Developer Edition to regular edition by waiting for the version to update.
Continue reading post "#3305"Easily typed passwords
I came across an interesting Stackexchange question about easy to type passwords. It seems a useful consideration for passwords we have to type frequently. Reading through the answers got me to thinking about a solution that fits the criteria of easy / fast to type along with the general password criteria of easy to remember and some reasonable level of secure.
My solution considers typing style for determining ease and uses words and rules for making them memorable. It keeps to the rules from the question of at least one upper case letter, one number, and one symbol.
Continue reading post "Easily typed passwords"Ideas: compute furnace
Furnace with a powerful computer system providing the heat. Will use compute cycles for scientific research or other social or personal purposes, running things like BOINC, Folding at Home, crypto mining, or rented “cloud” usage. Fans or liquid cooling systems will carry heat to a traditional forced air or water boiler system to distribute the heat throughout the home / building. System will increase or decrease CPU usage based on thermostatic control.
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