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OK, this is a small but confusing thing. With iCloud, you get a base of 5GB of free storage for each family member. Needless to say this doesn’t last long, with a few two-minute videos, you are going to be a 4GB. So, if you buy the $0.99/month plan you…

OK, now that I’m finished with Darktable, onto making videos with Final Cut Pro so here is version 3 tips and tricks on yet another incredibly deep product, Final Cut Pro Here are the ones that I found (and keep forgetting): If you want to watch the videos that explain…

Well, this is a strange one. Three years ago we had a bunch of instability with WordPress on DigitalOcean because we were running out of memory, so I installed a swapfile with some magic commands. Then two years ago, I had another set of WordPress crashes because certbot on two…

Well, 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…

When 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…

Man, 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…

OK, 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),…

OK, 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…