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Continue reading →: hiking: Things that you need on a hike in Bear country
Well, we just spent three days out of cell phone coverage in the wilds of the Canadian Rockies, so here are some lessons and things to bring for that situation: Whistle. This is a location that is completely out of cell phone range and there are lots of bears about…
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Continue reading →: When Neovim Cannot find Python3
Ok, this problem has really been bothering me, but I use four levels of python virtualization. I don’t need all of these but they are from history, so they are: Homebrew installation. YOu can install multiple versions of python with brew install python@3.8 for instance. I don’t use this that…
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Continue reading →: apple: 2022 Fall purchases for Watch and iPhone, hold for iPad and MacBook Pros
Well, it’s an interesting time in the Apple lifecycle, basically, the next generation chips are out, so the iPhone 14 Pro gets the new A16 in 4nm and the low-end MacBook Air and Pro 13 get the new M2 in 5nm. So the performance improvements are massive, about 20% for…
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Continue reading →: Daily Videos on Holidays with iMovie and Final Cut Pro
Well, I’ve already written how you can edit and shoot an entire wedding video on the iPhone 12 Pro Max with the included iMovie, but just this week, I did a series of “dailies” from a hiking trip that went really well. We were completely off the grid, so all…
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Continue reading →: Home: Enduring a power failure, UPS, VA and Latex
OK, we had a six-hour-long power failure here. Fortunately, Seattle City Light does a great job keeping people informed if you have access to the Internet at their outage page. You just call (206) 684-3000 to report one. And in our case, we were down from 930-1630 or so. The…
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Continue reading →: TV: Update on HDR and Spatial Audio on Mac and iDevices and LG B9
OK, early this year, I did some research on how to get HDR and Spatial Audio working on the Mac and iDevices and things have gotten a little better but to remind people, there are two cases, dedicated applications that are available on the iPhone and then on the Mac,…
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Continue reading →: music: Using Kid3 to Tag Album collections
Ok, there are times when I want to organize a collection of MP3s as a single anthology. That is I want to override the individual album names and also rename the files so they all go together. As an example, if I want all the Billboard Hot 100 songs of…
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Continue reading →: net: UniFi Network Frequency Assignments
OK, most of the Unifi recommendations are that you turn off automatic frequency assignment and then do it, yourself. Of course there are very few guides that tell you exactly how to do that, but basically, there are few ideas that I use. The Basics: non-overlapping channels There are six…
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Continue reading →: Hike: fixing a gossamer gear trekking pole with a screw extractor
Huge thanks to @matthew for this tip. But someone who shall remain nameless accidentally stepped on their gossamer gear trekking pole and the bottom third snapped leaving part of it inside the telescoping system. This thing has a friction fit joint. And while Gossamer gear has an awesome repair site…
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Continue reading →: phone: US Mobile and the mysteries of eSIMs on Pixel 6 and 6 Pro phones
Wow, this was really hard. The basic problem was I think the directions have changed quite a bit, but the main trick or problem is that with Android 12, you actually need to put a physical SIM into it to “trick” it into giving you an esim (aka SIM2), so…