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Continue reading →: web: prevent Read.ai intrusive Zoom lurking now
OK, I try lots of different AI applications and just to warn all of you read.ai is the worst. Basically, once you enable it to use Zoom, even if you disconnect it, it will keep recording and end up as a participant in all your meetings. For some reason, I…
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Continue reading →: tech: Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are useful
OK, I’ve been using these glasses for a while and I’m surprised at how often I use them. The killer feature is not what you would expect, it is that since it uses bone conduction you can listen to podcasts during any boring meeting. The biggest problem is that we…
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Continue reading →: tech: Qi2 is here! New stands, mats, and travel chargers
Qi2 is here with CES and all those $150 MagSafe 2 charging systems are getting cheaper. It’s pretty clear that Qi2 is going to be way cheaper, so let’s look at ways to put a full Qi2 system for phones, headphones, and watches in every room would You can say…
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Continue reading →: tech: Apple Home long-term frustrations and vital tricks
I’ve been trying to be all Apple Homekit for the last three years and it has gone so, so. Some things work, but some of the time is how I would summarize it. Still, I miss it when we go to a hotel and I can’t just say, “Siri turn…
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Continue reading →: Mac: Latest OLCP tricks disable dGPU, searchpartyd spin
We’ve now transitioned four very different machines: MacBook Pro 2017, MacBook Pro 2014, MacBook Air 2012 and Mac mini 2011. TL;dr. Here is the latest update on getting all these old Macs to run, so a summary of the outstanding problems Here are the details on how we fixed the…
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Continue reading →: home: New Guide for Apple Home Smart Humidifiers 2024
There are not many of these actually, I can only find four of them. Of these, the most reasonable seems to be the AirVersa Humidor. I like the look of the SmartMi Rainforest, but it’s hard to justify paying $300 for a humidifier no matter how beautiful. They don’t seem…
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Continue reading →: wp: New touches for Menus, Footers and Blogrolls
OK, now that I have some reasonable stability with WordPress, I might as well do the final tweaks to make it work well. It is pretty confusing to change appearance because WordPress has its primitive mechanism, so most theme builders are building on top of that. I’ve been using the…
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Continue reading →: wp: JetPack Connection now fixed by deleting cookies
I figured out what was going on here and the fix because I saw that on my phone there was no connection problem, but not in the web application. The fix is to delete the cookies for wordpress.com and then the connection works. There must be stale data there. One…
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Continue reading →: Re: Reblog
Reblog via Drew Harwell Learning how the Friends plugin works. Reblog just takes from my friends feed that are combination of mastodon posts and RSS articles and sticks them on this site. New: Cops are going into pharmacies and walking out with people's most sensitive health information. No warrant or…
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Continue reading →: wp: Outstanding WordPress bugs with redis, Disqus, and JetPack
Well things are working pretty well, here are my outstanding bugs: Of these, the Redis one is the most concerning, if it keeps happening, it looks like it is PHP log time.