Author: johayek
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completing the set-up of my MacBook Pro (13.3-inch – “MacBookPro15,2”)
This nice device was BJH’s 1st own MacBook at all. He bought it refurbished. Quite some while after not really using it, he noticed, the battery is weak, and the fan was too loud (for him). Actually I think he only needs a gaming computer and an iPad and nothing else. The MacBook Air I…
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upgrading my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) from macOS Mojave (AKA 10.14) to … hopefully Sonoma (AKA 14) …
What an adventure … They let me upgrade directly from Mojave (AKA 10.14) to Sonoma (AKA 14). Until 2021 I was pretty much always pretty uptodate on my Macs and on my Synology DiskStations. But then a few young fools frightened me, and I got stuck for ages with outdated OS versions. I finally had…
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upgrading my MacBook Air (“MacBookAir6,2”) from macOS Catalina (AKA 10.15) to just macOS Big Sur (AKA 11)
What an adventure … macOS 11 is the latest macOS, they provide for my MacBook Air.
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the Signal app: how to transfer chat history to a “new” Mac? this path is currently not supported (2023-12-25)
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Backup-and-Restore-Messages
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emacs vs macOS keyboard shortcuts
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2262/mac In emacs I certainly use “ctrl-SPACE” a lot in order to mark a location in a a buffer. On macOS that is by default already taken. But you can change it anyway. Read the article above! Where it says “In the list on the left, select a category”, select “Input Sources”! Here we are.
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WordPress “Share this post” – how to get rid of it?
Most of the time I don’t want to share my posts on LinkedIn or wherever. It’s just their way of getting me to subscribe to a Jetpack premium service. I do understand, they need to make some money – for sure. But I just don’t want to get reminded I exceeded the number of free…
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there is time for pop music, for RnR, for RaB, and for jazz … – but jazz is THE MUSIC
based on Ecclesiastes 3. quite some years ago a dear friend called my kind of jazz “elevator music”, but then …:
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I started something new today: every (important) person will get its “open issues” file on my NAS
apart from the “open issues” file, I also keep a diary file for some people – apart from that they have “their entries” on my main diary (~/diary) of course. yes, I am worse than Stasi in a way. when did “this nerd” (that’s me) last mention, I now have 6 NAS-s running?
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