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MacOS Privacy
On the one hand it has some pretty nice security features, decent hardware (although the effort for disassembling / fixing is higher than other laptops – and the insistence of soldering memory / storage to the mainboard is also annoying). On the other hand, when using LuLu (a very nice free and open source application…
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USB-C (fast charging) shenanigans
It’s nice that more and more devices have USB-C interfaces. Yet, they are not without their particularities: Happy charging! Photo taken from Andreas G with permission.
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Adding your Google Calendar entries to the iOS calendar
Noting this here in the hopes that it will be useful for somebody (or even me :)) in the future, since it took me longer than I expected to figure this out. Scenario: you have a Google account with entries in Google Calendar that you would like to see on your iOS device (iPad /…
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New option for adblocking on iOS
To start with: good ad blocking is the best one can do for their security / privacy online these days! For a long time adblocking on iOS devices (iPad / iPhone) was limited. One could use DNS based blocking (Pi-Hole or NextDNS are good options), but many advertisement circumvent these blocks. There was AdBlockPlus which…
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Ripping BlueRays with Handbrake
(under GNU/Linux) Noting this here because all the information I could find on the Interned told me “use MakeMKV for it”. And while MakeMKV seems like a fine product, it’s a bit harder to install, since it doesn’t seem to be packaged for Debian at least. I still gave Handbrake a try (since it is…
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Mainboard photos of HP t630
The wonderful parkytowers.me.uk website doesn’t detailed photos of both sides of the HP t630 thin client, so – in case this would be useful for anyone – here are some photos I’ve made: It’s a very useful little fanless (!) machine. The DisplayPort outputs even support HDMI-CEC when connected to a TV, out of the…
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Debian booting on a Swiss train
It was fun to see 🙂
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Maximum memory for Lenovo Yoga 370
(and the Asus Q170T) I’ve picked up a Lenovo Yoga 370 because (amongst other features) it has a removable / upgradable RAM slot (yes, two slots would have been even better :)). You can find various sources (including ChatGPT) claiming it to be 16GB, however, if we look up the processor for this particular model…
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Lampa Raptor combination lock manual
Archiving it here for posterity: (the combination is in the password manager)
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Donations
At this point in my life I’m lucky enough that I have some expendable income. So here are a couple of organizations / individuals I donated to recently – maybe this will inspire you dear reader to also donate some – if you have the means to do so: Somewhat related: my employer also offers…