Wireless phone charger - Tesla
Love the Tesla Model 3. When I got it I thought the clever way to route a charger cable up from the front USB ports was nice, but after a while I got real tired of having to poke the phone onto the plug whenever I got in the car. The Tesla M3 subreddit had a thread about adding Qi wireless phone charging to the front compartment, and there seemed to be no real competition to the product from TapTes.
Apple · English · Mobile · Tesla · Uncategorized
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TL866 firmware updater macOS support
I own a TL866CS IC programmer. Wonderful device - I truly recommend it (and I assume its successor is even better). It’s been known for many years that the company who made them had one hardware revision, and limited the CS revision compared to the A revision purely in firmware. That limitation has of course been hacked for almost as long as the device has existed. Someone going by the name “radioman” detailed many years ago how the bootloader could be reflashed from CS version to A, after which the original software and firmware updates will see the device as the A model in all aspects.
Apple · Code · Development · English · Retro · Uncategorized
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How to config an Airport Extreme from Linux
This weekend is a long weekend in Sweden - and of course I’m away from home, hacking away at the infrastructure I’m far away from. During that hacking I needed to change a mapped port in my router, and suddenly realized I couldn’t. I use the latest Airport Extreme (it really has the best performance, throughput as well as wireless stability) and the only machines I remote into are Linux (Ubuntu 16.
Airport · Apple · English · Uncategorized · Wine
2 minutes
How to run Mavericks on too old hardware
Why my Mac Mini from 2008 (model 2,1) went from Snow Leopard to Lion to Mavericks in the last 24 hours. I like my Mac Mini. It’s the first Mac I ever bought, on a whim, and it’s served me well both as a workstation and lately more of a combined NAS, Minecraft and darknet server. I populated it with 4 (3.3 usable) GB RAM from the outset, and a few years ago I switched out its 5,400 rpm hard drive for an SSD.
Apple · English · Macmini · Mavericks · Sfott · Uncategorized
3 minutes
Use an HP Compaq L2311c with Mac
The L2311c monitor is a "desktop hot-swappable" monitor to which you connect USB devices and ethernet, where you’re supposed to only then have to connect it to your computer via a single USB cable to access all of its functionality. On Windows. Out of the box, the integrated webcam as well as USB keyboards and mice connected to its port work fine. The USB Ethernet (LAN7500) as well as USB Graphics (UFX7000) does not work however.
Apple · English · Uncategorized
2 minutes
A few months ago I had to give up using my Mac Mini as my primary personal computer. I couldn’t put my finger on when, but looking back I realized it had gotten slower and slower to use since the day of purchase, and while I could understand that having two users logged on all the time while running a few services could tax a 3GB system I wasn’t happy with it becoming completely unresponsive for several seconds - sometimes minutes (!
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Apple might like to polish their user interfaces, but sometimes the logic underneath is … less polished. I’ve had to transfer large amounts of data from one external USB disk to another today. Running Snow Leopard on an Intel Mac Mini. Guess which one of the following graphs show the faster method?   Apparently OSX Finder does read-to-mem, write-to-disk, read-to-mem, write-to-disk - serially. Path Finder, a replacement, is thus twice as fast since it transfers the data in a synchronous read-write operation.
Apple · English · Finder · Osx · Pathfinder
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