A few months ago I had to give up using my Mac Mini as my primary personal computer.
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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.
Airport · Apple · English · Wine
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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.
Apple · English · Macmini · Mavericks · Sfott
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Apple might like to polish their user interfaces, but sometimes the logic underneath is … less polished.
Apple · English · Finder · Osx · Pathfinder
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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. To get access to the in-circuit programming abilities, you additionally have to solder a header to the mainboard . radioman’s software is open source, and exists for Linux (QT) and Windows (.NET/QT). People say it works great under parallells or VirtualBox for macOS users. But that’s no fun, is it? I spent the last week changing out libudev for macOS’ native IOKit library in the QT codebase. That’s the only change needed, since libusb has good macOS support. My macOS pull request has now also been accepted and merged into master by radioman. Open source working as intended. And my TL866CS has become a TL866A.
Apple · Code · Development · English · Retro
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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.
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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 . I’ve now had it installed for a few days and it really is completely seamless. Whenever I place the phone down in the car it charges, and the installation was relatively straight forward. On my commute is a section of freeway that’s often backed up. I let Autopilot deal with that, while I go on working through the phone (of course hands-free, officer!). Topping it up whenever possible becomes a must. Now I just need to find some way of wirelessly charging the Tesla itself.
Apple · English · Mobile · Tesla
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