My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett While it is fine most of the time for the MacBook to turn itself on when you open it, sometimes it is annoying when you do not want it to for some reason. E.g. like when you want to verify that it is actually powered off before you pack it away. There are several options … Read more
This page is going to be random notes and discoveries about my new Insta360 Pro 2 VR camera. The camera is impressive. The documentation, not so much. I will likely take sections of this stream of conscience and make them into their own pages once I have enough information. The camera runs Linux for Tegra … Read more
I have a 6″ can light installed in the ceiling, which has been working fine. But I have been upgrading all my bulbs to Nanoleaf Matter controllable bulbs, and they only make a 4″ canless downlight. This, of course, does not fit into a 6″ hole. I could repair the hole, but then I’d have … Read more
While trying to figure out which process on my Mac controls the sync process to the phone, I was trying to figure out how to get a list of all the system daemons and agents. It turns out that they (well most of them) are in the man pages. man has a nice whatis feature … Read more
Most people don’t use the sync function anymore, and rely on cloud streaming. And that is fine for most people. But if you are like me, and have a carefully curated library stored uncompressed and want to listen at the full quality tracks that are not available as lossless on Apple Music, then you will … Read more
Office Functions Utility Functions Virtual Desktops Windows Key Shortcuts File Explorer Windows Settings Command Prompt Text Editing Taskbar Dialog Boxes General Usage
Windows has a command for installing (some) updates called “winget”. To see available updates, run the command and it will list installed programs and if there are updates available. To perform the updates, run the command
The key sequence will restart the display process, and possibly the device driver, and will sometimes recover from a screen that has wigged out; like when a game crashes.
During the setup, you can press shift-F10 to start a command line. From there, enter the command This should work, but may not with the Home edition. You can, however, use Rufus to create an installer that creates a local account for you.
If you get the error: It is easy to fix. This happened to me when I installed the MacPorts version of OpenSSH on my Mac (because work blocks the native ssh app rather than the port; we won’t get in to the silliness of that). Rather than trying to disable the MacOS ssh-agent (which apparently … Read more