My Little Pocket Universe
Scott Garrett So you have your shiny new Mac, and you want to back it up to a Time Machine volume, but you don’t want to have it dangling from a USB cable, a great option is to back up to a linux host using Samba. In the past, you would have used netatalk over the AFP … Read more
If you have tried to export a filesystem from your Mac to be used on another host, you might have had problems getting it to connect. The problem turns out to be simple, though the errors are… obtuse. For me, when I set up a share in /etc/exports, and tried to mount it from a … Read more
If you are using Chrome/Edge/Opera and it will not let you past a self-signed cert, on the error screen, just click in the window somewhere and type “thisisunsafe” to get past it.
As anyone who has upgraded to Ubuntu 22+ will know, they have deprecated and removed the traditional firefox package, and only the snap version is available and supported. And this is fine for anyone running the desktop. But for those of us who use the server version of Ubuntu, and often need to use a … Read more
So you have your nice shiny linux box, and you are properly not allowing remote root logins, but you still need to be able to run X11 apps as root through ssh. But when you try, you get the dreaded error like: Gtk-WARNING **: 19:41:13.383: cannot open display: localhost:10.0 Well that is a pain. This … Read more
Someone has already made a nice wrapper that installs Emulation Station on the Steam Deck called EmuDeck. This provides a very nice interface for emulating older game systems. It is highly reliant on the RetroArch system, but takes a lot of the pain out of setting it up. One thing that is missing from RetroArch, … Read more
So you have your shiny new Steam Deck. Wouldn’t it be nice to protect it and be able to find it if it were lost or stolen? Well, with an Apple AirTag, and the willingness to crack open your shiny new toy, you can! It would be simple enough to attach the AirTag to the … Read more
Sometimes you need things in life to slow down. Modern terminal emulators are great tools, and they can render text very quickly. This is usually the desired effect. But there are times when you need things to come at you a little slower. I have some old vt100/ansi animations that essentially do nothing when they … Read more
Yes, it is, in fact possible (and in fact, it’s free, too). No, you will not be playing games on it. To get it to work, you will be emulating x86-64 instructions, rather than pure virtualization, which means it will be noticeably slower than running on an Intel based Mac. To get it working, I … Read more
For some dumb reason, Apple has decided that an admin cannot see useful information in the logs of the Mac. I’m sure there is some security justification they have, but when security becomes such that usability is not there, then it serves no purpose. There is no simple way to enable viewing of the private … Read more