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Month: May 2021

Painting Within Tent: Edward Lear in the Land of the Jumblies 2

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Edward Lear paints his visits to Palestine, Greece, Albania, and India, including a breathtaking view of Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling.

May 20, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Adding more Thunderbolt ports using a Kensington SD5700T Dual 4K Dock

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It has been years coming, but I’ve finally got a Thunderbolt hub/dock which lets me connect more TB3 disks. Was it worth the wait and cost?

May 20, 2021 Macs, Technology

Painting Within Tent: Edward Lear in the Land of the Jumblies 1

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Once Britain’s foremost natural history artist, when he realised his eyesight was failing he turned to painting landscapes on his travels.

May 19, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Dealing with a kernel panic during M1 startup

My M1 Mac mini was stuck trying to start up. Its power light was on, but there was no video output, and to all intents it was dead.

May 19, 2021 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 10: Madness in the mountains

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In which a young noble starts telling the story as to how he came to pay penance in the mountains, but never finishes. The theft of Sancho’s donkey, and Don Quixote feigns madness.

May 18, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Getting more from Activity Monitor: CPU

What you can learn about the processes running on your Mac, its processor cores, even the files which an app has open.

May 18, 2021 Macs, Technology

Rebirth: The end of the Renaissance

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From about 1530, painting started to change. Brushstrokes became visible, anatomy exaggerated, composition less balanced and ideal. First Mannerism, then came the Baroque.

May 17, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 99

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 99. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Open, […]

May 17, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

How M1 Macs feel faster than Intel models: it’s about QoS

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By segregating macOS background tasks on Efficiency cores, M1 Macs can run user apps unfettered on their Performance cores. And that feels really fast.

May 17, 2021 Macs, Technology, Updates

So to bed: paintings of beds 2

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The deathbed, hospital beds through the ages, and what we apparently get up to when we take a friend to bed.

May 16, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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