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Month: April 2022

Colour Notes 2: Limited palettes

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A grisaille turned into a trompe l’oeil, symphonies in white, making the transition to oil paints, an exercise for pupils, and vibrant primary colours.

April 26, 2022 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Inside the new macOS update log

The restore.log file on the Update volume contains details of all macOS updates installed since 11.0.1. Here’s a quick guide to its contents and use.

April 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 55: Resurrection

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Arriving in the courtyard of the Duke and Duchess’s castle, a young woman’s body lies on a catafalque. It’s Altisidora, who died of unrequited love for Don Quixote.

April 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 148

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 148. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Tough […]

April 25, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

How macOS manages M1 CPU cores

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From the 8 cores of the original M1 chip to the M1 Ultra’s 20, this is how macOS manages threads from apps, services and other code.

April 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

Light-dark 2: Chiaroscuro in paintings after 1700

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Examples from Wright of Derby, Turner, Millet, van Gogh, Bonnard and others. But how many used the monochrome of scotopic vision?

April 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Opening Pandora’s SSD

During the first 11.6 seconds of writing, speed was steady at 2 GB/s, then suddenly dropped to 0.7 GB/s. That’s thermal throttling for you.

April 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

Light-dark 1: Chiaroscuro in paintings to 1700

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Should chiaroscuro paintings show much in the way of colour, given that in the dark only the rods in our retinas function, giving us monochrome vision?

April 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 148

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Tough back problem […]

April 23, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: FileVault

On T2 and M1 Macs, FileVault provides robust protection of the Data volume on internal storage without any performance penalty.

April 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

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