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Month: January 2025

Why all the snapshots?

How snapshots are created from a volume in around 0.01 second, why they will grow in size over time, how they can only be of complete volumes, and can’t be edited.

January 7, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 52 Death of Adonis

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The lover of Venus is gored in the groin by a wild boar, and dies in pools of blood to be transformed into red anemone flowers.

January 6, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 289

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 289. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

January 6, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Power Modes and Apple Silicon GPUs

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Apple refers to Energy Modes and Power Modes, and despite older MacBook Pro models offering Low Power mode, tells us that isn’t what Low Power mode is now. Here are the observations and explanations.

January 6, 2025 Macs, Technology

Frozen: painting the winter ice 1883-1917

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Paintings by Frits Thaulow, Emile Claus, Lesser Ury, Hans Andersen Brendekilde, Lovis Corinth, Tom Thomson and others. Brrrr!

January 5, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: How Apple silicon came so quickly

It’s September 2016. Apple has just released the iPhone 7, with its first big.LITTLE CPU cores, then 4 days later macOS 10.12 Sierra. How does it transition from there to release the M1 in four years?

January 5, 2025 Macs, Technology

Frozen: painting the winter ice 1565-1873

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Paintings by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Aelbert Cuyp, van Ruisdael, Caspar Wolf, Jongkind, Whistler and others of ice on rivers, canals, lakes and the sea. Brrrr.

January 4, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 289

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: The most […]

January 4, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of Mac numeric processing

The Motorola 68000 CPU had no floating point instructions, so Apple introduced SANE, then went on to the PowerPC Velocity Engine, and its Accelerate framework, and more.

January 4, 2025 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 181 Magpie

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One for sorrow, two for joy, according to the rhyme. Magpies play cameo roles in several major paintings, as shown here.

January 3, 2025 General, Life, Painting

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