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Explainer: Cloud storage

There ain’t no such thing as a free lunch: cloud storage is a valuable adjunct, not a substitute for local backups.

February 26, 2022 Macs, Technology

Paintings of Nils Jakob Blommér: 1 Norse Myths

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One of a group aiming to create a national Swedish art in the mid-19th century, he painted Norse myths in the period 1846-50.

February 25, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Command tools – alisma, blowhole, cintch, cmpxat and unorml – updated

Updates replace an expiring developer ID installer certificate. All are Universal binaries, fully signed and notarized.

February 25, 2022 Macs, Technology

Altogether Now: 4 Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Netherlandish Proverbs, 1559

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A unique visual encyclopaedia featuring more than a hundred proverbs, followed by a similar compendium of children’s games.

February 24, 2022 General, Life, Painting

CPU percentage is misleading on M1 Macs

In Activity Monitor, % CPU isn’t on a scale of 0-100. In M1 Macs, it also makes no distinction between E and P cores, nor does it allow for their changing frequency.

February 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

Painting Everyday London: 7 Malcolm Drummond

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A pupil of Sickert, his painting are high in chroma and influenced by Post-Impressionism. He has sadly become largely forgotten today.

February 23, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How to prevent errors on SSDs

If your SSD suddenly loses power, what is there to prevent it from incurring serious errors as a result? Practical solutions.

February 23, 2022 Macs, Technology

Art and Science: 11 New paint

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Acrylics are too chemically complex for artists to prepare themselves, containing packaged blends of polymers with surfactants, and much more.

February 22, 2022 General, Life, Painting

WindowServer is hungry for memory on M1 Macs

Each additional Safari window increases WindowServer’s memory use by 1.7 MB on an Intel Mac, but 50 MB on an M1 Mac – thirty times more.

February 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Don Quixote 46: Attacked by night

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In the previous episode, Sancho Panza made up for his lunchtime starvation by eating voraciously at dinner. It […]

February 21, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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