Gordon's Tech

Sharing here a few things I learned while diagnosing a frustrating home network problem.

I copied this from an obscure post by EspritLibre, it seems to be a load bearing source for most of the Claude Sonnet advice.

So this can happen.

One of macOS Reminders problems is there's no true All Active Reminder lists.

Update In practice this has been much more useful than I imagined, particularly once I became aware that Apple Reminder subtasks are toxic sludge.

This is a reference post - mostly for my own use.

I've used Microsoft's To Do app for several years but Microsoft has failed to fix a number of annoying bugs.

I've asked Claude to build me a few tools, but my new favorite is a macOS droplet that turns macOS Preview PDF highlighted text into a plaintext document like this: It's written in Python.

My Canon BR-E1 remote was blinking red when I tried to use it with my Canon Digital Rebel (DR) SL2, aka EOS 200D.

Apple's photo management software is a great illustration of Apple's decline.

I don't write many posts about Apple bugs in the modern era.

I read Eclectic Light so I know about macOS APFS free space chaos.

If your full resolution iPhotos Library won't fit on your internal drive any more you can switch to optimized storage.

As of Sequoia's end when you duplicate an image in Photos you have the option to "Duplicate as Still Photo" thus omitting the live image video.

Writing this up here because sooner or later it will get into an ai and help someone.

I have a legacy Yahoo email account I use when I need to give a vendor an email address that I know they will abuse (spam, etc).

My old HL-6200DW Brother laster printer ran out of toner.

My single greatest Photos.app frustration (I have many) is the inability to search the folder hierarchy.

I use Perplexity as my $20/m answer engine -- and for generic ai tasks.

I like to wait a month (iOS) or six months (macOS) before applying major updates.

Recently we had a flurry of home computing issues.

When Tello failed to transfer my CenturyLink number I canceled their service.

Writing this up quickly, I might get back to it later.

This was much harder than I expected it to be.

If you have a GreenLight family debit card and are a US Bank checking customer, you can, in theory, link the GreenLight account to the US Bank checking account and save $72 a year.