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A follow up to my previous post updated for Tahoe.

This assumes that you want to backup a location on the system such as /mnt/backup to a S3 compatible storage such backblaze. .env file Create a file such as restick-backup.env to store your sensitive data AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=YOUR-KEY-ID AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KE…

Wrote a simple fish script which converts flac files to AAC.

Instead of nfs or Samba, if you just need to sync files periodically between two systems, you can use rsync in daemon mode.

sudo rsync -avxHAXh --delete --numeric-ids --devices --specials --info=progress --stats /dir1/ /dir2/ If copying “normal” files, an alternative, without --numeric-ids --devices -- specials, and with less verbose output: sudo rsync -axvhHAX --delete --inf…

sudo -u "$CURRENT_USER" defaults -currentHost write com.apple.controlcenter Bluetooth -int 18 # Show volume icon sudo -u "$CURRENT_USER" defaults -currentHost write com.apple.controlcenter Sound -int 18 # Disable Siri sudo -u "$CURRENT_USER" defaults wr…

Oracle's cloud is giving everyone who signs up a free quad core VM using Ampere's Altra CPU (an arm64 CPU) with 24GB of RAM.

Little bash function to know if a reboot is required on Debian 12 This bash function checks the current running version against the newest installed kernel to see if a reboot is required (as Debian doesn't consistently use the /var/run/reboot-required fil…

I cannot stress how excited I am by this feature announced in .Net 10.

I usually have this running all the time in a terminal.