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Continue reading →: pen: Narvalur Pen Jam, do not forceWell, I finally decided to get three more pens, and I ended up losing one to my stupidity, so here’s the latest on my fountain pen hobby. OK, for those of you new to the hobby, I’ve had these pens for a while, and I’ve never had a jam. But…
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Continue reading →: cell: US Mobile network swap back to warp for iPhone and Apple Watch companion planMore notes on this. As of August, a big change is that Verizon/Warp now has more than 100 roaming partners. Still less than T-mobile/light speed and at&t/dark star but much better. It’s really quite a win. I’ll be sad when some gigantic conglomerate buys US Mobile out. But in the…
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Continue reading →: Apple: Watch 26 incredible battery drain unpair and start overThere’s a lot written now about how watch 26 and 26.1 cause incredible battery drain. This has happened to me on both my Series 7 and Ultra version 1. At one point, the ultra lasted just 4 hours. They both have 85% battery performance left, and I tried all the…
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Continue reading →: Pen: 40 year old Parker GTE cartridge ISO-12575-2 G2Well I discovered in my mom and dad’s stuff a GTE labeled pen. It must be at least 40 years old and I help but want to use it again. But what is the cartridge. Well a little sleuthing helps. It is ¼ inch in diameter and 3 7/8 inch…
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Continue reading →: mac: Anyoyo TB502Pro vs Hagibis ASM2464PDI got the Hagibis early this year and it has rocked. It is a Thunderbolt 4 drive and with the very fast Samsung 990 Pro, it can do 3GBps read and write easily. Saturating the 40Gbps Thunderbolt 4. It was about $120, but now you can get it for $60…
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Continue reading →: iOS: iMessage cannot activate error
This one drive me crazy. We are on iOS 26.1 and did an eSIM swap from Lightspeed (T-mobile) to Warp (Verizon) We did this because last month when we went to Kenya, t-mobile support 5GB of free roaming. But they actually killed that mid trip although you can get a…
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Continue reading →: mac: Apple Music “lost” my CD filesWhen trying to get some music for a personal video, I discovered that many of the songs that I had previously uploaded to Apple Music were “lost”, so I was actually using the Apple Music subscription. I had been using Apple Music to “store” these files. One of the great…
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Continue reading →: mac: Keyboard Input and Character Viewer lostOK, I’m not sure what is up with my installation, but it used to be that if I hit “Caps Lock” twice, it would switch input mode,s and then there was another command to bring up the emoji viewer. All of this broke with the MacOS 26 Tahoe upgrade. The…
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Continue reading →: mac: Tahoe Unsigned App tap dance and reset of third party menubar buried in System SettingsWell, sometimes there is an intentional obscuring of “unsigned” apps (like Stats). Before Tahoe MacOS 26, you could just right-click and choose to open anyway. But now it’s a pretty unintuitive thing, you have to fail trying to run it and then go to System Settings and click a button:…
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Continue reading →: hike: Lessons from Climbing at AltitudeOK, we normally do day hikes or short camping trips, but we’ve never done a long five-day hike from 4-5km up (yes, that’s 16,000 feet in altitude). learned a lot about what it takes to get up there, and here are some tips if you are similarly inclined, but here…
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