Tag: tech

At long last, I have made it to Rivendell.



Well, my beloved 2015 MacBook Pro survives another year with being able to run the latest macOS. I mean, I haven’t installed the last two “latest” macOSes on it, but it’s nice to know I still could if I wanted to. #WWDC2021

iPhone home screen, 6 June 2021



Friends, if you have a Ring doorbell and don’t want to be part of Amazon’s creepy Sidewalk program that co-opts your device to be part of their network, the setting to disable can be found thus:

  1. In the Ring app, tap the hamburger menu in the upper left of the screen
  2. Select Control Center
  3. Scroll down to the section marked Community Control (creepy)
  4. Select Amazon Sidewalk
  5. Slide the button from Enabled to Disabled
  6. Done!

You have to do this before Tuesday, June 8th, or you are opted-in against your will. More info: www.theguardian.com/technolog…

When I turn on the TV to find my TiVo recording a cricket game from India, I tend to question the ruthless effectiveness of machine learning.

I deleted my StoryGraph and GoodReads accounts today. I’m just not really using either, and they had become just one more place I needed to keep track of my reading. For stuff I have read, I maintain a list on my site, and I’m going to use BookTrack for keeping track of to-reads, wishlist, etc.

Well, I’ve met Glorfindel.
#WalkToMordor



“Raise the Blood Flag and get our geeks to work.”

I like it. I also like the analogy of cyberspace to the high seas.

cdrsalamander.substack.com/p/the-ans…

Spammers can be so cute. Oh, an email from my retrophisch.com email support team?

I am the retrophisch.com email support team. Well, me and the fine folks at @DreamHost.

iPhone screen shot, 2 April 2021