macOS

HDMI + MacBook = No Network

I’ve always been one of those guys, saying that “why do you need a fancy HDMI-cable, it’s a digital signal, either it works or it doesn’t work, the signal will not be affected by interference in the same way as an analog signal”. While this is true, a digital connection like HDMI comes with other challenges like, versioning. It turns...

AWS Glacier!

Hard drives will fail! Manufacturers of hard drives like to boast about “MTBF” (Mean Time Between Failures) and “AFR” (Annualized Failure Rate) rates that indicates that the drive would last anywhere from 300 000 hours (~34 years) to having a likely hood of failing during a year as low as 0,8%. But real life tests, performed by companies like BackBlaze show...

Three finger drag! MacOS Trackpad

Hi future me (and anyone else who stumbled upon this page), this is how you turned on three finger drag: Yes I know, you thought it was under “Trackpad” in Preferences, but Apple hide this setting under Accessibility.

MacOS Terminal UTF-8 Issue

Since I only tend to do this once every time I get a new MacBook, I decided to document the procedure here so I don’t have to google it every time!