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Frustration with Wireless Service, Who would have thought?
[What follows is a rant about AT&T. If you only want to read my positive and useful posts, please come back for another entry another day.]
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Fixing Display Issues on iPad with HDMI out
Several years ago when Apple released Macs with USB-C connectors, there seemed to be a lot of talk about needing a bunch of dongles to connect things. When I got my first USB-C based Mac, I only had 2 dongles and was content. Over time, I saw various USB-C hubs that had multiple USB-A ports, power delivery, Ethernet and HDMI out. I bought one and used it for everything except the HDMI out as I use an old Thunderbolt Display.
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My Take on the M1 MacBook Air
Years ago Mac laptops were getting so much better every year that I was on a 2-3 year cycle for upgrading my machine. The performance increases helped with my productivity as it reduced compile times for my work. This increase slowed dramatically in the last decade and I stopped buying new machines so often.
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Dreading the trip to the mall (it turned out fine)
One of the malls in San Diego is University Towne Center. It has always been my least favorite mall because the traffic around it is horrendous. I hadn't been there in years even prior to the pandemic. A few years ago, I had read that the whole mall was under construction and they added a major parking garage (there was a small parking structure in addition to lots of surface parking before) which made me want to go there even less. In addition, they started charging for parking. Last week when I was looking to get a MacBook Air, I didn't want to have it shipped as it would have arrived when we weren't home and the other close Apple Store didn't have it, so I decided to brave the mall and goto UTC. I read that the first two hours of parking were free, so that was good.