Chaos Server

I do think as a species we are capable of sensing much more than we are capable of articulating. - Jony Ive I'm looking to upgrade Mrs.Chaos' 2011 MacBook Pro and it turns out to be a lot more fun than I thought I was going to be. I mean, there are some easy solutions if I'm willing to spending exorbitantly, but trying to be cost efficient in the process makes makes me take a train to complication-ville. The first part is that the family Apple Photos library is on her current MacBook Pro. It is 680GBs of photos locally stored on the 1TB SDD I bought aftermarket and installed. To upgrade the MacBook Air 2018 model to have enough storage would be the 1.5TB option fo an additional $1,200 which doubles the price of the computer. Fun times, right? Since that is the only major storage item on Mrs.Chaos' computer, I think the right solution is to move to iCloud Photos and pay for the 2TB family plan which costs $120/yr. So basically, we could store photos there for 10 year...

Technology is anything that wasn’t around when you were born. - Alan Kay For most people I receive a lot of iMessages from I've setup a custom text tone on their contact. I've got a couple new people I needed to give sounds and I wondered, can I do this entirely on the iPad? Well, probably not, but let's get started. I was asked to get a sound for "Mr Krabs" - which I'll admit, I didn't know who that was, and also Kermit the Frog's "Hi Ho." First step is to find a YouTube clip of sounds and download it using one of the web-based download services. I have found the best way to do this is get the URL YouTube, paste it into a YouTube download site, get the URL of the converted MP3 and then paste that URL into GoodReader to download. Trying to download/export directly in Safari don't always work well for me. Once the file is in GoodReader, I can export to Files / iCloud Drive. The next step is to trim down the portion of sound that I wan...

Apple’s nickel and diming costs a quarter now. - Peter van Broekhoven When the Modbook came out in 2008 I looked on enviously at the tablet I wanted, but this year's iPad Pro 12.9" is so much better. It's big, I mean BIG, but also way lighter than one would expect. I bought my iPad without the Pencil, but after using it for a couple of days, I made an emergency trip to the Apple Store to get a Pencil 2. I had the Pencil on my wishlist, but I couldn't wait until Christmas when there were low odds someone would even buy it for - so I just did it. Now my setup is complete with a cool cheap 3rd party cover (using magnets) and the canopy case with the Apple Keyboard. The setup is so good to work on, but the other thing that is great, is that it's easy to just kick back and read on the iPad without the keyboard around at all. It's usually just leaned up on my kitchen counter without the keyboard all day to take quick looks. What is it like as a developer trying to ...

Having a bunch of ports facing me is totally a sin against the Church of Ive. - Stephen Hackett Today my iPad Pro arrived and I went to restore the backup from my previous iPad Pro except, there was a problem. The new iPad Pro has a USB Type-C connector and my MacBook Air has a USB Type-A connector. The iPad Pro comes with a USB Type-C to USB Type-C connector, so that won't work. After sighing for a moment, I jumped into the car and headed to the Apple Store. Staring at the wall of Dongle Town, I was hoping I would see a USB Type-A to USB Type-C cable. That would have been perfect, but there was no such cable on the wall. I sucked up my pride and grabbed and Apple Store employee to explain my dilemma. He wasn't sure. I pulled out my new iPad and my older MacBook Air and he stared at the wall of dongles for a moment and finally said, "let me grab someone else real quick." With the new store employee coming over, he did the script, "This is Jordan, and he is ...