Chaos Server

Isn’t that life bro? - Owen JJ Stone I'm moving my iPhoto library to iCloud and it is a insanely massive amount of data that burst me right through the Xfinity cap which is extremely expensive in overages. Comcast probably wants to solve this through zero rating and they've set things up to give them extreme power in the upcoming streaming battles if they remain free from consumer protections. I can choose between AT&T (U-Verse) and Comcast (Xfinity) for home broadband and there is no fiber running to my door so it's either ADSL or Cable modem. A few years ago, I gave up AT&T because ADSL has an upstream pretty much capped by the technical spec to be slow and I couldn't get past 1.5 mbps upstream which saturates in a moment running a couple of internet cameras. Once your upstream is totally used, the downstream is broken. When I moved Mrs. off her old 1TB SSD into the new MacBook Air with 256GB, the cost calculation for the 700 GB Photo library was to put into...

The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads. - Jeff Hammerbacher My preferred way of reading AudioBooks is to get the chapters loaded directly into Overcast so I can intersperse them with them with podcast episodes and so I can use Smart Speed and faster playback. It’s wonderful to finish up an episode of TWiT followed up by a chapter of Embassytown and so on. You pay a subscription to Overcast so that you can upload your audio files to the Overcast servers and load your content from there. That is a fine way to do it. Castro actually supports side loading any audio files from your iCloud Drive, an even cooler feature, which I think will come next year in Overcast. But what to do for now? There is this great, simple, free service called Huffduffer that lets you host your own Podcast RSS file where you an use a web form and fill in the title, audio location, and it will add it in. So I subscribe to that RSS in Overcast, upload my audiobook file to ...

I love The Count of Monte Cristo. It taught me it’s best to be patient and calculated about revenge. - Jean Grae When the new iPad Pro was presented and it included support for an external 5K monitor I was excited, but the excited was misplaced or too early, because the current iOS 12 isn’t useful for me with an external display. It got me wondering what I really hoped for anyway. I bought Mrs.Chaos a Satechi USB Type-C hub for her upcoming MacBook Air, but figured I could give it a go on the new iPad Pro and it’s as expected. Split screen multi-tasking fails us. When you plug in an external display to the iPad, if you’re running an app full screen that supports it, it can display content on the second screen. This can be done really awesome by an app like Screens where you can remote connect to a multi-display Mac and have the two displays spread across your iPad monitor and external monitor. I want to run the Apple TV app and display a show on the external display while...