Jim Deibele (23)

Vote by Mail After 20 Years of Experience in Oregon

There's an excellent article in [Vox](https://www.vox.com/21401321/oregon-vote-by-mail-2020-presidential-election) about vote by mail in Oregon, focusing on how it started and how it evolved. It's difficult to forge someone's signature on a ballot. Not impossible, not if you have access to something with their signature, but difficult. And…

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Delete Time Machine Snapshots When Your Disk is Almost Full

If you're running a Mac with limited internal disk you'll encounter this message: There's a great article on how to manually delete Time Machine Snapshots Key steps: 1. List available local snapshots "sudo tmutil listlocalsnapshots /Volumes/Macintosh HD" 2. Delete each snapshot "sudo tmutil deletelocalsnapshots 2020-11-01-002004"…

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The Perfect Mac

Are you traveling a lot? Do you like to carry your computer around the house with you? If so, maybe you need a MacBook. But for most people, the perfect Mac is the Mac Mini with an i3 processor and 256GB of SSD. Why? Because…

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Give Blood, Get Covid-19 Tested for Free

Right now, if you give blood, the Red Cross will test it for Covid-19 before distributing it. They say it takes about 1-2 weeks for the results to come back. It took a little longer than that for the email to come but I was also…

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Don't Run as Administrator on Your Mac

One of the first things that I do on a Macintosh is to create a new user (say "admin"), give it administrative privileges, and then reboot. I log in as admin and lower my own privileges to an ordinary user. Why? Because there were a…

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