Insights and Updates

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…

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"…

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…

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…

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…