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A computer I built for a friend decades ago ended up back in my hands to work on…

I decided to cave and pre-order the iPhone 16 Pro Max, mainly due to the trade-in value I was given for my iPhone 14 Pro Max. I was able to cross paths with the UPS truck before they got to my house and get the delivery sooner than expected, which was a plus, I guess it pays to track your shipments when driving home from work. The overall upgrade from my current iPhone 14 Pro Max on Visible to this one was more or less flawless. I performed a backup, and went through the restore to the new phone, which asked to upgrade to the beta. After that, it was as simple as firing up the Visible app and activating this phone with the eSim. That process took about 5 minutes to complete and maybe around 10 minutes for SMS to fully start working to the new phone. ...

I was running into an issue on my Ubuntu 22.04 server where the kernel was stuck on 5.15; I never really thought much about it as a long while back ( Many upgrades ago), I remember freezing kernel updates due to some video card issues that I was having with docker. sudo apt remove initramfs-tools sudo apt install initramfs-tools After running those commands, I completed the update to the server with the shiny new 6.5 kernel. ...

If you ever need to format a USB thumb drive on macOS from the command line, this will get you going. The first command will show you the drives so you can figure out which one is the USB. You will want to swap out DRIVENAME for what you want to name the USB drive. diskutil list diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 DRIVENAME /dev/disk2

I’m mainly noting this here for myself, but perhaps someone else will find this information handy. Install package cifs-utils sudo apt-get install cifs-utils Create a folder to mount the share into sudo mkdir /media/Share Create a file with user credentials in your home directory. touch ~/.smbcredentials Edit the smbcredentials file username=smb_username password=smb_password Edit /etc/fstab sudo nano /etc/fstab Add the following line ( edit where necessary) //NASIP/shares/ /mnt/nas cifs iocharset=utf8,credentials=/home/USER/.smbcredentials,vers=3.0,iocharset=utf8,rw,sec=ntlmssp,file_mode=0644,dir_mode=0755,uid=1000,gid=1000 0 0 You can now mount the samba share with the command below ...