I have a problem with the software on my OS, maybe It's a disease, I don't know. The reason:

This is the kind of article nobody reads, but everybody want to try. It's a simple trick to add an icon to a directory on macOS using a line command app called folderify. Instructions inside the article!...

I own a license of Adguard on macOS and I'm happy with it. It blocks ads on the $potify desktop client, but I don't know what's wrong lately: It doesn't work anymore. So I found a better approach to block ads on $potify. It's a simple solution that works on both Linux and macOS.

I'm moving from my attic to the basement, and I needed to connect my Mac to the router, because the WiFi connection is terrible. I have a USB Ethernet device that I used with a miniPC, but it was not recognized by my macOS. I found a way to install it, and I want to share it with you.

This is one of those things that I do every day, and the flow is very boring: Open Quicktime, cancel the box dialog, Go to File > File > New Movie Recording, and then select the device. I mainly use it to view the signal from a USB video capture device, which works much better than doing it via VNC, Remote Desktop, or similar. In addition, these types of capture devices are very cheap.

Sometimes I think I'm the one who has problems with the NTFS/exFAT partition on macOS. I have to unmount and clean it, because exFAT is the file system I use on a Raspberry Pi acting as NAS using the great DietPi OS.

It seems unbelievable that it's been a year since my last post here, hello everyone, by the way. I'm not very active on social networks, except on Twitter, I really learn a lot from other people there or Discord where you can find me and chat with me inside the #pikiss-support channel.

Many distributions prepared to play emulators, come by default with the secondary partition in EXT4 to store settings, BIOS and ROMs. For those of us who usually work with macOS and/or Windows, it would be better if this partition came in extFAT to be able to mount in you non Linux OS and transfer files comfortably from the Explorer/Finder, so that is what I have proposed today. It's not a big deal, let's go.

Lately I've been doing mini posts about problems that I stuck on a daily basis. I have some of them pretty dense that I don't finish, I hope to get the time and publish them to get rid of my backlog.

Just a quick reminder, If you need the best ratio with different file compression software:

# 7z
7z a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on file_compressed.7z file_input
# tar.gz
env GZIP=-9 tar cvzf file_compressed.tar.gz file_input
# zip
zip -9 file_compressed.zip file_input
# rar
rar a -idq -r -y -m5 file_compressed.rar file_input
# Gzip
gzip -9 file_input