One of the greatest sources of content for the NosillaCast is the adventures I go through each time I do a nuke and pave on a Mac. By nuke and pave, I mean a clean install of the operating system and not migrating any apps or settings from my previous installation. The process I follow […]
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Two Years Ago Today I Left Facebook and Instagram
Two years ago on October 5th, I stopped using any services from the company Meta, e.g. Facebook and Instagram. I didn’t quit these services, I just quit going into them and removed them from my devices. I made this change after Frances Haugen, former data scientist at Facebook, testified before Congress. While working at Facebook […]
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Tiny Tip – How to See All of the Preinstalled macOS Apps
One of the great joys of macOS is how many apps come preinstalled on your Mac. These aren’t bloatware — they’re actually quite useful apps. When you first get your Mac, or after you nuke a Mac (erasing everything and reinstalling the OS), you can see which apps the Mac comes with. But what if […]
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Do You REALLY Need a MacBook Pro?
When the first Apple Silicon-based MacBook Pros came out, we had a lot of options to choose from, and very little information on the repercussions of the decisions. The possible configurations were so vast that I wrote an article to accommodate a diagram I’d created called M1 Pro and M1 Max Decision Tree – a Diagram […]
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What Would Make an iPhone Answer on Speaker?
A couple of years ago, Steve started having a problem with his iPhone while connected via Bluetooth to his Tesla Model Y’s entertainment system. If while actively playing a podcast, he received a phone call, the iPhone would disconnect from Bluetooth, stopping the podcast, and answer on the phone’s speaker. As annoying as that was, […]
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How’s that MacBook Pro Battery Problem Going?
Typical 11% Battery Drain Over Night It’s been a while since I gave you an update on my seemingly never-ending battery saga with my 14” M1 Max MacBook Pro. I haven’t talked about it because I’ve hit an impasse with Apple. Allow me to do a quick recap to bring everyone up to speed. I […]
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Choosing an Environmentally Sound Vehicle — a Discussion with Steve Ewell
Steve Ewell will be joining me on the NosillaCast in a discussion of how he went about the process of choosing an environmentally sound vehicle and how he ended up with the Kia Sportage X-Line Prestige Plugin Hybrid. Enjoy his written writeup along with a link to download his crazy huge spreadsheet that helped him […]
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Getting Your Feet Wet with TrueNAS — by PDXKurt
Hi, this is PDXKurt, bringing you an introduction to the open source operating system for network-attached storage systems called TrueNAS, maintained by the company iXSystems. TrueNAS manages disks, runs network applications, and offers volumes over the network to client computers. It is thus similar in function to the operating system that runs on products that […]
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Tiny Tips on iOS 17 But Not From Me
When the new OSes come out, like everyone else I struggle to learn all of the new features on my Mac, iPad, and iPhone. I start by reviewing my notes of what I was all excited about in WWDC, but I realize that my notes weren’t all that good and they don’t actually tell me […]
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Get Organized with Notion — by Jill from the Northwoods
Hi, this is Jill from the Northwoods. You know how much I love getting organized. But I had a problem on my hands. I was a OneNote user and a couple of things going on there. I’m hoping to get away from using Office 365. Yes, I hear all the anti-Windows people cheering out there. […]
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