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Toolchain spring cleaning

Posted on za 30 april 2022 in desktop • Tagged with apple, linux

Development setups

Since I don't know when I've been using desktop virtualisation to perform all sorts of development and testing work. There was quite some toil, but utilities like virtualbox combined with vagrant made it pretty usable.

I clearly rember working for a client that wanted to do cross AD …


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APFS data recovery using Linux

Posted on wo 08 december 2021 in desktop • Tagged with apple, hardware, zorin, ubuntu

Somebody I know had her Macbook Air crash a long time ago and took that event as a good time to get a newer model. But the data on the laptop was never recovered. Recently she was getting ready to get rid of old stuff and this old MBA turned …


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Comparing diskperformance between my laptops

Posted on zo 28 maart 2021 in desktop • Tagged with apple, hardware

Intro

Last week I was executing some disk performance measurements for a client. As part of the session I tested my Macbook and a Dell XPS laptop. The results seemed to indicate the Dell XPS outperforming the Macbook. As the laptops were only tested for comparison, I left it at …


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Ubuntu on a Macbook Pro tweaks

Posted on ma 11 juni 2018 in desktop • Tagged with apple, ubuntu, hardware

Last weekend I wiped my Macbook Pro 15″ late 2013 and installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. The install was painless, but there were some tiny bits and pieces missing as to hardware settings and drivers.

Ubuntu logo

I was able to fix most issues searching the web, but I thought I …


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Vandaag aan de gang met Apple Pay

Posted on ma 11 juni 2018 in services • Tagged with apple

screenshot apple pay on iphone

Bunq heeft Apple Pay mogelijk gemaakt dus ik kon het niet laten gelijk te activeren. Vandaag eens uitvinden hoe goed het werkt met mijn foon en horloge 🙂