I use Epichrome & Google Chrome to make single-site browsers for Cappuccino & Mastodon, amongst others. Google Translate is built-in, with translations into English via a contextual menu. Mighty useful on Mastodon just now.
Men's Shed iMac decided today that it needed to do a full 83 GB Time Machine backup. After two hours, it was just over halfway through the operation & we had to shut up shop in another hour. So I stopped the backup, opened Terminal and entered sudo sysctl debug.lowprithrottleenabled=0 followed by the password. I then restarted the Time Machine backup.
That Terminal script changed the backup from a background operation to one with the highest priority. The remaining 39 GB backed up in about 15 minutes. Tomorrow another backup or two will be done and I'll have to repeat the same caper with Terminal.
There's a more complex process to make the change permanent, but frankly, this one's easy enough. Just do it before a backup in each login session.
@matigo Allegedly an improved version, supposedly with more key travel. I wish they still used the keyboard last seen on the pre-unibody MacBook Pros. That was a proper one.
// @japchap
Instapaper Premium becomes free for all users. http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/02/531119instapaper-premium-app-free-all-users/
I've just been into my Instapaper account (unused for three years) and deleted everything.
Apple cuts storage upgrade prices on build-to-order Mac models - 9to5Mac https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/01/apple-price-cuts-storage-upgrades-macbooks/
A couple of months ago, a small pink microfibre cloth I kept in the Men's Shed to clean the computer screen vanished, so I replaced it with a blue one of the same type.
I definitely saw it this morning when I set up the Shed's computer, it was covering the mouse. Sometime in the next three hours that cloth also disappeared.
Set up Mastodon (same username as here) in a site-specific browser via Epichrome/Chrome apps. I believe I have come up with a way to prevent Chrome from auto-updating. This is important because v54 of Chrome breaks Epichrome SSBs. I found a Terminal script that's alleged to work but it just plain will NOT prevent Chrome from updating itself.
My cure was to install an older version of Chrome somewhere other than the Applications folder.
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