RUN TCP/IP | Morgan Lucas is Tech Blogging

  It started, late one summer evening... This laptop is pretty much lightly used, was package well for shipping, and only sat on my desk after arrival.  description:  a computer monitor with a silver base and black border with a photo of a desert landscape. white lines dance across the surface. I see other people have tried steps listed as to remedy the problem, to no solution. One person on Apple's forums even received an entirely new (to them) machine, and it still persisted, so I'm thinking it's a software problem.  After restarting several times, I restarted into the diagnostics tools. I had dead pixels on my old MacBook Air and I dropped that more than once - no flickering. How can a laptop that simply sat for a few months flicker on the display? [ I forgot to make a video while the issue was happening. If it starts again - hopefully not - I will edit one in ] The stripe is only on light backgrounds.  Anything darker than white does not see the stripe. ...

A few ways to solve common problems: src "Can't reach the internet, and I'm the only one!" First, I like asking the user to ping google.com - but it's a bit different on Mac, more on that in a bit. In Windows, we could ipconfig /renew to give up our IP address and get a new one, which might work, or reset the TCP/IP stack to reestablish connectivity. In the vein of "You don't have to touch that icky terminal! (Unless you're using Python)" spirit of Apple, we can do it via the GUI.

So, Apple had an event yesterday . I watched some of it.  Though I don't think they mentioned violating Chinese worker laws at this event.   Midnight Green? I dig it.                                                       Courtesy of Apple Lower prices

While installing a new art program, I saw that my Macintosh HD only has about 22 GB of storage left. "Yeesh," I said, clicking 'Continue', "I need to clean up some files. Not just files, Applications. If I'm not using it, get rid of it." Then I saw a little robot icon - "Automator". And thought "What the heck is this?" This video is from 2014, right before the programmer / automator boom. Automator is designed so that your computer does repetitive tasks that you outline in a helpful GUI.

I can now put "Yes, I work in an Apple ecosystem." on my cover letters 🎉 First; A huge thank you to Ren Beckford for sending me this device. I never thought I would own an iPhone! Second; There's a surprising amount of things to set up with this. I sold my share of iPhones in 2013 (It was around the 4 and 5s). There was a lot less than Siri and True Tone and Fingerprint scanner. There's a TV App...I wonder if I could watch Apple's new streaming service coming later this year. When are they going to officially announce it anyway. I want to see that M.Night show. And the plan is definitely: Make this a file server . Run some experiments. Figure out all of Apple's techy doo-dads. But in order to do that, we need files. So, time to put some stuff on it. But first, let's check out some features.

Today's issue, from my very own LinkedIn page; My Macbook won't connect to certain hotspots - Today, it's my mobile hotspot - with WPA PSK or WPA PSK 2 security settings.  WPA/WPA2 are from the year 2003. It's been around a while and has some issues. My Macbook is from the year 2013.  My initial thought as simply that my machine was too old and incompatible with the newer standard - This has happened before years ago, with the same security settings. The following is part of my normal network; As you can see, I have security in place that I usually can connect to easily. The reason there's no Transmit Rate is because we still don't have internet restored.  This is my Hotspot; I'm not familiar with WiFi country codes, but "X0" isn't pulling up anything when I search it. And here are the settings on my phone; This article says that since the WPA2 PSK key doesn't mention TKIP or AES, it's probably AES. Here...

I type this from a 2013 Macbook Air - and it took a lot of struggle today. There's a pretty big issue with it; Phantom keys. It took me about 20 minutes today to simply get into my machine because various keys think they're being pressed faster than I could input my password. It's been doing this for a while now. Starting with 'A' being unresponsive (Probably a disconnect between the electrical circuit) that grew to encouraging S and E to misbehave, and eventually random letters. One bad apple ruins the bunch indeed. "But don't you have Karabiner Elements installed? You were concerned about that with Mojave, and you said it worked." I do!...But it doesn't open and load until the user is loaded, so it does no good for me at the login screen. So why is this happening?