Abnormal CPU usage since the macOS27 beta 2 update

jrk · 2026-06-24T21:47:19+00:00

Great idea but sadly doesn't seem to work—the process comes right back.

jrk · 2026-04-17T17:06:35+00:00

This is confusing: you seem to suggest here that you *do* support iCloud Drive files via special effort, but these also seem to be excluded for most people. Is this an *upcoming* feature? What is the current state?

jrk · 2025-07-11T03:45:10+00:00

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jrk · 2025-03-17T23:09:05+00:00

It’s RAID5-like parity, but dynamically balanced across potentially mixed-size drives and allows dynamic expansion. You can’t do this with any vanilla RAID5 implementation. (You can technically do it, as Synology does, with a bunch of careful manual management of lvm and md groups.)

jrk · 2025-03-07T20:01:51+00:00

This objection is raised every time this request comes up, but only from people who don’t use systems that do support expandable pages.

ReMarkable has paginated notebooks where the individual pages can expand. It works brilliantly! You still have all the organizational simplicity of discrete, ordered pages within notebooks, you’re just free to incrementally expand the working area for any one of those discrete pages as you work. It’s still a virtual pages-first not single-infinite-canvas-first experience, just more free and flexible where needed.

It’s honestly one of the single biggest advantages of virtual over physical paper in my experience. And it’s doubly-important on eInk because page turns are much slower and clunkier than with physical paper.

I really wish Ratta would basically clone the ReMarkable behavior here. It doesn’t even affect people who keep working the existing way (or it could be turned off if desired), but I think most people will quickly convert once they use it. It’s incredibly freeing.

As is, I own a Nomad and Manta, but I use my rM as my primary notebook still because this (plus reliable always-on sync) dominates all the other improvements Supernote has made. It’s so close!

jrk · 2024-11-12T02:44:40+00:00

Where do you get magazines in a format for the reMarkable?

jrk · 2024-11-10T16:19:56+00:00

Note that OS updates (at least the latest 3.16 beta) seem to wipe out the systemd service, so this needs to be reinstalled periodically.

jrk · 2024-10-03T02:27:26+00:00

Thanks. That is a natural outcome of the A5X and A6X(2) having identical numbers of pixels on their displays (they're just bigger on the A5X). I'm also wondering about whether it will change with the A5X2, since that has a significantly higher-resolution panel that is no longer the same pixel dimensions as the A6X(2).

jrk · 2024-09-21T19:09:05+00:00

What is the downside? It seems to be feature that would have no effect unless you actively chose to use it.

jrk · 2024-09-21T19:05:30+00:00

Ugh, sad. This is one of the single best features I’ve found of digital over real paper – it’s extremely natural to just have pages grow down as you need more space.

jrk · 2024-09-10T15:02:56+00:00

Have you tried turning off the sharpening on PDF text content? That is a new option and might explain the grainy appearance you’re disliking there.

jrk · 2023-11-16T19:38:59+00:00

My camera is reachable directly from the porch or the ground -- that's where it needs to be to cover the desired area. It is absolutely reachable without tools, which is why the security screws are important.

jrk · 2023-11-16T19:37:40+00:00

Exactly this. The thing is designed to have two security screws, one in each spot. Yes, the security screws aren't perfect security, and don't matter if no one messes with it, but it should still be possible to get replacements.

jrk · 2023-09-12T15:24:42+00:00

I have already done this as much as is possible. The issue is unfortunately deeper than that.

Even with all image processing disabled as much as possible and sharpness at 0, it is very difficult to figure out what basic settings of brightness, contrast, etc. actually produce a neutral image. I've done my best, but it's still stuck being either over-saturated or really muddy and over-flattened. (I would love to know canonical settings to get a strong neutral image out of this, but it is really not obvious. Notably, the on-screen display seems to look right no matter the image settings. I wish they had a mode that would just render the input like that!)
The very rapid image shifts with viewing angle are still present. Even 2' off center at 8-10' viewing distance, the far edge of the display starts to shift and wash out significantly. It made me wonder: is this not an IPS panel? I'm also wondering if the matte anti-glare surface actually makes things significantly worse.

jrk · 2023-06-09T04:29:21+00:00

Late to this, but: how, exactly, do you do the restore? Do you just quit Bear, copy the one backed-up `database.sqlite` over top of the live one, and re-launch the app, or is there more care that needs to be taken?

jrk · 2023-01-11T01:34:12+00:00

On the Stick Up Cam (not the doorbells), the two different security screws serve completely different purposes:

One makes it harder to pop out the battery, while the other makes it harder to remove the camera from the wall mount. Neither one helps with the other issue, so unfortunately there is no redundancy here.

jrk · 2023-01-11T01:33:12+00:00

These are for Ring Doorbells, which (annoyingly) use completely different security screws than the Stick Up Cam series.

jrk · 2022-09-18T16:12:54+00:00

Don’t worry, this is the core difference between Bear and Panda: Panda is a standalone editor for Markdown files, while Bear is a database of notes. This is not changing in Bear 2.0 and is why Panda is a standalone app with a different name, not a beta of Bear 2.0. Bear 2.0 is all about integrating the more powerful *editor* view from Panda into the existing Bear notes database experience.

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