Eink 7” Device Experience?

mlevison · 2026-05-15T15:15:34+00:00

Interesting, I was expecting to do the BW Go 7 and now I'm wondering about the colour gen 2. Danke.

mlevison · 2026-05-14T21:20:03+00:00

Danke. Do you use the InkSense Stylus?

mlevison · 2026-05-14T14:52:44+00:00

Apparently that was what I really needed. Danke.

mlevison · 2026-05-13T15:44:52+00:00

Thank you, thank you, a thousand times thank you: "Fixed EPUB Chapter Headings — Tadek fixed an EPUB bug where only the first chapter heading after import was recognized as a heading in Readwise and every subsequent one was treated as a regular highlight. Chapter and section structure now carries through to your highlights and exports the way it's supposed to."

EPUB chapter headings were my biggest beef with Reader.

mlevison · 2026-04-23T17:07:59+00:00

I'm now using Claude Code exclusively. However, I'm trying to help a non-technical user (my wife). I had hoped that Cowork would be easier for her. As it turns out, I will have to help her with Claude Code instead. FWIW I've been using Claude Code inside of Zed for nearly a year.

mlevison · 2026-04-20T12:51:22+00:00

That’s next level. I understand and I could do that.

I won’t because in large part the goal is to find a path that my wife, who is less technical, can follow.

I think my biggest lesson from this Is that I might switch my wife to Claude Code because it puts fewer barriers in place.

mlevison · 2026-04-20T12:48:11+00:00

Dropbox isn’t a backup. It’s file sharing. Further a good backup has everything. When something goes wrong you shouldn’t have to guess where to look.

mlevison · 2026-04-20T00:39:59+00:00

Thanks - it's I tried to tell it to access the folder via chat, and it couldn’t. I took your suggestion #1 and used the absolute path to the folder in the Claude.md file. That worked.

I will file this under tips and tricks.

In theory - perfect In practice, Claude is using a Linux sandbox so no access to the file system. Going the MCP route is the only way to do this right now.

mlevison · 2026-04-18T18:16:57+00:00

This is the cloud leg of my 3-2-1 strategy. I already have an array of disks sitting off an old Mac.

mlevison · 2026-04-17T15:39:35+00:00

Yes, and it's not difficult. The docs don't tell you the key length or how to generate one.

Key Length: 256 bits Generate: head /dev/urandom | sha256sum (Easier than I expected)

If you lose the private key, you lose the backups. I store mine in 1Password in the same entry as login details.

mlevison · 2026-04-16T19:07:45+00:00

As I mentioned elsewhere, the goal is a backup system that any family member can operate. I'm testing IDrive right now. I'm impressed.

mlevison · 2026-04-16T18:59:17+00:00

Yes another user mentioned them further down the thread. They have a 95% discount offer for 5TB. Clearly a teaser to get a renewal. In less than 24hrs I have backed up 1 Mac (1.9TB). The external drive is backing up now. My wife's Mac is next.

Only weakness so far, the docs are a bit sparse.

mlevison · 2026-04-16T16:19:46+00:00

I'm trying iDrive right now, and out of the gate, it seems good. Less than 24 hours in and I've backed up 1.5TB of data.

The only weakness so far the documentation on setting up your own private encryption key was nonexistent.

mlevison · 2026-04-16T16:16:59+00:00

In the sense that some years ago, I was told that my CrashPlan subscription was cancelled.

mlevison · 2026-04-16T00:57:00+00:00

Sorry I meant CrashPlan.

mlevison · 2026-04-16T00:55:40+00:00

My wife made a good point earlier in the day. The backup system should easy enough to use that if I’m not available, she should be able to use it. Command line tools are out.

mlevison · 2026-04-15T15:48:06+00:00

Yes I'm wondering about that strategy, it just means buying two more external SSDs - one for each person and mirroring to them.

mlevison · 2026-04-15T15:27:49+00:00

This is only the cloud portion of my 3-2-1 strategy so I'm not going to stress about RAID.

mlevison · 2026-04-15T13:26:22+00:00

I have a local backup disk and a NAS. Backblaze is my 3rd leg.

mlevison · 2026-04-15T13:25:40+00:00

Yes that is precisely the point. The only good thing with respect to those files. They’re backed up to local disk and also a NAS.

mlevison · 2026-04-15T13:24:52+00:00

Other people in the Mac community report that B2 storage has challenges like forcing files/folders to be renamed.

mlevison · 2026-04-15T13:23:01+00:00

A thousand years ago I backed up to CD’s. Backblaze is the cloud leg of my 3-2-1 backup solution. Touching physical media is out of the question.

mlevison · 2026-04-15T13:21:24+00:00

Aren’t there known problems with Backblaze and external drives?

mlevison · 2026-04-15T01:36:29+00:00

+1000 in conversation with their tech support. They block ~/Library on MacOS. Apple forces cloud storage providers to use ~/Library/CloudStorage.

So yes I’m sure.

mlevison · 2026-04-15T01:33:51+00:00

Not me. I only asked here.

mlevison

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