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T.A. Walker
@tawalker
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Home-recordist musician, songwriter, composer. Frets. Mannerbourne. Ambient guitar. Anime. Korean stuff đ°đ· BlooBirbNetâą refugee. UK. Tim. Hi.
ADDENDUM (from the Red Faces All Round Dept.): I finally discovered why the Deco app was losing connectivity to our system⊠it turns out I hadnât deleted our *previous* Deco network (when we upgraded some months ago), and the app was switching to the old one (with the same name as the new one). So, of *course* the app couldnât see the systemâŠ
All good now (I think)!
So⊠it looks like TP-Link apparently updated their mobile app (certainly the i(Pad)OS one) to v3.0, except I somehow didnât get the app update, and had to un- and re-install it manually.
Until I did, the âoldâ Deco app was unable to connect to my Deco system - a âbit of a mareâ, as the app is the only way to administer many features. Thankfully the Internet connection worked as before, and the app update restored admin access⊠but some warning of the update via the app wouldâve been cool đ€·đ»ââïž
One downside of being our householdâs resident âMr Scottâ (ie the âmiracle workerâ who can solve any tech/IT-related problem that arises): when you find issue(s), which have no obvious cause, but they still exist, and need fixing.
This morning, there were multiple problems in our house, all concerning network access. I gradually fixed all but one (not always sure *how*âŠ), and I think I just solved the last one.
TL;DR: if your TP-Link Deco app canât connect to the Deco, un-/re-install the app.
â27 November: A call from [BBC] Radio 4 for my views on assisted dying. Answer: too near to the unassisted type to be keen on it.â
In these uncertain and unsettling days (and outside of them, for that matter): Alan Bennett is truly a British national treasure.
I used to join in with the jokes about how the deaths of David Bowie and Leonard Cohen in 2016, broke two of the major âthreadsâ holding the universe together⊠and how everything was being kept from collapsing into the screaming void, only as long as Tom Lehrer remained alive.
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I use both Apple devices (iPad, iPhone, Mac) and a Chromebook, and whilst there are plenty of areas where I feel they're pretty evenly-matched for usability, one area IMO sees Apple way out in front:
Entering accented characters.
Chromebook: Type Ctrl-Shift-U, then the Unicode code for the character (because I always have that table at hand).
Apple: Hold down the basic character (a, e, etc) to get the popup list, then type the number next to the accent you want.
Must try harder, Google?
Iâm still âpaddling in the shallowsâ with Obsidian, but there are quite a few features I really like already. One is how Obsidian brings in some capabilities from wikis: most notably, how you can link to other notes, which really helps with organisation and navigation. You can basically create a wiki of your Obsidian notes.
One more for now: Iâve actually paid for a year of Obsidian Sync, as it backs up my âvaultâ and keeps the contents updated between my Apple devices and Chromebook.
Oddly (esp. as it was only in the last week!), I canât quite remember how I heard about @obsidian, but when I read up on it, I felt âI think Iâve found my Markdown/note-taking homeâ.
Put *very* simply: Obsidian is a free app (with some paid-for services) for creating/editing notes and documents in Markdown and organising them. Itâs actually a lot more complex and powerful than that, and I may take a while to explore⊠but Obsidian is cross-platform and allows sync and backup. 𧔠3/
Iâve been using StackEdit as a Markdown-writing editor/repository for a decade or so. Itâs Web-based and can be installed as a PWA, so I can use it on my iPad, Mac and Chromebook. It also stores its âvaultâ on my Google Drive, so itâs backed up and synced to all my devices.
However⊠SE seems no longer under active development (?), and ultimately it runs on a Web server. If SE just vanishes one day, Iâve probably lost access to my MD files⊠so Iâve been seeking an alternative. 𧔠2/