iponderus

Ponderously pondering, pandering, plundering, and pontificating...

Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Fixing iPhone Video with one side of the audio blank

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Fixing iPhone video with one side of the audio blank. I came across this problem recently. None of the articles or youtubes I found really n...

Happy Path

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 In tech we have the idea of the "Happy Path". If you stay on the happy path, everything goes right for you, everything is easy an...
Wednesday, July 23, 2025

iPhone reset/wipe without icloud password or proof of ownership

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 I had a family member's iphone, for which I had the pin, but not the icloud password. They did not know what it was. The "trusted ...
Monday, December 30, 2024

Win11 redirect standard user folders from OneDrive to local defaults

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I just picked up a new Win11 laptop, much thanks to MS for artificially expiring my perfectly fine 15 year old Windows 10 machine, by dint o...
Friday, December 20, 2024

AI today just makes me yawn. Wake me up when it can do this...

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AI today just makes me yawn. Wake me up when it can do this… Given a grocery list, location (here), a distance (20 miles), and a dollar figu...
Saturday, September 28, 2024

Downloading old iPod and wiping old Zune

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I have an iPod Nano 6th gen, a Zune 4G, and an iPhone 6 I've been hanging on to. Or rather they've been hanging on to my electric se...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

ChromeOS Flex on a jail-broken Chromebook

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I recently inherited an old Acer Chromebook that was EOL (end of life - not eligible for security updates from Google any more). That's ...
Saturday, March 12, 2022

Destroying Hard Drives

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Short story long, I wish I had done this sooner, it's so much easier than I thought. I had been hanging onto some computers for a long t...
Friday, December 24, 2021

Dip My Toe In The Cloud

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 I wanted to "dip my toes" in the cloud, just get my feet wet, you know?  So I migrated some websites I had on a regular hosting s...
Sunday, December 6, 2020

Getting wireless networking working on Ubuntu Server 20.04 with Netplan and Wpa_supplicant

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 I'd love to riff on how every time they try to make things easier they actually make them harder, but ain't nobody got time for tha...
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