CD ripping - not new tech, but it’s rapidly heading towards being as ‘easy to do at home’ as digitise VHS tapes. I suppose the fact that I only have one machine in the house with a CD/DVD drive should have given me some warning, but whilst it’s a 2007 24" iMac, it worked fine for many hundreds of CD’s up until now.
So storage may be cheaper - a 256GB USB thumb drive is around £25 - but old formats keep throwing up odd quirks, in this case the first of many of my 3" CD Singles, and old plastic spacer and a slot loading drive… Yup: it got stuck :( Happily, because it’s old tech, stripping it down and taking the lid off the CD unit wasn’t that onerous (just annoying), but it’s a clear warning that I’m doing this at about the latest time possible.
As part of getting more invested in blogging/public wittering again, I’ve been looking at technical details that have pretty much been entirely unnoticed by myself over the last decade, and found there’s a now bewildering wealth of behind-the-scenes seetings that can be tweaked and configured.
As part of living up to the domain name and stripping things back to the bare minimum (well, as little as I want to be able to get the result I want…) I’ve spent the last half an hour playing with Mozilla Observatory for this site, and have risen from an ‘F’ rating to a ‘B-’.
Do you have iOS 14 ? Has your home WiFi become unstable ?
No, it may not be you – look in Settings -> WiFi -> (your SSID) at the state of the Private Address toggle. If it’s on, then turn it off.
You’ll get warnings about making your device less secure, but the way this security works is by changing the MAC address of your iOS device each time it connects to the WiFi base station, so if you have multiple emitters (ie: a mesh, or perhaps even a few extenders), then when the device switches it will change MAC.
