These are my notes on a radical move. The first draft was written in August 2017. I added a few notes in December 2018; then finally edited and completed the post in May 2019.
The radical move is leaving the Apple world for good and moving (back) to Linux.
I already left the iPhone world a few years ago, after getting annoyed by the slowness of my iPhone 4S (back when the 4S was only a couple of years or so outdated). I moved to Android, enjoying the very low price of good devices (first a Motorola Moto G and then a Huawei P9 lite, so nothing too fancy) and not regretting anything about the iPhone/Apple ecosystem.
And now after having realized how little I use native apps on my Macbook, I want to go back to a simpler/more honest world of computing.
more ...File naming has always been a bit of an obsession for me. Recently, after seeing the proliferation of too many duplicate filenames in my photography folder, I decided to solve this problem once and for all.
Something to bear in mind: using programs like iPhoto or Lightroom or Aperture (also …
more ...It’s been more than a year since I moved to a Jekyll blog hosted on github. I think I have never been so productive in this period of time, despite having a much busier life both at work and off-work (Valentina is here and she’s here to stay …
more ...It’s been years since I started using Google Calendar to keep track my sports activities. I guess there are countless apps to do this but all I needed is something basic that I can access from anywhere. Since I already have synced my iPhone with Google Calendar, I can …
more ...I have been using iAccounts, a simple iPhone app to keep track of my passwords and other sensitive information, since 2011 (I also wrote a short note about it).
Recently David Pogue published an enthusiastic review of Dashlane; I tried it, got quickly pissed off because of the way it …
more ...I wrote something about this little iPad a while ago, and on reading again that piece I find that it still represent my thoughts today. Yesterday Apple held the official announcement and among other cool things1 there was the iPad mini.
I’m disappointed by two things; first is …
more ...A short recap on how to build and install open mtb maps under OS X.
Essentially, a shorter version of the detailed instructions given on mtb-forum.it, written for my own convenience — but I thought somebody could find it useful especially to see the result of using different ‘styles’.
tools …
more ...I was very happy about my hackintosh, everything going smooth and easy… until it all broke down and I was left with no computer for almost a month.
And what was even stranger was that also Filippo’s hackintosh, built at the same time as mine, went down only a …
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