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How to monitor USB power consumption? – Ask Different

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/10

TL;DR: it is impossible on a Mac to accurately measure power usage by attached USB devices. Only a general indication is possible, but it is unreliable.

[Wayback/Archive] How to monitor USB power consumption? – Ask Different

  • System Profiler needs manual refresh and is a very rough indication
  • iStatMenus is a graph, but not very accurate
  • Activity Monitor is even rougher than the above

Related: [Wayback/Archive] View energy consumption in Activity Monitor on Mac – Apple Support (UK)

Via: [Wayback/Archive] macos view usb power usage – Google Search

–jeroen

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When Spotlight fails to find some files: mdutil revisited

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/07

On my M1 MacBook, somehow Spotlight started to fail returning some indexed files (especially recently added ones would not show up or it would take a very long while for some of them to show up).

So I revisited mdutil and related commands while writing a comment on the YouTube movie [Wayback/Archive] How To Rebuild the Spotlight Index on Your Mac – YouTube which since then vanished, but luckily I saved it and here I amended it with formatting:

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Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: ‘Not all “utilization” is created equal…’

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/07

From a long time ago, but still fun: [Wayback/Archive] Forrest Brazeal on Twitter: ‘Not all “utilization” is created equal…’

–jeroen

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GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/05

As promised yesterday¹ because “what’s an open source project without its status page” (and some commercial vendors cough Embarcadero cough could highly benefit from this):

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – louislam/uptime-kuma: A fancy self-hosted monitoring tool.

Some links (so you can try it for yourself):

--jeroen

¹ GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

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GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04

Google Docs alternative for self-hosting or hosted usage: [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – cryptpad/cryptpad: Collaborative office suite, end-to-end encrypted and open-source.

The project started last month 12 years ago in 2014 as the “realtime collaborative visual editor with zero knowlege server” with the commit [Wayback/Archive] and so it begins · cryptpad/cryptpad@1508c7b · GitHub.

Via¹: [Wayback/Archive] Dr. Christopher Kunz: “I’m currently testing Cryptpad for collaborative working.…” – chaos.social

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CSV To HTML Converter

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/04

While blogging, online tools often beat offline or command-line tools, so here there are:

They use JavaScript and do client-side conversion.

There are way more conversion targets (Delimited, Flat File, GeoJSON, HTML Table, JSON, KML, Markdown, Multi-line Data, PDF, SQL, Word, XML, YAML) and operations (Pivot, Transpose, Query with SQL), but the above are what I use most.

–jeroen

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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/03

Interessante video over alternatieven voor een reguliere inlaatcombinatie voor CV ketels: [Wayback/Archive] Waarom ik geen standaard inlaatcombinatie plaats.. deze werken na een paar jaar niet meer goed..🤔 – YouTube

De inlaatcombinatie is 3 apparaten in 1.. een afsluiter, overdrukventiel en keerklep die voorkomt dat er warmwater terug kan lopen naar de koudwaterleiding. Ik plaats altijd een losse kogelafsluiter met controleerbare keerklep, daarnaast plaats ik een losse overstort van 6 bar..

--jeroen

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MacBook Pro 15-inch and 16-inch dimensions (to see if bags and sleeves would still fit)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/03

Written a while ago, but forgot to schedule this in the blog queue.

This is in reverse chronological order and only for the models I have, had, or considered buying.

Table

Model Height Width Depth Weight1 Weight2
[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2023) 0.66 inch (1.68 cm) 14.01 inches (35.57 cm) 9.77 inches (24.81 cm) (M2 Pro): 4.7 pounds (2.15 kg) (M2 Max): 4.8 pounds (2.16 kg)
[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) 0.66 inch (1.68 cm) 14.01 inches (35.57 cm) 9.77 inches (24.81 cm) (M1 Pro): 4.7 pounds (2.1 kg) (M1 Max): 4.8 pounds (2.2 kg)
[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Mid 2015) 0.71 inch (1.8 cm) 14.13 inches (35.89 cm) 9.73 inches (24.71 cm) 4.49 pounds (2.04 kg)
[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2023) 0.61 inch (1.55 cm) 12.31 inches (31.26 cm) 8.71 inches (22.12 cm) (M2 Pro): 3.5 pounds (1.60 kg) (M2 Max): 3.6 pounds (1.63 kg)
[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (14-inch, 2021) 0.61 inch (1.55 cm) 12.31 inches (31.26 cm) 8.71 inches (22.12 cm) 3.5 pounds (1.6 kg)
[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015) 0.71 inch (1.8 cm) 12.35 inches (31.4 cm) 8.62 inches (21.9 cm) 3.48 pounds (1.58 kg)
[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Air (Mid 2009) 0.16-0.76 inch (0.4-1.94 cm) 12.8 inches (32.5 cm) 8.94 inches (22.7 cm) 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg)

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Trick OR/AND/XOR/NOR/NAND/XNOR Treat.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/31

Distorted jpeg of "Trick OR/AND/XOR/NOR/NAND/XNOR Treat"

Distorted jpeg of “Trick OR/AND/XOR/NOR/NAND/XNOR Treat”

Last Halloween,  📊 on X [WaybackSave/ArchiveWip] posted the image on the right:

[WaybackSave/Archive] GbOGt73WcAAAqnz.jpg (1199×594)

[WaybackSave/Archive] Tweet JSON

It is a play on [Wayback/Archive] Visual Representation of SQL Joins- CodeProject, which made [Wayback/Archive] Visual Representation of SQL Joins [RTzRa’s hive] to include it as well.

The original with some extensions are from @38mo1:

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My geigercounter (thanks Dinsdale for doing almost all the work!)

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/10/31

Thanks [Wayback/Archive] Dinsdale. – D💉ane ديانا дiане Blijf thuis ⭕️🇺🇦 (@Dinsdal85174312) / Twitter for all the effort (solder, 3D-print, assemble) to get it to work!

Documentation links:

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