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On Twitter, Apple Mis-Intelligence (@singhalrishi27) found out you can now order Mac Mini M4 upgrade SSD parts on Apple Self Service Repair: part numbers and prices below

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/05

TL;DR: the [Wayback/Archive] Self Service Repair – Apple Support parts are very expensive; having an expert solder them is way more affordable

Last year, [Wayback/Archive] Official (by_APPLE): Mac mini (2024) Repair Manual : r/macmini already had the part numbers for Mac Mini M4 SSD upgrades which I put in this table (staggered staggered to emphasise the M4 and M4 Pro differences) with prices for the M4 upgrades after receiving back the return credit (which I still need to figure out what you need to return):

Mac Mini M4 SSD upgrade part numbers
Mac mini (2024 with M4) Mac mini (2024 with M4 Pro)
661-43668, 256GB
 USD 263.12
661-43669, 512GB
 USD 251.12
661-43672, 512GB
661-43670, 1TB
 USD 439.12
661-43673, 1TB
661-43671, 2TB USD 748.00
661-43674, 2TB
661-43675, 4TB
661-43676, 8TB

NB: If anyone can provide a Mac Mini M4 Pro serial, I can amend the table with those part prices as well.

It also had these links:

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Prevent a Mac laptop from turning on when opening its lid or connecting to power – Apple Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04

For cleaning an Apple Silicon MacBook there were already solutions to either disable the keyboard or to blacken the screen:

For keeping a Mac turned off however, there hadn’t been a solution for a long time.

Now there is, but you need to have the most recent update of macOS Sequoia 15 by adding a nvram BootPreference setting: [Wayback/Archive] Prevent a Mac laptop from turning on when opening its lid or connecting to power – Apple Support

Via

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Fefes Blog: [l] Satire und Realität sind nicht mehr unterscheidbar. Heute: Apple.
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Für Tastaturhygieniker: So bleibt das MacBook beim Öffnen aus | heise online
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Created a Keyboard Lock App for Safe Cleaning—Seeking Your Thoughts and Feedback! 🚀🔧 : macapps

--jeroen

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“United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day – #WorldCancerDay #UnitedByUnique

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04

[Wayback/Archive] “United by Unique”, the new World Cancer Day theme 2025-2027 | World Cancer Day.

Most of my cancer story is in reverse chronological order on the pinned Tweet of my Twitter profile twitter.com/jpluimers.

I learned quite a few things of which I mention 2:

  • Cancer is more than a disease
  • Getting cancer is a misfortune; surviving cancer is about luck

Read more at my pinned blog post and [Wayback/Archive] Official website of World Cancer Day by UICC | 4 February.

Image on the right image from [Wayback/Archive] licensed-image (2048×2048) via [Wayback/Archive] world cancer day – Google Search.

Related: World Cancer Day – Wikipedia

--jeroen

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A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User – ResearchBuzz

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04

For my link archive (I forgot where I found this): [Wayback/Archive] A Couple of Quick Bookmarklets For Viewing a Suspended / Deleted Twitter User – ResearchBuzz

Same for [Wayback/Archive] Bookmarklet for who can see your twitter @reply tweet – By @mhawksey and [Wayback/Archive] Ben Alman » Run jQuery Code Bookmarklet » Generate.

–jeroen

Posted in Bookmarklet, Development, JavaScript/ECMAScript, Power User, Scripting, Software Development, Web Browsers, Web Development | Leave a Comment »

Computer History Museum interviews with Bill Atkinson on Apple Lisa now on YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

Another few great pieces of history got puglished in full on YouTube:

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Bill Atkinson Interview for Lisa’s 40th Anniversary – YouTube
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Bill Atkinson: Polaroids showing the Evolution of the Lisa GUI – YouTube
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Bill Atkinson | Lisa Source Code – YouTube

Via [Wayback/Archive] Memories of Lisa – CHM.

Note that excerpts of the last video were published earlier as:

--jeroen

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The WordPress feature that “beautifies” (malforms!) your Blog text is called `wptexturize`: on WordPress.com you cannot disable it.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/03

Over the years, WordPress started to beautify more and more text thereby malforming many (read thousands) of my older blog posts.

An example is this:

--jeroen

is now rendered as

–jeroen

The two hypen-minus signs or -- have become a en-dash or –, not even an em-dash or — that is is double the width of an en-dash.

So after figuring out the cause, I asked if one could change it for a WordPress.com blog backed by a premium account: [Wayback/Archive] Jeroen Wiert Pluimers on Twitter: “Hi @wordpressdotcom, how do I globally disable wptexturize for a paid wiert.wordpress.com blog (it has Premium subscription)? Over the years, it has malformed more and more of my text which I don’t want (as it is way too much work to re-visit thousands of blog posts).”

Unbelievably, the answer is no!

So WordPress.com mandatorily changes the display of all your old Premium blog posts and the only solution they offer is to upgrade for another USD ~17 per month to disable it.

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keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] keirf/greaseweazle: Tools for accessing a floppy drive at the raw flux level

Interesting drive: [Wayback/Archive] BTC BCO 4816IA 48x 7-in-1 Card Reader CDRW/DVD Combo Drive ODD Computer Laufwerk

More on Greaseweazle:

Via this project allowing many kinds of media to be grabbed:

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Chrome on Windows: Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/31

[Wayback/Archive] Keyboard – Move focus to the shortcuts bar – Google Chrome Community was a great question that I had myself for a long time.

TL;DR: On Windows, you can either cycle focus using F6, Alt + Shift + b to use the keyboard for getting focus to the bookmarks bar.

This is not officially documented for Windows/Linux at [Wayback/Archive] Chrome keyboard shortcuts – Computer – Google Chrome Help:

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Some notes on mini/micro Apple //e emulators

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30

Retro computing is wildly popular, and with the rise of low cost single-board computers (SBCs for short), both Apple //e and ][+ emulators plus extension cards have proliferated,  based on Raspberry Pi (or even their RP2040 microcontroller based Pico), ESP32 or predecessor ESP8266 microcontrollers and others.

Some links for my archive:

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ELIZAGEN – ELIZA Reanimated: The Original 1965 Chatbot Restored On An Emulated IBM 7094 Running MIT’s CTSS

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/30

Wow, 60 years after her birth, the original ELIZA Chatbot got resurrected after a re-discovered paper version ¹ of the SLIP and MAD based source code was found in the Joseph Weizenbaum archives: [Wayback/Archive] ELIZAGEN – ELIZA Reanimated

Back in 1965, ELIZA ran on top of CTSS on an IBM 7094. Nowadays, few of that hardware is still running, but luckily there are emulators.

Back in the days, a large percentage people chatting with ELIZA thought she was a real person. With the dwindling language proficiency, the rise in believe in alternative facts, and THE RISE OF USE IN ALL CAPS, likely that percentage has increased.

Steps to get started with ELIZA are at [Wayback/Archive] GitHub – rupertl/eliza-ctss: The original ELIZA on an emulated CTSS environment, which carefully got assembled over the course of the last 2 months.

If you want to know about the process, be sure to read the

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