My 2013 Mac Mini Home Server: What It Runs and Where It Struggles
A 2013 Mac mini runs my backups, media library, ad blocking and a local AI model. Here is the setup and its limits.
AI & Tools
Apple Shortcuts, Gemini and automations around video work.
Slow MacBook? Free Up Disk Space in Finder (and Turn This Setting Off Afterwards)
How I found the files filling up my MacBook with Finder’s Calculate All Sizes option, and the mistake of leaving it switched on.
Generate Images with Gemini and Apple Shortcuts
Build an Apple Shortcut that sends a prompt to Google’s image API and saves the result as a file with an SEO-friendly name.
Learn a Language with Google Gemini’s Personal Context (Free Immersion Trick)
One instruction in Gemini’s Personal Context adds Italian or Albanian words to every answer, so you pick up a language while doing normal tasks.
System Data (MacOS) might make me switch to Linux
I would consider myself an Apple fanboy but in recent times I’m drifting away more and more. Today I want to share my feelings about ‘System Data’. I will also share what helped me temporarily resolve this issue (IT ALWAYS COMES BACK). What is System Data? If you truly want an answer as to what … Read more