September 26, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
#windows
#lubuntu
#recovery
#gparted
#testdisk
After using diskpart
's clean
without understanding what it does, I was able to figure out how to get my installation back without a clean install!
September 26, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
#enterprise
#registry
#windows-10
#ltsc
#version-1903
The latest version of Windows 10 LTSC (as of this writing) is on Version 1809 but applications like Microsoft PowerToys Run and WSL2 need Version 1903 or higher, whats an admin gotta do?
September 11, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
Hey! I mostly write the blog as a repository of stuff I’m interested in and to write things about it but I noticed that I didn’t write a lot recently…
June 12, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
#glitch
#datamoshing
#ableton-live
#sox
#imagemagick
#macos
#stock-plugins
Back in school, my first introduction to datamoshing started with posts I read online about using Audacity to use their in-built audio effects. I never really did much with that information until now, I’ve been busy working on ffmpegScripts and finally decided to write some scripts for datamoshing and try it with more modern plugins
May 30, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
#big-sur
#macos
#wwdc
#disk-image
#softwarecatalog
#macos-10.16
#macos-11
#dev-beta
After remaining stuck with files from an obscure archival format, StackExchange comes to the rescue and leads the way to finally (somewhat) extracting macOS Big Sur’s root directory
May 24, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
#big-sur
#macos
#wwdc
#disk-image
#softwarecatalog
#macos-10.16
#macos-11
#dev-beta
At WWDC 2020, Apple announced its next evolution in the macOS line with a transition phase that reminisce the days of the PowerPC transition phase. With Universal Binaries, Rosetta and an ugly QuickTime icon, Big Sur has introduced changes in the way their installers are structured. Let’s see what they are.
May 18, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
#time-machine
#macos
#cryptomator
#encryption
#cloud-backup
#backup
#applescript
#redundancy
Setting up my cloud-synced encrypted Time Machine backup after a faulty kext caused my system to crash
May 14, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
macOS Catalina brings with it stricter notarization requirements and a notorious addition to syspolicyd, an undocumented phone-to-home feature that informs Apple about scripts and binaries that you run
May 10, 2020
| Kittywhiskers Van Gogh
#virtualisation
#vmware
#vmdk
#virtual-disk
#imaging
#manjaro
#arch-linux
#brew
My attempt at performing a physical-to-virtual conversion of an ext4 partition (an unsupported FS on macOS) without a partition table, reinstalling GRUB on a dedicated boot virtual disk altogether and getting it to boot within the VM, all without any downtime