The Massdrop Alt: Custom Animations and More

I fallen in love with my Alt and put some time into learning how to do animations and effects on it. I thought I would write a bit about it here in case it ever proves useful. Getting more control I was convinced to try out using caps lock as control by a post on Reddit. The argument in favor of this key layout (commonly seen on the HHKB) is that it’s more ergonomic to move your pinkie sideways to hit the control than it is dragging it all the way down and equally far to the left. I tried …

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Macbook 2013-2015 SSD Upgrades

Background As of High Sierra, it is possible to replace the stock SSD in a 2013-2015 MBP (and MBA) with an NVMe drive with the aid of a M.2 adapter produced by a Chinese company called Sintech (various adapters available, example in Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CWWAENG). This has resulted in a lot of questions and mixed reports of functionality/compatibility. This thread at macrumors has accumulated over 140 pages and is STILL actively being posted to about it. Apple of course has been silent on the matter, leading me to believe that this NVMe support is not exactly a supported feature. My …

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