Sunday, December 26, 2021

Samsung TV how to watch antenna TV

 Our samsung smart tv makes it very confusing to watch over the air antenna TV.

First off to get it to connect to / recognize the antenna was connected I had to go to

Settings > General > Start Setup

After that the tv realized the antenna was connected and scanned the channels.

But after this the Guide still only showed the “My TV+“ channels and not the antenna channels.

To fix it do this

- press home button and menu comes up

- go to tv+ icon

- in the menu above that go to Channel List 

- on the remote press the right arrow button

- in this right menu pick Air

After that the guide should show the OTA antenna channels.

Monday, June 21, 2021

Geany on Mac - keyboard shortcut "move to next word" or "jump to end of line" not working (solution)

In Geany on Mac the normal keyboard shortcuts (jump forward, jump to end of line) do not do the normal actions.  In other programs ALT or ⌘ + arrow key jump around normally and it's not great that it doesn't work in Geany.

How to fix :

- open Geany

- Edit > Preferences

- Keybindings on left

- On right scroll to "Go to" section

- click "Go to Previous Word Part"

- click Change

- press ALT + left arrow

- click "Go to Next Word Part"

- click Change

- press ALT + right arrow

- click "Go to start of line"

- click Change

- press ⌘ + left

- click "Go to end of line"

- click Change

- press ⌘ + right

- click Apply , Ok

( there is also a setting under Select "Select to previous word part" , etc)



Monday, May 17, 2021

iPhone SE (2020) poor battery life and data spinner always going -- solution

 I've had this new iPhone SE (2020) for a few months now and noticed the battery life seems to drain faster than expected.  Even when I was asleep it seemed the battery would drain fast.  I also noticed the data icon was spinning very often.  I even keep "low power mode" on and battery seems to drain faster than you'd expect.

I tried uninstalling many apps but that didn't seem to change anything.  Then I tried removing the weather widget (and spotify widget) on the home screen.  After that the data spinner is a lot less active.

I think the weather widget was very often causing network activity which was draining the battery slow and steady.

Since I remove the weather widget (and spotify widget) I feel my battery life is more stable now and does not drain as fast.

Saturday, March 20, 2021

Mac OS cant install update - "Mac OS Big Sur could not be verified"

Tried to update my mac book air several times but always failed.  Turns out the problem was macOS Catalina had some other updates it needed to install.  After I installed those updates I was able to upgrade to Big Sur no problem.

In the system update window there was another link for "other updates" or something like that.  This is where I installed the macOS Catalina updates.

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