I got up early this morning at around 8am to ensure that I didn’t miss the courier when they came to drop off the Mac Studio (the display, keyboard and mouse came earlier in the week). It was dropped off at around 15:30 and I got it quickly setup – account all setup along with upgrading it to macOS 26.1 which was pretty smooth sailing and while that was updating I popped down to the local store to pick up a couple of sandwiches for a late lunch. When I got back, it was all setup and working then I made my usual tweaks such as enabling ‘Tinted’ in the appearance section of ‘System Settings’ which makes it not as transparent along with enabling ‘Show menu bar background’ in the ‘Menu Bar’ section of ‘System Settings’ which improves with the visibility of the menu bar.
After all that was setup I installed uBlock Origin Lite on Safari, configured it and enabled all the filters along with adding to the list of websites that I don’t want filtered – I keep that list of websites in my Apple Notes although it would be nice if these were saved to iCloud storage but I guess it is one of those things that requires quite a bit of work and may end up making the extension overly complex to maintain.
Anyway, heading off to the end of the year party, will update the blog when I get back later on tonight.
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