• I'm almost out of disk space.  Except for the 2TB free on the external drives on my Mac, and the 8TB drive that is still sitting in Nagi, my old Windows system that Tohru replaced last year, and the brand new 8TB drive that is sitting in a box in the spare bedroom...  And about 25TB of RAID-Z storage on the new servers.  Maybe not quite out of disk space.
  
  
• I haven't looked at FreeNAS, but my recent positive experience with ZFS suggest that maybe I should.  Anyway, FreeNAS 11.2 is out and just the thing for the software component of that latter-day Cobalt Qube.  (Serve the Home)
  
  
• If you update your Mac to Mojave and apps start demanding to take over your computer via accessibilty, you can either (a) let them or (b) they stop working.
  
  You can control it in System Preferences / Security & Privacy / Accessibility / Allow the apps below to control your computer.
  
  Trillion dollar company spent thirty cents on that design decision.
  
  Also the settings panels in iTunes are now, for some reason, mauve.
  
  And iTunes still stops downloading your podcasts whenever it feels like it, and the Download All button has been MIA for at least seven releases.
  
  
• In unrelated news, Pocket Casts is down for emergency server maintenance.
  
  
• Why you need a supercomputer to build a house.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Because the box a laptop comes in is too small.
  
  
• AMD's Navi 10 may launch in mid-2019 and compete head-to-head with Nvidia's RTX 2070.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Even WCCFTech suggest that you take this one with a bucket of salt.  What makes the story plausible is that it still cedes the high-end market to Nvidia - there's no competitor even rumoured for the 2080, 2080 Ti, or Titan.
  
  
• You know what this $1 comics bundle needs?  A bunch of 4GB PDFs..  (Humble Bundle)

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This trailer for CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077 looks amazing and leaves me with no desire whatsoever to buy the game, or even to download it if they give it away for free.