How-To

How to make Docker resume downloads

…download that final 100KB and not 200MB again

1 February, 2024 at 17:00 • 1 min read

In the Docker Desktop app you can go into Features in Development and check Use containerd for pulling and storing images.

Or you can do add the following to Docker’s daemon.json file:

{
  "features": {
    "containerd-snapshotter": true
  }
}

This comes from a comment in a ticket for resuming downloads when they fail.

How to find your Apple Watch when you've misplaced it

How I ended up being a sonar bear

14 November, 2015 at 21:03 • 1 min read

I just misplaced my Apple Watch in my apartment. Walking around looking for it, and getting frustrated, I was thinking, “There ought to be a way to make it make some sound, then I can play Marco Polo with the watch”. But my Google-fu failed me: no obvious way to “ping my watch”. There’s functionality for pinging the phone from the watch though.

But there’s a way to make some noise: testing out the alert volume in the companion app on the phone.

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