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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

Cooper and his pal Cedric on the Marginal Way in Ogunquit.

Two dogs, one large and one small, are sitting on a rocky beach. The large dog has black, white, and brown fur, while the small dog has white fur. The ocean and a rocky shoreline are visible in the background under a sunset sky.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Looks like Roon’s Shoegaze Detector is working:

Basically a loudness meter for a song by Velvet that shows it’s full saturation/volume all the way.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

[Dark political humor.] With apologies to Despair, Inc.

A modification of the original Despair “Meetings” poster - “Elections - None of us are as dumb as all of us”.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Here is a Proof of Boot on a SuperDuper copy (see the post):

Shows a MacStudio running off a SuperDuper copy of Golden Gate on an external drive.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

I take it Time Machine, unlike SuperDuper 4, cannot deal with long paths. #SuperDuper

An error from Time Machine showing that it can’t back up a long path (a test case from SD4).

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Yard Act - You're Gonna Need a Little Music First Yard Act album they've created in a room together, and the energy is infectious. #nowplaying #YardAct #vinyl

Yard Act - You're Gonna Need a Little Music LP cover.

On a black background a piano falls from the sky and it's going to encounter a person pretty soon indeed.

The red and black marble LP plays on a vintage, restored Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4000 linear-tracking turntable to the right

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026

Huh, looks like Siri Shortcut creation is now working with 3rd party apps! I first asked it to create a shortcut that runs after a SuperDuper backup and logs information about the run to a Numbers spreadsheet. It did the first and second screen shots. Not quite what […] [Original post on mas.to]

Shortcuts says that it’s going to extract information from a notification and log it to Numbers.

Shortcut steps logging notification info to a Numbers document, extracting information using a Cloud AI model.

Same as before, but extracting the information from passed-in JSON.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

TFW you realize you accidentally shipped a joke from pre-release testing...

Part of the SuperDuper 4 UI that has detected a SoftRAID volume and is expressing its opinion of the structure of same by flipping the bird.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/09/2026

While I'd read Rhinoceros in High School (in French, no less), I'd never seen it live, and the show at the A.R.T. theater (starring John Turturro, Paul Giamatti, and Tatiana Maslany, among others) was great. Later, I looked up what other performances there have been […] [Original post on mas.to]

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 28/08/2026

Interpol - This Mirror Weighs a Ton Very strange to start this LP off with a voice other than Paul Banks', but it's nice to have some other colors on an Interpol album...both vocally and instrumentally.

Interpol - This Mirror Weighs a Ton LP.cover. A surveillance chandelier of cameras.

The transparent red LP plays on a vintage, restored Bang & Olufsen 8002 linear-tracking turntable to the right.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 22/08/2026

First SD4 backup to an image (through an unmounted host -> image -> open -> resize -> check host available space -> copy -> unmount -> unmount host). OK, time to walk the dog in his light-up vest and get some rest. #SuperDuper

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 18/08/2026

In general, I had thought people would back selected folders up to NAS devices, rather than trying to back up their whole Home folder and all its stuff…NAS devices (and SMB) are not super happy with zillion-file folders. But, I’ll give it a try with a massive Home […] [Original post on mas.to]

Backing up my Home folder to a folder on a NAS called “This Won’t Be Pretty”. The name is likely a sign of things to come…

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

@dkmj There's nothing Safari-specific on the site—I purposefully made it incredibly "light”. And I just tried Chrome from here and it seems fine.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 01/08/2026

Welcome to the new SuperDuper! 4.0—a ground-up rewrite, new from tip to tail. www.shirt-pocket.com/blog/supererdu…

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 08/07/2026

Morelenbaum² / Sakamoto: Casa I hit some important project milestones recently, and decided it was time to get my one Grail - a first pressing of a rare Japan-only LP of Casa (only 500 copies issued back in 2001). It's been reissued again as a 2-LP set (which I have […] [Original post on mas.to]

Morelenbaum² / Sakamoto: Casa LP cover.

A view of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, featuring the iconic Sugarloaf Mountain (Pão de Açúcar) rising out of Guanabara Bay, from Jobim's house...where the LP was recorded.

The black LP plays on a vintage, restored Bang & Olufsen Beogram 4000 linear-tracking turntable to the right.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Updating to the beta so I can re-wipe and restore. Mixing with Saison Dupont and Kenny Burrell's Midnight Blue.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Comedy of wtf continues. Erase the drive and this:

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 03/06/2026

Because I have a lot of redundant backups, I wanted to take inventory before proceeding to nuke-and-pave + restore, so I know what's got the most recent stuff. I started with my Diskstation TM backups. We've been here for an hour. Yes, I should just use my super […] [Original post on mas.to]

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/05/2026

“Nice” detail is that you can see the “do you want to repair” panel through the window, which shows how quickly the UI locked up. The user’s content is king, baby!

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 06/05/2026

Seefeel - Sol.Hz This has been called Seefeel's "Dub" album, but, well, I dunno...it seems to be solidly within what you'd expect of Seefeel. That is, washes of processed guitars, perhaps, or synths, with a melody sometimes developing, or sometimes not, but always […] [Original post on mas.to]

Seefeel - Sol.Hz LP cover.

Your guess is as good as mine, folks, but it's on a dark background with what I think is the title in red scratchy letters.

The clear LP plays vertically on a Miniot Wheel 3 linear-tracking turntable, behind.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

I don’t know if this is a bug in “Cultured” (whatever random site that is) or Apple News, but someone needs to lay off the gummies.

A screen shot of an article in Apple News, where the headline and the body have nothing to do with each other.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Funkadelic - Free Your Mind ... and Your Ass Will Follow "Let's see if we can make a whole album while tripping on acid", he said, and so they did. And after, they looked upon their work and might have despaired a little. Because while you can't hide the talents of […] [Original post on mas.to]

Funkadelic - Free Your Mind ... and Your Ass Will Follow LP cover.

On a green background, a woman reaches down from the top of the cover towards the bottom. "Funkadelic" is written in white across her afro, and "Free Your Mind ..." is in pink at the bottom.

The black LP plays vertically on a Miniot Wheel 3 linear-tracking turntable, behind.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

Kenny Dorham - The Complete 'Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia Recent Tone Poet release of this classic 1956 set, expanded with the tracks added in the 1984 Japan release, plus more. Dorham and the band (J. R. Monterose (tenor), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Bobby […] [Original post on mas.to]

Kenny Dorham - The Complete 'Round About Midnight at the Café Bohemia LP cover.

A shot of Kenny Dorham at a microphone, perhaps doing an announcement, looking off to his right, on a black background. Titles above.

The black LP (of three) plays vertically on a Miniot Wheel 3 linear-tracking turntable, behind.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 02/05/2026

WIR - Vien+ Back when Robert Gotobed left Wire after Manscape, they owed some albums to Mute, and so WIR was born. They released one LP (The First Letter) and an EP: Vien. Wire always does something interesting for RSD, and this year, they released the Vien EP that […] [Original post on mas.to]

WIR - Vien+ LP cover,.

A mixing deck.

The black LP plays vertically on a Miniot Wheel 3 linear-tracking turntable, behind.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 30/04/2026

Brian Bromberg - LaFaro Bass legend Bromberg covers a range of LaFaro-featured tracks with pretty impeccable tone, accompanied by Tom Zink (piano), and Charles Ruggiero (drums). Very well recorded and pressed to boot. Note, though, that the LP is missing four of the […] [Original post on mas.to]

Brian Bromberg - LaFaro LP cover.

A shot of Bromberg playing pass on a black background. Titles, etc, to the left.

The black LP is playing vertically on a Miniot Wheel 3 linear-tracking turntable, behind.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 29/04/2026

Radiohead - Kid A The question was, obviously, what the hell do you do after releasing OK Computer? If you keep going down that path, it's a long slide to irrelevance, and given their restlessness, boredom. So, *hard* pivot, more studios, picking up on the extant […] [Original post on mas.to]

Radiohead - Kid A Mnesia LP cover.

In typical Radiohead/Stanley Donwood fashion, what looks mostly like a snowy, peaked landscape. But not really.

The while LP plays vertically on a Miniot Wheel 3 linear-tracking turntable, behind.

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Dave Nanian @dnanian.mas.to.ap.brid.gy · 26/04/2026

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - February 28, 1958 - Niedersachsenhalle - Hannover This is from before Time Out, but the same quartet, on their first outings. Really good pressing and sound quality, and not something I'd ever seen before. Features Dave Brubeck (piano) […] [Original post on mas.to]

The Dave Brubeck Quartet - February 28, 1958 - Niedersachsenhalle - Hannover LP cover.

A mirror image D and B on a blue background, with a small picture of Dave in the upper left, and the titles there, too.

The black LP (one of three) plays vertically on a Miniot Wheel 3 linear-tracking turntable, behind.

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