AIS receiver and dispatcher ! The best ?!

Updated 2024-10-25

I found this amazing application, AIS-catcher, just scrolling around on Youtube and it includes "all" you need for an AIS receiver staying ashore or installed on a boat.

It is compatible with a wide range of Software Defined Radios (SDRs). These include RTL-SDR dongles (such as the ShipXplorer AIS dongle and RTL SDR Blog v4), AirSpy (Mini/R2/HF+), HackRF, SDRPlay, SoapySDR, and file/network input (ZMQ/RTL-TCP/SpyServer). 

Installing Ubuntu 24.04 or 24.10 on an old MacBook Air(2011)

Updated 2024-10-14 !

I have done several posts Blogging about how to keep an old MacBook Air(MBA), mid 2011(A1369), with SSD disk "alive". I have used the fantastic software package OpenCore Legacy patcher to upgrade the Mac to the latest Mac OS. 

A while ago i tested Mac OS Sonoma(14.5), on the mentioned Mac, but I had to admit that Sonoma was a little to much for the 13 year old companion.

I really like the Mac and everything works, after a battery change, so it ended up with installing Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS or if you want the latest scroll down and get Ubuntu 24.10.

iCloud drive sync with a Linux, Ubuntu, device

Updated 2024-10-12

With my project to keep a MacBook Air 2011(MBA) alive, Ubuntu installed, i searched for a solution where my iCoud drive(iCD) was continuous synced with my MBA. This must work both ways so even a file change made on MBA should be replicated to iCD.

There is MultCloud, are there others ?, but the free version is just 5 Gb data traffic per month. There is also a work in progress (availabel as Beta) with rclone and iCD. 

So while waiting for a free working version I solved my sync between iCD and MBA with Syncthing(ST). ST doesn't sync with iCloud so the work around here was to use my MacMini, Mac OS, as the "Middle man". It's always on and synced with iCD.