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I inherited a friend's iMac 24" (Early 2009) for free. So putting a few bucks and time was worth refreshing a old machine for my 75 year old mom. I started with stock machine (HDD, 4 GB RAM, El Capitan). It was super slow but worked. I …

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Before iOS 16, one could disable most of Siri’s audible feedback on the iPhone in Settings > Siri & Search > Voice Feedback > Hands-Free Only. See the previous, more extensive settings here. In iOS 16, Siri is now audibly announcing the…

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There used to be support for an encoding option called utf-8-mac with iconv in the Terminal. It's mentioned in this forum several times. I used to use it a lot. Now with the following command (that used to work): iconv -f utf-8-mac -t C…

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Alternative to iconv encoding utf-8-mac

There used to be support for an encoding option called utf-8-mac with iconv in the Terminal. It's mentioned in this forum several times. I used to use it a lot. Now with the following command (that used to work): iconv -f utf-8-mac -t C…

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Why my MacBook pro is not booting and giving electric shock when touched

My Mac book pro's not booting up since last two days and I'm getting electric shock whenever I touch the Mac book pro provided Mac book is plugged with socket. I tried plugging in to different sockets but I'm still getting the electric …

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While trying to run a web server (http proxy), I have been struggling for weeks with how to open port HTTP port 80 or 8080 in macOS. Using nmap -p 8080 localhost, shows port 8080 is closed. A lot of non-working tutorials on Google. Can …