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I have a 2017 MBP which works reasonably well, but it seems to have a heating issue. I've opened it and found there was very little dust inside, but I cleaned out whatever little bit there was. Now my MBP seems to have two modes: (1) fr…

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Versatility is the name of the game in the charging world. Your charging equipment needs to be ready to deliver power to all sorts of devices in all sorts of configurations in all sorts of different positions. Thankfully, they don’t get much more …

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Checking the Mac App Store for Monterey I can see that the version is listed as 12.5. However, upon downloading and doing a clean install the resulting version is 12.4. Anybody else experiencing this? Is 12.5 just a delta download via s…

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Whether you’re planning to buy a new Mac or you got one for the holidays, your current Mac doesn’t need to end up in a closet. So what do you do with it? If you aren’t planning to give it to a lucky friend or family member, you can trade or sell i…

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My housemate complains that I speak too loud (when having phone calls or during Zoom meetings). After failing to consciously control my voice level many times, I decided to ask for help by making this post. I would like to create an aut…

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In macOS Monterey it seems that menu bar entries can only occupy the space from the right corner to the notch in the middle. If you add more menu bar entries they just get hidden and you don't have any chance to see/interact with them. …

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I'm trying to mount an old external SSD with an encrypted APFS volume on it. Disk Utility shows it as Not Mounted and attempting to mount it results in the following: Could not mount “disk2s2”. (com.apple.DiskManagement.disenter error …

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Apple doesn’t make budget phones. The closest thing you can find is the iPhone SE–updated roughly every other year and starting at $429. In the Android world, there are lots of budget phones, where a brand new model is $300 or less. They’re not ba…

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Apple’s public betas are an opportunity for all of us—not just developers prepping apps—to get a peek into the future of the company’s software. Granted, we’re not transporting ourselves to a far-off year where no doubt we’ll all be wearing Apple-…

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I have a machine that reboots nightly, but when it does it ends up connecting to the wrong router somehow, and always gets the wrong IP. I don't want it to use a static IP, I have my router issue it a reserved address. Anyway, it's eas…

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