I've heard quite a few stories of Big Sur bricking older MacBooks, but I'm not quite sure in which way precisely they get bricked (motherboard or just SSD), so question is whether the following story fits into those reports: I have the …
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Lees meerI am quite a n00b on MacOS and it feels like it got worse with Big Sur. I need to execute a .sh script to complete the setup of a 3d party app. The instructions say to "execute install.sh" The first obstacle I found was that the file di…
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Lees meerI am quite a n00b on MacOS and it feels like it got worse with Big Sur. I need to execute a .sh script to complete the setup of a 3d party app. The instructions say to "execute install.sh" The first obstacle I found was that the file di…
Lees meerI've heard quite a few stories of Big Sur bricking older MacBooks, but I'm not quite sure in which way precisely they get bricked (motherboard or just SSD), so question is whether the following story fits into those reports: I have the …
Lees meerI am quite a n00b on MacOS and it feels like it got worse with Big Sur. I need to execute a .sh script to complete the setup of a 3d party app. The instructions say to "execute install.sh" The first obstacle I found was that the file di…
Lees meer$ type git git is hashed (/usr/bin/git) $ /usr/bin/git --version git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128) $ pkgutil --pkgs | grep ^com.apple com.apple.update.fullbundleupdate.19H2 com.apple.pkg.update.os.10.15.7Supplemental.19H15 com.apple.pk…
Lees meerI am quite a n00b on MacOS and it feels like it got worse with Big Sur. I need to execute a .sh script to complete the setup of a 3d party app. The instructions say to "execute install.sh" The first obstacle I found was that the file di…
Lees meer$ type git git is hashed (/usr/bin/git) $ /usr/bin/git --version git version 2.24.3 (Apple Git-128) $ pkgutil --pkgs | grep ^com.apple com.apple.update.fullbundleupdate.19H2 com.apple.pkg.update.os.10.15.7Supplemental.19H15 com.apple.pk…
Lees meerI often use AirDrop to move photos from my iPhone to my Mac, and I'd like to automatically convert any HEIC photos to JPEG. I created this folder action in Automator, and it works when a photo is dragged into the Downloads folder but no…
Lees meerIn the past, I know that there was a procedure that allowed one to delete an iOS application from an iPhone and then restore on that iPhone the version of the application that is stored on a backup. This is quite handy when you've upgr…
Lees meerI cloned a 750Gb HDD to a 1Tb SSD. I can only access 750Gb on the SSD so 250Gb are wasted. How can I include (assimlate?) the remaining 250Gb so they're not wasted, or create an accessible partition (I was thinking of installing linux)…
Lees meerI have a mac mini running Big Sur. My password is fine for logging in at start up and authorising everything, except the system software update. I haven't found an answer online as to why. Anybody got any suggestions and hopefully, a s…
Lees meerNet is slow at my home, really slow. It would have taken a week to get Xcode 12.4, so instead I got the package from Apple onto my laptop elsewhere, brought it home, transferred it over, and installed it. Worked great, I'm currently usi…
Lees meerWant to update Homebrew and your packages? Of course you do! Homebrew is a popular package manager for Mac that easily allows users to install and manage command line tools, apps, and utilities, typically familiar with the Linux and Unix world. Beca…
Lees meerI am using MBA M1 with macOS Big Sur v11.2.1. Recently discovered that the program mpv is now available natively for M1 macs through brew. When I do brew install mpv then mpv is surely installed and it is indeed native to M1. But the pr…
Lees meerI use a password manager and created the password LX7mQW9Tw^V0$Ef2Ag#v* (* don't worry, that's not my password any more, keep reading) My DNS / email provider accepted it and I could use it successfully to log in on their webmail a…
Lees meerI have a mac mini running Big Sur. My password is fine for logging in at start up and authorising everything, except the system software update. I haven't found an answer online as to why. Anybody got any suggestions and hopefully, a s…
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