During the holidays, I decided to upgrade from Catalina to Big Sur (macOS 11.1 (20C69) to be precise). The one thing I did not account for is that VirtualBox stopped working. I followed the usual advice of using the VirtualBox_Uninstall…
Lees meerI need to disable iMessage from my MacBook and iPad. No matter how many times I utilize the Apple ID and password request in iMessage on my MacBook and iPad, I find it open and running almost everytime I log on. I share these devices …
Lees meerI need to disable iMessage from my MacBook and iPad. No matter how many times I utilize the Apple ID and password request in iMessage on my MacBook and iPad, I find it open and running almost everytime I log on. I share these devices …
Lees meerBit of a strange one - and I know I'm not supposed to but it's unfortunately beyond my capacity to resist: I work in bed a lot, and I'm undecided between the MacBook M1 Air Vs Pro. I have heard that fans in the bed will cause my macbook…
Lees meerI haven't been able to find the solution to my issue anywhere, so here goes: I have a MBP 15" mid 2015 and it's at all points a great device, with the only drawback being low storage (I only have the 256GB installed). I am aware of OWC'…
Lees meerWe tore down a lot of devices throughout 2020, even if it feels like we did them all in the last two months. Some of them turned out to be laughably hard to imagine fixing, but a few devices were little surprises of thoughtful, repairable design. Le…
Lees meerI haven't been able to find the solution to my issue anywhere, so here goes: I have a MBP 15" mid 2015 and it's at all points a great device, with the only drawback being low storage (I only have the 256GB installed). I am aware of OWC'…
Lees meerBit of a strange one - and I know I'm not supposed to but it's unfortunately beyond my capacity to resist: I work in bed a lot, and I'm undecided between the MacBook M1 Air Vs Pro. I have heard that fans in the bed will cause my macbook…
Lees meerWant to stop iPad typing curly quotes so that you can use ASCII friendly straight quotes instead? You may have noticed that iPad defaults to typing curly quotation marks rather than straight quotation marks, this can be particularly problematic for …
Lees meerI have a triple monitor setup, I use it for my gaming computer primarily. This setup until November was 3 1080p 27" monitors. I use a Dell D6000 Dock to connect my 2018 MacBook Pro (and when WFH in lockdowns my work Mac Mini). I'm back …
Lees meerI have a triple monitor setup, I use it for my gaming computer primarily. This setup until November was 3 1080p 27" monitors. I use a Dell D6000 Dock to connect my 2018 MacBook Pro (and when WFH in lockdowns my work Mac Mini). I'm back …
Lees meerA building has two APs (Access Points) named Bob & Mary. An iPhone / iPad is configured to use both APs. Is there a setting to enable the phone to hop to the other AP if its signal is significantly stronger than the current AP? …
Lees meerI work in a company since 2015 and when I joined I was handed over a new MacBook which was the latest at that time i.e 2015 Mid model i7 16GB Ram. This company does not have a rotation policy for the hardware allocated to employees at a…
Lees meerI work in a company since 2015 and when I joined I was handed over a new MacBook which was the latest at that time i.e 2015 Mid model i7 16GB Ram. This company does not have a rotation policy for the hardware allocated to employees at a…
Lees meerI'm trying to nix my new M1 Mac with home-manager and I'm thinking I might wanna skip xcode devtools altogether. I've installed nix and home-manager and built a generation with git, but: viktor@Viktors-MacBook-Air result % which git …
Lees meerI'm trying to clone a directory which holds a git repo. i.e., I have /Users/me/someFolder - someFolder has ALOT of files, like over 250k. It's also a git repo, with a .git directory, and many other hidden files. Additionally it contains…
Lees meerI gave my iPad to someone else, I used the erase function and when I turn it on it shows as default, to select language and connect to a wifi, etc. But the apple article page about this, says to use sign-out first, and then erase. Will …
Lees meerDespite having a gigabit hardwired ethernet connection to my Macbook Air, when I have Time Machine backing up to an iMac also hardwired on the same switch in the same network, the transfer speed is often less then 1MB per second. If/whe…
Lees meerI'd like to know which character is output from which key, including with modifiers like ⌥ ⌘ ⇧ ⌃, including the character and its Unicode number. Only the primary characters appear on my physical keyboard, but some less-known ones are…
Lees meerI work in a company since 2015 and when I joined I was handed over a new MacBook which was the latest at that time i.e 2015 Mid model i7 16GB Ram. This company does not have a rotation policy for the hardware allocated to employees at a…
Lees meerHave you ever gone to update apps and then realized you don’t even want some of these apps installed on your iPhone or iPad any longer? Now you can easily delete those apps right from the Updates section of the App Store. As you likely know by now, …
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