One of my company computers - a Macbook Air, was shown to have security vulnerability as part of a recent external network scan. The issues are related to Linux 4.0. Mac OS is a UNIX flavor, not Linux (FYI - I'm not an expert at all!!).…
Lees meerOne of my company computers - a Macbook Air, was shown to have security vulnerability as part of a recent external network scan. The issues are related to Linux 4.0. Mac OS is a UNIX flavor, not Linux (FYI - I'm not an expert at all!!).…
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerReady to upgrade to and install macOS Big Sur on your Mac? MacOS Big Sur is here, with it’s redesigned user interface, new icons, new system sounds, and a refreshed general appearance. Of course, there’s plenty of new beyond the visual changes, with…
Lees meerAfter some googling, I see many articles on circumstances where an iPhone can be used, but none that say definitely that is perfectly okay to actually do so (or whether it's risky to do so). Also problematic is that most of the top goog…
Lees meerThe stock Messages app on iPhone and iPad lets you send iMessages and SMS text messages too. But the great thing about iMessage is that you can communicate endlessly with other Apple users with iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch, entirely for free, …
Lees meerAfter starting my MacBook Pro 16” (2018) the screen stays black. Also the command strip is dark and without screen brightness controls. I can’t login. Keyboard has backlight on. What could be a fix for the problem? I’m running Catalina …
Lees meerI have Catalina running on a 16" MacBook Pro. I do not want to upgrade to Big Sur until next July. Is there a way to do that? Responding to BMike: Two days before Big Sur dropped I set Software Update as follows: On the day Big Sur dro…
Lees meer If you use iPad with a Smart Keyboard or Magic Keyboard, you may find the default Globe key functionality of bringing up the Emoji picker to be not your preference. And perhaps you might want to replace the Globe key to serve as Escape key functio…
Lees meerThis is my Wife's Mac, and she has been complaining of general slowness for a while now. And I confirmed it and did the normal things: Safe Mode, clean caches, check the disk for errors, run the hardware diagnostics, zap the PRAM/NVRAM.…
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerWith the release of macOS Big Sur, I am contemplating the following plan and wanted to get some advise on any risks or if this plan will even work or not. My current setup is: macOS Catalina as the primary OS - This on an APFS containe…
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerI do most of the "work" I do on my Mac as a Standard user (Apple parlance for an unprivileged user). I also frequently use the CLI (zsh mostly now) via the Terminal app. I use MacPorts as a package manager, and various utilities such as…
Lees meerWe recently bought a used 1stGen iPad Air (MD788LL/A). It looks like we can't install the Netflix app because it requires iOS 13, and our iPad cannot be updated to that version of the operating system. Is there any way to work around …
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerI'm on macOS Catalina 10.15.7 and iOS 14.1. This AM when I connected my iPhone to Mac, I got this pop up. It is not something I see re: regular updates - never gotten it before. I just X'd through it and continued as usual. I recentl…
Lees meerMy Hardware is a 2019 MacBook Pro 15" has the T2 chip and runs macOS 11.0.1. After disabling SSV via csrutil authenticated-root disable and rebooting I can not enable FileVault. Unfortunately the error is very generic: "FileVault Failed…
Lees meerTwitter; whether you love it, are addicted to it, or you hate it (or perhaps a combination of all of the above), you may get to a point where you want to block someone on Twitter. Maybe one of your Twitter followers is being obnoxious with their rep…
Lees meerOSXFuse and VeraCrypt were both working fine until the MacOS was updated to MacOS 11.0.1 Big Sur. VeraCrypt no longer opens. After installing macFuse 4.0.2 (latest at time of posting), I tried to run the installer for VeraCrypt 1.24-Upd…
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