Tuesday night was momentous for the technology industry in more ways than most readers may realize. With 74.8% of Massachusetts voters approving, “Question 1” or the “Right to Repair Law” Vehicle Data Access Requirement Initiative, passed on Tuesday…
Lees meerAre you subscribed to multiple Apple services like iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, and more? In that case, you’ll certainly want to check out the new Apple One subscription bundle, as it will likely save you some cash. Plus by rolling …
Lees meerWell, the year is (finally) coming to a close, and what a year it’s been. 2020 has helped us all remember not to take the little things for granted. Here at iFixit, we’re starting our holiday celebrations early to try and inject a little more joy in…
Lees meerA little while back my iPhone X started having motherboard issues and was unable to be booted up. I was using Google Authenticator to store many accounts, some of which may be impossible to get to without those codes. From what I unders…
Lees meerMany bash scripts invoke the #character to indicate a comment. Catalina migrated to zsh. The command: # Comments should elicit no response returns zsh: command not found: # I have found it helpful to comment commands in the command…
Lees meerWhen sitting in daily long google meets meetings the thought struck me if there is a way to record a video that I could loop as my avatar. This way I could make biceps-curls while it looks as if I am sitting staring on my computer?! Not…
Lees meer- About bootable backups on macOS Big Sur (carbon copy cloner). - Apple Event on November 10 Promises "One more thing". - Apple to Start Intel Breakup Next Week with New Mac laptops. - Coronavirus Exposure Notifications Systems: How They Work on…
Lees meerIn MacOS, is it possible to list and/or define SMB shares at the command-line? On a Linux machine with Samba, I can use the testparm command and the /etc/samba/smb.conf file. On Windows it would be the net share ... command. On Mac, I o…
Lees meerI want to disable Safari and Chrome after 11pm at night. I should be in bed sleeping at that point, and not on the internet, so I find that restriction very helpful to break my bad sleep hygiene habits. However since the last iOS update…
Lees meerSignificant Locations is a feature that allows your iPhone or iPad to keep a record of all the locations you’ve frequently visited, and that the device considers to be significant – typically this is directly relational to the frequency of going to …
Lees meerIn MacOS, is it possible to list and/or define SMB shares at the command-line? On a Linux machine with Samba, I can use the testparm command and /etc/samba/smb.conf file. On Windows it would be the net use and net share commands. On Mac…
Lees meer- Security Updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader (see comment from Mac user on problems). - OWC Acquires BRU Family of Backup, Archival, and Storage Solutions. - Chrome 86.0.4240.183 Stable Channel Update (includes 10 security fixes). - OWC Envoy…
Lees meerI would like to sell my Macbook Pro, but I want to make sure that there is no way to retrieve the deleted data from my SSD. Is there a way to completely delete all files on a hard drive so that even a forensic expert cannot recover anyt…
Lees meerSituation: a mac running 10.14, accessed from a Windows laptop via TeamViewer remote desktop software. Problem: sometimes apps will prevent shutdown. "Xcode interrupted shutdown" or similar. Once every 1-3 weeks. Because the TeamViewer …
Lees meerI have computers running very old versions of Mac OS / OS X / macOS! How can I use them to browse the web?
Lees meerSituation: a mac running 10.14, accessed from a Windows laptop via TeamViewer remote desktop software. Problem: sometimes apps will prevent shutdown. "Xcode interrupted shutdown" or similar. Once every 1-3 weeks. Because the TeamViewer …
Lees meerWhen sitting in daily long google meets meetings the thought struck me if there is a way to record a video that I could loop as my avatar. This way I could make biceps-curls while it looks as if I am sitting staring on my computer?! Not…
Lees meerDid you know that apps running in the background on your Apple Watch can affect its performance and impact battery life? If you’re worried about this, you may want to disable background app refresh on your wearable. Just like iOS and iPadOS devices,…
Lees meerI want to disable Safari and Chrome after 11pm at night. I should be in bed sleeping at that point, and not on the internet, so I find that restriction very helpful to break my bad sleep hygiene habits. However since the last iOS update…
Lees meerI have set up a simple automation to run a Shortcut at 6am every morning. If I test the shortcut, it works. If I set the time for [10 mins from now], it works. However, it never seems to run for 6am where: The phone is plugged into pow…
Lees meerI am trying to paste a string blah.cjijjepceyd6.ap-south-1.rds.amazonaws.com into the Terminal.app but what actually shows up is blah.cjiyd6.ap-south-1.rds.amazonaws.com. When that string is pasted to vi it is uncorrupted. What migh…
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