Adding custom buttons to the Touch Bar without external apps

Can I add custom buttons to the Touch Bar without using external apps (e.g., Better Touch tool)?

Automatic test discovery in Swift on Linux

Sheets don’t inherit the environment

Time formatting in Activity Monitor

What's the time formatting in the CPU Time column? so for example 1:07.75 Is it hh:mm.ss? or is it 1min 7sec 75ms

Automator slows down to a crawl following a simple AppleScript workflow?

Context: I am trying to use Automator to turn the pages of a web-based e-reader open in Google Chrome, copy their respective HTML code from Chrome Developer Tools (which is already kept open), save it to a file already open in Visual St…

Automator slows down to a crawl following a simple AppleScript workflow?

Context: I am trying to use Automator to turn the pages of a web-based e-reader open in Google Chrome, copy their respective HTML code from Chrome Developer Tools (which is already kept open), save it to a file already open in Visual St…

Automator slows down to a crawl following a simple AppleScript workflow?

Context: I am trying to use Automator to turn the pages of a web-based e-reader open in Google Chrome, copy their respective HTML code from Chrome Developer Tools (which is already kept open), save it to a file already open in Visual St…

Right to Repair is Happening in Massachusetts Right Now. We Need Your Help.

We are on the cusp of a major Right to Repair victory in Massachusetts, and we need your help. We asked you to call Representative Tackey Chan and convince him to advance this bill to a committee vote—and boy, did you deliver. Now, the Massachusetts…

How to determine what is causing Mac Pro to automatically log out and where to find logs of logout events?

For the last week or so, I've been coming in to the office every morning to find my Mac Pro has logged itself out. Mac Pro Late 2013 macOS Catalina Version 10.15.3 (19D76) I have been randomly trying to disable/uninstall things that …

Removing data without formatting the iPhone

Suppose I have a very simply notes app that does not use iCloud. All it does is simply save strings of plain text to files and retrieve them. How securely is the data associated to the app (the text files) on the actual phone disk dele…

Adding custom buttons to the Touch Bar without external apps

Can I add custom buttons to the Touch Bar without using external apps (e.g., Better Touch tool)?

The installer information on the recovery server is damaged

I keep getting the error shown in the title when trying to re-install macOS, one thing that I did was acidentally delete my macintosh HD partition and this started happening. I tried to fix the date via online youtube videos but that di…

How can I properly remove Linux and resize the partition if it's showing FFFFFFFFFFFF-FFFFF-FFFFF without turning off my Macbook?

Having deleted both linux partitions from my device using sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk0s4 and sudo diskutil eraseVolume free none disk0s3 In an attempt to then have both partitions rejoin the larger one i used sudo disku…

Removing data without formatting the iPhone

Suppose I have a very simply notes app that does not use iCloud. All it does is simply save strings of plain text to files and retrieve them. How securely is the data associated to the app (the text files) on the actual phone disk dele…

How can I edit "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.nfsd.plist" In Catalina?

I need to edit this file to allow Kodi access to my NFS shares. Before Catalina, I was able to go into recovery mode and disable SiP, make the change and re-enable it. I just upgraded to 10.15.3 and this method no longer works. I read …

Removing data without formatting the iPhone

Suppose I have a very simply notes app that does not use iCloud. All it does is simply save strings of text to files and retrieve them. How securely is the data on the phone storage associated to the app (the text files) deleted when d…

How can I edit "/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.nfsd.plist" In Catalina?

I need to edit this file to allow Kodi access to my NFS shares. Before Catalina, I was able to go into recovery mode and disable SiP, make the change and re-enable it. I just upgraded to 10.15.3 and this method no longer works. I read …

Can I replace a MBP 2012 SSD with the Flash storage from a MBP 2013?

My son's MBP (13-inch, Mid 2012) internal SSD has been acting strangely enough that I'm starting to wonder if it needs to be replaced (do SSDs fail?). I have a MBP (retina 15-inch, Early 2013) with a failing logic/graphics board combo t…

Restore directory under ~/Library from TimeMachine

I want to restore a directory from TimeMachine backup. Unfortunately the folder I want to restore is under ~/Library which is not shown when I enter TimeMachine. It is simple enough to access ~/Library but I can't figure how to do it …

How to get fn + left key working on macOS after changing to zsh from bash?

In case it is not clear fn + left key is simply the HOME button. It takes you to beginning of line. This seems to still work when editing a file (in vim) say so I think zsh does something with the bindings. fn + left now results in an "…

Restore directory under ~/Library from TimeMachine

I want to restore a directory from TimeMachine backup. Unfortunately the folder I want to restore is under ~/Library which is not shown when I enter TimeMachine. It is simple enough to access ~/Library but I can't figure how to do it …