I want to be able to double click on a word in my Firefox Browser and right click it and select look up to translate it. (or even better, double click and it shows the English dictionary explanation) But somehow Firefox doesn't allow t…
Lees meerI am thinking of purchasing another Mac Mini - I already have an older one - and I am planning to keep them on top of each other as I have limited space on my desk. I was wondering if it is safe? I am concerned about ventilation. If t…
Lees meer15 years ago, Sonos changed the whole-house audio game. No longer did you have to run a complex grid of speaker wire through your walls and ceiling: with a few wirelessly connected tabletop speakers, you could play music throughout the entire buildi…
Lees meerFor the last few weeks I've run into issues with my 2017 MacBook Air on macOS Catalina 10.15.1. Whenever I go tell it to sleep (either through closing the lid or the context menu or CMD + Shift + Q) it wakes up after about 2 seconds. …
Lees meerI know that my iPhone 8 can back itself up to iTunes over wifi. It has successfully done so whenever I've manually hit the button in iTunes to back it up immediately. In iTunes the iPhone is set to "back up to this computer automatical…
Lees meerSummary I want to copy my entire OS/volume/disk (which is FileVault-ed) from on MacBook to another, whose volumes(s) are also FileVaulted. Assuming no OS incompatibilities between hardware, will a Carbon Copy Cloner (CCC) file/rsync-ba…
Lees meerAfter I downloaded some custom dictionaries, copy-paste them into ~/Library/Dictionaries folder, and reordered them in Dictionary app's Preferences, some options in the Preferences cannot be selected anymore (the check-sign cannot be se…
Lees meerIf I recall correctly, the little lock icon in System Preferences used to prevent changes without unlocking it and providing username and password. Either my macOS is broken, or this isn't the case anymore. Here is a little animated G…
Lees meerI am thinking of purchasing another Mac Mini - I already have an older one - and I am planning to keep them on top of each other as I have limited space on my desk. I was wondering if it is safe? I am concerned about ventilation. If t…
Lees meerI am trying to run make using a script given to me by my new employer. The script relies on a feature present in gnu make v4.2+, and of course the only installed version is 3.8. I used brew to install 4.3, but it's installed as gmake n…
Lees meerThe degrees delta has a noticable impact on fan noise and is making me consider returning the machine. Is it normal for MacBook to be running so much hotter when plugged in? Idles at 60 degrees on a charger and just 50 on battery. …
Lees meerIf I recall correctly, the little lock icon in System Preferences used to prevent changes without unlocking it and providing username and password. Either my macOS is broken, or this isn't the case anymore. Here is a little animated G…
Lees meerI would like to ssh into an Ubuntu virtual machine running on Virtual Box on my machine; use Terminal to ssh into a virtual machine running in the same computer To avoid "why are you doing that? do so and so" answers, here is why I nee…
Lees meerI made a huge mistake. I resized my Bootcamp Windows Partition and messed up with my Mac partition; without any data, since my sister needed my backup hard drive for something urgent. To recover the data, I tried to install a new Mac p…
Lees meerI am trying to automatically run a python script using automator. This script python3 ~/Desktop/python/gmaps.py works fine in terminal but not when I try to run it through Automator , I get a "module pyperclip cannot be found", even th…
Lees meerI have an Macbook Pro 13" 2018 as my portable/home computer and iMac in the office as workstation. When I bring the Macbook to the office and it connects to office wifi, it keeps waking up in the bag, draining the battery. I tried to r…
Lees meerCommerce is one of the first lessons we teach our children: give money to the person at the store, and in exchange, you get a thing that it is now yours. Sure, as we grow up we learn variations on the theme—contracts with deposits, leases, co-op mem…
Lees meerOn macOS Catalina, a RAM disk with 512MB space can be created with the following command: diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ "RAMDisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1048576` On Ubuntu, a RAM disk and its read-only shadow can be created by: …
Lees meerScanning documents is a great way of removing your reliance on paper and it makes it easier to find things, too. The Notes app on iPhone and iPad is perfectly suited to the task and you already have it on your device. Here, we’re going to run throug…
Lees meerI would like to ssh into an Ubuntu virtual machine running on Virtual Box on my machine; use Terminal to ssh into a virtual machine running in the same computer To avoid "why are you doing that? do so and so" answers, here is why I nee…
Lees meerOn macOS Catalina, a RAM disk with 512MB space can be created with the following command: diskutil eraseVolume HFS+ "RAMDisk" `hdiutil attach -nomount ram://1048576` On Ubuntu, a RAM disk and its read-only shadow can be created by: …
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