My understanding from the wikipedia page for Duplex and from StackExchange answers like this is that on a modern ethernet connection the transmit traffic is supposed to be unaffected by the receive traffic. But I'm running some tests be…
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Lees meerI have this table in Numbers: In the first column I want to calculate the differences between the timestamps in the third column. The first four entries in the first column are fine. I just subtract the previous row from the current ro…
Lees meerI have this table in Numbers: In the first column I want to calculate the differences between the timestamps in the third column. The first four entries in the first column are fine. I just subtract the previous row from the current ro…
Lees meerHere is an AppleScript script to make it possible double-click files in Finder so that they will be opened in Vim, by Normen Hansen: https://github.com/normen/vim-macos-scripts/blob/master/open-file-in-vim.applescript (it must be used f…
Lees meerI have this table in Numbers: In the first column I want to calculate the differences between the timestamps in the third column. The first four entries in the first column are fine. I just subtract the previous row from the current ro…
Lees meerWhat it says on the tin. I hate the delay in the file icon appearing in the message field because it's preparing a version the sender and recipient(s) can collaborate on, and I hate having to manually change the dropdown-menu option fro…
Lees meerI have this table in Numbers: In the first column I want to calculate the differences between the timestamps in the third column. The first four entries in the first column are fine. I just subtract the previous row from the current ro…
Lees meerIn macOS Mail, when adding lines to a bullet list, there is no space between the lines. For long list items with multiple sentences, it would be better to separate the list items with blank lines. How can I do that?
Lees meerI bought a used Mac Mini from another country on Ebay. When I plugged it in the macOS installer listed my country (Portugal) and China as the topmost countries. How does it know this? And why China in addition to Portugal? Some more det…
Lees meerI’m using a Mac with an M1 Max (ARM64 architecture) running macOS 14.6 (Sonoma). The default Terminal.app is a universal binary supporting both x86_64 and arm64e, as confirmed by: /bin/zsh: Mach-O universal binary with 2 architectures: …
Lees meerI want to use a GUI or CLI to detect the type and capabilities of the USB-C cable attached to my Mac. USB-C cables usually do not have visual information that specifies their capabilities, and I want to use an optimal cable (charging Io…
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Lees meerI'm dyslexic - grammar errors and spelling will be present I have an M1 ultra studio and a Drobo 5D3 thunderbolt I had 4 working independent HSF Sata WD 3.5" drives with data on I put them in a Drobo 5D3, I just bought, to see if it w…
Lees meerI'm dyslexic - grammar errors and speling will be present I have an M1 ultra studio and a Drobo 5D3 thunderbolt I had 4 working independent HSF Sata WD 3.5" drives with data on I put them in a Drobo 5D3, I just bought, to see if it wo…
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