I have a cron job that upgrades my Homebrew softwares periodically. Sometimes it runs into the famous directory ownership and permission issue for Homebrew. I'm trying to include some commands in the cron job to always fix them before u…
Lees meertoday I logged into my mac and opened zsh and had a big shock! Normally my terminal prompt is something like: sidharthghoshal@macbook-pro But today I found it was : sidharthghoshal@HaeLims-Air I don't know what HaeLims-Air is and my fir…
Lees meerI want to be able to approve application requests from an Apple Watch (AW) by double-pressing the side button. The setting is titled "Use AW to unlock your applications and your Mac". Despite having this setting enabled, I'm never promp…
Lees meerSorry for the repeat, if any, but this is driving me nuts. I ran through a few upgrades of homebrew, in the past, and all python scripts I used to use were running fine, post python updates, meaning the upgrades got all necessary site-p…
Lees meerI have been having some little issues with my 2019 Sonoma 14.3.1 iMac. When I click the left button of the mouse, it causes the pointer to freeze for half a second. It is making the gaming experience I play a game where you need 15 cps)…
Lees meerI used to work for a company that provided me a Mac (M1Pro). The company went out of business and let us keep the Mac computers. They told us they would remove all the MDM enrollments so we can freely do whatever we want with it. It's …
Lees meerDoes anyone know of a definitive modern (Ventura-onwards) solution to moving the standard folders in a user directory to a different drive, NOT moving the ~/User directory itself, but moving ~/Documents, ~/Pictures, ~/Downloads etc, but…
Lees meerDoes anyone know of a definitive modern (Ventura-onwards) solution to moving the standard folders in a user directory to a different drive, NOT moving the ~/User directory itself, but moving ~/Documents, ~/Pictures, ~/Downloads etc, but…
Lees meerI have a cron job that upgrades my Homebrew softwares periodically. Sometimes it runs into the famous directory ownership and permission issue for Homebrew. I'm trying to include some commands in the cron job to always fix them before u…
Lees meerI know macOS user guide is available here: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac The problem is that it is very frustrating to navigate there. For example, here is the Erase your Mac section: https://support.apple.com/gui…
Lees meerI need to have Safari visit a specific URL, and "Save As... page source" to a specified location in my Home folder. I don't want to actually see Safari while this is going on - unless that's unavoidable. I understand this is do-able us…
Lees meerPosting this here instead of Stack Overflow because they don't allow users to ask for tutorial recommendations. I'm learning Swift for a project using AVFoundation and Shazamkit, but I'm finding AVFoundation confusing. Does anyone have …
Lees meerI know macOS user guide is available here: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/welcome/mac The problem is that it is very frustrating to navigate there. For example, here is the Erase your Mac section: https://support.apple.com/gui…
Lees meer(I've searched similar cases and could not find any) I've installed Zabbix agent daemon for MacOS. I'm running it on Catalina. The daemon ran just fine on installation, however after a while it crashed and then I cannot revive it even w…
Lees meerI moved my Sims game onto my Mac from Windows. On Windows I had a program called SRWE all bc with for screenshots where it adjusted the view / zoom of the screen so that when you take screenshots you can get as high quality/res you wan…
Lees meerI have been poring over this site and others intermittently for days and repeatedly, frequently, in answer to other people asking the above question, answers are provided that don't address the issue. I want to be able to create usable …
Lees meerI am used to Linux environments but I have to use a Mac for work. Now I am wondering why it seems to be impossible to open new workspaces in OSX without using the mouse? I know how to switch between them or move windows in different wor…
Lees meerThis is a rather peculiar situation as I got locked out of my own laptop. Keep in mind I'm in IT so I know what I'm doing. The setup: I own a Macbook Pro 2019 with T2 (with purchase documents and so on). I don't use iCloud at all, never…
Lees meerThere are two administrator accounts on my Mac. Both are for my own use and both are password protected. When I try to open the Documents folder of the second account from the first one, it is not possible. I can change the permissions …
Lees meerMy computer was up to some strange things. I used the "last" command to check login activity and this is the result. Not only have I never seen it before this, all of my previous logins were missing, as you can see. Last login: Wed Aug…
Lees meerSurprisingly, I found that there is a homebrew formula for xfig; I then installed xfig by: brew install xfig But, I cannot start xfig: ~$ xfig Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C Warning: X locale modifiers not suppo…
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