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What is the normal usage brightness of the brightest Macbook currently available?

maandag 5 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a 2017 Macbook Pro and the tech specs online says it's brightness is 500 nits, but it seems very dim in any sort of outside light is nearby. When looking at Macbooks, the brightest I've seen listed is the Macbook 14" and 16" and…

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What is the normal usage brightness of the brightest Macbook currently available?

maandag 5 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a 2017 Macbook Pro and the tech specs online says it's brightness is 500 nits, but it seems very dim in any sort of outside light is nearby. When looking at Macbooks, the brightest I've seen listed is the Macbook 14" and 16" and…

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Mac won't boot after changing date

zondag 4 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

A few days ago I changed my M1 Mac Mini system date to may of 2122. That sounds stupid and it was. I did it as a joke to see how fast somebody would notice. I could not open anything on the web because web page certificates don't reach …

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Mac won't boot after changing date

zondag 4 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

A few days ago I changed my M1 Mac Mini system date to may of 2122. That sounds stupid and it was. I did it as a joke to see how fast somebody would notice. I could not open anything on the web because web page certificates don't reach …

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Can the strength of the power supply affect the performance of the Macbook?

zondag 4 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a maxed-out 16" MacBook Pro from 2021. I have a 140W USB-C Power Adapter from Apple that I can use with it. I also have a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Dock that can supply 85W. I usually use the Mac as a stationary computer and I don't n…

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Can the strength of the power supply affect the performance of the Macbook?

zondag 4 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have a maxed-out 16" MacBook Pro from 2021. I have a 140W USB-C Power Adapter from Apple that I can use with it. I also have a Belkin Thunderbolt 3 Dock that can supply 85W. I usually use the Mac as a stationary computer and I don't n…

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Unkillable processes in macOS (Monterey 12.6.1)

zaterdag 3 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I’ve had this happening now twice for a couple of weeks. It could be since I upgraded to Monterey 12.6.1 … Here is what happens: I want to exit some application, so I go through the Quit menu item. Only, the application does not quit: …

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Mail app: How to check which account is an email being sent to?

zaterdag 3 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I receive a number of emails to mailing lists on my Mac, using Mail app. The recipient of these emails is not my email but the mailing list. This is important information to unsubscribe, for instance. How do I know which account is this…

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How to recover APFS encrypted partition table

zaterdag 3 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I was trying to install an encrypted Debian on my Macbook pro 2017 but somehow Debian erased the partition table and now when I boot in the macOS recover I can only see 3 unformated partition with a GUID partition table. No more APFS en…

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How come I cannot view /Users/foo/ from a second admin user, but I CAN view them from macOS on another partition?

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I've been trying to get a clean macOS. First effort was to create a second admin user. I found that userB couldn't see /Users/userA/*. Second effort was to create a second APFS partition, and install macOS onto it (from userA). Now my m…

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How come I cannot view /Users/foo/ from a second admin user, but I CAN view them from macOS on another partition?

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I've been trying to get a clean macOS. First effort was to create a second admin user. I found that userB couldn't see /Users/userA/*. Second effort was to create a second APFS partition, and install macOS onto it (from userA). Now my m…

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Mac won't boot after changing date

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

A few days ago I changed my M1 Mac Mini system date to may of 2122. That sounds stupid and it was. I did it as a joke to see how fast somebody would notice. I could not open anything on the web because web page certificates don't reach …

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macOS is writing 32GB of data during every boot, on new installs of Big Sur and Monterey

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have an issue where brand new installations, both minutes old and weeks old of Big Sur and Monterey (not tried other major releases) are writing exactly 32GB of data to the SSD boot drive during boot, on every single boot. I boot the …

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Phantom file anomaly

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I see something in my Downloads (fanned from Dock) that I didn't download, named XXkkAgSU Dragging the icon to Terminal pastes the full path and filename as expected. But the shell can't see it: WGroleau@MBP ~ % file /Users/WGroleau/Do…

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Is there a way to request access to local iOS contacts from a website?

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Is there an equivalent to requesting native iOS contact permissions that can be triggered on a mobile website, e.g. for the purpose of uploading contacts to a chatting app or social media for social discovery?

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macOS is writing 32GB of data during every boot, on new installs of Big Sur and Monterey

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have an issue where brand new installations, both minutes old and weeks old of Big Sur and Monterey (not tried other major releases) are writing exactly 32GB of data to the SSD boot drive during boot, on every single boot. I boot the …

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Is there a way to request access to local iOS contacts from a website?

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Is there an equivalent to requesting native iOS contact permissions that can be triggered on a mobile site, e.g. for the purpose of uploading for social discovery.

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"Slide to Type " like iOS floating keyboard in macOS?

vrijdag 2 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

Is there any software that can use iOS floating keyboard in macOS? I want to type using only the trackpad , use "Slide to Type " in my trackpad to typing:

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Is there any way to make mdfind (the spotlight command line) find symlinks?

donderdag 1 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I use mdfind extensively to look for files on my file system because it is so much faster than find. In this case, I was looking for README.md files. But today I just realized I was missing some files because they were actually symlink…

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MacOS is writing 32GB of data during every boot, on new installs of Big Sur and Monterey

donderdag 1 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

I have an issue where brand new installations, both minutes old and weeks old of Big Sur and Monterey (not tried other major releases) are writing exactly 32GB of data to the SSD boot drive during boot, on every single boot. I boot the …

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mail.app moving subfolders under Inbox

donderdag 1 december 2022 inAsk Different (Tips-Tricks-Tutorials)

is there the possibility to have all the folders created for a given mail account organised in a tree-like view? Something like this image from this previous question: I am not sure if this was a feature that got removed from older mai…

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