I installed on a new M1 mac using a time machine backup from a very old 2014 Mac I've been using for years, and also upgraded to Ventura. Additionally, I've used numerous VMs over the years (VMWare, etc). Naturally, my terminal is havin…
Lees meerI installed on a new M1 mac using a time machine backup from a very old 2014 Mac I've been using for years, and also upgraded to Ventura. Additionally, I've used numerous VMs over the years (VMWare, etc). Naturally, my terminal is havin…
Lees meerI just started at a scale-up as their first IT Engineer, and boy, what a mess it is. Company exists for 10 years, but they just started to have an IT department now for 4-5 months. All devices (Macs) that have been given out in the last…
Lees meerAs I study academic texts in PDFs, I often find myself: Selecting a text passage Copying the text (using Cmd+C) Highlighting the text passage (using Cmd+Shift+H). I am looking for a way to automate this, so I can just select the text …
Lees meerI run an old dinosaur; a late 2013 15" MacBook Pro (i7, quad core, 16GB RAM--soon to be retired) with Big Sur (11.7.7). Big Sur is unfortunately the most "recent" operating system supported by Apple for hardware this old. I'm upgrading…
Lees meerMain display (the one with the Menu Bar set to it in System Settings) is in normal desktop mode. Dock is visible. 2nd display has an application open in full screen mode. The moment I put my focus on the full screen app in the 2nd scree…
Lees meerI'm trying to run a yt-dlp command inside a cronjob but am having trouble. The command runs fine when run as a regular terminal command but inside a cronjob it fails. I've included an image of the cronjob and the mail output. Thank you …
Lees meerI got a problem that I can't fix on my Mac's Microsoft Edge 107.0.1418.52. I asked the Microsoft Community but they were helpless. They guide me to ask on Microsoft Learn, but the forum showed "Access Denied" when I tried to post in a c…
Lees meerI'm trying to run a yt-dlp command inside a cronjob but am having trouble. The command runs fine when run as a regular terminal command but inside a cronjob it fails. I've included an image of the cronjob and the mail output. Thank you …
Lees meerI'm trying to run a yt-dlp command inside a cronjob but am having trouble. The command runs fine when run as a regular terminal command but inside a cronjob it fails. I've included an image of the cronjob and the mail output. Thank you …
Lees meerDoes anyone know how to export all my Notes in one go? I have replaced my Macbook Pro with a Windows laptop. It would be handy to be able to view my notes in Outlook Notes or OneNote or any other note app really. (I do find OneNote slow…
Lees meerI just switched from Windows to macOS. In Windows, I can use "Set defaults for applications" to select an app to see what file types or link types it can open, and change all default types for each app. However, in macOS, I only found a…
Lees meerA while back a hacker told me he would hack me, and soon my passwords would not work on any of my macs, I watched folders empty out, and emails disappeared. It’s happened a few times, and it freaked me out but I I’m more chilled now. St…
Lees meerI have an Option-friendly keyboard source used for enabling mnemonics in menus. It is still English language based but is more keyboardist friendly than the default keyboard input source. I'd actually prefer to either make this other on…
Lees meerIn the Apple Store in Chicago, USA I bought a Mophie 3-in-1 charger. I am now in the UK and carrying a US-to-UK plug adaptor is zero fun. So I am seeking a compact 30w UK pinned unit that is compact enough to fit in the lovely Morphie g…
Lees meerFigma allows to me copy elements to clipboard as images: PNG or SVG. I can then paste these directly into some programs. For example, I can paste it as an image into Pages or Google Docs. Problem But many programs need an image to be a …
Lees meerI am looking for a way to accomplish the following on Monterey (12.6): In the past I would symlink some Mac OS system folders (Documents, Downloads and Desktop) to folders already synced to a Synology NAS and have the "links" act like t…
Lees meerI am looking for a way to accomplish the following on Monterey (12.6): In the past I would symlink some Mac OS system folders (Documents, Downloads and Desktop) to folders already synced to a Synology NAS and have the "links" act like t…
Lees meerFigma allows to me copy elements to clipboard as images: PNG or SVG. I can then paste these directly into some programs. For example, I can paste it as an image into Pages or Google Docs. Problem But many programs need an image to be a …
Lees meerI am looking for a way to accomplish the following on Monterey (12.6): In the past I would symlink some Mac OS system folders (Documents, Downloads and Desktop) to folders already synced to a Synology NAS and have the "links" act like t…
Lees meerI have a MacBook Pro (15", Mid 2015; 2.2GHz Quad-Core Intel Core i7; 16GB 1600 MHz DDR3). Recently it started to go slowly and erratically; eventually flashing onto the screen, momentarily, 'serious error'. It became unusable so I took…
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