Long story short, MBP 2020 13" running BigSur, connected to an external monitor via HDMI Was just muckin' about with the desktop image for both the external monitor and the laptop and for some reason when I clicked on Photos, the machin…
Lees meerFor some reason, the font-sizes on macOS appear very small. For example, if I use Apple's own Pages and set the zoom to 100%, I would expect it to represent the page accurately on my display. However, it is actually way smaller on the d…
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Lees meerNow that saving ain't saving for a few years now, more and more document based applications do the modern "save, duplicate, revert to" Versions thing instead of the traditional "save, save as, revert". Having had 30 years becoming quit…
Lees meerFor some reason, the font-sizes on macOS appear very small. For example, if I use Apple's own Pages and set the zoom to 100%, I would expect it to represent the page accurately on my display. However, it is actually way smaller on the d…
Lees meerI set up an NFS server on the MacBook Pro to export certain directories in order to share with Ubuntu client running on VirtualBox. In /etc/exports, on the Mac, I have: /Users/xxx/VMShares/Xubuntu -network 192.168.56.0 -mask 255.255.25…
Lees meerI want to reset a Mac. I have follow Apple procedure. It works fine but the Mac still knows my Apple ID. So the reset was partial... What procedure should I apply if I want to really reset the full hard drive and Mac components ? I want…
Lees meerFor some reason, the font-sizes on macOS appear very small. For example, if I use Apple's own Pages and set the zoom to 100%, I would expect it to represent the page accurately on my display. However, it is actually way smaller on the d…
Lees meerI have these horribly formatted text files that look like this: Heading FIELD_DELIM TABS VIDEO_FORMAT 1080 FILM_FORMAT 35mm, 4 perf AUDIO_FORMAT 48khz FPS 24 Column Name Tape Start Source File End Tc in Tracks Data W…
Lees meerI have these horribly formatted text files that look like this: Heading FIELD_DELIM TABS VIDEO_FORMAT 1080 FILM_FORMAT 35mm, 4 perf AUDIO_FORMAT 48khz FPS 24 Column Name Tape Start Source File End Tc in Tracks Data W…
Lees meerI have an ORICO dual-bay SSD enclosure configured for RAID 1. I can't get it to mount on my personal 14" M1 MacBook Pro, but it mounts just fine on two other 16" M1 MacBook Pros. All three systems are running macOS Monterey 12.5. I don'…
Lees meerI have an ORICO dual-bay SSD enclosure configured for RAID 1. I can't get it to mount on my personal 14" M1 MacBook Pro, but it mounts just fine on two other 16" M1 MacBook Pros. All three systems are running macOS Monterey 12.5. I don'…
Lees meerI have a MacBook Pro (13-inch, 2017, Two Thunderbolt 3 ports) which has an issue whereby the machine works normally when connected to power, but if you try to boot the machine when disconnected from the power the ? folder icon is shown …
Lees meerOn macOS Monterey, how can I make switching spaces animation-less? I would like there to be no animation at all. As instantly as possible, just redraw the screen with the new space.
Lees meerI have an Apple M1 Pro MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2021) running macOS Monterey 12.2.1. It seems that every once in a while (anywhere from once every few days to once every couple hours), the machine would "freeze" whereby I am suddenly no lo…
Lees meerI tried to install asitop through brew but it doesn't exist (yet) as a package (see comments). The tentative installation triggered an update of the existing brew packages. From then on, each time I invoke a brew command I get the follo…
Lees meerWhen I right click in an item (e.g. HTML file) to open it with a custom app (e.g. browser), it shows a bunch of apps. However, some of these apps are no longer installed in my computer. These are browser apps (Chrome mods) that I had in…
Lees meerI tried to install asitop through brew but it doesn't exist (yet) as a package (see comments). The tentative installation triggered an update of the existing brew packages. From then on, each time I invoke a brew command I get the follo…
Lees meerI have become suspicious of whether my iPhone has been compromised (especially with CVE-2022-32893) and decided to do a backup and then restore the backup. My reasoning was on the assumption that iOS would be completely re-installed and…
Lees meerI have these horribly formatted text files that look like this: Heading FIELD_DELIM TABS VIDEO_FORMAT 1080 FILM_FORMAT 35mm, 4 perf AUDIO_FORMAT 48khz FPS 24 Column Name Tape Start Source File End Tc in Tracks Data W…
Lees meerI recently encrypted my drive using filevault. However, the process to encrypt seemed to be practically instant, while for others it seems to take quite a while. I'm wondering if my drive was actually encrypted or not. My computer is a …
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