I am contemplating whether it is safe to trade in a laptop with Apple. I know that nothing is ever truly deleted once you format your laptop/device, and I have very sensitive info (bank details/crypto wallet etc) that I can't risk expos…
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Lees meerIs there something I can type on the command-line to determine if an executable is an M1 binary or and amd64 binary?
Lees meerDirectory structure.... --G - Action.app (this Automator app) - Random.app - Folder 1 - File A.a - File B.t - File C.q - Folder 2 - File D.a - File B.t - File C.q I click-drag Folder 1 and Folder 2 and drop them on Ac…
Lees meerOverview I have a 1 Gbps connection via a Cat 6 Ethernet cable to my MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019). I am on macOS Big Sur 11.6 on the Intel Core i9 if that helps. The Ethernet cables connect to the Thunderbolt port via a dock supporting a…
Lees meerOverview I have a 1 Gbps connection via a Cat 6 Ethernet cable to my MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019). I am on macOS Big Sur 11.6 on the Intel Core i9 if that helps. The Ethernet cables connect to the Thunderbolt port via a dock supporting a…
Lees meerDirectory structure.... --G - Action.app (this Automator app) - Random.app - Folder 1 - File A.a - File B.t - File C.q - Folder 2 - File D.a - File B.t - File C.q I click-drag Folder 1 and Folder 2 and drop them on Ac…
Lees meerI'm not really sure if I'm missing something here, but isn't the idea behind the auto boot and auto shutdown that the mac is ready to work with in the morning when starting to work? For me that's not quite working. My Mac starts every m…
Lees meerI'm struggling to choose between M1max and M1pro for my MacBook 2021. The only difference that could be relevant for me is 2x memory bandwidth. Are there any real-world usage scenarios where 200GB/s vs 400GB/s bandwidth difference can r…
Lees meerI'm looking to create an AppleScript which helps me open VSCode in a specific folder (in order to be able to use it in the toolbar in Finder). I've written the following code: tell application "Finder" if exists Finder window 1 then…
Lees meermacOS 11.6, Contacts.app 13.0 I have a .vcf file of Contact cards from another computer. I wish to work with them on my computer without merging them with the cards already in my computer's Contacts. Each Contacts file is ~300 entries, …
Lees meerI’m backing up my 2 TB internal SSD to an external 2 TB SSD drive. Time Machine estimates the backup to be 1.13 TB, so it should easily fit into the external drive. However, even the first backup doesn’t complete because the backup dis…
Lees meerOverview I have a 1 Gbps connection via a Cat 6 Ethernet cable to my MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019). I am on macOS Big Sur 11.6 on the Intel Core i9 if that helps. The Ethernet cables connect to the Thunderbolt port via a dock supporting a…
Lees meerI'm using the opportunity of a new Mac laptop to get to grips with automating the post-macOS-installation setup process, rather than going through the usual mind-numbing click-fest or crud-inheriting Migration Assistant. I read a few ar…
Lees meerI'm using an external microphone (iUKUS) with a 3.5mm audio jack plugged into my computer (a high-end Mac). There's a bit of hiss in background - how do I stop it - is there a way to filter that in real-time (on input, not by processing…
Lees meerI'm using the opportunity of a new Mac laptop to get to grips with automating the post-macOS-installation setup process, rather than going through the usual mind-numbing click-fest or crud-inheriting Migration Assistant. I read a few ar…
Lees meerWe're using an Intel Mac mini running Catalina as a build machine, running a lot of specific and custom software. We want to update that build machine to Big Sur in order to build apps for the latest iOS, unfortunately we're out of disk…
Lees meerOverview I have a 1 Gbps connection via a Cat 6 Ethernet cable to my MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019). I am on macOS Big Sur 11.6 on the Intel Core i9 if that helps. The Ethernet cables connect to the Thunderbolt port via a dock supporting a…
Lees meerOverview I have a 1 Gbps connection via a Cat 6 ethernet cable to my MacBook Pro (16-inch, 2019). I am on macOS Big Sur 11.6 on the Intel Core i9 if that helps. The Ethernet cables connect to the Thunderbolt port via a dock supporting a…
Lees meerI'm using the opportunity of a new MacBook Air to get to grips with automating the post-macOS-installation setup process, rather than going through the usual mind-numbing click-fest or crud-inheriting Migration Assistant. I read a few a…
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