I'm using an old Apple 30" Cinema Display via a series of dongles: Apple Silicon M1 Mac connecting 30" Apple Cinema Display The native resolution is 2560 x 1600 and works great. It may require to holding Option when clicking "Scaled" …
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Lees meerI wrote a script to open Safari in a new tab with custom window size and window position. However, setting the window position is just not working. Below is the script: #!/bin/sh loggedInUser="$(/bin/ls -la /dev/console | /usr/bin/cut …
Lees meerTl;dr My 2015 Macbook Pro Retina shuts off without any warning at 75%. According to Coconut Battery Design Capacity: 56.7% Made in 4/13/15 Has lasted 3,268 cycles, and the battery status is apparently 'Fair'. Simplo made my battery. mac…
Lees meerThere are some apps that come with the OS on a Mac and which I've never used even once in years. Apps like "Grapher" or "Stocks". Now my disk is almost full and I'm trying to remove these unused apps to free up a bit of space, but no ma…
Lees meerAfter the start of the pandemic people have been using increasingly nicer software when giving talks on Zoom. Among the nicest ones I've seen is one in which a PDF file is presented while the speaker scribbles on top of it or highlight…
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Lees meerTl;dr My 2015 Macbook Pro Retina shuts off without any warning at 75%. According to Coconut Battery Design Capacity: 56.7% Made in 4/13/15 Has lasted 3,268 cycles, and the battery status is apparently 'Fair'. Simplo made my battery. mac…
Lees meerMy scenario is the following: I have a folder whose contents changes frequently. To be precise, it's my local backup of my Wordpress upload folder wp-content/uploads/ which I rsync in a SSH tunnel from my webhost to my local disk. E…
Lees meerTldr; My Macbook Pro Retina, from 2015 shuts off without any warning at 75%. According to Coconut Battery Design Capacity: 56.7% Made in 4/13/15 Has lasted 3,268 cycles, and the battery status is apparently 'Fair'. Simplo made my batter…
Lees meerI can ssh just fine into my other Mac when both machines are on the same network using ssh -p 22 [email protected] or ssh [email protected], but when I am on a different network, I cannot ssh successfully. I am met with …
Lees meerSometimes my MacBook Pro with BigSur 11.6 (20G165) takes a very long time to boot. I did a reinstall of MacOS, and this helped for a while. Today I cleaned up my disk (from 20Gb free space to ~150Gb), and this helps too. From my point o…
Lees meerI made 3 scripts to switch between certain browser widths in Chrome’s developer mode. The plan is to click those scripts in my Dock so Chrome enters developer mode (DevTools) and sets needed widths. Or just sets them straightaway if Dev…
Lees meerFollowing these questions, How can I figure out what's slowly eating my HD space? I got Disk utility However, after downloading it and opening it with the proper privs, it can only account for less than 20% of my entire disk usage. I …
Lees meerI am migrating from MacOS to Linux. I have customized the icon of many of my sub-folders in my "Documents" folder. I learned how to do the same in Linux, using image files, and now I would like to transport all my custom icons to my new…
Lees meerI am migrating from MacOS to Linux. I have customized the icon of many of my sub-folders in my "Documents" folder. I learned how to do the same in Linux, using image files, and now I would like to transport all my custom icons to my new…
Lees meerI am migrating from MacOS to Linux. I have customized the icon of many of my sub-folders in my "Documents" folder. I learned how to do the same in Linux, using image files, and now I would like to transport all my custom icons to my new…
Lees meerThe text displayed and the cursor on Terminal is very often garbled or 'noisy', and this is across releases for as long as I can remember. That said, it seems worse on Big Sur. Symptoms: Suppose I've got some fairly long pipeline: lucky…
Lees meerNote: Why is search in Activity Monitor disabled? is a similar but different issue that doesn't address the one here (I tried switching views to and from Hierarchically. The command ⌘-F shortcut doesn't seem to work in Activity Monitor.…
Lees meerI wish to determine the date my Apple ID was created. To do that, I followed the instructions in this answer: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/345405/279727 I am able to download an Excel file containing data corresponding to my Appl…
Lees meerNote: Why is search in Activity Monitor disabled? is a similar but different issue that doesn't address the one here (I tried switching views to and from Hierarchically. The command ⌘-F shortcut doesn't seem to work in Activity Monitor.…
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