Buying used mac mini 2018 I decided to do a clean system install to be sure that it is clean. I followed the steps from the Apple docs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 signed out of everything reset NVRAM erased disk then I f…
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Lees meerBuying used mac mini 2018 I decided to do a clean system install to be sure that it is clean. I followed the steps from the Apple docs: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201065 signed out of everything reset NVRAM erased disk then I f…
Lees meerAs a tangent to: Can connecting 2 external monitors to a macbook pro damage it? How does one get visibility into which power-source the Mac is running with? Are any detailed stats available underneath the hood? Unrelated context: My MBP…
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Lees meerI want to play music on a MacBook Air (10.14.6) with mplayer on the command line. But sometimes when I load a page in a browser, the music briefly stops, and then continues. Sometimes even for some seconds. This is very annoying. I want…
Lees meerI just never want TextEdit to be opened, and instead set sublime as the default editor for all plain-text files. So not only files with *.txt extension. For older versions than Big Sur the following command always has worked for me: def…
Lees meerI just never want TextEdit to be opened, and instead set sublime as the default editor for all plain-text files. So not only files with *.txt extension. For older versions than Big Sur the following command always has worked for me: def…
Lees meerWhen naming a file, (for example in OneDrive) is it a bad idea for the name to contain space and capital letters? Is there any potential conflicts it might cause? Should I use hyphen or underscore instead?
Lees meerOn BigSur the Sunset-Detector works but it doesn't make sense, because in the real world darkness arrives a bit earlier than sunset. It hurts my eyes, because I stay focused on my work and don't notice that it's dark already. How can I …
Lees meerI love how you can search for tabs in safari by typing shift⌘\ and you get something like this However the most important part to me is actually simply selecting that tab and start using it. Right now after the search I have to leave t…
Lees meerWhat I am trying to achieve: Click a YouTube link in an app This URL is used by my youtube-dl script to download the video youtube-dl is configured to download the highest quality video and audio, then use ffmpeg to combine them into o…
Lees meerWhen naming a file, (for example in OneDrive) is it a bad idea for the name to contain space and capital letters? Is there any potential conflicts it might cause? Should I use hyphen or underscore instead?
Lees meerWhat I am trying to achieve: Click a YouTube link in an app This URL is used by my youtube-dl script to download the video youtube-dl is configured to download the highest quality video and audio, then use ffmpeg to combine them into o…
Lees meerWhat I am trying to achieve: Click a YouTube link in an app This URL is used by my youtube-dl script to download the video youtube-dl is configured to download the highest quality video and audio, then use ffmpeg to combine them into o…
Lees meerI started using a MacBook Air M1, macOS Big Sur 11.2. When I created the user account I selected a lowercase name for the home directory. Later, I wanted to change that to a first uppercase name. I found and used instructions for that (…
Lees meerLate 2010 iMac getting quarter way through booting then turning off Ok - first things first, apologies for a long post - I have lots of details about this issue. Context: As far as I can remember, about a couple of weeks ago I was wo…
Lees meerHow can I show battery percentage on my Mac's log-in screen? My menu bar normally shows batter percentage, I have the option enabled in System Preferences, but when I close my laptop lid and reopen it or lock my screen and have to log i…
Lees meerHow can I show battery percentage on the log-in screen? My menu bar normally shows batter percentage, I have the option enabled in System Preferences, but when I close my laptop lid and reopen it or lock my screen and have to log in aga…
Lees meerI've been having an intermittent problem with my late 2013 27" iMac for more than a year now and it seems to be getting more frequent. Basically, I could be doing anything on my iMac (or nothing at all!) and I suddenly hear the fans spi…
Lees meerMy MacPro 5,1 is running a 3.33 GHz 6-Core Intel Xeon with 16 GB 1333 MHz DDR3. Is this a single or a dual socket system? Thanks.
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