Examining htop on iTerm2, I'm finding that my machine is maxing out swap space while leaving ~4GB of normal RAM. Why?! This seems like it's going to really slow up my machine. What's going on here? Is there something I can do to improve…
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Lees meerI bought a used iPad 2, mainly for reading. After a short while I found out that it won't run a more recent iOS than 9.3.5 and that there are basically no apps that run on this iOS version (rendering the iPad 2 almost unuseable--I reall…
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Lees meerAfter some time of inactivity, the keyboard - Microsoft Ergonomic Keyboard - starts acting as if the Option (Win) key is pressed. Pressing the key does not reset its state. The only solution is to flip the keyboard over, and take out th…
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Lees meerScenario: My work Macbook Pro uses Cisco AnyConnect to connect to my employers VPN from home. I am running macOS Catalina on the Macbook Pro I have a NAS connected to my home LAN Macbook Pro is connected through same home LAN When I a…
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Lees meerI'm using macOS 11 Big Sur and APFS. I sometimes want to remove old backups to save space. I don't want Time Machine taking up the entire external drive. % tmutil listbackups 2020-10-18-001052.backup 2020-11-06-124150.backup 2020-11-15-…
Lees meerAccording to Apples tech specs, the new M1 MacBook Pro has a screen resolution of 2560-by-1600. However, when I make a screen recording via quicktime or take a screenshot via Lightshot, it show that my screen resolution is 2880-by-1800.…
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