In Big Sur the notification toggle in the menu bar is now the clock. I am currently using iStat Menu to display the clock in the menu bar, so it looks bad having two times in the bar. Example: Is there way to set Big Sur notification b…
Lees meerIn Big Sur the notification toggle in the menu bar is now the clock. I am currently using iStat Menu to display the clock in the menu bar, so it looks bad having two times in the bar. Example: Is there way to set Big Sur notification b…
Lees meerI updated my macOS to Big Sur 11.0.1 and it seems that they changed the way open command or rather launch services are acting in this version. I have different versions/releases of my software on my machine in separate folders. Name of …
Lees meerAfter updating to the latest version of macOS Big Sur, I've noticed strange system behavior. Now while opening the system I'm getting a popup where there is the information: The file can't be found. I want to file this file, but the …
Lees meerI recently tried to install big sur on my macbook through a bootable USB drive. Everything went well until during the install the computer auto rebooted and showed the apple logo and load bar then went blank. I guessed the system was st…
Lees meerAt far left of my top bar you can see a globe-like network sort of icon with what I interpret as a blue download arrow. This icon appeared recently for the first time for unknown reasons. Clicking it, right-clicking it, double-clicking …
Lees meerOSXFuse and VeraCrypt were both working fine until the MacOS was updated to MacOS 11.0.1 Big Sur. VeraCrypt no longer opens. After installing macFuse 4.0.2 (latest at time of posting), I tried to run the installer for VeraCrypt 1.24-Upd…
Lees meerI have seen many post here/on SO and many docs on Apple's website about reading the battery level on iOS, but what's the best way to do this on a MacBook? In the past the only way I've found to do this is with a time-consuming bash comm…
Lees meerWhen using Wikipedia in Dictionary.app on macOS Big Sur 11.0.1, Dictionary.app sends HTTPS requests to *.b.akamaiedge.net and is not utilizing system proxy (HTTP or socks5). How do I fix this?
Lees meerOne of my company computers - a Macbook Air, was shown to have security vulnerability as part of a recent external network scan. The issues are related to Linux 4.0. Mac OS is a UNIX flavor, not Linux (FYI - I'm not an expert at all!!).…
Lees meerOne of my company computers - a Macbook Air, was shown to have security vulnerability as part of a recent external network scan. The issues are related to Linux 4.0. Mac OS is a UNIX flavor, not Linux (FYI - I'm not an expert at all!!).…
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerAfter some googling, I see many articles on circumstances where an iPhone can be used, but none that say definitely that is perfectly okay to actually do so (or whether it's risky to do so). Also problematic is that most of the top goog…
Lees meerAfter starting my MacBook Pro 16” (2018) the screen stays black. Also the command strip is dark and without screen brightness controls. I can’t login. Keyboard has backlight on. What could be a fix for the problem? I’m running Catalina …
Lees meerI have Catalina running on a 16" MacBook Pro. I do not want to upgrade to Big Sur until next July. Is there a way to do that? Responding to BMike: Two days before Big Sur dropped I set Software Update as follows: On the day Big Sur dro…
Lees meerThis is my Wife's Mac, and she has been complaining of general slowness for a while now. And I confirmed it and did the normal things: Safe Mode, clean caches, check the disk for errors, run the hardware diagnostics, zap the PRAM/NVRAM.…
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerWith the release of macOS Big Sur, I am contemplating the following plan and wanted to get some advise on any risks or if this plan will even work or not. My current setup is: macOS Catalina as the primary OS - This on an APFS containe…
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerWhen discussing a recent outage of Apple's OCSP server, people on various Twitter accounts (in the threads following this tweet) and "fefe's blog" claimed that the way trustd works on macOS would leak information about which software wa…
Lees meerI do most of the "work" I do on my Mac as a Standard user (Apple parlance for an unprivileged user). I also frequently use the CLI (zsh mostly now) via the Terminal app. I use MacPorts as a package manager, and various utilities such as…
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