How can I make my Mac automatically accept and download AirDropped files from some trusted iPhones that don't have the same Apple account that the Mac does?
Lees meerI use multiple user accounts on my Mac (For security purposes, make sensitive/private information physically inaccessible in certain contexts). If I start and shutdown the computer in a normal single-user flow, everything works fine. Bu…
Lees meerI like to understand the purpose of all of my daemons and agents. This one perplexes me since it has been deprecated and replaced with Apple's Unified logs. The daemons that should now be in use are diagnosed and logd. But I have consis…
Lees meerThis is script which sets the timezones for various regions, so using the GUI is not an option, the script is for testing so not location based so I can't set the timezone based on the region. The Failure sudo systemsetup -settimeZone E…
Lees meerI use multiple user accounts on my Mac (For security purposes, make sensitive/private information physically inaccessible in certain contexts). If I start and shutdown the computer in a normal single-user flow, everything works fine. Bu…
Lees meerThis question is a follow-up to Open two files for comparison in FileMerge, from command line. After installing XCode, I can run opendiff dir1 dir2 on my Mac and get a nice GUI for comparing the dirs. However, the command-line opendiff …
Lees meerSince macOS Sequoia, I am missing the shared password groups in the Passwords app. It worked fine in Sonoma. iCloud Keychain is enabled and the syncing of other passwords works fine. iPhone and iPad on the same Apple Account with iClou…
Lees meerAfter I upgraded macOS and logged in, I noticed under Settings > Network > Firewall > Options that there were allow for "incoming connections"" for the following processes and software: sshd_kegen_wrapper remoted python ruby smbd shari…
Lees meerSince macOS Sequoia, I am missing the shared password groups in the Passwords app. It worked fine in Sonoma. iCloud Keychain is enabled and the syncing of other passwords works fine. iPhone and iPad on the same Apple Account with iClou…
Lees meerI don't have write access to the system wide application folder on my MacBook, so I want to be able to install cask packages to my user application folder. Is this possible with homebrew?
Lees meerI have built apache http server from source in macosx monterey. If I run from a logged in user its ok. I have created a launch daemon script in /Library/LaunchDaemons to launch it every 5 seconds with apachectl start because I have the …
Lees meerThanks to Apple's Virtualization framework it is possible to use Rosetta 2 inside a Linux VM to run x86_64 applications. All the videos and resources I've found online only explain how to install x86 applications using the apt package m…
Lees meerTo free some space from iCloud Drive, I yearly move my Sent mail from the previous year to a dedicated mailbox, export it to a non-cloud location, and then delete it from Mail. Since this is the first time I perform it on Apple Silicon …
Lees meerThanks to Apples Virtualization framework it is possible to use Rosetta 2 inside a Linux VM to run x86_64 applications. All the videos and resources I've found online just explain how to install x86 applications using the apt package ma…
Lees meerAt some point in the last few days I am getting an lsof warning for a shell script that's been running every 60 seconds for over a year and has never returned this warning before. The only things I can think of are I ran df -h command y…
Lees meerI'm trying to create a simple personal budget spreadsheet in Numbers. I want a front page sheet showing a chart of some value over the X latest months. The months themselves are represented by sheets "2024-11", "2024-12", "2025-01", and…
Lees meerI bought a macbook air m3 to legally virtulize mac so I can develop safely without contaminating my host machine with dependencies and possible malwares. I also want to have multiple VMs for different projects. I was able to boot a macO…
Lees meerI'm trying to create a simple personal budget spreadsheet in Numbers. I want a front page sheet showing a chart of some value over the X latest months. The months themselves are represented by sheets "2024-11", "2024-12", "2025-01", and…
Lees meerSo, very short backstory... My brother is going through a messy breakup, his ex is using their child to make him do whatever she wants. He has decided to go down the legal route as she constantly denies him access for trivial reasons an…
Lees meerI recently acquired a MacBook Pro 13 (Model A2251 EMC 3348), and when setting it up, I encountered an MDM (Mobile Device Management) window that I cannot bypass. Unfortunately, I have no way of contacting the organization that originall…
Lees meerThis morning, my iPhone 12 (running iOS 18.0.1) showed a strange notification: no message, just an iPhone icon and "iPhone" as text. I can’t expand it even if there’s a dropdown icon in it. I can only clear it. How can I determine the …
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