Sometimes I copy one-line scripts into the terminal from PDF files. Since they are copied from PDFs, sometimes they contain "shady" characters, such as non-breaking space, which breaks the script. I’d like to handle this efficiently if …
Lees meerRunning a MacBook Pro 2016, MacOS Monterey v 12.7.6. I need to add a username with admin privileges to allow that user to run a specific program, VeraCrypt, as explained here. In summary, one adds this line to the sudoers user section: …
Lees meerI use the built-in screen recording feature on my iPhone 12 mini. It works fine for YouTube. But it fails to capture the sound on Telegram: neither my voice nor the the voice of the people I videocall are recorded. How can I record the …
Lees meerWhen I do brew upgrade, homebrew tries to upgrade virtualbox. At some point during the upgrade, brew does the following step: ==> Running uninstall script VirtualBox_Uninstall.tool Welcome to the VirtualBox uninstaller script. After s…
Lees meerI've been having same the crash on my Mac Studio numerous times every day since first installing macOS Sonoma about a month after it was first released last fall. I'm using a Samsung NEO QLED 8K TV as the monitor. It often happens right…
Lees meerI've been having same the crash on my Mac Studio numerous times every day since first installing macOS Sonoma about a month after it was first released last fall. I'm using a Samsung NEO QLED 8K TV as the monitor. It often happens right…
Lees meerI have a file containing a private key that I want to securely delete. Several sites as well as Claude suggest using rm -P but the man page of rm says: This flag has no effect. There was also a suggestion about "Secure empty the trash"…
Lees meerI'm looking to tunnel my connection on Firefox, for example, through a VPN while keeping Chrome, or any other apps not listed, connected to my home wifi without a VPN connection. I'm aware that this was previously deemed impossible due …
Lees meerI have videos taken by my iPhone and stored in the camera roll and photos library. I use macos' photos app to import and view these videos on macos. I don’t use iCloud for videos/photos. I’m assuming my regular iphone backup files (encr…
Lees meerI'd like to switch between buttons on a dialog box using the tab key, just like in Windows (any other key or combination instead of tab is OK). I don't want to use Full Keyboard Access because I hate the blue outline it shows around eac…
Lees meerI have videos taken by my iPhone and stored in the camera roll and photos library. I use image capture to import these videos to macos filesystem from ios. I don’t store them in iCloud to sync or photos library on macOS. but regular iph…
Lees meerHopefully this is a simple question for old Mac users, but I am new to MacOS Sonoma 14.5 and using Thunderbird 128.1.1 I am struggling to get rid of a pretty ugly font that appears on some websites (e.g. arxiv.org, see below). The same …
Lees meerHopefully this is a simple question for old Mac users, but I am new to MacOS Sonoma 14.5 and using Thunderbird 128.1.1 I am struggling to get rid of a pretty ugly font that appears on some websites (e.g. arxiv.org, see below). The same …
Lees meerSystem: macOS 14.6.1, M2 MacBook Air I'm trying to use a regex pattern match in my suoders file. According to the man sudoers manpage as well as the online docs, that should be supported with sudo v1.9.10 or higher. Running sudo --versi…
Lees meerThe notifications are set to display as Stacks. The scheduled summary stack appears normally, but no amount of tapping, holding or dragging can separate the stack into individual notifications for viewing and actioning. The only actions…
Lees meerhelp im having a nightmare! this randomly happened today with 5 years of artwork and files on this please please say they can be recovered... I have no back up and im rightly screwed now for work as all their files is GONE
Lees meerHopefully this is a simple question for old Mac users, but I am new to MacOS Sonoma 14.5 and using Thunderbird 128.1.1 I am struggling to get rid of a pretty ugly font that appears on some websites (e.g. arxiv.org, see below). The same …
Lees meerSpecifically the size of the new image is 50% of the pixels original the new image is converted to a jpg, ideally ideally, the resolution is set to 72 (ie, if it was 144 or another value) the new image is named test.jpg (per Finder,…
Lees meerUsing this version of docker, The swap memory in docker desktop is limited to 4GB. On windows, this default value could be doubled by specifying "SwapMiB": 8192 in a settings file located at %userprofile%\AppData\Roaming\Docker\settin…
Lees meerI'm starting to like bash, and I'm asking for help understanding the purge command. alias c="clear" ; alias h="export HISTTIMEFORMAT=' %T ' ; history" ch() { cd ~ && sudo purge rm -dfr .bash_sessions .bash_history .mysql_history .…
Lees meerI've got a macOS laptop and I'm attempting to convert old VHS tapes to playable DVDs. I convert the VHS tapes to .mp4 format using OBS and then attempt to burn the .mp4 files to playable DVDs using the Burn app. The Burn app automatical…
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