I've recently acquired a second-hand macbook pro from 2013 with a wiped disk, and wish to make it useful. While I understand the recommendations are to either use the internet Recovery system to install macOS, or connect a Thunderbolt c…
Lees meerI've recently acquired a second-hand macbook pro from 2013 with a wiped disk, and wish to make it useful. While I understand the recommendations are to either use the internet Recovery system to install macOS, or connect a Thunderbolt c…
Lees meerWhen I perform a copy/paste action on my laptop, then go to my Mac mini and whatever I copied on my laptop is now on my Mac mini's paste buffer. I Googled this and saw something about "universal clipboard," but the directions to turn it…
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Lees meerI was delivered a MacStudio for work. It runs MacOS Sonoma 14.1.1. Our IT technician set up a password for me on it and asked me to change it. I went to change it but accidentally left the new password blank, and confirmed when prompted…
Lees meerI’m trying to use stdbuf to control buffering for a process in terminal — specifically, using stdbuf -o0 to prevent buffering when piping output onward, roughly as described in this answer — but it doesn’t seem to work as expected, or i…
Lees meerI was delivered a MacStudio for work. It runs MacOS Sonoma 14.1.1. Our IT technician set up a password for me on it and asked me to change it. I went to change it but accidentally left the new password blank, and confirmed when prompted…
Lees meerI have some video files that came from a digital video camera. If I examine the file using exiftool, I see an output that includes: SB-iMac(~/Movies/trial) % exiftool f1.dv ExifTool Version Number : 12.40 File Name …
Lees meerI’m trying to use stdbuf to control buffering for a process in terminal — specifically, using stdbuf -o0 to prevent buffering when piping output onward, roughly as described in this answer — but it doesn’t seem to work as expected, or i…
Lees meerToday I typed Grep by mistake in my Terminal and to my surprise, the /bin/grep command was executed anyway. I do NOT want this behavior. But, it seems it's not possible to disable it. I'm currently using macOS 14.5. I tested this with t…
Lees meerPretty often if I start an app (which I primarily do from command-space, i.e. Spotlight) the system executes the program, but the window is buried, so I have to then search for it in the switcher. I rarely if ever want something started…
Lees meerToday I typed Grep by mistake in my Terminal and to my surprise, the /bin/grep command was executed anyway. I do NOT want this behavior. But, it seems it's not possible to disable it. I'm currently using macOS 14.5. I tested this with t…
Lees meerToday I typed Grep by mistake in my Terminal and to my surprise, the /bin/grep command was executed anyway. I do NOT want this behavior. But, it seems it's not possible to disable it. I'm currently using macOS 14.5. I tested this with t…
Lees meerToday I typed Grep by mistake in my Terminal and to my surprise, the /bin/grep command was executed anyway. I do NOT want this behavior. But, it seems it's not possible to disable it. I'm currently using macOS 14.5. I tested this with t…
Lees meerWhen I perform a copy/paste action on my laptop, then go to my Mac mini and whatever I copied on my laptop is now on my Mac mini's paste buffer. I Googled this and saw something about "universal clipboard," but the directions to turn it…
Lees meerI’m trying to use stdbuf to control buffering for a process in terminal — specifically, using stdbuf -o0 to prevent buffering when piping output onward, roughly as described in this answer — but it doesn’t seem to work as expected, or i…
Lees meerIt used to be possible (on macOS 10.14 below at least), to set up a keyboard shortcut to open up a specific terminal profile: Unfortunately, on macOS 12 and later (at least, I never ran 10.15 or 11), this no longer works. The menu high…
Lees meerToday I typed Grep by mistake in my Terminal and to my surprise, the /bin/grep command was executed anyway. I do NOT want this behavior. But, it seems it's not possible to disable it. I'm currently using macOS 14.5. I tested this with t…
Lees meerI did a factory reset to my glitchy iPhone and now want to reinstall from the backup. However, it asks me for a password. But what password? I tried my Apple ID password and my general MacBook unlock password, but no dice. What's it loo…
Lees meerI’m trying to use stdbuf to control buffering for a process in terminal — specifically, using stdbuf -o0 to prevent buffering when piping output onward, roughly as described in this answer — but it doesn’t seem to work as expected, or i…
Lees meerI'm having some difficulty understanding what is causing my "Bad CPU type in executable" error when using conda. This error occurs on several of my terminal commands, but I'll illustrate it below on "conda": $ brew install anaconda ..…
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