I recently purchased a second-hand M1 Pro MBP 14", and when running heavy tasks its performance is ridiculously poor - several cpu-cores are not engaged, for example. I then ran Geekbench 6, and the multi-core score is only one-fourth o…
Lees meerI'm looking for something which runs under macOS that will let me do the following: Suppose I have a file called "program.list" with contents something like this: "Program 1" "/usr/local/bin/program 1" "Program 2" "/usr/local/bin/progra…
Lees meerI'm looking for something which runs under MacOS that will let me do the following: Suppose I have a file called "program.list" with contents something like this: "Program 1" "/usr/local/bin/program 1" "Program 2" "/usr/local/bin/progra…
Lees meerI backup my Apple Silicon Mac (running macOS Sonoma) to an external, directly attached drive via Time Machine. All backup snapshots on that external drive I can list via $ ls -1 /Volumes/.timemachine// ( is here a long hexadecimal num…
Lees meerI'm looking for something which runs under MacOS that will let me do the following: Suppose I have a file called "program.list" with contents something like this: "Program 1" "/usr/local/bin/program 1" "Program 2" "/usr/local/bin/progra…
Lees meer$tmutil listbackups /Volumes/.timemachine/96F5062D-1718-4C7F-A137-D0C6EC70AF68/2023-12-26-145443.backup/2023-12-26-145443.backup /Volumes/.timemachine/96F5062D-1718-4C7F-A137-D0C6EC70AF68/2024-01-04-172522.backup/2024-01-04-172522.backu…
Lees meerI backup my Apple Silicon Mac (running macOS Sonoma) to an external, directly attached drive via Time Machine. All backup snapshots on that external drive I can list via $ ls -1 /Volumes/.timemachine// ( is here a long hexadecimal num…
Lees meerI am the author of the wifi-wand Ruby gem and command line application that reports and modifies wifi networking information on the Mac (https://github.com/keithrbennett/wifiwand). The airport utility on which many of wifi-wand's comman…
Lees meerIs there a list of all entitlements, past and present, recognized on macOS and all other Apple operating systems? Or a list that covers at least half of them? I can't find one anywhere and the entitlement database tool is unusable. If t…
Lees meerI am the author of the wifi-wand Ruby gem and command line application that reports and modifies wifi networking information on the Mac (https://github.com/keithrbennett/wifiwand). The airport utility on which many of wifi-wand's comman…
Lees meerIs there a list of all entitlements, past and present, recognized on macOS and all other Apple operating systems? Or a list that covers at least half of them? I can't find one anywhere and the entitlement database tool is unusable. If t…
Lees meerSteps to reproduce: Open existing Photos library Export unmodified originals Close and reopen Photos, holding the option key Create a new library Select all the unmodified originals and drag them into the new library This should all b…
Lees meerIn /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources there is a file TrashIcon.icns. Alexander O'Mara, a guy who is a security expert at Mastercard discovered that this file contains not only "bright" icons but also "dark…
Lees meerI am trying to update python on my MacBook Pro 2013, but I can’t seem to get anything to work. Brew and Macports both don’t support MacOS this far back and Xcode won’t update because it’s to old. Is this even possible? I’m considering t…
Lees meerWhen I have looked how to delete duplicates from my Photo library Apple says use the 'duplicates' option on the photo menu. Except my version of Photo doesn't have this button (Version 7.0 (460.0.120)). My photo library is on iCloud an…
Lees meerIn /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources there is a file TrashIcon.icns. Alexander O'Mara, a guy who is a security expert at Mastercard discovered that this file contains not only "bright" icons but also "dark…
Lees meerI am trying to update python on my MacBook Pro 2013, but I can’t seem to get anything to work. Brew and Macports both don’t support MacOS this far back and Xcode won’t update because it’s to old. Is this even possible? I’m considering t…
Lees meerIn /System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources there is a file TrashIcon.icns. Alexander O'Mara, a guy who is a security expert at Mastercard discovered that this file contains not only "bright" icons but also "dark…
Lees meerI have an excel spreadsheet I created on Windows for a friend to caculate how many days someone has spent in the EU's Schengen area over any 180 day period (I've shown an image from it below). It works perfectly in (Windows) excel but d…
Lees meerMy Mac mini M1 mit Sonoma 14.3.1 shows wrong date and time: 10th of April [correct date: 13th of April] 22:52 [correct time: 00:24] System set do auto time settings with correct time Zone. Restart didn't change anything. Time server s…
Lees meerI'm wondering if there is a way to allow the device (in this case MBP - MacOS 14.4) other programs to reuse the 5353 port that bonjour uses. I'd like to also receive and listen to mDNS queries sent by others. I do not want to disable mD…
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