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Lees meerMy octagerian relative has an iPhone 11. I would like him to have an Apple Watch for fall detection and to automatically notify relatives / 911. He is high fall risk and leaves the house only for medical reasons. Assume he cannot set it…
Lees meerI'm swapping my second HDD for a new SSD in my MacBook Pro running Ventura. Both drives, old and new, are 1TB. Old drive is formatted Mac OS extended (Journaled), new drive was just reformatted APFS. I only copied files from my old driv…
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Lees meerMy macOS version is: $ uname -a Darwin nanxiaos-MacBook-Pro.local 24.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 24.5.0: Tue Apr 22 19:54:26 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.121.6~2/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112 arm64 I wrote a simple C++ program: $ cat foo.cc #include …
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Lees meerWorking with a 2020 MacBook Pro 4TB on Sequoia 15.6. In the past I have edited EDID override plist files to get custom resolutions and HiDPI on external QHD displays. I have also used BetterDummy/BetterDisplay to achieve this, but that …
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Lees meerI am having trouble finding the correct adapters to go from the original drives to usb A or C for these drives. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Lees meerRunning an EtreSoft diagnostic on a Macbook Pro (2019), I see this in the report: Firewall: Blocked apps: org.mozilla.updater com.apple.controlcenter com.vdigger.MacVideoDownloader com…
Lees meerI used to convert a bunch of HEIC pictures on my MacBook into JPEG format by using Finder, marking the HEIC, and use from the context menu "Quick Actions" and then "Convert Image". Since my update to MacOS 12.7.3 (I think I had before 1…
Lees meerI used to convert a bunch of HEIC pictures on my MacBook into JPEG format by using Finder, marking the HEIC, and use from the context menu "Quick Actions" and then "Convert Image". Since my update to MacOS 12.7.3 (I think I had before 1…
Lees meerI am having trouble finding the correct adapters to go from the original drives to usb A or C for these drives. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
Lees meerI used to convert a bunch of HEIC pictures on my MacBook into JPEG format by using Finder, marking the HEIC, and use from the context menu "Quick Actions" and then "Convert Image". Since my update to MacOS 12.7.3 (I think I had before 1…
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