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Month: May 2022

Paintings of Paul Signac 5: Colour and anarchy

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Themes from Saint-Tropez of grand trees, fishing boats with simultaneous contrast of colours, a portrait of his wife, and an anarchist idyll.

May 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Disk Utility can only check backup disks in Recovery

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In macOS 12.4, it’s impossible to run First Aid on any container or APFS volume on a disk with a Time Machine APFS backup volume, except in Recovery.

May 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Sheer Delight 5: Fooling the brain

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From Veronese’s bravura brushstrokes to the crafted surface textures of lavish and heavy fabrics with Rembrandt.

May 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How much free space does an APFS disk need?

It depends whether you’re going to boot macOS from it, on the space required for snapshots, and how large they could become. And there’s more.

May 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Colour Notes 5: Fauvism in mainstream painting

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In the early 20th century, painters started using intense colours, often raw from the tube, and those shifted to give green flesh and blue horses.

May 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

How hard disks get slower as they fill up

File data stored towards the periphery of the disk is read and written nearly twice as fast as that near the centre. How to take advantage of this.

May 17, 2022 Macs, Technology

What has changed in Monterey 12.4?

The update to bring Monterey to version 12.4 is substantial, and brings many changes across macOS. Apple’s release […]

May 16, 2022 Macs, Technology

Monterey 12.4 update, Big Sur 11.6.6 and Catalina SU 2022-004 are now available

Apple has just released the update to macOS Monterey, bringing it to version 12.4. Release notes state that […]

May 16, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Don Quixote: Book 2 summary and contents 1

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From preparations for their third sally to the massacre of Don Pedro’s puppet theatre, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza have trouble keeping out of trouble.

May 16, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 151

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 151. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

May 16, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

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