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Month: April 2023

Reading visual art: 51 Hercules and changing gender

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The curious myth of the swashbuckling hero Hercules dressed in women’s clothing and forced to serve Queen Omphale.

April 26, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Freeing space on your boot disk

Free that space before macOS has to purge it for you. Using housekeeping, moving Documents and media libraries, but not relocating Home folders.

April 26, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Mykola Burachek

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Trained in Kyiv, Kraków, and with Matisse in Paris, he is best known for his virtuoso Impressionist oil sketches.

April 25, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Ventura 13.3.1 can’t change the password of sparse bundles

hdiutil chpass, the only means of changing passwords for sparse bundles, doesn’t work in macOS Ventura 13.3.1. The workaround requires a VM and 13.1.

April 25, 2023 Macs, Technology

Trojan Epics: 9 The death of Hector

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The river runs red with the blood of Trojans before Achilles gets his chance to fight Hector, and kills him. Then he dishonours the Trojan’s body.

April 24, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 200

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 200. Here are my solutions to them. 1: The […]

April 24, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

How Ventura space management tracks changes

Deleting two large files from a volume triggered the updating of figures for purgeable and available space within 9 seconds. Yet 6 minutes later, the Finder didn’t show those updated figures.

April 24, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the flatlands of England 2

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John Crome, a quiet innovator and founder of the Norwich School, Frederick Sandys, Thomas Girtin and others in Norfolk and Lincoln.

April 23, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: When the numbers don’t add up

One volume has 60 GB of purgeable space, giving 295 GB available; the other has only 15 GB purgeable, so 250 GB available. How can they be in the same container?

April 23, 2023 Macs, Technology

Paintings of the flatlands of England 1

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From Walton-on-the-Naze in Essex, via the wooded countryside of Gainsborough and Constable, to the coast of Philip Wilson Steer.

April 22, 2023 General, Life, Painting

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