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Month: April 2023

How to check whether an SSD gets trimmed

Why should you trim an SSD? How to tell whether an SSD needs trimming, finding out whether it has trim support, and whether it does trim.

April 6, 2023 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Painters: Mykola Pymonenko

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Naturalist views of ordinary people in Ukrainian countryside that use Bastien-Lepage’s successful formula with defocussing of the background.

April 5, 2023 General, Life, Painting

How Cryptexes are changing macOS Ventura

Details of the three standard Cryptexes in Ventura 13.3, when they can be loaded in the boot process, and where they fit in with Rapid Security Responses.

April 5, 2023 Macs, Technology

Not Like That: Lost completely

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Apelles, Vermeer, Goya, Hogarth, Courbet, Pissarro, de Haan, and Gustav Klimt: their paintings now lost forever.

April 4, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Getting more from Disk Utility’s First Aid

Should you run First Aid on every volume, then each container? And why can it return status 65? How can you work around that?

April 4, 2023 Macs, Technology

Trojan Epics: 6 Achilles and the princess

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Achilles acquires himself a concubine, as does his commander Agamemnon. When the latter is forced to return his, and takes Briseis from Achilles, there’s trouble.

April 3, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 197

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 197. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Supplies […]

April 3, 2023 General, Macs, Technology

How APFS mounts encrypted volumes, snapshots, cryptexes and more

Details of what happens when an APFS (Encrypted) volume is mounted, when mounting a Time Machine snapshot, unmounting a volume, and loading a Cryptex.

April 3, 2023 Macs, Technology

A blossom festival in paintings 2

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Trees in blossom from Sérusier, Bonnard, Waterhouse, van Rysselberghe, Nikolai Astrup and others.

April 2, 2023 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: fsck status 65

Have you ever tried running First Aid on an APFS volume and been told it failed with status 65? It’s time for that to be fixed, so we can check and repair disks properly.

April 2, 2023 Macs, Technology

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