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Month: January 2025

Reading Visual Art: 182 Deer

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A deer substituted for the sacrifice of Iphigenia, as companions for the sorceresses Medea and Circe, in Bonnard’s rural idyll, Rosa Bonheur’s wildlife portraits, and others.

January 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Create an external bootable disk for Apple silicon and Intel Macs

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Two important catches that can cause a macOS installation to fail in Apple silicon: using the DFU port, and not setting up ownership correctly. Both are explained here.

January 15, 2025 Macs, Technology

Apple has released an update to XProtect

Apple has just released an update to XProtect for all supported versions of macOS, bringing it to version […]

January 14, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Changing Paintings: 53 The death of Orpheus

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The bard is torn limb from limb by frenzied bacchantes, leaving his head and lyre to float down the River Hebrus and over to the shores of Lesbos.

January 14, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Thunderbolt ports aren’t all the same

Some support USB4, others don’t. Some share the controller, others don’t. Some support DFU mode but then can’t be used to create a bootable external disk on Apple silicon.

January 14, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating 4 centuries since the death of Jan Brueghel the Elder 2

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Further collaborations with Rubens, including one of the finest series of paintings in the European canon, the Five Senses, from 1617-18.

January 13, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 290

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 290. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Quiet […]

January 13, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

How to run more than one version of macOS on one Mac

Which versions of macOS can you ‘dual boot’, should you install them all on the internal SSD, or is a bootable external disk better, and when would you need to virtualise?

January 13, 2025 Macs, Technology

Commemorating 4 centuries since the death of Jan Brueghel the Elder 1

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Son of Pieter the Elder, brother of Pieter the Younger, and father of Jan the Younger, collaborator with Rubens and others in some of the finest paintings of the 16th-17th centuries.

January 12, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Power throttle

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How CPU P cores have a frequency limit applied in Low Power mode, and how macOS regulates power use or temperature by controlling core frequency.

January 12, 2025 Macs, Technology

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