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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 346

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 346. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Shift for this fashion without extensions.

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Safe Mode

Shift (the key held on Intel Macs, or held in Recovery on Apple silicon Macs) for this fashion (mode) without extensions (it starts up with third-party extensions disabled).

2: V is long-winded with fast-scrolling text.

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Verbose Mode

V (the key held on Intel Macs, with Command, but requires an NVRAM setting on Apple silicon) is long-winded (verbose) with fast-scrolling text (what it does).

3: Unmarried person who’s logged in using S in the past.

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Single User Mode

Unmarried (single) person who’s logged in (the user) using S (the startup key, with Command) in the past (not available on Apple silicon Macs, and probably no longer on Intel either now).

The common factor

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They’re startup modes.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.