Although generally reliable in normal macOS and in Recovery, First Aid sometimes runs into problems with external bootable disks.
Category Archive: Macs
When the App Store keeps refusing to install an update, there’s a limited range of solutions. Sometimes the traditional fix works best.
You may encounter this when trying to boot into Fallback Recovery Mode. Currently it doesn’t appear to be fully functional, and doesn’t help.
Overnight (UTC) Apple has pushed two updates, to the data files used by XProtect, bringing its version number […]
Certificate revocation checks in macOS could be misused in surveillance. How could you prevent that without putting your Mac at risk?
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 87. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Unique […]
Created when you update macOS, its Fallback Recovery OS is made from the previous Recovery OS. Here’s how to check whether it’s available on your M1 Mac.
Now checks whether the sudo vulnerability has been patched, and improves Spotlight search testing too.
It started with wanting to benchmark SSDs, passed through robust linear regression, and is now diving deep into linear programming and matrices.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: Unique among […]
