How Big Sur gained an UpdateBrain that changed macOS fundamentally, and why you can’t get standalone or Combo updaters any more.
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Apple uses the term ‘deprecation’ to warn developers that a feature in the API is going away, but seldom indicates the timescale. This causes problems.
From a boot loop to almost any other glitch that occurs after a macOS update, guidance as to how best to recover and fix it.
How to protect collections of files using different encryption passwords, and making most efficient use of storage space.
Lightweight VMs currently only support ANSI and not ISO keyboard layouts. For English, this makes little difference, but in other languages it’s a critical shortcoming.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 209. Here are my solutions to them. 1: In […]
When you know an update has been released, but your Mac can’t find it, or you try to install the update but it fails with an error.
Eighteen updates in just a few days. Here’s what’s going on with them, why Apple couldn’t use an RSR, and where we’re headed next.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: In the creative […]
Why is it, what is it, and how can you tell whether an app runs in it? What can you do to remove an app’s entitlements?
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