Overall summary of a year’s testing external hard disks and SSDs ranging in cost from $50 to more than $200 per TB. Which is best?
Category Archive: Technology
How Apple silicon Macs create LocalPolicy to allow another boot volume group to be used, the problems that can occur, and how to investigate them.
I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 178. Here are my solutions to them. 1: One […]
To understand what might go wrong when trying to boot an Apple silicon Mac from an external disk, start with LocalPolicy: what it is, and how it works.
Why can some with Apple silicon Macs create and boot from external disks, while others seem doomed to failure?
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: One on each […]
How to get prompt security data updates, RSRs, macOS updates, App Store updates, and those for third-party apps distributed independently.
Once, you could run diskutil to ‘fix’ broken permissions in your Home folder, then it was replaced by repairHomePermissions in Recovery. Apple no longer documents this, but it’s still there. Should you use it?
How lightweight virtualisation of macOS and Linux has improved in Ventura, and what hasn’t changed.
Expected in Ventura 13.1 is a new lightweight system for applying security patches. This article explains how it uses cryptexes, already being used in macOS 13.
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