A new version of Mints adds the ability to view versions of installed firmware and recovery systems, valuable particularly for Apple silicon Macs.
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I was browsing thousands of log entries from Software Update and its relatives when something caught my eye. Here’s what became of it.
Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Land of the […]
Panic-ridden reports have spread to general and even local news media about last week’s security updates. Are they that unusual, special, or alarming?
From High Sierra’s four-volume group to macOS 12 on Apple silicon with three containers and 11 volumes, and both regular and fallback Recovery volumes.
Apple has just pushed updates to XProtect and XProtect Remediator security software. While XProtect is generally supported by […]
How to discover the version of ‘fallback’ Recovery, Bridge versions of T2 chips, and a whole lot more info about a Mac. And a bonus for Ventura.
Apple has just released a security update to macOS Monterey, bringing it to version 12.5.1. This fixes two […]
If you try compacting a sparse bundle, Spundle and hdiutil could return error 1. This explains why, and fixes Spundle to get over it.
Which to use to virtualise Monterey on an Apple silicon Mac: Parallels Desktop, UTM or VirtualBuddy? A survey of their strengths and problems.
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