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Category Archive: Technology

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 135

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 135. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Concerning […]

January 24, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

How you can’t promote threads on an M1

Why can’t the taskpolicy command tool be used to promote software to be able to run on the M1 chip’s Performance cores? Does it change QoS?

January 24, 2022 Macs, Technology

The Last 7 Years on My Mac: an anniversary

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This blog started publishing on Saturday 17 January 2015, seven years ago. Here’s a look back through Mountain Lion security updates, paintings of oblivion, and more.

January 23, 2022 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Saturday Mac riddles 135

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: Concerning the nearer […]

January 22, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Non-Volatile RAM (NVRAM)

How to discover what’s stored in your Mac’s NVRAM, how to reset it in Intel Macs, and how you can changes its variables.

January 22, 2022 Macs, Technology

Why doesn’t Apple formally support old macOS?

Although it’s attractive that Apple should make its macOS support commitment explicit, it has reasons to avoid doing so. Would it really bring users any benefit?

January 21, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has pushed an update to MRT

Apple has just pushed an update to its malware removal tool MRT, bringing it to version 1.86, dated […]

January 20, 2022 Macs, Technology, Updates

Why Time Machine backups can be interminably slow

Is it overhead from sandboxing, the file system, the throttling of I/O, or the limitations of the Efficiency cores? Is there anything a user can do?

January 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Memory Lane: Grokking memory problems in Activity Monitor

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Activity Monitor’s Memory view is the perfect place to watch for memory problems, such as a leak. Demonstrated here in macOS 12.0.1 and 12.1.

January 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Did someone forget their password? Getting access to a locked Mac

Maybe you’ve just forgotten the password, or perhaps the owner/user of the Mac is no longer able to enter it. How to restore access to different models.

January 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

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