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How to change lid behaviour on MacBook Air and Pro

Apple silicon laptops start up (if not asleep) when you open their lid or connect power. Now you can change that behaviour by setting their NVRAM.

February 3, 2025 Macs, Technology

Florence: paintings of the city

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Corot’s view from the Boboli Gardens, Thomas Cole, John Brett’s landscape masterwork, intimate view from local painters, and a portrait by Paul Sérusier.

February 2, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: What happened with XProtect?

If it’s running Sequoia, a Mac most likely installed update to Sequoia silently. However, it could still download the Software Update version, as explained here.

February 2, 2025 Macs, Technology

Florence: a history in paintings

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Dante and Beatrice, the Black Death that opens Boccaccio’s Decameron, the death of Brunelleschi, Botticelli in his studio, and the de’ Medicis.

February 1, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 293

Here are this weekend’s Mac riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: 42, 3.14159, […]

February 1, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

A brief history of the Finder

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From its clean and spartan origins in Classic MacOS, the Finder has changed it metaphor, and now works more like a browser. Over 25 years of history.

February 1, 2025 Macs, Technology

Urban Revolutionaries: 2 Living in the city

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Crowded apartments in Montmartre, the Lower East Side in New York City, smoke in Charleroi and Dortmund, workers’ cottages, and more smoke.

January 31, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Friday magic: how to cheat on E cores and get free performance

How to more than double the speed of a thread run on the E cores, by running another 11 threads at the same time.

January 31, 2025 Macs, Technology

Interiors by Design: Stairs

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Stairs to fall down, to sit in disgrace, or pose with your sibling? Stairs winding up and defying gravity, bearing ballet dancers, or in a Gothic prison.

January 30, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Thunderbolt 5 SSDs are promising, but fill their cache quicker

Early testing of TB5 SSDs show they do deliver much faster speeds that even USB4 models, although not as high as some claim. But their cache size may limit streaming large amounts of data.

January 30, 2025 Macs, Technology

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