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Can you disable Spotlight and Siri in macOS Tahoe?

If you don’t want any of their services, you can turn Siri off in its settings, and disable indexing and search in Spotlight settings. Or you can use mdutil, if you know its limitations.

January 16, 2026 Macs, Technology

The Dutch Golden Age: Mills

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Watermills by Jacob van Ruisdael and Meindert Hobbema, and a selection of windmills by Rembrandt, Jan van Goyen, and a later copy by John Constable.

January 15, 2026 General, Life, Painting

How Time Machine backups can fail silently

When I started my Mac up, its external backup storage was present as expected, but couldn’t be opened. It turned out that Time Machine had stopped backing up after 12:35 the previous day, but hadn’t reported the problem.

January 15, 2026 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Oil on copper 1620-1926

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Later examples as it declined in popularity, from David Teniers the Younger, Gerard ter Borch, and most recently from Claude-Joseph Vernet and Joseph Stella.

January 14, 2026 General, Life, Painting

How local network privacy could affect you

Although Sequoia and Tahoe have restrictions on what can connect to local network addresses, most everyday features are exempted. This explains what you need to know in case you come across one of its privacy prompts.

January 14, 2026 Macs, Technology

Medium and Message: Oil on copper 1575-1610

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These became popular in the late 16th century, with fine examples from Lavinia Fontana, Paul Bril, Jan Brueghel the Elder, and Adam Elsheimer.

January 13, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Providable 1.2 works on non-English systems, and why it didn’t previously

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Will now list apps installed on systems running with primary languages other than English. Problems resulted from unexpected behaviour of Spotlight and search with mdfind, as explained here in detail.

January 13, 2026 Macs, Technology, Updates

Painted stories of the Decameron: Brother Philippe’s Geese

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The 101st story, buried in the start of the fourth day, about a father who turns hermit with his young son after his wife’s early death, and a derived fable told by La Fontaine.

January 12, 2026 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 342

I hope you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 342. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Reproduce flour […]

January 12, 2026 General, Macs, Technology

How to open a suspicious document or app

What can you do to protect your Mac when a stranger asks you to take a look at a document or app? Two alternatives for doing this is safety, rather than risk being victim to a phishing attack.

January 12, 2026 Macs, Technology

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