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Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 178

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 178. Here are my solutions to them. 1: One […]

November 21, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

Booting macOS on Apple silicon: LocalPolicy

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.

November 21, 2022 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Cossacks in paintings 2: Mazeppa

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The heavily embroidered story of Cossack hetman Ivan Mazepa was turned into a narrative poem by Lord Byron, and inspired paintings by Géricault, Delacroix, Vernet, and others.

November 20, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Some boot, but others don’t

Why can some with Apple silicon Macs create and boot from external disks, while others seem doomed to failure?

November 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Ukrainian Cossacks in paintings 1: History and legend

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Weren’t Cossacks Russian? Well, some were, but they may also have founded Ukraine following the Great Revolt of 1648. Here’s the evidence in paintings.

November 19, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 178

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through family time, shopping and recreation. 1: One on each […]

November 19, 2022 General, Macs, Technology

How to get updates when they’re still fresh

How to get prompt security data updates, RSRs, macOS updates, App Store updates, and those for third-party apps distributed independently.

November 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 13 Hair in secular paintings

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From Venus covering herself with her hair, to combing through the hair for nits and lice. Artists include Botticelli, Rossetti and Degas.

November 18, 2022 General, Life, Painting

Repairing Home folder permissions: a mystery

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?

November 18, 2022 Macs, Technology

Reading visual art: 12 Long hair and the spirit

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The stories of Samson, whose prodigious strength depended on not having his hair cut, and Mary Magdalene, who dried Christ’s feet with her hair.

November 17, 2022 General, Life, Painting

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