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How to boot an M1 Mac into an older version of Big Sur

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How changing a volume’s boot policy can let you boot in older macOS, and update, if you wish. For anyone who uses external bootable disks with an M1 Mac.

May 11, 2021 Macs, Technology

Rebirth: Manuals and learning

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The significance of Alberti’s textbook on painting and simplified perspective, followed by Piero’s account of perspective, and Vasari’s new history of painting.

May 10, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 98

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 98. Here are my solutions to them. 1: An […]

May 10, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Time Machine to APFS: When a network backup goes wrong

With a new version of Xcode, I knew that my network backup would take several hours. Then, as it neared its conclusion, disaster struck: the router reset itself and the network share vanished.

May 10, 2021 Macs, Technology

Eating al fresco: paintings of outdoor meals 2

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Another boating party, William Merritt Chase’s family in Brooklyn, an 18th century pique-nique, and Bonnard’s friends by the sea.

May 9, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Would you regret an M1 iMac?

How ready are M1 Macs now for general use? There are still problems with docks, external boot disks, and using one external boot disk with multiple Macs.

May 9, 2021 Macs, Technology

Eating al fresco: paintings of outdoor meals 1

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A selection of meals eaten outdoors, by the gods, in Boccaccio’s Decameron, Manet’s controversial luncheon, and by a boating party.

May 8, 2021 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 98

Here are this weekend’s riddles to entertain you through whatever you’re now allowed to do. 1: An incision […]

May 8, 2021 General, Macs, Technology

Explainer: Unicode, normalization and APFS

How Café and Café are actually different, and only one of those can be a filename in macOS, despite APFS being a non-normalising file system.

May 8, 2021 Language, Macs, Technology

Still Life History: 1 Birth of a new genre

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Until the seventeenth century, still life paintings were occasional curiosities, From the Romans and Hans Memling to the early Dutch Golden Age the genre developed steadily.

May 7, 2021 General, Life, Painting

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