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What happened to macOS in last week’s updates?

T2 Macs updated to 15.3.2 should have a newer firmware version than those who installed the Safari update for Sonoma or Ventura, but what is 14.7.5 and 13.7.5? Time to deconfuse.

March 19, 2025 Macs, Technology, Updates

Reading Visual Art: 198 Religious ecstasy

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Mary Magdalene, Saint Paul, Saint Cecilia, Joan of Arc in paintings by Elisabetta Sirani, Artemisia Gentileschi, Raphael, Annie Swynnerton and others.

March 18, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Take control of disks using APFS

Speed up your hard disk by partitioning it so that its innermost 20% remains unused. Reserve space for the SLC write cache on an SSD by limiting the size of volumes.

March 18, 2025 Macs, Technology

Changing Paintings: 62 Aeneas flees Troy

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Aeneas and his family flee the burning city of Troy, losing his wife on the way. They sail to Delos, where they see the trees that Latona gripped when giving birth to Apollo and Diana.

March 17, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 299

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 299. Here are my solutions to them. 1: Lucida […]

March 17, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

Why SSDs slow down, and how to avoid it

Covering thermal throttling, extended coverage of SLC write cache depletion and how long it takes to empty the cache, Trimming, and more.

March 17, 2025 Macs, Technology

Napoleons of paintings: 2 Defeat

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After his divorce, his son the King of Rome. Disaster on the retreat from Moscow, and exile on the island of Saint Helena. The rapid rise of Napoleon III and his military failure against Prussia in 1870.

March 16, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: The myth of liquid detection

What was this new background service that suddenly appeared in Sonoma 14.1, liquiddetectiond? Why wasn’t it documented until a year later, and is Apple really gathering data about damp USB-C ports?

March 16, 2025 Macs, Technology

Napoleons of paintings: 1 Victories

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Emperor Napoleon I, a Corsican of Italian origin who died on a remote British island in the South Atlantic. Paintings of his early military successes, and the Empress Joséphine before their divorce.

March 15, 2025 General, Life, Painting

Saturday Mac riddles 299

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

March 15, 2025 General, Macs, Technology

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