The most controversial of all changes in Ventura is the move to System Settings. Although this does achieve important objective, there’s still a long and painful journey to get it right.
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Is Monterey burning your memory away? Here are two reproducible memory leaks which could explain that, plus two more than might.
When I went to change the settings of the menu bar clock, they had vanished. Finding them revealed significant changes coming in macOS 11.
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