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Mirages in the file system: Update and backups

What’s the Update volume doing weeks after the last macOS update? What can I do if ejecting my Time Machine backup storage causes an improper ejection error?

April 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Booting a Mac Studio from an external SSD, and what it doesn’t solve

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Creating the external bootable SSD, downgrading security and allowing kexts, then trying to install a kext on an external drive which must be ejected.

April 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

The kernel and extensions 2: Secure Boot

Big Sur and Monterey allow kernel extensions with limitations, particularly on M1 models. Full details, including how to control them.

April 14, 2022 Macs, Technology

How to enable, use and fix Visual Look Up

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Requirements, which apps support it, how to access it in each of those, why some images don’t work, and how to troubleshoot it.

April 8, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Trial ethics

We’ve recently discovered a macOS service for ‘trials’ which runs ‘experiments’. Why hasn’t Apple told us, and explained its implications for our privacy?

April 3, 2022 Macs, Technology

What has changed in Monterey 12.3.1?

The update to bring Monterey to version 12.3.1 is very small, and close to the minimum update size. […]

March 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Apple has released Monterey 12.3.1 update

Apple has just released the update to macOS Monterey 12.3.1. It claims to address two issues: for Mac […]

March 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

What is triald and why is it taking so much disk space?

Is a process named triald stealing lots of CPU? Or maybe ~/Library/Trial is huge, or filling your backups? Maybe it’s all just one of Apple’s Experiments.

March 31, 2022 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Is Look Up destined for CSAM?

Remember Apple’s failed attempt to detect CSAM in images? Would that have been similar to the way that Visual Look Up works? Is this the thin end of the wedge?

March 20, 2022 Macs, Technology

Explainer: macOS updaters

How macOS updaters have changed over the last decade, and why they’re far more reliable, but you can’t download a standalone updater any more.

March 19, 2022 Macs, Technology

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