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Last Week on My Mac: 🦉 No AI content

Dire warnings of the consequences of Google’s answer engine resulting in over-exploitation of the web and its exhaustion. It’s time to stand up and declare what’s written by a human, not an AI.

July 27, 2025 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: There’s still a hole in my bucket, Monterey’s memory leak

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We can expect Universal Control in macOS 12.3, but when will Apple get round to fixing the severe memory leak in the Finder’s Find feature?

January 30, 2022 Macs, Technology

Were Apple’s system updates less frequent and more reliable?

It’s often suggested that developing macOS on a two-year cycle, as it used to be, would result in fewer bugs or problems. What’s the evidence?

September 30, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple leak

The combination of a new kernel built just 10 days earlier with a set of new graphics drivers sufficed to bring many Macs to their knees.

August 16, 2020 Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Apple Support and Demand

Apple Support has to be wonderful now because there’s hardly anywhere else to go to find out about our Macs and other Apple products.

April 22, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

Last Week on My Mac: Getting to the root of High Sierra’s problems

Why has High Sierra suffered such glaring security and other bugs? Look carefully at where they have occurred, and it suggests that this isn’t just carelessness.

December 3, 2017 Macs, Technology, Uncategorized

Why rolling updates are bad practice

Automatic updates? No thanks, I need to brace myself for the next set of fresh bugs and problems.

February 15, 2016 Macs, Technology

Odd side effects of drugs

It had never occurred to me that my solution to discovering how much paint is delivered by watercolour brushes was also an essential tool for your local dope pedlar.

July 23, 2015 General, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology

Getting it Right

The most dangerous errors are those that remain undetected for too long – so long that correction becomes tough, costly, or even impossible.

June 10, 2015 Macs, Technology
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