Authentication dialogs for Macs with and without support for Touch ID, in recent versions of macOS including Tahoe, and how to tell whether a request in Terminal is genuine.
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Why is tar so slow to create a tar.gzip archive on a fast Apple silicon Mac? Is it being run at low QoS on the E cores? An explanation.
How can you have two volumes in the same APFS container with identical names? How does macOS handle the conflicts?
Similarities and differences, how to make each in the Finder and Terminal, how much space they use, and how they work in APFS.
Many folders have them. They’re so invisible that you can’t even see them when you show hidden files. And the only way you know they’re there is when they cause problems.
Although there doesn’t appear to be any straightforward way to run command tools or scripts only on Efficiency cores, there are ways and means.
Two basic rules: M1 Macs run Arm-native code when it’s available, but won’t mix ARM-native and Intel code in the same process. Here are the details.
How can you run an app in a language different to that set for your system? Why doesn’t that work for command tools? And how difficult can a tool make controlling its environment?
How can you create and resolve Finder Aliases at the command line? And two further utilities you may find helpful for working with Aliases.
Running an AppleScript which tries to run a shell command with root privileges can fail. Here’s why, and what we can’t do about it.
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