macOS Articles

Airport Extreme vs. Linux (Obsolete) Broadcom refused to release drivers or specs for the chipset, so for years no one could even write their own.
DIY MacBook Data Recovery Over the LAN The MacBook would boot as far as the login screen, but any attempt to use or repair it would just reboot, even at the Genius Bar. I managed to recover recent files by connecting from another computer over the network and copying them, 60 seconds at a time.
Get the Date/Time in ISO 8601 Format on the CLI On Linux: Just type ‘date -Is’ in the commandline. On macOS: type ‘date -Iseconds’
How to disconnect OneDrive on macOS from an extra account that doesn’t exist anymore. Hidden inside the resource folder of the OneDrive app package, there’s a command to reset OneDrive.
Is the Xcode Updater Stuck? Watching install.log will show you whether the Xcode updater is still doing something or not.
Keep Your System Updated! Most drive-by computer infections use old vulnerabilities for which patches are already available.
KeePass Password Managers KeePassXC, its browser extension, and KeePass2Android are a nice, clean set of apps to manage your passwords on your OWN desktop and mobile devices, auto-fill websites and apps, and sync over your own server or cloud provider.
Mac OS X Finder Deleting Files on a Linux Share If you connect to a Samba share from MacOS and it deletes files after telling you it can’t copy them, try turning off unix extensions in Samba.
Move Your iTunes Library from Mac to Windows In theory it’s easy, but you have to deal with a different folder structure, illegal characters, and then wiping and resyncing your iPod.
Remove GPS Tags After Taking a Photo Google Photos won’t remove GPS data from an image, but you can easily remove just the location data using a desktop or laptop.
Running Mac Software on Linux: Good Luck Out of curiosity I went looking to see if there are any macOS compatibility layers for Linux these days. There isn’t much.
s3cmd crashes with ‘expected str instance, bytes found’ s3cmd 2.3.0 breaks on Python 3.12. The fix is simple, and will be in the next s3cmd release, but here’s how to fix your local copy before it’s released.
Windows 11 “PROCESSOR START TIMEOUT” BSOD on Parallels I got this error trying to relaunch my VM after updating Parallels Tools. The solution was simple: turn it off and back on again.
Windows on MacBook Boot Camp Stops Connecting to External Displays Go into Device Manager and tell it to show hidden devices. There could be a broken display config interfering with the driver for the real adapter.