Apple/Mac 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.
- 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.
- iPod vs. Ogg (Obsolete) Apple has no motivation to add Ogg support to the iPod. They’ve paid the MP3 tax, and so has software their target audience is likely to be using.
- Is the Xcode Updater Stuck? Watching install.log will show you whether the Xcode updater is still doing something or not.
- Java Lag vs. MacOS System Updates The MacBook mysteriously started lagging on Minecraft worlds that had run just fine the day before. It kept lagging until we manually installed the latest system update.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.