Author: johayek
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macOS AKA OSX domain-specific DNS servers (/etc/resolver)
If you VPN to work from home (or even VPN to home from work, you may have issues resolving hostnames. It’s trivial to solve in macOS AKA OSX. E.g.: $ cat /etc/resolver/fritz.boxnameserver 10.0.4.1 The server 10.0.4.1 (e.g. my fritz.box) will do the nameserving for the domain fritz.box, as soon as macOS can see the file.…
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completing the set-up of my MacBook Pro (13.3-inch – “MacBookPro15,2”)
This nice device was BJH’s 1st own MacBook at all. He bought it refurbished. Quite some while after not really using it, he noticed, the battery is weak, and the fan was too loud (for him). Actually I think he only needs a gaming computer and an iPad and nothing else. The MacBook Air I…
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upgrading my MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) from macOS Mojave (AKA 10.14) to … hopefully Sonoma (AKA 14) …
What an adventure … They let me upgrade directly from Mojave (AKA 10.14) to Sonoma (AKA 14). Until 2021 I was pretty much always pretty uptodate on my Macs and on my Synology DiskStations. But then a few young fools frightened me, and I got stuck for ages with outdated OS versions. I finally had…
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upgrading my MacBook Air (“MacBookAir6,2”) from macOS Catalina (AKA 10.15) to just macOS Big Sur (AKA 11)
What an adventure … macOS 11 is the latest macOS, they provide for my MacBook Air.
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the Signal app: how to transfer chat history to a “new” Mac? this path is currently not supported (2023-12-25)
https://support.signal.org/hc/en-us/articles/360007059752-Backup-and-Restore-Messages
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emacs vs macOS keyboard shortcuts
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2262/mac In emacs I certainly use “ctrl-SPACE” a lot in order to mark a location in a a buffer. On macOS that is by default already taken. But you can change it anyway. Read the article above! Where it says “In the list on the left, select a category”, select “Input Sources”! Here we are.