What an adventure …
macOS 11 is the latest macOS, they provide for my MacBook Air.
Category: MacBook
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creating a line break in Messages for Mac
On the Mac, if you want to create a line break in the macOS Messages app by holding down the OPTION key and then hit RETURN to jump to a new line without sending the message.
https://osxdaily.com/2014/07/05/type-new-line-break-messages-ios/I wondered for years, how that would work – always too lazy to look for a solution – now I finally wanted to migrate away from Facebook Messenger to something nicer as a communication channel with a very special friend (outside Germany and not using Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram) – and the above link (resp. text from 2014) got displayed as the 1st result – proper query, proper results 🤩 (“Star-Struck” AKA “Grinning Face with Star Eyes”)
BTW:
Users can tell the difference between a message sent via SMS and one sent over iMessage as the bubbles will appear either green (SMS) or blue (iMessage).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messages_(Apple)I know …, all this only drives me more and more into the Apple jail – but it is so intriguing.
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macOS: my MacBook had its colours “inversed” / mangled all of a sudden
Accidentally I got one of the shortcuts wrong, and my MacBook’s colours were all mangled. This is how I got that issue fixed:
System Preferences > Accessibility > Display > Invert colours
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how to put macOS in Hibernate (Deep Sleep) mode – and how to disable it again
- http://www.karthikk.net/2011/12/put-mac-os-x-lion-in-hibernate-deep-sleep-mode-how-to/
- https://www.lifewire.com/change-mac-sleep-settings-2260804
- man pmset [link]
$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 25
$ sudo pmset -a hibernatemode 3
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my MacBook made a funny noise, sounded a little like “dying hard disk”
how bad! I hate that kind of noise. disks aren’t really expensive, but will I be able to copy all the contents of the old disk to the new one, before it’s really dead? whatever variant, they all cost far too much time.
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learning from others – a temporary home-worker’s experience
I really enjoyed working with my design profession mate yesterday. He brought his MacBook with him, and I also learned from him, what the MacBook substitute for the scroll-wheel is: a two-finger wiping over the touchpad.