Category: macOS
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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 But then a few young fools frightened me, and I got stuck for ages with outdated OS versions.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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a Mac mini, Apple Remote Desktop, VirtualBox, Windows as VM
Is this just a weird idea? I need this for running rtf2docx. And possibly for much more.
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creating a line break in Messages for Mac
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messages_(Apple) 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…
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my way of studying Kubernetes: minikube on macOS
macOS is my OS platform, VirtualBox my virtualisation platform – I tried to follow the instructions (I found in my online courses by Sander von Fugt and Mumshad Mannambeth) and set up minikube within a VM. But I did not succeed setting up minikube in a VirtualBox VM. I attempted using a free VMware Fusion…