Tag: macos
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Fixing MacBook Wifi with a Raspberry Pi
I have an M1 Macbook Pro and a thunderbolt dock, and I am suffering what seems to be a reasonably normal experience of often-poor net connections: https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/441705/m1-macbook-pro-drops-wifi-periodically My dock (a CalDigit) doesn’t have its own WiFi chipset (quite reasonably – what am I going to plug into it that doesn’t have its own?) but it…
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Modern laptops are quite good, actually
There’s some talk in the bits of the Internet I hang out in around how poor modern laptops are. As expected (given the bits of the Internet I frequent) a lot of this boils down to the way modern laptops are not Thinkpads. The most recent thing I read was An Epitaph To Laptops and,…
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Learning MacOS
I’ve just taken a job where I get a Macbook, and here I’m going to keep track of some problems I hit and what their solutions are. Some have no solutions yet – I’m keen to hear them if you know them! This is not a flamey list of things that are awful about MacOS…
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Stop OSX writing .DS_Store and ._ files on network shares
All our fileservers are Windows. Most of the files are manipulated in OSX. This isn’t likely to change soon since, irrespective of who is accountable for most of the bytes, Windows are far and away the most populous in terms of hosts. .DS_Store files are apple’s way of storing the finder preferences for a particular…