I had an issue with a Mac Mini Server model from 2012. It’s been working great for over a decade, we’ve been though a lot together, he’s running Fedora now and still has an entire drive with macOS Catalina. I regularly back him up with CloneZilla, for which I boot from a USB stick and … Read more
I wanted to downgrade my Sonoma installation to Ventura on a Mac Studio. Before doing so I thought I’d take a full backup on an external drive using SuperDuper. This has worked great in the past, and I had assumed it would still work fine on Apple Silicone models in 2025. MASSIVE mis-assumption! Of course … Read more
A few weeks ago I updated my Mac Studio from Ventura to Sonoma. My colleague said good things about it, and with Sequoia now being the “new toy” I’ll stay away from for a while (or forever perhaps), trying out last years latest OS seemed like a nice idea. I had a TimeMachine backup, so … Read more
I went out and bought a brand new Magic Mouse for my Mac Studio today. I’ve been meaning to try one for ages, and heard great things about the gestures. I’ve had a Magic Trackpad for years and enjoyed gestures, but find them annoying for video editing, where I prefer a mouse. My current model … Read more
I don’t always need the Stream Deck app running on my Mac, and was wondering if there’s an intuitive way to remove it, say from the Login Items section. But of course there isn’t, because consumers doing what they like would mean total anarchy. Instead, we can use a command line tool to rid us … Read more
So despite trying hard, my old MacBook Pro won’t run anything higher than High Sierra. While sad, I mainly want it for the swishy Dark Mode that’s been introduced in Mojave, and by default that’s just not available on High Sierra… or is it? Here’s how to enable it with a small command line tweak: … Read more
I’m all for new features especially when they’re free, but I despise developers who shove them down our throats without asking first. That’s basically the case with some newfangled thing called the Stage Manager in macOS Sonoma. I don’t even know what it is, all I do know that it’s related to all my windows … Read more
I hooked up my PS5 controller to my Mac Studio on previous occasions, but never noticed how the Launch Pad comes up in a Games folder, so that we can launch stand-alone apps without the need for a mouse and keyboard. While helpful in principle, I prefer to use the Steam client to bring up … Read more
