Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten TrackPerfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
As described here, I’ve found a little fix on how to stop teams going crazy on my CPU (MacBook Pro, late 2016): First, disable GPU acceleration within teams. To do so, go to the Settings of Teams, and check this box: Next, I created a little shell script that allows you to start teams by… read more »
Since hand sanitizer solutions are out of stock almost everywhere, here is what you need to create your own, following the advice given by the WHO:
I have already repeatedly written about dealing with overheating MacBooks. My not-anymore-so-current MacBook Pro (15”, late 2016) started to also throttle, and so I decided to do what’s necessary. Yet, instead of just replacing the thermal paste, I decided to try something new: Coollaboraty Liquid Metal Pads. The application is comparatively simple, once you’ve worked… read more »
…for example, because you messed around with the partitions, and end up at the grub prompt. Here’s a very convenient way on how to solve it: The Boot Repair Disk.
I’ve regularly some little Windows applications that I need to run on MacOS. Normally, I’d use a virtual machine, but there are some utilities where I’d really like to have them more immediately. Here is how I do it.
I just bought a new printer specifically searching for one that is toner refill friendly. After reading on this site that the Brother MFC-9340CDW would be a good candidate, I went for it.
The new dark mode introduced with Mojave has some issues with Mails where the author has used text highlighting (like, putting a yellow background behind a black text): This is going to be white on yellow in dark mode, and hence hardly readable. Worse even, there appears to be a trend where some people send… read more »
Over the last couple of days, I’ve had issues with Spotlight after I moved on to Mojave. The indexing never appeared to go past a certain point.
The Crash Reporter can consume quite some system resources if one process is out of bounds. Here is how you can disable it.
Every now and then I get this error when working with Seafile: “there is a conflict with an existing library.” And just today I found out that I had found a solution three years ago, and since then forgotten about it. So here’s again, for the record, what I did.