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defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false Putting it back to true lets you hold down the "e" key (for example) to show all the accents and special characters for the "e" key.

I love when "remind me of this message at 7pm" works… but when it doesn't, there's seemingly no way to make it work. I can't add a link to that message thread in Reminders. And that's just Siri. On my HomePods I can say "Play my Alison playlist on Shuffle." It works every time. On […]

I am liking iCloud Private Relay. One feature, though, that I wish it had… let me specify an IP address or a website domain name for which I don't want it to be active. A "whitelist" of sorts. I administrate a few sites, and it's a hassle to turn the feature off and turn it […]

Disable throttling of low-priority background I/O, then re-enable it. sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=0 sudo sysctl debug.lowpri_throttle_enabled=1

Code on GitHub To get the old tab bar on Safari for macOS 12, create/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/Safari.plisthttps://t.co/1fBPy5UXnmand reboot. pic.twitter.com/7giZ6y8XpD — Zhuowei Zhang (@zhuowei) June 15, 2021

Kinda wish we had something like this for Catalina… My blog is 17 years old tomorrow.

In trying to troubleshoot my two-month-old MacBook Pro with TouchBar (2018) ((The front-right USB-C port has never worked - no power, no data, nothing.)), I tried booting into Single User Mode. This had previously worked, but for some reason, it now boots right through it. The text appears on the screen, small like always, and […]

I have to reset SpamSieve - my corpus is so old and so weighted toward what spam used to be that it's not as effective as it can/should be now, so I thought I'd do this one last time. Filtered Mail 500,274 Good Messages 707,627 Spam Messages (59%) 154 Spam Messages Per Day SpamSieve Accuracy […]

I should probably do a better job of marking false positives and negatives, but I do maybe half of the time. I do have to look into why my Penn-State Behrend email always seems to go to spam, though. 🙂 Those are responsible for about 1-3 of the false positives each day. Filtered Mail 454,700 […]

It's now been many, many years, and many, many OS X upgrades, and I still can't get past a problem that's plagued me: minimized Finder windows will appear in the Dock after a restart, but then "disappear" when I un-minimize them. Only killing the Finder (with them out of the Dock) works. I've tried many, […]

Just some random thoughts as I use the Apple Watch on Day #1. The "remote control" only works to take pictures? WTF? Why can't it stop and start recording a video? What kind of stupid decision is that? Taking screenshots is nice, but honestly… what is there to really screenshot? I have nobody to whom […]

Six Colors: How I rip DVDs and Blu-rays

I don't know how I missed this, but Craig calls it his "magnum opus" on the Terminal: The Terminal • furbo.org.

I think Apple is still on the high-est ground of any other company, but they have lost the "high" ground they once occupied. Apple has lost the functional high ground – Marco.org and his follow-up: What it’s like to be way too popular for a day – Marco.org. And a few days later, The Functional […]