Yes, I finally took the plunge and bought a new Mac! Well, not brand-new—it’s a Mac Studio M2, but it’s second-hand. The brand-new model was a bit too steep for my budget, and hey, I still need to buy a monitor… but more on that later. My trusty 27″ iMac from 2013 has been hanging in […]
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If you have an older Mac that is not suitable for macOS Sonoma, you can still take the plunge with a special tool. For me this is a solution, because I had hoped that a new 27″ iMac would be released this year, but that doesn’t look like it is happening so far. Because I
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For those who read my blogs regularly, know that I program a lot on ESP modules. To see what happens on such an ESP module, I use a serial monitor. You can download and install apps for this, but I try to keep my system as clean as possible. I therefore use what I already
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Running programs through the terminal is a fast and efficient way to perform operations on your Mac. It provides comprehensive functionality and granular control over the program’s functionality and output, which would otherwise be missing from its GUI equivalent. However, starting programs via CLI sometimes also causes problems. One is the command not found error
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PIP is among the most popular package managers for Python. This article will discuss how to Install PIP on macOS systems. Third-party libraries and packages are the main assets of the Python programming language. The standard python itself does not have many libraries and packages for the developers. As such, third-party libraries and packages give
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Year 2021 will go down in history as one of the worst in recent memory. It has been pretty eventful, to put it lightly. With the pandemic being the dominant problem, punctuated by a lot of calamities, the year felt like it came by fast and slow at the same time. For most of us,
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The most valuable part of a computer is also its most fragile: Data are the wealth of a digital lifestyle, a currency of which many notes are irreplaceable. Another check if I had the latest Backup on my Synology NAS, check. I preparing to do a clean install of my iMac for the blog ESP HomeKit
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macOS Big Sur is now available for free download from the Mac App Store. With the help of this guide we will explain how to quickly and easily create a bootable USB stick for macOS 11, which is useful if you are having problems with your Mac, or when you place a new drive like
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The iMac is an iconic piece of hardware that I love to use. What to do when you want to increase it speed? Increasing the RAM gets you part of the way, but for a real optimisation you need an iMac SSD upgrade. Replacing the hard drive on any iMac means removing the screen. This is
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After a while all software will be updated or there will be some bug fix releases. So does the software that is needed for the Installation (or setup) of the HomeKit SDK (including perquisites and updates), is the act of making the program ready for execution. Because the process varies for each program and each computer,
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