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    Relative sent their FileVault recovery key in an open email. Now what?

    Helping a relative figure out why their Mac is creating a new FileVault key with each macOS update. Well... they sent the full key in an open email. 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ How big of a security risk is this now? Could an attacker gain access to their system with the recovery key? Risk of a physical...
  2. GarryB

    Wake from sleep - No wallpaper; no Dock; no Switcher; Finder glacially slow

    My Mac Studio has had problems with displaying the wallpaper on wake from sleep since new (Apr 2022). Since then some symptoms have gone and others arisen. At present on wake from sleep: the Desktop is black i.e. no wallpaper; the Dock, which is hidden, cannot be displayed; the Switcher does...
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    chrome is loading the disk

    why is chrome constantly loading my ssd? he write 52gb in 2 days
  4. tasssilo

    Major Text Rendering Bug in macOS Safari 17.0

    Since upgrade to Safari 17.0 (macOS 14.0), double quotation marks appear in rendered html text. This is a bug in Safari rendering / character encoding. It seems that new line returns within the html code of the text (which are usually ignored in rendering) are translated into a double quotation...
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    Primary language is set to UK English - but suddenly autocomplete (Notes/Mail) is using US spelling

    I've just been typing something in Notes and autocomplete is completing words we spell with an 's' with the American 'z' spelling. I have checked System Settings and the default (primary) language is set to English UK. Mail is also affected. It only affects autocomplete, autocorrect isn't...
  6. bogdanw

    Virtual Sonoma on Apple Silicon with macOS Monterey

    Is it possible to run a Sonoma virtual machine on MBA M1 with macOS Monterey 12.7 (21G816)? I’ve tried with the release UniversalMac_14.0_23A344_Restore.ipsw and I get UTM: “Your machine does not support running this IPSW” VirtualBuddy: “Failed to obtain hardware model from restore image”...
  7. Cubbie36

    Possible FaceID for macOS

    I just put macOS 14 beta 5 on my work computer for testing. After some poking around to fix an Extension Attribute issue in Jamf Pro, I stumbled across a change in macOS 14's bioutil. Apple had renamed "Touch ID functionality" to "Biometrics functionality". I am hoping this means Face ID coming...
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    macOS 14 (or better macOS 13.2) Key features that should be

    Features that should be indisputably in MacOS. If Apple doesn't want these features to be on by default out of the box, fine. But let them exist and allow them to be activated later. I invite everyone to put their desired feature. * Show speed during file copy in copy progress window *...