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Key Repeating on macOS 7 Sep 2:39 PM (last month)

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.

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Two Siri Annoyances 4 Jun 4:17 PM (4 months ago)

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 my iPhone it plays Allison Crowe every time. That's not what that playlist is (it's Taylor Alison Swift songs. 😃)

Maddening.

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The Beauty of Finished Software [Link] 31 Oct 2023 11:35 AM (last year)

The Beauty of Finished Software:

When we buy a physical product, we accept that it won’t change in its lifetime. We’ll use it until it wears off, and we replace it. We can rely on that product not evolving; the gas pedal in my car will always be in the same place.

However, when it comes to software, we usually have the ingrained expectations of perpetual updates. We believe that if software doesn’t evolve it’ll be boring, old and unusable. If we see an app with no updates in the last year, we think the creator might be dead.

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iCloud Private Relay 25 Jun 2023 8:02 AM (2 years ago)

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 on. I appreciate the "Reload and Show IP Address" option, but that doesn't work for new tabs from the same session and it's something you have to do every time.

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zoomMagnificationDelta 8 Nov 2022 2:02 PM (2 years ago)

defaults write com.analyzrgolf.Analyzr zoomMagnificationDelta -float 0.01

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Twitter User ID and Join Date 4 Nov 2022 4:10 AM (2 years ago)

Account creation
Mar 19, 2007, 10:47:40 AM
#1512551

@iacas

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Speed Up Time Machine 5 Apr 2022 5:47 AM (3 years ago)

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

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TouchID sudo 1 Feb 2022 5:34 PM (3 years ago)

Pro MacBook Pro Tip: have a Touch Bar with Touch ID? If you edit /etc/pam.d/sudo and add the following line to the top…

auth sufficient pam_tid.so

…you can now use your fingerprint to sudo!

— Cabel (@cabel) November 16, 2017

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Fixing Safari on Monterey? 2 Jul 2021 12:18 PM (4 years ago)

Code on GitHub

To get the old tab bar on Safari for macOS 12, create
/Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/Safari.plisthttps://t.co/1fBPy5UXnm
and reboot. pic.twitter.com/7giZ6y8XpD

— Zhuowei Zhang (@zhuowei) June 15, 2021

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AppleScripting Do Not Disturb Mode in Big Sur (macOS 11.0) 19 Jun 2021 6:20 AM (4 years ago)

Is it possible to AppleScript or use a shell script or programmatically turn on (and off) Do Not Disturb mode in Big Sur (macOS 11.x)?

This GitHub project worked in 10.14 and 10.15 but requires more than we're willing to do to work around it in Big Sur.

Any ideas?

P.S. Will look at this but I don't think it's any better. Just no time to look at the code right now.

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