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I am trying to create a focus so that I can play Spotify, or similar with no notification sounds of any kind. I tried Do Not Disturb but Discord still pings. I created this focus, first with “allow some apps” and only allowing Spotify (but it does not appear in the list of available apps), so instead I switched to “Silence...

I have a MacBook Pro M2 (Touchbar) and since I have it, on every MacOS version, I couldn’t share my LAN connection over WiFi. I use a Thunderbolt 3 Dock but also tried a direct USB-C to LAN adapter....

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I personally am a fan I find it to be like spaces except I can see them which makes switching between tasks smoother.

Helix is a new batteries included Modal editor inspired by Vim & written in Rust

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I have 3 TVs connected to a 4x4 Matrix, when I use my Mac they are out of sync. It seems fine when using my Apple TV, or my Windows/Linux dual boot laptop. The issue does seem to be tied to the length of the HDMI cables. TV1 is connected to a 6’ cable, TV2 is connected to a 15’ cable, and TV3 a 30’ cable. I am using the...

I am trying to shell out of VBA in excel and I keep getting permissions issues. So far I have tried:...

This is killing me....

The infotainment system in my truck uses metadata tags to organize all of the music. I’ve the past few years I have thought I was doing something wrong with the new music I was adding, but apparently the Music app’s edits of the data were not “sticking “....

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After a year or so of using the free version of Alfred, I finally decided to make myself a Christmas gift and get the power pack. Any recommendations from the folks here using Alfred about essential workflows and favorite themes? I did a quick search on Alfred gallery and Packal, but it also seems that many workflows exist only...

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Keep getting this pop up asking me to allow it to manage my PC. IDK what it is or how to get rid of it. Happens every time I restart....

A few weeks ago i removed the recent downloads icon from my dock on accident (blue folder with an arrow and when you click it, it opens a list of your most recent, and when you start a download in safari it shows the file drop down to the folder)....

My recent experience is no – the first backup went just fine, but all subsequent attempts to add to it have failed, giving various errors in the logs, including mounting problems, timeout during the initial write test, bad database, etc. I did rename the drive between backups, maybe that was bad? The log shows Time Machine...

I have a 2015 iMac 21.5" that has slowly ground down to crawl. I had this great idea of installing macos on an external SSD (Kingston 2TB) and run it from there instead but no matter what I try I can’t get it to work....

I haven’t been able to find good info on this, or it could be that there’s nothing to speak of....

I’ve got Lockdown enabled on my mac. Most things are fine. But MS Office for the web is not....

After installing Mac OS sonoma for a few weeks my mac quickly ran out of storage. I did a scan using cleanmymac and found this huge folder in /Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/:...

I just ran into this error so figured I’d share with the solution....

rcmd is a great tool that lets you switch apps using the right command key and the first letter of an app’s name, but I found right command to be a bit out of the way to hit when my right hand was on the mouse. I did a bit of research, and found some resources on how to use hidutil to rebind keys, and bound caps lock to right...