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Prevent a Mac laptop from turning on when opening its lid or connecting to power – Apple Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/04

For cleaning an Apple Silicon MacBook there were already solutions to either disable the keyboard or to blacken the screen:

For keeping a Mac turned off however, there hadn’t been a solution for a long time.

Now there is, but you need to have the most recent update of macOS Sequoia 15 by adding a nvram BootPreference setting: [Wayback/Archive] Prevent a Mac laptop from turning on when opening its lid or connecting to power – Apple Support

Via

  1. [Wayback/Archive] Fefes Blog: [l] Satire und Realität sind nicht mehr unterscheidbar. Heute: Apple.
  2. [Wayback/Archive] Für Tastaturhygieniker: So bleibt das MacBook beim Öffnen aus | heise online
  3. [Wayback/Archive] Created a Keyboard Lock App for Safe Cleaning—Seeking Your Thoughts and Feedback! 🚀🔧 : macapps

--jeroen

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The links I used to search for a refurbished M-Series Apple Silicon MacBook Pro

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/01/06

Having used the fully loaded Intel 15″ Retina MacBook Pro machines (the ones without dreaded touch-bars or butterfly keyboards – note the IBM ThinkPad 701 butterfly keyboard – also known as TrackWrite – was perfectly fine) from 2015 for 9 years, it was finally time to upgrade to an Apple Silicon one, but again: not the touch bar models.

My work is mainly CPU and disk intensive and often based on remote logon to more powerful equipment, so GPU cores and performance only marginally matter for web-browsing and local electron based applications (hello vscode!).

Going from 4 hyperthreaded CPU cores (8 parallel threads) to at least 8 full CPU cores, I didn’t want to pay full price like back in the days, and wanted it to be less than my car (EUR ~4000), so these links helped me find refurbished ones in The Netherlands:

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I really dislike MacOS choosing machine names, and having the long machine names and short hostnames in separate places to change (one of them command-line only)

Posted by jpluimers on 2024/12/05

After installing my Apple Silicon MacBook, I found out my machine had gotten named automatically in two different ways:

  1. readable name Jeroen’s Macbook Pro
  2. full name Jeroens-MacBook-Pro
  3. local hostname Jeroens-MacBook-Pro.local
  4. actual hostname Jeroens-MBP
  5. HostName from scutil

A few reasons I dislike that:

  • Having 5 different names for the same machine creates a mess
  • They chose for me where I like to choose myself
  • They use spaces, quotes and hyphens where I like single a complete word
  • They use mixed case where I like single case (preferably lower case) as not all other computers handle mixed case well

Finding out how to fix all this was a tedious job as I had to keep refining queries:

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