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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/10
TL;DR: it is impossible on a Mac to accurately measure power usage by attached USB devices. Only a general indication is possible, but it is unreliable.
[Wayback/Archive] How to monitor USB power consumption? – Ask Different
- System Profiler needs manual refresh and is a very rough indication
- iStatMenus is a graph, but not very accurate
- Activity Monitor is even rougher than the above
Related: [Wayback/Archive] View energy consumption in Activity Monitor on Mac – Apple Support (UK)
Via: [Wayback/Archive] macos view usb power usage – Google Search
–jeroen
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/07
On my M1 MacBook, somehow Spotlight started to fail returning some indexed files (especially recently added ones would not show up or it would take a very long while for some of them to show up).
So I revisited mdutil and related commands while writing a comment on the YouTube movie [Wayback/Archive] How To Rebuild the Spotlight Index on Your Mac – YouTube which since then vanished, but luckily I saved it and here I amended it with formatting:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/11/03
Written a while ago, but forgot to schedule this in the blog queue.
This is in reverse chronological order and only for the models I have, had, or considered buying.
Table
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/09/25
I hope someone has also archived all these in the Internet Archive as this is a great collection of historic material: [WaybackSave/Archive] GitHub – gingerbeardman/apple-human-interface-guidelines: Apple Human Interface Guidelines, et al.
If you have more of them: add them via a pull-request.
Related: [Wayback/Archive] Making It Macintosh: The Macintosh Human Interface Guidelines Companion : Apple : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
A client that went belly up in the early 1990s had all these and similar books. In retrospect, I though have found a way to obtain them but back then I didn’t value the uniqueness of them enough and didn’t have the storage space for it (I lived in a 30m² apartment).
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/08/08
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/06/13
On my research list: running Anrdoid apps on Apple Silicon.
I wonder if using the Anrdoid Emulator from Android Studio the only straightforward option.
Links:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/14
Now that I have had an Apple silicon for a while, which has enough cores to perform parallel work, this is how I calculated a bunch of hashed from a lot of large files:
find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 md5 -rfind . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 1find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 256
I contemplated about using GNU parallel, but that is not installed by default on MacOS and I was already familiar with xargs.
Argument meanings can be found at these locations:
Related:
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Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/04
[Wayback/Archive] How to use two or more monitors to M1, M2 or M3 MacBooks | Macworld will likely hold for M4 based ones as well:
- higher-end MacBooks with M1/M2/M3 Pro and Max chips support multiple external displays
- get around Apple’s annoying M1/M2/M3 Mac single-display limitation via software and adapters
The solutions we explain here will also help M2 Pro and M3 Pro MacBook users extend to three external displays.
Recommended reading, despite the extra hardware and software you will likely need.
--jeroen
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