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How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/18

Inspiration: [Wayback/Archive] How I Setup My Mac – Liam Beeton

Via

--jeroen

Posted in Apple, Apple Silicon, ARM Mac, M1 Mac, Mac, Mac OS X / OS X / MacOS, macOS 14 Sonoma, Power User | Leave a Comment »

Parallel hashing on MacOS

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 -r
  • find . -type f | xargs -P 0 -n 1 shasum --algorithm 1
  • find . -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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GitHub – PiSCSI/piscsi: PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others) for vintage SCSI-based computers and devices. This is a fork of the RaSCSI project by GIMONS.

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/08

Cool (and available both for regular Raspberry Pi and Raspberry Pi Zero):

[Wayback/Archive] GitHub – PiSCSI/piscsi: PiSCSI allows a Raspberry Pi to function as emulated SCSI devices (hard disk, CD-ROM, and others) for vintage SCSI-based computers and devices. This is a fork of the RaSCSI project by GIMONS.

I wonder how it compares feature wise and performance wise to [Wayback/Archive] BlueSCSI (which is Raspberry Pi Pico based, see [Wayback/Archive] index – BlueSCSI v2 Documentation, and now has a [Wayback/Archive] BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory – joshua stein which is open source at [Wayback/Archive] jcs/wifi_da – BlueSCSI Wi-Fi Desk Accessory for classic Mac OS – AmendHub and important to for instance [Wayback/Archive] Adding Wi-Fi to the Macintosh Portable – joshua stein).

Via [Wayback/Archive] The RaSCSI is MAGIC for Old Macs (and Much More!) – YouTube

More links:

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Posted in Apple, Classic Macintosh, Development, Hardware Development, Hardware Interfacing, Macintosh SE/30, Power User, Raspberry Pi, Raspberry Pi Pico, Retrocomputing, RP2040, SCSI, Uncategorized | Leave a Comment »

How to use two or more monitors to M1, M2 or M3 MacBooks | Macworld

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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Welcome to #AprilApples! Apple II Computer event celebrated in the month of April

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/04/01

AprilApples Apple II Computer Event LogoLast year, ][ got rebranded into , so I wish you a happy retro-month filled with April Apples!

[Wayback/Archive] Welcome to #AprilApples! Apple II Computer event celebrated in the month of April

Consider using the [Wayback/Archive] #AprilApples Style Guide with logon on the right, plus Garamond and/or Motter Tektura typeface when possible to really give tribute to the Apple ][ era.

Last year, a big surprise was that Apple Computer put a PDF version of the famous Apple Pascal Poster on the Internet Archive.

So today is a great day to give that more traction and link to it:

A year before, during April][, a remake of that poster got done on AppleFritter: Home[Wayback/Archive] Apple pascal poster, remade | Applefritter

Via [Wayback/Archive] Javmaster@bsky.social: “http://appril2.com/ ” – Mastodon

Fonts:

Images (I used a solid CSS brown background so you can see the difference between the regular logo and the outlined logo):

--jeroen

Posted in //e, 6502, Apple, Apple ///, Apple Lisa, Apple ][, Classic Macintosh, History, Power User | Tagged: , , | Leave a Comment »

Embedding a Floppy Emu in a standard APPLE II Floppy Disk Drive – YouTube

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/25

Interesting modification: [Wayback/Archive] Embedding a Floppy Emu in a standard APPLE II Floppy Disk Drive – YouTube

STL: [Wayback/Archive] FermuAssembly.STL – Google Drive [Wayback] FermuAssembly.STL

Buttons: [Wayback/Archive] 3/4/5-Bit Independent Button Module MCU External Button Module Micro Switch Button Board Bluetooth-compatible Power Amplifier – AliExpress 502

--jeroen

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I was today years old when I found there is a shortcut to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/12

Boy, I always to the Ctrl+Shift+Space on Microsoft Windows (or on MacOS Command+Shift+Space) detour to switch to the Terminal tab in Visual Studio Code

So I was amazed to find the shortcut inside the first bullet in the Google Search quote of the first result at [Wayback/Archive] vscode terminal open new terminal – Recherche Google:

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oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube – or is it? Two alternatives

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/07

I needed this for some Windows ARM VMs on VMware Fusion for running on my M1 MacBook Pro: [Wayback/Archive] oobe\bypassnro removed from Windows 11 24H2 dead/hidden ? – YouTube

In the end this combination works:

  • before booting, remove the network adapter (physically, or virtually from VMware Fusion or from Parallels)
  • after boot, as soon as the Shift-F10 combination works, run oobe\bypassnro (or add the registry entry, see below)

After this, Windows detected no network, and offered an install with a local username/password indicating the choice “I don’t have internet”.

If that ever fails in the future, I can use this trick from the comments:

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Use an iPad as a second display for a Mac – Apple Support

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/03/03

While recovering from cancer treatments and moving, I heavily cut down on spending money for my IT infrastructure as you can only spend money once.

Now that I have recovered quite a bit, and also gaining more income, I got more recent Apple hardware and could start to use this: [Wayback/Archive] Use an iPad as a second display for a Mac – Apple Support

It’s called Sidecar in Apple terminology and actually quite neat, though you need extra software to use the iPad in portrait mode (it is hard coded to landscape though a 10-inch iPad Pro fits very nicely in portrait position next to a 16-inch M1 MacBook Pro).

If I persist, I need to look at solutions like [Wayback/Archive] Rotated Sidecar · waydabber/BetterDisplay Wiki · GitHub ([Wayback/Archive] GitHub – waydabber/BetterDisplay: Unlock your displays on your Mac! Flexible HiDPI scaling, XDR/HDR extra brightness, virtual screens, DDC control, extra dimming, PIP/streaming, EDID override and lots more!)

Sidecar is part of Handoff, so these preconditions apply: [Wayback/Archive] Use Handoff to continue tasks on your other devices – Apple Support.

In the end, I think it is all based on AirDrop, especially because of the first Apple Support link above mentioning these “Additional requirements”:

Via:

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MacBook Red Screen Issue, or why I turned off True Tone and Night Shift

Posted by jpluimers on 2025/02/28

The winter after I bought my first ARM based (or Apple Silicon powered) MacBook I noticed that often about half an hour after sunset, within 10 seconds all the screens (the built-in and external ones) would get a red teint on them.

[Wayback/Archive] MacBook Red Screen Issue – SimplyMac was the very first search result, and mentioned this:

Adjusting Night Shift and True Tone

Night Shift and True Tone features can affect the color temperature of your display. Night Shift reduces blue light in the evenings, which can make the screen appear warmer. True Tone adjusts the display’s color temperature to match the ambient lighting. If these settings are misconfigured, they could contribute to the red screen issue. Check your Night Shift and True Tone settings in the Displays section of System Preferences to ensure they’re set correctly or turned off.

I had to turn off both Night Shift and True Tone to get rid of this artefact, though for some people that didn’t solve the issue: [Wayback/Archive] Screen has red tint at night (True Tone and Night Shift are Off) – Apple Community.

I fully agree with [Wayback/Archive] Am I the only one who prefers True Tone?* : macbookpro

The only thing I like about true tone is how great it looks when I turn it off.

…

I was soooo disappointed with how crap the display was on my M1 Max that I thought about selling it as soon as I got it. Decided to play around with display settings and found True Tone. Turned it off and felt immediate relief. That’s how bad I think True Tone is. Absolutely flabbergasted that Mac’s come out the box with it enabled.

My 2015 MBP screen looks better to me than a M series screen with True Tone on.

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