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Completely disable macOS CrashReport
While you can Disable OS X crashreporter dialog after application force-quit, this won't prevent CrashReport process from actually starting up after application crash to gather the information and create log.
This can from seconds to dozens of minutes depending on size of the process which crashed.
To brew or to port? Homebrew vs Macports dilemma
Thoughts on macOS Package Managers – slightly outdated, but still a great source of information!
Unicode NFC normalisation for Rclone on macOS
Apple devices create all filenames in Unicode Decomposed Normalisation Form (NFD), while every other major OS uses Composed Normalisation Form (NFC). This makes you, as a Mac user, the bad guy, because it is you who is incompatible with the rest of the world.
In a nutshell, the problem is this: Whenever you create files with diacritics they will be copied to other devices with filenames stored as decomposed strings. This is a non‑standard for these OS'es, and you never know what problems that will cause.
This article presents my way of solving the problem by configuring Rclone to create all files in NFC (composed form) instead of NFD (decomposed form) – which is not at all that straightforward is it would seem.
Rclone: configuring root folders, change polling and cleaning directory cache
Finding root folder for mounting OneDrive is quite complicated, as is refreshing directory cache for folder shortcuts in Google Drive, as they are ignored in change polling.
Keepass synchronisation on macOS with pCloud
Some basic info on my workflow.
Resolving quarantine problems on macOS
When your system becomes suddenly sluggish for no obvious reason, it might be a good idea to check for quarantine problems with installed apps or their helper daemons.
Modding Diablo 2 on macOS: PlugY, Enjoy-SP and more
A lot can be changed and tweaked in Diablo 2 – however, lots of modding sites went down in the last couple of years, so it is getting increasingly harder to gain some info on how to do it – especially when running under Wine(skin) on Mac OS X.
In this article I will be slowly gathering my own experiences and manuals for modding and tweaking Diablo II 1.13d. This is and will remain a work‑in‑progress.
Download Safari 13.1.2 after Safari 14 has been released
Apple has this ugly habit that it does not offer you to download previous versions of its software after newer versions came out. But now with serious Safari 14 problems on Mojave, it might make sense to only upgrade Safari to its latest 13th version.
Zistenie podpory 4G na SIM karte
Operátori tvrdia, že už roky vydávajú iba SIM karty podporujúce 4G internet (LTE), napriek tomu som tento týždeň riešil problém nefungujúceho 4G pripojenia, ktorý skončil pri tom, že moja SIM karta je ešte stará “3G‑čka”. V tomto článku preto nájdete odkazy na zistenie podpory 4G pre všetkých operátorov.