Questions tagged [apple]
A company that manufactures products such as Macs, iPhones and iPads. Consider using the [osx] tag if your question refers to Mac OS X/macOS.
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How to set up iMac Target Display Mode with Linux
How can I use an old iMac (2009–2014) as a second display for a Linux computer?
Apple supported Target Display Mode for iMacs from about 2009–2014, allowing them to be used as external monitors for ...
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Debian stopped using my Intel i915 GPU after upgrade to Trixie. How to fix?
My notebook, an older Apple MacBookAir 13" with Intel Core i7 an Intel HD Graphics 5000, used to work fine before the upgrade to Trixie (Debian GNU/Linux 13).
Now, after the upgrade, all ...
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"mnt": Numerical result out of range and wrong fs type issue while connecting shared folder from local system
I have a mac M4 chip and running my ubuntu and centos stream 10 on UTM and when it try to connect the shared folder from my mac i keep getting this issue as "wrong fs type"
After so many ...
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macOS: list all Users with Admin privileges
How can I get the list of all Users with Admin privileges, on all selected Macs, in Apple Remote Desktop?
I have tried:
dscl . -list /Groups/admin GroupMembership
But this does not list anything, not ...
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Is there a Linux or *BSD distribution that has full support for a 2017 Macbook 12"?
I have a MacBook Retina 12" (2017) machine that unfortunately has developed an error with the power system that shows up in Apple Diagnostics and result in the machine being severely throttled ...
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Help with partitioning for Kali + DracOS dual-boot on 2012 MacBook Pro
I have a 2012 MacBook Pro with a 1TB hard drive from a 2015 iMac. It has two 4GB RAM sticks; one originally came with this MacBook Pro, and the other is from an older HP laptop. There are no residual ...
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How to have the wifi functioning when turning a macbook into a xubuntu?
I have a 2014 macbook air on which I have installed Xubuntu using a boot usb.
I have no wifi connection, and the problem seems to be related to the broadcom driver. I download the deb files on my ...
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find output is different from ls - what could be the reason for this?
On a MacBook, I tried to access one of the system apps, Maps.app which is normally a folder stored in /System/Applications on a separate volume (here mounted as /System/Volumes/Data). What I found odd ...
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Help me understand how Apple IOS does compression
There is zip, and info-zip, correct?
Am I missing something? In debian when I create a zip using -Z store, or the -0 option, on a folder with -r, it shows that zip version 1.0 is needed using the file ...
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"File too large" when copying 8GB file onto 30GB Apple device (USB stick unlabeled)
I have this file on disk:
$ ls -lh /path/to/some.mkv
-rwxr-xr-x 1 enrico enrico 7.4G Dec 17 18:54 /path/to/some.mkv
so it's less than 8 gigabytes, but when I try to copy it on a 30GiB flash drive, I ...
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Trying booting into Debian on MacBook Air shows black screen
I'm trying to install Debian on a MacBookAir ( as dual-boot or as a single, I don't care that much).
Every time I select "EFI Boot", laptop goes into the black screen. After a while I hear ...
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Debian - Terrible Performance on MacBook Pro. LUKS Related?
Two days ago I did a fresh install of Debian 12 stable + Xfce on my Late 2013 MacBook Pro using LUKS for full-disk encryption. Performance around the OS has been incredibly poor. My CPU is hardly ...
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Why is my GPU malfunctioning during startup?
This issue was previously posted on the Lubuntu subreddit, and the person who graciously spent time helping me figure it out told me to share it on here, because we ran out of ideas. I hope someone on ...
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Apple iPad cannot access IMAP via Dovecot -- SSL unsupported protocol
I have a mail server that has been running for quite some time. Most of my clients use non-Apple devices or are okay with web-clients. I am only now running into this roadblock, because a new client ...
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How do I find the GPU device ID on Apple Silicon?
I use a MacBook Pro and Mac Studio with M1 and M2 chips, respectively. I'm trying to use a terminal command that has this parameter --device=/dev/****, which refers to the GPU device ID.
How do I find ...
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