16+ hour, 24+ min ago   (1539+ words) This article walks through building a Debian 13 machine under Apple's container CLI on an Apple silicon Mac, and then wiring that machine to a local LLM running on the Mac's own GPU. Getting there has two halves, and the first…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (858+ words) A Mac app I maintain needs Full Disk Access. It measures disk usage, and most of what is worth measuring sits behind that permission. I switched it on in System Settings ▸ Privacy & Security ▸ Full Disk Access, and the app went…...

3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (505+ words) The header comment of mem-hog-guard.sh records how this started. In short: macOS's dasd (Duet Activity Scheduler) sat at an RSS of 264MB while holding MEM 47GB / CMPRS 46GB, pushed swap up to 37GB, and made Chrome's launchPersistentContext time out at 180 seconds. Every SNS…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (929+ words) Deleting an app from your Mac completely isn’t as simple as it sounds. We explain why, and show how App Cleaner in Kaspersky Premium for macOS clears out the leftovers. Every so often you need to tidy up, and that…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (654+ words) If your MacBook is having major hardware problems, the Apple Diagnostics menu can help make sense of what's wrong. The experience inside Apple Diagnostics depends on your version of macOS, too. Macs running macOS 26 Tahoe or later can offer individual…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (179+ words) Disclosure: I maintain Ferrum, an MIT-licensed local LLM inference server written in Rust. If you want a private OpenAI-compatible endpoint on an M-series Mac without setting up Python or a container, this is the shortest path I currently recommend. The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (497+ words) And that’s where Try Omarchy comes in, an unaffiliated project from @martiano. It offers an entirely self-contained virtualized version of Omarchy Linux that’ll run as an independent app on MacOS. So, if you’re curious and want to give Omarchy Linux…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (379+ words) To clear any non-essential System Data you can use a cleaner that will automatically take care of everything for you, or you can manually hunt the data down and take care of it bit by bit. Before we get to…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (398+ words) You're running a log shipper or a config reloader and suddenly it starts failing with ENOSPC — "No space left on device." You check df -h, and the disk is fine. Plenty of inodes, plenty of blocks. So why is the…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (391+ words) More and more shooters are moving toward lighter, more mobile setups rather than hauling heavy gear to every location. SmallRig have just released their new EDC PRO kit, designed around their Outra 25 camera backpack, I was curious to see whether…...