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 My phone is about 2.5 years old, and in that time the NFC reader has worked without problems. But recently my phone stopped being able to read NFC chips – such as wireless payment.  I’ve tried to … 
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 When I have multiple windows open for an application (e.g., Safari), when I close one window, the other window automatically comes into focus, above other application windows that may have been in … 
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 I have a MacBook Air (M2). It came with Monterey installed  I have an iPhone 13 mini and two iPads – a 5th Gen iPad Air and an iPad mini 4.  They are all set up to backup and sync (over Wi-Fi) with my … 
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 iMac 2019 MacOS Mojave; iOS 15.7.1  Sometime after I updated my iPhone 8 and iPad (9th gen) I get a message on the iPhone/iPad every time I connect via USB to provide a passcode to back up the device.  &… 
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 I haven’t upgraded from macOS 12.6 to Ventura yet.  I have no realpath command in my /bin directory, or anywhere else on my M1 MacBook Air.  I’ve never installed brew/homebrew on my Mac though I’ve been … 
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 I have a MacBook Pro with macOS Ventura 13.0.  In System Settings -> General -> Login Items, I discovered that a random Charlie Stigler item was running in the background. I have no idea what … 
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 I noticed Final Cut’s compressor plugin does have a Side Chain option.  From apps like Ableton Live I know that you can usually connect a source to a side-chain input that controls parameters affecting … 
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 I upgraded to iOS 7 yesterday. Today, all my contacts suddenly vanished. They were working in iOS 7 this morning, but have since disappeared.    I’m not syncing contacts with an external system (… 
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 After upgrading to macOS Ventura, I tried to run git from Terminal but it kept giving me the following error:  xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing … 
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 On my Linux machine I have autocomplete for branches with Git.    [Note we are talking about git branch completion, not bash completion (e.g. commands, files, etc).  Thus NOT Lane’s answer at all]    For … 
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 I tried cd “~/Library/Application Support/”  -bash: cd: ~/Library/Application Support/: No such file or directory    also cd ~/Library/Application Support/  -bash: cd: ~/Library/Application Support/: No … 
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 I know you can do ifconfig | grep inet, but that shows you several IPv4 addresses. How do I get the specific one for SSHing et al? 
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 I’ve previously connected to a wifi network on my iPhone but I’ve no way of finding out the password. So is there any way to view saved wifi passwords on the iPhone? 
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 I bought a used iPhone 4.  The previous owner re-set the phone, but did not remove the device from their iCloud.  It is asking me for their iCloud information when I try to set-up the phone.  I don’t … 
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 I have a 10 core M1 Pro MacBook Pro with 16 GB RAM and 1 TB storage, on Ventura 13.0. It seems to suffer from excessive SSD writes for no apparent reason, a situation that seems very similar to what … 
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 I’m on macos Monterey and I cant verify whether the Virtual Box Extension Pack are installed or which version.  I’ve looked in the VirtualBox Manager’s preferences and could not find it. Does the OS … 
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 For all the CleanShot X fans, do you know if they can also resize an image? 
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