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My younger child’s MacBook Pro was unsalvageably full. Only a complete wipe would suffice—and then Time Machine failed us. I love my children, but they do sometimes forget what I do for a living: answer questions and write books about the most troubling problems people have with their Macs, iPhones, and iPads. But w...

macOS by default uses the unencrypted and unauthenticated Network Time Protocol (NTP) for time synchronization. A popular solution to mitigate this problem is to use ChronyControl to setup NTS. However, the application requires administrator privileges, which is less than ideal.In this post, I will go over how to le...

Yashodhan Mohan Bhatnagar·FollowThere are times, when you’re working on a remote system that has a Unix system like Ubuntu, RHEL, etc. You want to develop scripts, checkout if some packages exist, prototype command snippets or maybe test out some compatibility.Anytime I’ve had to do that I had to spin up a t2 VM fro...