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2023-09-23 macOS Ventura Breaks Bluetooth Pairing— “not supported”
2023-09-20 Reader Comment: Adobe Photoshop Forcing Unwanted macOS System 'Upgrades'
2023-09-20 When will Apple Mail Work Properly for Large Images?
2023-08-07 Some Praise of 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra and (mostly) macOS Ventura
2023-08-01 How Apple Breaks Far Too Many Web Sites from Working Properly — “Enable Content Blockers”
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: 'Vampire' GPU Usage — 1 to 25% of GPU used when Nothing is Happening
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: Screen Capture of 2nd Display at 1/2 Resolution, Not Full-Res
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: Command Key Window Shortcuts in Terminal Frequently Stop Working
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2023-07-18 REVIEWED: 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra
2022-01-29 Adobe Photoshop Vertical Line Artifacts after Smart Sharpen on Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max
2022-01-26 Adobe Photoshop: Vertical Line Artifacts after Smart Sharpen on Apple MacBook Pro M1 Max
2022-01-22 macOS Monterey Displaying some DNG Files with massive Color Smearing / Desaturation
2021-01-08 OWC Elektron USB-C SSD Trounces the Samsung T7
2020-12-09 LG 5K Display: Cannot Get Rid of Greenish Tint, Makes it Unusable for Color Work
2020-05-12 Apple Safari Web Browser Mangles Large Image on the Latest macOS 10.14.6 Mojave
2015-12-24 OS X El Capitan (aka El Crapitan) Breaks Lightroom Tethered Shooting for Nikon Cameras?
The worrisome decline of OS X quality and integrity..
2023-09-23 macOS Ventura Breaks Bluetooth Pairing— “not supported”
2023-09-20 Reader Comment: Adobe Photoshop Forcing Unwanted macOS System 'Upgrades'
2023-09-20 When will Apple Mail Work Properly for Large Images?
2023-08-07 Some Praise of 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra and (mostly) macOS Ventura
2023-08-01 How Apple Breaks Far Too Many Web Sites from Working Properly — “Enable Content Blockers”
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: 'Vampire' GPU Usage — 1 to 25% of GPU used when Nothing is Happening
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: Screen Capture of 2nd Display at 1/2 Resolution, Not Full-Res
2023-07-21 macOS Ventura: Command Key Window Shortcuts in Terminal Frequently Stop Working
2023-07-20 macOS Ventura 'upgrade' Destroys My User Account, Forces Recovery
2023-07-18 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Sleep/Wakeup Causes Drastic Loss of Performance for both CPU and GPU
2023-07-18 REVIEWED: 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra (UPDATED with corrected graphs)
2023-07-18 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Dropping CPU Performance at 3 or more CPU Cores
2023-07-18 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Large Losses in CPU and GPU Performance; Rebooting Recovers temporarily
2023-07-16 macOS Ventura: Memory Leak in QuickLookSatellite?
2023-07-16 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra: Large Losses in GPU Performance Require Reboot
2023-07-15 macOS Ventura Setup on 2023 Mac Pro M2 Ultra — kills an entire work day
2023-07-15 macOS Ventura: Command Key Window Shortcuts in Terminal Still Broken with 2 displays
2023-05-18 macOS Ventura 13.4 Brings Important Bug Fix for Apple Silicon SoftRAID Users
2023-03-28 macOS Security: erroneous messages eg “openjdk-20-x64.jdk is damaged and can't be opened”
2023-02-15 macOS Ventura: Finder Display of File/Folder Dates with Time in Seconds
2023-01-29 Reader Comment: macOS Ventura Fails to Mount Camera Cards For Some
2023-01-24 The Anxiety Inducing Experience of Updating macOS Monterey
2022-11-25 macos Bug for Launch Daemons in launchctl: posix_spawn ... Operation not permitted error 1
2022-11-21 Apple Analytics Personally Identifies You While Marketing the Piss Out of “Privacy”?
2022-11-10 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Tends to Kernel Panic Machines Using SoftRAID — Apple XProtect Bug?
2022-11-09 macOS Monterey Update 12.6.1 Won’t Sleep Display
2022-11-09 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Shutown/Reboot, Both Admin Accounts Kaput
2022-07-14 Apple Core Rot: Invasive Spotlight Indexing Impairs Use of Your Mac
2022-06-27 Locked Out of my Own Desktop: Confusing, but an Easy Fix Found
2022-03-02 macOS Monterey Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Reboot, Repudiating my Login Password
2022-02-22 Apple iCloud Might Eject Your Files, Eliminating them From Your Backups
2022-02-17 Reader Comment: “In the calendar app, search does not work”
2022-01-17 Reader Comment: Finder File Copying Data Loss... “catalyst that drove me off the platform”
2022-01-03 IntegrityChecker Java (icj): How to Eliminate the WARN_IO_STALL Messages
2021-11-25 Numerous Daily “ios 15.1 is available for your iPhone” Notifications are Getting Old
2021-10-30 Why the Apple Mac mini is a Disaster as a Headless Server
2021-10-20 Apple Core Rot: Safari No Longer Preloads Tabs on macOS Big Sur
2021-10-16 macOS: 3+ CPU Cores for up to several minutes after Rebooting
2021-10-05 Years Later, macOS Big Sur leaves Major Disk I/O Performance Bug Unfixed
2021-10-04 Checking for Data Corruption after macOS Hoses Your System
2021-10-04 macOS Big Sur Locks Me Out of my 2019 Mac Pro after Kernel Panic, Repudiating my Login Password
2021-09-27 How To Prevent System Sleep while a Terminal Command is Running: caffeinate
2021-09-26 Should you Upgrade to macOS Monterey?
2021-09-26 Apple is slow to fix critical security bugs, leaving you vulnerable to disaster
2021-08-26 Can’t Apple Release a macOS that is Reliable?! Kernel Panics
2021-08-13 Apple Spotlight Won’t Find Applications Until they are Launched
2021-06-28 Apple Core Rot: Never Update Your iPhone Before a Trip, Make Sure to Run the Additional Update
2021-06-28 Apple Core Rot: Networking in macOS is Badly Broken for WiFi Hot Spot
2021-05-11 macOS Big Sur 11.3 Reader Comment: Multiple Issues including Kernel Panics
2021-04-29 macOS Big Sur 11.3: Upgrade ASAP for fix to 0-Day Gatekeeper Security Exploit (Apple CVE-2021-30657)
2021-04-15 Apple Image Capture in macOS Big Sur: Degraded and Broken
2021-04-04 Display Connections for HDMI/DisplayPort Displays on 2019 Mac Pro or Other Macs
2021-03-27 Kernel Panics are Oh So easy to Provoke — Remove an SD Card
2021-03-26 macOS Big Sur: Finder Randomly Depopulates Favorites in Sidebar
2021-03-18 Kernel Panics with Adobe Photoshop on macOS Big Sur Continue
2021-03-05 Apple Core Rot: the Arrogance of Apple User Interface Design in macOS Big Sur
2021-02-05 Reader Comment: “so wish I saw your blog post before purchasing 2019 MacBook Pro”
2020-12-29 Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 and Apple Destroy My Workflow Worse Than Any Problem I’ve ever Had
2020-10-16 Apple iOS 14 is Buggier Than Ever Before, macOS Crapalina Remains a Buzzing Turd-Pile
2020-10-06 Apple T2 Chip: Unfixable Security Flaw that Gives Attacker Full Control
2020-10-05 Reader Comment: accountds Running Wild, Viewing Processes and Memory
2020-10-04 Apple Core Rot: Apple Has Lost Me as a Customer
2020-10-04 Apple Core Rot: macOS Mojave Supplemental Update
2020-09-19 Apple Core Rot: iOS 14 and macOS Safari Update Bring Treasure Trove of New Bugs
2020-09-10 Apple Core Rot: Syncing of Random Music Tracks to iPhone, iPad
2020-09-09 Apple Core Rot: Apple Messages.app Stops Working after a Few Images
2020-09-06 Apple Core Rot: Erases my 200GB of Music on iPad and iPhone Every Time I Update iOS.
2020-09-01 Apple Core Rot: Apple Notarizes Adware (Malware), Compromises User Systems
2020-07-26 Disturbing Number of Bad 16-Inch MacBook Pros
2020-07-16 macOS Catalina 10.15.6 Update: Whacks Software Update Preferences, turns Everything On
2020-06-27 Daily Aggravation with macOS Catalina Sleep Problems: Still the Same Piece of Shit as 4 Months Ago
2020-05-18 2019 Mac Pro and Kernel Panics with PCIe Cards
2020-04-17 Why Is My Mac Hanging When Copying Files After Upgrading to macOS Catalina 10.15.4?
2020-04-03 macOS: Apple 'TrueTone' and Display Profile Problems
2020-03-30 macOS System Sleep Issues: Apple Mail a Possible Factor?
2020-03-01 macOS Catalina is a Disruptive POS — No System Sleep, Displays Won’t Sync
2020-02-21 macOS Catalina: Loads of Crapware Chewing up Memory and Sometimes CPU Cycles, Adobe Does it Too
2020-02-21 macOS Catalina: System Sleep Frequently Fails
2020-02-11 Apple Pro Display XDR: USB-C Ports Connect at USB 2.0 Speed (20X slower)
2020-02-10 Why Those Super Handy USB-C Ports on Displays and Video Cards SUCK
2020-02-03 macOS Catalina 10.15.3: Privacy Tab Does not Work — Files and Folders Inoperable
2020-02-01 macOS Catalina 10.15.3 vs 10.15.2: Consistent Performance Losses in Photoshop CC 21.0.3 vs 21.0.2
2020-01-31 macOS Catalina Screws up My Display Arrangement and Resolution EVERY TIME I Reboot
2020-01-30 Does macOS Have a Rare but Stupefyingly Nasty Multithreading Bug in the Unified Buffer Cache?
2020-01-29 Reader Comment: 2018 Mac mini with macOS Catalina Will Not Boot with eGPU
2020-01-29 2018 Mac mini has Serious Trouble Syncing with Display via either HDMI or DisplayPort
2020-01-18 Apple Core Rot: macOS Catalina Fails to Update Critical Security Settings
2020-01-18 Caution for Those Working with Color-Calibrated Displays: macOS Catalina Resets Display Profile
2020-01-18 Reader Comments: macOS Catalina vs Mojave, Drive Initialization Hanging/Crashing
2020-01-02 2019 Mac Pro: Hardware Elegance, macOS Crapalina Belongs in the Toilet
2019-11-24 The Apple iOS 13 Fiasco
2019-11-23 iOS 13.2.3: Random Haptic Clicks Drive Me Nuts on iPhone 11 Pro Max
2019-11-19 Apple iOS 13.2.3 Breaks Bluetooth Pairing for my Mercedes Sprinter Van for all my iPhones
2019-09-03 Copying Files in macOS Can Truncate File Date/Time to One-Second Granularity
2019-06-20 Apple Core Rot: iTunes Bugs
2019-06-20 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder Shows Bogus Files s Not Yet Copied 18 Hours Later
2019-03-01 Apple Apparently IGNORES Researcher’s Report of 0-Day Exploit for macOS KeyChain
2019-02-21 Apple Core Rot: Serious Audio Issues with 2018 Mac mini (Distorted Audio, Crushed Sound)
2019-02-20 Apple Core Rot: macOS Finder Shows Zero-Size Folders — Very Dangerous if Unaware
2019-02-11 Apple Core Rot: Apple Mail hangs for an Hour or More
2019-01-28 Apple Core Rot at its Finest: the Apple Facetime Bug Clown Show
2019-01-27 Apple Core Rot Metadata Loss: macOS Finder Destroys File Dates When Moving Files
2018-11-07 Apple Core Rot is Back with a Vengeance in the Latest Security Update for macOS 10.13.6
2018-09-04 Simple Things that Get in the Way
2018-08-16 2018 MacBook Pro: the Apple T2 Chip Can Erratically Kernel Panic the System
2018-06-29 Another Finder Data Loss Bug
2018-05-29 Siri Knowledge: an Oxymoron?
2018-05-20 Apple Core Rot: It’s Big Things, and Hundreds of Little Ones, that Together Add up to Chaos
2018-05-15 Thunderbolt Bug: Drives Disconnect at Random and Intermittent Times
2018-05-07 Overheating Can Kill Optical Thunderbolt 2 Cables, Root Cause is the Mac Itself (Thermal Dumping)
2018-03-16 One more Finder File Copy Bug: Is it Even Safe to Count on the macOS Finder to Copy Files?
2018-02-18 macOS High Sierra: APFS Corrupts Disk Images
2018-01-30 Reader Question: Time to Move to High Sierra?
2018-01-17 macOS 10.13.2 and Disk Utility = Atrocious Bug-Ridden Disaster
2018-01-11 Apple Quality Control: Enough is Enough
2018-01-10 Nasty macOS High Sierra Bug: Unlock AppStore Preferences with *any* Password
2018-01-07 Apple iMac Pro: First Look at Performance
2017-12-26 Crashes When Copying Files over a Network? Try Turning off Packet Signing
2017-12-26 Why Does Apple Put Random Unwanted Crud Into my iPhone Calendar?
2017-12-18 Copying Files with macOS Finder: Data Loss Bug
2017-12-09 One Example Among Many of Things that Suck with macOS: Continual Breakdown in Quality Control
2017-11-30 iPhone: Blurred Screen Requires Rebooting Phone
2017-11-30 iPhone: App Store Downloads Never Finish
2017-11-30 Apple Mail: Cannot Configure ToolBar as Desired
2017-11-30 Perspective on Apple Core Rot Over Some Years
2017-11-28 The Most Serious Apple Software Quality Failure Yet: Logging-in 'root' without any password
2017-09-17 macOS High Sierra: Apple’s Technote on APFS is Both Confusing and Possibly Incorrect
2017-09-10 macOS High Sierra: Caution Advised
2017-08-29 SoftRAID Warns on Serious High Sierra Bug
2017-08-11 MacOS Bug: Kernel Task Uses Most or All CPU Cores Continuously (Ambient Temperature Too High)
2017-07-17 Apple Core Rot: Networking Problems (NFS, Failure to Copy Files, More)
2017-07-01 Apple Core Rot Strikes Again: Time Machine Wipes Out Other Backups and Fails to Restore Properly
2017-06-30 2017 MacBook Pro: Personal HotSpot via iPhone Does not Work
2017-06-19 Does macOS 10.12.5 Break Gigabit Ethernet?
2017-06-13 Apple Photos: Bad Idea + Downloading Images from iPhone/iPad/Other Devices using Apple Preview
2017-04-28 iTunes: Infinite Loop Trying to Install an App
2017-04-07 Solution for sudo hang problem in macOS 10.12.4
2017-04-06 macOS 10.12.4: File Sharing Running at a few kilobytes per second
2017-03-28 Caution on macOS 10.12.4: sudo is broken, sudo hangs before password for nearly 5 minutes
2017-03-17 Security: Another Phishing Example (plus Apple Junk Mail Bug)
2017-03-10 Apple Core Rot: Logging Spew
2017-02-23 Caution on Upgraded Apple Remote Desktop
2017-01-29 Finder Hangs While Copying
2017-01-10 Adobe Memory Usage, with no apps in use
2017-01-10 macOS BloatWare (and what feels like SpyWare)
2017-01-10 Safari Seems Less Stable in macOS 10.12.2
2017-01-09 The GPU remains a Science Fair Project
2017-01-08 Crapware in macOS
2017-01-03 Apple Core Rot: PDF Support
2016-12-23 2016 MacBook Pro: Design by Dilettantes?
2016-12-22 Reader Comment: “Bloomberg piece goes hand-in-hand with today’s article that you posted”
2016-12-22 How Can Apple Mail Possibly need 3.1 GB of Memory?
2016-12-07 2016 MacBook Pro: Cannot Sustain Performance Under Load — Update
2016-12-03 2016 MacBook Pro: Cannot Sustain Performance Under Load
2016-10-27 macOS Sierra 10.12.1: Data Loss + Breaking Backup Protocols is Now a Feature?
2016-10-12 macOS Sierra: Apple Mail Continues to Have Severe Performance Issues, plus crashes
2016-10-07 macOS Sierra: Crashes Viewing Folders with Images (while selecting them)
2016-09-30 macOS Sierra: Possible Data Loss Scenario
2016-09-23 macOS Sierra: Cannot Copy/Paste Properly
2016-09-21 macOS Sierra: Compatibility Issues
2016-09-20 macOS Sierra: Severe Apple Mail Performance Problems
2016-09-20 macOS Sierra: Stable Release
2016-08-01 “Not Connected to Internet” after Waking from Sleep in OS X 10.11.6
2016-07-19 macOS 10.11.6 Issue with Pegasus?
2016-07-18 Apple Breaks Thunderbolt Networking in OS X 10.11.6?
2016-05-27 More OS X Open-File Bugs: QuickLookSatellite, Apple Mail, Ghost Applications, Trash Will Not Empty
2016-05-25 OS X Bug: QuickLookSatellite Opens Files and Never Closes Them, Causing Wide-Ranging Errors
2016-05-10 OS X: How to Fix Hang in Image Capture Utility
2016-04-05 Thunderbolt on OS X: Spontaneous Drive Disconnect
2016-02-29 Apple Breaks Ethernet in OS X El Capitan
2016-02-17 Apple in PR Denial even as Apple Core Rot Spreads
2016-02-04 Thunderbolt Networking: Very Poor Performance with Sustained Usage
2016-01-21 OS X 10.11.3: Three Displays now Sleep/Wake Properly (UPDATE: worse than ever)
2016-01-21 OS X 10.11.3: iMac 5K Screen Black Screen —Will not Wake Up From Sleep
2016-01-02 Apple Core Rot: Spotlight Cannot Find File Names
2015-12-12 Don Norman and Bruce Tognazzini: How Apple Is Giving Design A Bad Name
2015-12-10 More Apple Core Rot: Apple Mail Still Broken + More Views
2015-12-09 Apple Core Rot: Little Things are not Little Things (iOS Image Display)
2015-12-06 Time Machine does not show all the items that are excluded!
2015-12-03 Reader Comment: Apple Core Rot
2015-11-14 Apple Core Rot: How Many com.apple.audio Helper Processes Does One Need, Exactly?
2015-11-12 Apple Core Rot Remains in App Store : OS X Sporadically Fails to Update Apps
2015-10-31 OWC Thunderbay 4 Deal: 20TB RAID-5 Edition Deal: now with Spare 5TB Drive
2015-10-21 Apple Core Rot now featured in App Store : OS X Cannot Update Itself Properly
2015-10-16 OWC Thunderbay 4 Deal: 20TB RAID-5 Edition Deal: now with Spare 5TB Drive
2015-10-16 Checking RAID-1 Mirror Status in OS X El Capitan (now that DiskUtility is toast for RAID)
2015-10-15 OS X El Capitan Breaks Time Machine
2015-10-15 Reader Question: How to Approach El Capitan
2015-10-15 Reader Comment: Adobe Quality Control an Issue?
2015-10-13 OS X El Capitan: Image Capture Now Hangs Sometimes
2015-10-09 OS X El Capitan: Worst OS Release Yet
2015-10-08 OS X El Capitan: Disk Utility “designed by morons” design ethic + RAID Support Removed + Wanton Bugs
2015-10-07 Brand-New iPhone 6s Plus with iOS 9.0.2: “No Service” Bug Takes Phone Offline
2015-09-24 Apple iPhone Core Rot: Apple Breaks Personal Hotspot in iOS 9.0.1 + HOW TO FIX
2015-09-23 Will Apple Core Rot Trend be Reversed?
2015-08-08 More Apple Core Rot: Finder Sluggish Since 10.10.4 Update
2015-05-23 Apple Photos: Nuisance Behavior by Design
2015-04-27 Apple Pro Video Updates: Endless Repeated Updates
2015-04-07 Apple Core Rot: Runaway Spotlight (mds_stores Process)
2015-02-15 How to Prioritize Network Interfaces for Peak Performance
2015-02-12 With the Coming of the Apple Watch, Digital Monitoring is the Next Big Thing
2015-02-12 Our Toaster Failed, and we want another one just like it
2015-02-12 Reader Comment: Apple Core Rot
2015-02-06 Drives Unmounting After Sleep in OS X Yosemite?
2015-02-04 Apple Core Rot and Safari Issues
2015-02-02 SoftRAID 5.0.6 Released With Important Fixes
2015-01-29 ArsTechnica: Why DNS in OS X 10.10 is broken, and what you can do to fix it
2015-01-29 MacWorld: Wi-Fi issues continue to hamper OS X users despite updates
2015-01-28 Continuing Performance Issues in Apple OS X Yosemite, Particularly in Photoshop
2015-01-28 Apple OS X 10.10.2: Many Bug Fixes Along with Fresh Manure
2015-01-22 Hard Drive Reliability
2015-01-22 Apple Core Rot: More Views
2015-01-09 Spotlight Builds in a Feature Spammers Could Only Dream About
2015-01-03 Spotlight: Brain-Dead Search Priorities
2014-12-26 Apple Core Rot
2014-12-23 Troubling Precedent: Apple Pushes Security Update Without User Permission (NTP Security Flaw)
2014-12-21 Thunderbolt EFI Exploit
2014-11-25 A Pseudo-Security Trend: Password Reset and Locked Accounts
2014-11-24 OS X Yosemite Update (10.1): Regularly Deletes the AppleMail VIP List
2014-11-21 OS X Yosemite Finder File Copy: Data Loss
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Update the SoftRAID Driver
2014-11-19 OS X Yosemite: Apple Kills TRIM for 3rd-Party SSDs, Renders System Unbootable
2014-11-18 OS X Yosemite: Disable WiFi if Using Gigabit Ethernet
2014-11-18 OS X Yosemite Deletes Java / JDK, but Photoshop Needs It
2014-11-05 When the iPhone and Three Nearby Computers all Ring for a Phone Call, and is this a Privacy Issue?
2014-11-05 Apple iCloud: Promiscous Saving for Security Lapses
2014-11-03 Static Problems on Input/Output with Some Macs?
2014-11-02 OS X Yosemite: Severe Performance Issues with File Open Dialog
2014-10-16 OS X Yosemite: Screen Bleed-Through for Images Impairs Perception
2014-10-07 Patches for 'bash' Shell Vulnerability
2014-06-27 Apple to End 'Aperture' Support
2014-03-31 OS X File System Hang Bug
2014-02-25 OS X 10.9.2 Reportedly Fixes the TLS/SSL Security Bug
2014-02-22 Major Security Flaw in Apple iOS and Apple OS X, Involves Fundamental TLS / SSL Security Protocols
2013-02-13 Tidbits: How Apple Doesn’t Respect Its Users
2013-02-10 Core Rot at Apple? and Interview on 'The Tech Night Owl'
2013-01-23 Core Rot at Apple?
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