Most of our containers are fine. One of them takes roughly forty minutes to do a job that takes about four on a colleague's older laptop. It runs. Nothing errors. It is simply extremely slow, and only this one image. I…
New Mac, moved my work across, and I now get one of these two errors constantly. Sometimes from a command line tool, sometimes when a Python package imports something. The second one says , which at least sounds like a…
I have a new Apple Silicon laptop that I want to use for development work involving virtual machines. The virtualisation product I have used for years lists x86 hardware among its requirements. I am not sure whether…
Set up a new Mac and did not install Rosetta, on the theory that everything is native now and I would rather find out early if something is not. That lasted about a week. Something asked for it, I clicked through a…
Every few months, usually after a system update, Homebrew starts refusing to do anything useful and tells me my Command Line Tools do not support the current macOS, or that they are outdated. I reinstall them, it works,…
The laptop I have does not have dedicated keys for keyboard backlight, and the function keys that used to do it on older machines have no effect. Mostly I want to turn the backlight off entirely it is distracting in a…
I work on two Macs and keep a working file on the Desktop, which is synced through the cloud service. Changes do propagate, but sometimes with a long delay: long enough that I have edited the stale version on the second…
On this laptop the menu bar is interrupted by the camera housing in the middle. Items fill in from the right, and once they reach that point any further items are simply not shown: no overflow, no way to scroll,…
I uninstalled a database server, updated my package manager and reinstalled it. Starting the service now fails with a bootstrap error mentioning an input/output problem, and the message from the service manager is not…