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Mac going at a snail’s pace and occasionally stopping entirely? Try this out
I was having issues recently with my MacBook Pro M4 Pro (one of the most powerful laptops you can get), where it kept pausing for a few seconds. A quick look at Activity Monitor highlighted the issue – process
corespotlightdwas consuming 150% of the CPU.A quick check online and I found the potential cause, and it’s one that appears to be quite recent, so possibly a recent bug in the OS (or a specific app).
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I so hate the phrase “vibe coding”
“Vibe coding” is one of the latest “in-words” in code development right now. It’s defined as such…
Vibe coding (also written as vibecoding) is a recently-coined term for the practice of writing code, making web pages, or creating apps, by just telling an AI program what you want, and letting it create the product for you.
Merriam-WebsterIt’s instructing AI (or, rather, LLMs – which the Wikipedia article on the same subject clarifies) to write code for you.
Why do I hate it so much?
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How to open a MacBook or plug it in without it switching on
Sometimes you just want to open up your MacBook, or plug it in, without it deciding to power itself on. Most of the time the behaviour makes sense but sometimes you don’t want it – wouldn’t it better to allow the. user to decide?
Until now, changing this default wasn’t possible, but with M-powered MacBooks and MacOS Sequoia onwards, you can now do this.
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Locked out! Fixing my mum’s iPad
My mum exclusively uses an Apple iPad for her online life. She has a smartphone but it’s an old Android one that is useful for not much more than phone calls and texts. Her weekly shopping, Facebook and everything else is on her iPad.
A few months back, it came to an end. The supermarket app no longer worked on her iPad Air due to its age and she was in a constant battle with the – wait for it – 16GB of storage. It was time to upgrade, which she did. She didn’t get the latest all-singing model, but found a new but previous generation iPad instead. When she got it, it guided her through copying over from her old device. She put her old iPad away and continued, happily, with the new one.
But, as much as we think about security these days, it’s not always the best thing for someone elderly. She didn’t have a passcode on it and, when searching for “Password” (for the passwords app) one day it came up with the passcode screen instead. She got confused and supplied one. She didn’t write it down (she does for her important passwords for everything else) and, after a couple of days, forgot it.
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