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Is nested virtualization is supported by Apple Silicon chips (M2/M3)?
The short answer is yes. The technical details are below:
It depends a bit on what you mean by "support" exactly. To better understand the nuances in that word, first a quick and rough ...
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Is it possible to record a Mac's screen while booting or during the initial set-up?
What about running macOS from a VM? That would allow you to capture the startup sequence video using the host machine's facilities.
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Is it possible to record a Mac's screen while booting or during the initial set-up?
Exactly which Mac?
For an all-in-one like a Classic, then no. The best you can do is a telecine where a camera is carefully centered and focused on the display, and has the frequency synchronised to ...
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Is it possible to record a Mac's screen while booting or during the initial set-up?
No, because the OS & therefore the frameworks to support it are by definition not yet running.
You could video it with your phone.
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Image Viewer like Windows Image Viewer
Here is an image viewer called Picview. Its interface and logic are very similar to the default photo viewer on Windows. You can download and use it for free.
Additionally, it is natively programmed ...
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Force Mac to shutdown if entering battery mode on UPS
How macOS will attempt to shut down the Mac when the UPS fails is not documented by Apple. The behaviour may also change between versions of macOS.
Scheduled shut downs by macOS can be blocked by ...
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Is it safe to uninstall apps from AppStore from Finder instead of Launchpad
You are misreading that page.
Apple's web page you quote has as its first paragraph
Deleting or uninstalling an app removes it from your Mac and makes the storage space it was using available for ...
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Is it safe to uninstall apps from AppStore from Finder instead of Launchpad
Your link states that the Launchpad provides "a convenient way" to delete apps. It's just a convenience feature, not the only way.
You can delete AppStore apps through Finder or Launchpad ...
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Is it safe to uninstall apps from AppStore from Finder instead of Launchpad
To define "safe", we have to define what the risks might be. At worst, you'll be leaving some executable code on the disk, which may either just take up space, or possibly get executed and ...
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How to delete photo from Album and Library at the same time?
I was facing this same problem, very frustrated that there's no option to delete from Album and Library at the same time. Additionally, there's no option on mobile or browser to add tags to the ...
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Nested virtualization on a macOS host
VirtualBox does not support nested virtualization on macOS 13+; VirtualBox relied on a type of kext that's no longer supported on later versions of macOS for nested virtualization. Apple now requires ...
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Is it possible to play a music on one speaker and use headphones for online meeting on Mac?
SoundSource allows application-specific audio routing, with all connected output devices as possible targets.
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Is Mac Photos using more space than it needs?
So the external drive has 10GB of free space reported (I connected the drive to different machines to confirm this).
When I tried to copy a 20GB folder to it (which in theory should give an error that ...
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Mac Partition won't boot after Bootcamp Partition Resize
It's maybe worth noting that "7C3457EF-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC" is a magic number. It's alway this number and not something you need to find somewhere.
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Can I delete the .Spotlight-V100 file
On OSX recent versions .Spotlight-V100 is xattr protected, meaning rm commands are inoperant, whatever privileges you own. This explains the "Operation not permitted" mentioned in the above ...
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How to debug Mac servers (with file sharing) when the SMB shares disconnect on the client side?
There is an OpenSource app doing just that, take a look at https://gitlab.rrze.fau.de/faumac/networkShareMounter
It is meant for MDM administrators but can be used without configuration profiles at ...
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Bluetooth audio is choppy / stuttering
The problem you are experiencing may be related to an application requesting access to the microphone built into your headphones. Applications that use microphone access may briefly interrupt or ...
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