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Please share your hidden macOS features or tips and tricks

Remap “Home” and “End” to beginning and end of line

How can I mount an ext4 file system on OS X?

Is there an OS X terminal program that can access serial ports?

Where can I find the unicode symbols for Mac functional keys? (Command, Shift, etc.)

How do you force a 5 GHz wifi connection?

How can I disable the red Software Update notification bubble on the System Preferences app in MacOS Mojave (not App Store)?

How to enable OS X screen sharing (VNC) through SSH?

Is there a way to access a Mac's geolocation from terminal?

When I open Terminal, I get an “I have no name!” prompt

Is there a similarly fast alternative to Crtl + Shift + Eject for new Macbook that lack eject keys?

How to share history between terminal tabs?

How can I keep my iPhone headset untangled?

Creating an automated HFS+ compressed folder

How can I change the title of a boot image?

How to mount raw disk images?

Create a remote only user in OS X?

How can I limit the headphone max volume on OS X?

Is there a C compiler for iPad?

Mounting cue/bin files

How to disable accentuated char suggestion on long click on mac?

Revert Filetype Association

How to access /dev/mem in OSX?

Headless Mac mini: Share Screen + FileVault

Confusion on Metadata | Named Forks | Extended Attributes | Resource Fork — HFS+

Install OS X in VirtualBox on iMac?

How to enable Three Finger Drag from command line

Kill TCP connections on a Mac in Terminal

Error message “iPod is disabled. Try again in 22,236,924 minutes.”

mount is adding a quarantine flag, causing: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: Operation not permitted - but not the usual suspects