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Thank you for the reply. As far as hostnames, I come up with a new name for each device: watch, iPads, Macs, etc. I use to name everything after strippers like Misty, Rosie, Lola. Right now, I'm on "spiritual" names like Hope and Peace. There are a few special ones like my green iPhone was...

You wrote "thermal". I guess that was a typo? hostname is going to give me the host name of the laptop I'm currently using -- not the hostname of the laptop that the external drive use to belong to.

What is "thermal" ?

I'm not booting from the drive. I'm just reading from it.

I'm already reading it. I was hoping macOS stashed the hostname somewhere. I'd like to know which laptop this drive came from although it doesn't make a huge amount of difference. It is mostly curiosity.

I have a car load of old disk drives that I'm going through and pulling off what I hope will be useful and then reformatting them and either sell them or give them away. I have a disk (just as one example) that came from a Mac laptop and the latest date is 2007. It is the Macintosh HD disk...

I think its a typo. "Don't know Brave". "Everyone" suggestions Chrome because "all developers" use it -- at least that's the belief. But... its not true. Safari did introduce some new privacy things that caused Facebook's stock to "plummet" (proving that Apple can't be all bad :-) Go read...

Speaking of bad updates... Watch update screwed up "Unity Lights"

Time was, I was more on the pulse of things and so I would know about a bad update before I would apply it. But now days I tend to just apply the updates. Which begs the question, why not just enable automatic updates? Opinions?

I came to believe that Chrome was closer to a virus than a browser. It seems to stick its nose everywhere. I use Safari and Brave if I need a second opinion about a web site.

The title pretty much says it all. I’m buying a NAS and I assume will mount it via NFS but perhaps SMB. In either case, I want to have a huge cache on the laptop — like 2TB which may involve getting another proxy file system to do the caching. But all this comes down to finding what NFS (or...

Dribbling off topic a little, when I was high school / college age -- around the time the 8080 and Z80 was the talk of the town, chip manufacturers use to load you up with data books for free. They wanted you to learn and know all about their products. Now days, you need to sign NDA agreements...

When a file is just remote (not local) with iCloud and I've been told the same is true with DropBox, there is a stub and an application can't just open the stub and have the file system fetch the pieces of the file at it is read by the app without the app knowing anything about it. NFS is an...

I have too... but its a perception thing and an attitude thing. Indeed, I "trust" Apple because of the public image. It is hard for me to remember that they are likely no different than FB or Google but their public image of putting "my security" first is hard to completely ignore.

Holy iFitIt Batman!!! If Apple is serious about this and it really does happen, I bet this becomes the norm. The amount of waste because of the closed nature of platforms is staggering. Sure they can make money with new items but they can also make money with parts AND keep customers based...

I've been wrestling with this problem for a number of years. I took your suggestion and wrote them on a piece of paper and stuck in my wallet. I also did a couple of other things. One problem is / was the state of mind I was in. I was very quick to assume something had invaded my system...

Thank you (not being sarcastic). It helps just to have a places to ask questions. Someone suggested I put the iPad into DFU mode. After many tries, I finally figured out the timing. Its an iPad Air 2. Then I did a restore to factory defaults. When the iPad came up, I used my iPhone and my...

I woke up today and there was a message on my Mac that said that my Apple Id was being used by "Dolly". Dolly is an old iPhone 6+ I have and it does have my Apple Id password but I had not been using it. I thought it was powered off but I'm not sure at this point. Dolly seems fine. I can log...

Thanks. He seems to already know about that and, as you say, I think sometimes they come back. I'm not sure how that works exactly. I'll forward on your help but, as I said, I think he already knew about that process. As far as funny... yea, I've some across some that gave me a chuckle or...

My brother is asking me... it sounds like on Windows (and I've found web pages that appear to confirm this) you can do set options via the command line to show only the WiFi networks that you want. He isn't talking about the "Auto Join" option. He doesn't want to see them listed in the drop...