Mac

I told myself I just wanted to make sense of my dotfile management; I didn’t expect to accidentally become a Nix cultist. I don’t switch or reinstall systems that often, but when I do, I always end up setting everything up from scratch. Going through each setting in the apps I use and checking every system setting box is tedious. I have been using dotfiles ever since I switched to a UNIX-like system. However, that doesn’t exempt me from having to deal with various defaults write commands on macOS. ...

prelude 📜 It was 2015 when I bought my first Apple machine in the form of a MacBook Pro and said goodbye to Windows in my personal life forever. This platform - macOS - is a good place for me to have a UNIX system. I can play around with the terminal, use as much open source software as I can, and still have the convenience that Cupertino provides. Fast forward seven years, and the honeymoon with my beloved MacBook Pro is well over. I began to notice that it was slower than it used to be. I wanted to upgrade sooner, but the loss of ports, the presence of the touch bar, and the infamous butterfly keyboard held me back. Meanwhile, Apple started moving to ARM with their M-series of chips, and with the 2021 MacBook Pro line, they have returned to the form that I like. ...