You can use a third-party utility to set a schedule and other controls for Time Machine backups. And the utility is free.
Source: Take control of Time Machine backups with the TimeMachineEditor utility (Macworld)
Category: MacOS
Czkawka – Find & Remove Duplicates, Empty, Broken Files in Linux
Czkawka is a simple, fast and easy to use software to remove unnecessary files from your machine.
Czkawka is a free and open-source software written in memory safe Rust. It works on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Due to advanced algorithms and multi-threading, it is amazingly fast!
Source: Czkawka – Find & Remove Duplicates, Empty, Broken Files in Linux | UbuntuHandbook
tmpmail – A temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh
tmpmailis a command line utility written in POSIXshthat allows you to create a temporary email address and receive emails to the temporary email address. It uses 1secmail’s API to receive emails.
Source: tmpmail – A temporary email right from your terminal written in POSIX sh (GitHub)
Improve Firefox Performance on Linux by Turning WebRender On (may also work in MacOS)
Learn how to enable WebRender in Firefox on Linux. This new tech can deliver a major performance boost by using your system’s GPU to render web content.
Source: Improve Firefox Performance on Linux by Turning WebRender On – OMG! Ubuntu!
Raspberry Pi Time Machine and NAS Backs Up Data For You
Archiving data can save you in a pinch—but what if you forget to make a backup? This Raspberry Pi project, created by Curtis Gross, solves that problem by automating the process in a convenient NAS device. The end result is a Pi-powered time machine server with all of your data stored in archives.
Source: Raspberry Pi Time Machine and NAS Backs Up Data For You | Tom’s Hardware
Installing macOS Catalina 10.15 on Proxmox 6.1 or 6.2 using OpenCore
This tutorial for installing macOS Catalina using OpenCore has been adapted for Proxmox from Kholia’s OSX-KVM project and Leoyzen’s OpenCore configuration for KVM. You can get the full sourcecode on my GitHub here.
If you’d like to use Clover instead, use my older tutorial, but OpenCore works better!
Source: Installing macOS Catalina 10.15 on Proxmox 6.1 or 6.2 using OpenCore – Nicholas Sherlock
Tr Command in Linux with Examples
Tr is a command used in Linux and Unix systems that translates, converts and deletes characters from standard input and writes to stdout.
Source: Tr Command in Linux with Examples (LinOxide)
iRaspbian Makes Your Raspberry Pi Work Like a Mac
Note: If you can’t find this anymore try reading the comments under the YouTube video.
This new Raspbian skin looks just like Apple Mac OS X.
Source: iRaspbian Makes Your Raspberry Pi Work Like a 2001 Mac | Tom’s Hardware
EDIT: Apparently this is now called Twister OS:
SCP Linux – Securely Copy Files Using SCP examples
This post includes SCP examples. SCP or secure copy allows secure transferring of files between a local host and a remote host or between two remote hosts. It uses the same authentication and security as the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol from which it is based. SCP is loved for it’s simplicity, security and pre-installed availability.
Source: SCP Linux – Securely Copy Files Using SCP examples (Hayden James)
Writing Safe Shell Scripts
Writing shell scripts leaves a lot of room to make mistakes, in ways that will cause your scripts to break on certain input, or (if some input is untrusted) open up security vulnerabilities. Here are some tips on how to make your shell scripts safer.
Source: Writing Safe Shell Scripts (MIT Student Information Processing Board)
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