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The other day I was watching one of NetworkChuck’s recent videos where he was running through a bunch of shell commands for Mac, and one stuck out to me in particular… The ability to configure Touch ID to authorise sudo commands! 🤯 Edit the following file: sudo vim /etc/pam.d/sudo Add this line auth sufficient pam_tid.so to the top of the file, below the comment. It should look something like: # sudo: auth account password session auth sufficient pam_tid....

I recently installed Ubuntu Linux on a Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 Pro, although I had to connect an external keyboard to go through the installation process because the built-in keyboard was completely unresponsive! Luckily I came across this Stack Overflow answer which did the trick for me. Once the installation was complete I needed to edit the GRUB config to fix this. sudo vim /etc/default/grub Add these parameters to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX like so:...

Background I have an old 2016 Intel MacBook Pro that I’ve had running Ubuntu for a while but could never get the sound to work in Linux so I decided to reinstall macOS on it. Should be easy right? Wrong… Instead of setting up a dual boot situation, I cleverly decided to wipe the whole hard drive in favour of Ubuntu, recovery partitions and all. But no matter, Intel Macs can boot into an internet recovery system without the recovery partition by holding ⌘ R on power....

1. Pre-requisites Install GPG and PINEntry if not already installed For Mac, install via Homebrew: brew install gpg pinentry-mac For Linux, install via your distro’s package manager. For Windows, you can either use WSL and install via the distro’s package manager, or download GPG4Win and install the following components: GnuPG Kleopatra GpgOL GpgEX Check what GPG key pairs you have already # List all public keys gpg --list-keys # List all private keys gpg --list-secret-keys 2....

VirtualBox seems to have a tiny limit on VRAM, luckily there’s a way around it! Open your terminal and run the following, with your VM name in the quotation marks. vboxmanage modifyvm "Arch Linux VM" --vram 256 Now open VirtualBox and you will see the amount of video memory has been increased to 256Mb, double the default limit. You can go as high as your hardware allows :)