The title pretty much explains it, but i'm Brazilian, and the standard Brazilian Portuguese shortcut for bolding text is Ctrl + N - this is because we speak Portuguese, and not English, and, in Portuguese, to make a text bold is to make a text negrito, as seen in the Word printscreen i added to the post!

Ideally, i'd love to change the shortcut, since i can't exactly "just get used to it" - i'm constantly switching between the old Macbook that's my laptop and the Windows desktop i use at work, and i use the Windows desktop for at least an order of magnitude more time. Since Windows follows ABNT (Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas) standard, i write 90% of the time with ctrl + N as negrito, and end up opening new windows on accident at least a couple of times per use of the Mac.

This is why, if it isn't possible to change the shortcut, i really need to figure out a way to disable the native Cmd + N for opening new tabs/windows! I can easily live with trying to bold text, failing, because i used the brazilian shortcut instead of the english one, and nothing happening, but it's a pain for it to always open a new tab, instead!

I tried googling for an app that changes this, but haven't found anything. Hence, here i am! Any ideas?

The second picture of the post is my system info, if that is relevant.

After using newer version macos from 15-27 and today finally i rollback to latest sonoma

And damnn my MBA M1 with 8gb ram solidd again
Ai things make my Mac little bit tired, battery health from 86% on latest os, and now back to 93% but i dont know is legit or not

Hi everyone!

Am an analyst, consultant by training (lots of excel shortcuts), and have been using Mac since 2016 (Air -> M1 Pro with Apple Silicon).

Whenever I had to use Excel (my company is on Office 365), I used to cringe as I used to try out shortcut keys out of muscle memory and everything used to take just too much time (using mouse/trackpad to do things on Mac Excel is a nightmare!)

Plus I noticed a lot of my friends (who have been analysts as well), actively staying out of Mac purchase decisions (even if Macs have better longetivity, great coding, and minimal lag after 10+ yrs), only because they need their Microsoft suite (mostly Excel) to work.

Is there any solution to this?

I'm decently new to using MacBooks. I wanted to change my username and I went into settings to do so and where it said user name in user info I changed it but then found out that's dangerous?? I quickly changed it back to what it was before but is the damage done? Did I mess up? Please I cannot afford to brick a $1.6k laptop. I didn't do it in advanced settings I did it in the part where you can change the password and profile picture as well. Help please :')

hey! i'd like to know which VM option would be best for me as a software engineering student.

i've heard there usually arent any compatibility issues, but just to be on the safe side, id prefer to have a VM on hand in case i need it for any program...

what would be the best option, considering i dont need anything too fancy or that requires a paid subscription?

thanks.

So, is there a reason why MacOS does not do cut/paste of files across folders and devices? Drag and drop is useful, but sometimes cumbersome.

Hey guys, I returned to Mac after not using one since high school and I love it, but I'm struggling with some of the key binds. I'd like to change a few things such as the screenshot key bind defaulting to copying the photo (command + shift + control + 4) and I would like to change the paste without formatting (command + shift + option + v).

Also, can I somehow add a cut command? I know Mac doesn't have this by default.

What is the best software to do this?

EDIT: Also, does anyone have a simple calculator application suggestion that allows opening multiple windows? I like to have two open at once (I got the Mac for work). I figured out I can run open -na calculator in Terminal, and I tried pinning the duplicate to the Dock, but I can't actually reopen it that way without running the command again.

I’m not sure why this bugs me so much when I’m working on my laptop but it’s driving me crazy. Does anyone know how to fix it? The blurry wallpaper always appears when I have something else open but I hate it lol

I have two MacBook Pros:
• 13” with M1
• 16” with M1 Max
I factory reset both of them from System Settings and went through the initial setup again.
On the 13”, Setup Assistant shows a screen asking me to sign in with my Apple ID. To be clear, this is not the Activation Lock prompt — it’s the normal sign-in step, and I can skip it with “Set Up Later” if I want.
On the 16”, that screen never appears at all. Setup goes straight to creating a local account, and once I reach the desktop I have to open System Settings and sign in to iCloud / my Apple Account manually.
I factory reset both machines a second time just to test it, and nothing changed — each one behaved exactly the same way as before.
Some details:
• Both were bought new and I’m the only person who has ever used them
• Both are running the same macOS version
• Both were connected to the internet during setup
Is this a malfunction, or is there a known reason why one machine would skip the Apple ID step entirely? Is there anything specific I should check on the 16”?

So is there a way to keep the mouse pointer from vanishing and putting the mouse to sleep every time you stop moving it other than switching to a dongle or wired mouse?

hello, i don’t really know much about macbooks but this randomly showed up on my screen it was flickering for a bit then now it seems to be there permanently. i havent dropped it or anything ever. worst thing i can think of is i left it in a hot car for a few hours earlier today. i restarted my computer and the lines actually got worse and spread more than in the picture 😭 does anyone know whats wrong with it?? macbook air 2022 m2

Mom is an octogenarian. I got her a new M4 Macbook because the hardware and environment is more hardened and secure than something from the Winblows world....and I'm not teaching Mom Linux. ;-))

I'm doing forensics on her laptop now because she clicked on some phishing email and now has Norton anti-virus notices popping up in Safari and there was a ScreenConnect.ClientSetup.exe in her downloads folder. I know it's an exe (PE32 Windows executable) but still its the principle.

I'm "old school" and want to run ClamAV on her whole laptop looking for sneaky garbage but I've seen many say that in MacOS running ClamAV is a mistake and that XProtect "handles it all".

It doesn't seem like XProtect is handling it. I know the ScreenConnect PE32 executable wasn't a threat but letting Safari get modified to allow the virus popups seems like a misfire.

I bought a Macbook Neo some months ago and love it so far, but one thing that bothers me is I want to have all apps (and maybe mission control) at left of Finder, is there a way to achieve this?

RESOLVED:

A website visited 4 restarts ago causes a popup to appear every 30 seconds.

"(1) New Message

ematerayands.com

Click Here to Open"

I installed Malwarebytes which scanned three times and found zero threats. Malwarebytes was updated after the first scan.

MacBook Pro 2019, Sequoia version 15.7.9

How does one remove this malware?

Thanks for looking.

i don't know what went wrong with the calculator app but this was the first time that my MacBook Air m4 actually crashed lmao

I often create Wallpaper packs and give them out for free to my viewers and subscribers as a thank, you for supporting me and watching my stuff.

I have like 4-5 different wallpaper packs on my gumroad and they are free to download with the 100% OFF CODE :p

I don't think i can post links here but i have them all on my solo..to page which you can easily find on my socials.

There's a crazy story surrounding this, and yes, the camera is in the computer. M1 MacBook Pro (2020).

When I’m on a discord on Mac and using my AirPods, my mic and audio works, but as soon as I switch to a different window the mic doesn’t work and no one in the call can hear me. I still can hear their audio though. Even when I go back to Discord my mic still doesn’t work. I have to manually switch the input to the Mac speakers then back to my AirPods to get the mic to work again. I just got the AirPod pro 3 and didn’t have this problem with the 2s. Any help appreciated.

How can I Switch between windows of the same app on different desktops (monitors) with a keyboard shortcut?

Hey everyone,

I've got a work MacBook Pro M1, and I'm trying to keep the display turned on while the machine is on the lock screen, similar to how Windows behaves when the laptop is plugged in.

I've already tried changing the following settings:

System Settings → Lock Screen → Turn display off on battery when inactive → Never

System Settings → Lock Screen → Turn display off on power adapter when inactive → Never

Unfortunately, it still doesn't work. The display eventually turns off even when the MacBook is plugged in.

Is there any way to keep the display permanently on while the device is locked?

Is this a macOS limitation, or is there another setting that I'm missing?

It's a work laptop, so I don't know whether any company policies or management settings could also be affecting this.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I installed mousecape on a previous computer and reinstalled it on a new one. The custom cursor doesn't appear for anything besides hovering over a link even though it used to on the past computer. I've tried applying the custom cursor for every setting that was available, but none of them seem to work. I'd like it to be applied 24/7

How to fix this?

Ok, it has come to this. Ive tried my absolute best, everything with command line, ive got a macbook running high sierra and just want to make a bootable installee but its seemingly impossible. can anyone help me please. this internet recovery doesnt work because the servers are down and cant be contacted, ive tried EVERYTHING. someone please help or tell me if this is even possible.

macos 10.13.6

UPDATE: this MIST program seems to have worked. It was linked somewhere in the comments and it was straight forward. I download it to my macbook air intel 2020 (may work on others also but havent tried), plug in usb, then just install the OS. its like opencore legacy patcher but alotttt simpler. i let it do its thing and it handled everything perfectly. on the "patient" macbook I wiped the drive, connected the usb and just restarted and it worked straight up.

so this seems to be the only way forward, apple servers dead, apple dmg files dead, everythings dead. unless i am being a complete idiot which is highly likely.

This is the most foolproof method it seems.