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Atom Editor Platformio Hangs at startup endless restart – fixed

July 25, 2020 by Jack Zimmermann Leave a Comment

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When installing the excellent Atom Editor with Platformio-ide, the main window inside the editor would hang on my new Mac. I uninstalled the program and deleted the .atom directory and tried to reinstall, the application would freeze the main window, and I had to force-quit the program. After a lot of experiments, I finally found a way to fix the problem.

(Having a problem with the Atom editor asking to restart over and over? Jump over here)

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Filed Under: Macintosh Tagged With: Atom Editor, Bug, macOS, platformio

Hackintosh AMD Shutdown Problem with Fenvi FV-T919

May 28, 2020 by Jack Zimmermann 1 Comment

AMD Ryzen Logo

After finally building my first Hackintosh, I decided that the AMD Ryzen™ 3900X processor would be perfect, although Apple never made a Machintosh machine with an AMD processor. I used the Gigabyte X570 Aorus Elite motherboard because it has everything I need for my build. But I decided to upgrade my working machine with a Bluetooth/Wifi PCI-E card to be able to use the SideCar function in macOS. Being able to connect Bluetooth equipment is also lovely.

After Googling around, I found a card that filled all my needs. It’s the Fenvi FV-T919, a Bluetooth 4.0, and 802.11 a/b/g/n/AC compatible Wifi-card that uses ICs that are supported in macOS directly, so no patching needed.

But after installing the card, there was a problem when trying to shut down the machine from the macOS side; the computer would shut down and immediately start up again. Fortunately, I’ve found a fix for the problem.

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Filed Under: Macintosh Tagged With: Fenvi, Hackintosh, Problem, wifi

Hackintosh Water Cooling Fan Problem

February 13, 2020 by Jack Zimmermann 1 Comment

When building my AMD Hackintosh, I decided to prepare for a future upgrade of my CPU. I based my current build on an AMD Ryzen 3900X, but I plan to update it to a Ryzen 3950X. So I decided to install a CPU water cooling system.

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Filed Under: Computers, Macintosh Tagged With: Hackintosh, Hardware, Mac OS

MacBook Netflix Flicker Flashing in Full-screen

December 25, 2018 by Jack Zimmermann 48 Comments

I had an annoying problem on my 2015 MacBook Pro Mac OS when watching movies on Netflix using Safari. When in full-screen mode, the display would flash/flicker a couple of times a minute. Well, after digging around, I found a solution for it.

Why Does the screen keep flashing when watching Netflix?

Some MacBook Pro’s have dual graphics cards. Mac OS switches between them depending on what kind of work you are doing, and by switching cards it saves batteries. Unfortunately, the built-in Intel graphics cards are the reason for the flickering and flashing. So we need to turn on the high-performance graphics card when watching Netflix.

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Filed Under: Macintosh Tagged With: Mac OS, Macintosh, Netflix

Mac OS Remove Purgeable in High Sierra

March 6, 2018 by Jack Zimmermann 77 Comments

Screenshot of Disk Utility showing Purgeable part of volume

I’ve written an article on how to remove the purgeable portion on a hard disk on Mac OS, but in High Sierra, Apple has changed the file system from HFS+ to APFS. Because of that, my old guide doesn’t work. So here is how to remove the Purgeable part of the disk in Mac OS High Sierra.

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Filed Under: Macintosh

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