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How to use MacBook as a speaker through HDMI for my TV?

This won't work. Macs don't support HDMI-ARC. ARC is the "Audio Return Channel" that allows a smart TV to send audio "upstream" up the HDMI cable to a soundbar or other home ...
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Can you upgrade the SSD of an M1 MacBook Air?

No, you can’t. The chips for the SSD are soldered on the motherboard. This is the case for any/all MacBooks since 2018 or 2019. That said, if you are extremely skilled in component level tinkering, ...
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How can I toggle between Fn and function F-keys on Mac?

On a Macally keyboard, I've found that holding Fn and pressing Esc will "lock" the Fn key allowing me to use the function keys by default. Without this, even having set the "Use F1, F2 ...
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Why am I unable to sudo past permissions on the “~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync” directory in macOS?

Open System Settings... (from Apple menu; top-left of screen). Click on Privacy & Security from the left pane. Click Full Disk Access under Privacy. Toggle the switch for Terminal.
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Are Mac users stuck with App Store options only for package installers? If so, can you install DNF or YUM on a Mac manually?

Homebrew is the most popular open source package manager on macOS. Over the years there were others, such as MacPorts and Fink. Some of them have taken inspiration from Linux and BSD package managers. ...
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Migrating from a 2TB MacBook Pro to a 500GB MacBook Air

Overall, assuming your backup is 1.6 TB, your plan is reasonable. I suggest, perhaps, a 2 TB or even a 4 TB backup drive so as to be able to backup everything. Extra space is often useful at a later ...
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Migrating from a 2TB MacBook Pro to a 500GB MacBook Air

Assuming there is 1.6TB (not GB) worth of user files (not application files or library data), you can do that. Copy User Data to new SSD (Files and Folders) Migrate the system either from a backup ...
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Macbook Pro mid 2014 battery lasting only 2/3 hours (300 cycles)

The Lithium-Ion batteries used in most devices (? all Lithium batteries in 2014) suffer degradation that is unavoidable, and you are seeing the effect of degradation of the battery over time. This ...
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How to install VSIX files in Visual Studio 2019 on a Machintosh?

What you want is not possible. Answer adapted from here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44825177/installing-extensions-on-visual-studio-2017-mac Visual Studio for Mac shares only its name with ...
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Cannot boot after applying OpenCore Legacy Patcher Monteray for a MacBook5,1 (Late 2008 Aluminum Unibody)

I managed to create a situation where there is no EFI boot partition on either the main system disk, or the OpenCore Legacy Patcher Monterey install USB. The older mac models cannot natively boot ...
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Macbook doesn't display screen through USB-C, only charges

For video you need a USB-C type 3.1 Gen2 cable which is capable of handling 10Gbps, also known as SuperSpeed+ USB 10 Gbps
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MacBook sound balance changes on its own

This happened while using a PHL 45bu6900ch monitor via USB audio. Solution: reboot your mac while having the correct volume balance in system settings system settings volume balance This is much ...
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I found two black spot on my MacBook Air screen. Is that a defective pixel?

A certain number of dead pixels are expected , and the number of pixels is likely specified by the manufacturer, though that info is not widely published. That said, the two images look like groups of ...
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Does Mac OS accept colon ( : ) in filename?

I quote the answer by user Phoenix from the post When did the colon character : become an allowed character in the filesystem? This is due to the difference in command line and GUI. As pointed out ...
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MacBook Pro - how do I stop DVD player from autoplaying?

If you're still on Mojave or earlier, try RCDefaultApp which has a few more options you can set to ignore. It won't run on anything newer than Mojave & its modern replacement SwiftDefaultApp has ...
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