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Friends of Bear Cat Rescue
I had been following Friends of Bear Cat Rescue for more than a year now. It started with a post about a kitten named Wonton, who fell off a window from a 5-story building and in need of emergency surgery. Throughout Wonton’s recovery, I learned more about Friends of Bear Cat Rescue and its founder …
April 1, 2026 Update
Fighting the urge to slack all day and sleep all night, we actually made a few updates on this site. Updated the tagline, site logo, page headers, etc. We’re also excited about Artemis II mission to the Moon. Once again, human can litter the only Earth’s Satellite. We also would like to reiterate that April …
Wednesday April 1, 2026
Nothing is funny anymore since our timeline has been trolling us on daily basis for at least the past decade, or even longer. Are we living in the alternate timeline???
Resources
Homebrew – brew.sh
/bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)”
brew -upgrade
yt-dlp
alias for .zprofile (macOS)
alias geta=’yt-dlp -f “bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4” ‘
alias getv=’yt-dlp -f “bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4” ‘
alias keepav=’yt-dlp -k -f “bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4” ‘
alias getl=’yt-dlp -f “bestvideo[ext=mp4]+bestaudio[ext=m4a]/mp4” –list-formats ‘
For information on how to renew an existing AppleCare plan:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210580
Mac Hardware Diagnostic ToolPress and hold “D” key while booting up.
macOS Software Update, command line:
softwareupdate -ia
softwareupdate -ia –include-config-data
Highlight Stack Items on Hover in Mac OS X Dock
To turn on:
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean yes;killall Dock
To turn off
defaults write com.apple.dock mouse-over-hilite-stack -boolean no;killall Dock
Enable FileVault via command Line
Run the following command to check the FileVault status:
fdesetup status
If FileVault is off, proceed to enable it.
Use the following command to enable FileVault:
sudo fdesetup enable
You will be prompted to enter the admin password and create a recovery key. Save the recovery key in a safe place.
How to fix the iCloud APLZOD.dll error in Outlook
Slipstick Systems
Microsoft Service Agreement, May 1, 2018
Setup Windows 10/11 without networking:
Open cmd with Shift + F10 and type OOBE\BYPASSNRO