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Really, truly free “purgeable” space on macOS

Lots of ink has been spilled about this but many of the solutions given, such as installing 3rd party cleaner apps or filling your disk space with empty files, are terrible. You just need this terminal command: It freed nearly 250GB of space on my machine after several minutes. If anyone knows how to tune…

Allow SMB access over Tailscale from Windows 11

By default Windows 11 categorizes a Tailscale network as “Public” and restricts most sharing. This can be easily fixed from an Administrator PowerShell with: Set-NetConnectionProfile -InterfaceAlias Tailscale -NetworkCategory Private To see other network names/aliases you can use: Get-NetConnectionProfile

Using fish shell on Windows

PowerShell and cmd.exe just won’t work for me after years of Fish Shell, so lets use fish shell on Windows too: Install MSYS2 from https://www.msys2.org/ Open the MSYS2 mintty, then run: pacman -Su pacman -S fish Edit C:\msys64\home\<username>\.bashrc and append: HOME=/c/Users/<username> fish; exit Finally, configure Windows Terminal (Settings -> Open JSON file), and add the…