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Configuring your Mac!

Change security settings

Shut down your Mac, then press and hold the power button until "Loading startup options" appear.
Select "Options"
In the menu on top of the screen, choose "Utilities" -> "Startup Security Utility".
Click "Security Policy"
Select "Reduced Security" and check "Allow user management of kernel extensions from identified developers".
Reboot

This was originally taken from https://superuser.com/a/1012669/894282 and then updated to be compatible with python 3.X

Requires pypdf2 to be installed.

chroot Environments on macOS

This is a draft.

macOS doesn’t have many of the advanced Linux or UNIX features that have come about in the past 20 years. So getting a proper chroot environment up and running takes a little more work.

See bootableinstaller.com

How to create a Bootable MacOS Recovery USB from Linux

If your Mac is out-of-order or you otherwise cannot download macOS from the App Store, you can still create a bootable OS X recovery USB, and you can use that to create an Installer USB.

The downloads used in this process are legal and freely avaliable - including disk images directly from Apple's IT support pages, and open source utilities for extracting and converting pkg, dmg, and HFS+.

	/*
	* Copyright © 2021 Dave Koelle www.davekoelle.com/
	*
	* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
	* of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal
	* in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
	* to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
	* copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
	* furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
	*

	New-PSDrive -Name HKCR -PSProvider Registry -Root HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue \| Out-Null
	$count = 0
	try {
	Get-ChildItem HKCR: -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue \| ForEach-Object {
	if((Get-ItemProperty $_.PSPath -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue).PSObject.Properties.Name -contains "URL Protocol") {
	$name = $_.PSChildName
	$count += 1
	$line = "URI Handler {0:d4}: {1}" -f $count, $name
	Write-Host $line
	}

	#!/bin/zsh
	#Credit: Original idea and script disable.sh by pwnsdx https://gist.github.com/pwnsdx/d87b034c4c0210b988040ad2f85a68d3

	#Disabling unwanted services on macOS 11 Big Sur (11) and macOS Monterey (12)
	#Disabling SIP is required ("csrutil disable" from Terminal in Recovery)
	#Modifications are written in /private/var/db/com.apple.xpc.launchd/ disabled.plist and disabled.501.plist


	# user
	TODISABLE=()

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	# PS : ChatGPT makes mistakes, consider "trust but verify" principle
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	#Events to Monitor
	https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/identity/ad-ds/plan/appendix-l--events-to-monitor
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	#run
	eventvwr.msc Event viewer
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	Event Viewer(Local)-Windows Logs (shutdown / restart )

	CFGUTIL(1) BSD General Commands Manual CFGUTIL(1)

	NAME
	cfgutil -- Command-line iOS device management

	SYNOPSIS
	cfgutil [-C ] [-K ]
	[-e \| -f \| --foreach]
	[--format JSON \| plist \| text] [-v] command [ ...]

	defaults write com.apple.Dock appswitcher-all-displays -bool true
	killall Dock