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Stop Slack/Teams from Copy Pasting with Formatting

The Paste command will paste with formatting, Paste and Match Style will not. Swap the keyboard shortcuts in System Settings - Keyboard Shortcuts - Keyboard Shortcuts... - App Shortcuts. Then add shortcuts for the specific app you want to change.

What is Preventing Sleep?

pmset -g

#  sleep                1 (sleep prevented by iTunes, coreaudiod)

What files is a process accessing?

If a process like mds_stores is spinning CPU, you can check what files it is accessing using fs_usage:

sudo fs_usage -w -f filesys mds

Record OS Audio

Requires MJRecorder.

Start quicktime player. File - New audio recording. Select MJRecorder.

Sound control panel. Play through MJRecorder.

Hit record, start audio.

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