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Stupid question, but is the volume on the monitor up?
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Cross posting from the windows thread, I don’t mind if it’s a macOS app either: Can someone recommend a good app or website or a snip of code to extract all tweets from a particular Twitter handle?
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Jun 26, 2018 14:30
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Steakandchips posted:Cross posting from the windows thread, I don’t mind if it’s a macOS app either: As far as I know, you can only get the latest 200 tweets from a user. However, there are simple python scripts with tweepy that allow you to download up to 3200 tweets per user.
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Jun 26, 2018 14:52
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Thanks! Just downloaded all my own tweets via the settings menu, did not need to use a 3rd party app! But, this is a good excuse to learn python (tweepy)!
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Jun 26, 2018 16:46
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macOS Mojave is now available in public beta
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Jun 26, 2018 18:35
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Pivo posted:Unfortunately when you start Safari it doesn't respect this and still downloads to ~/Downloads. If you can figure out how to get Safari to reload the plist, you can just use launchd to run the script every day at midnight. Remember how the #1 troubleshooting step for a crashing application was to delete the preferences file(s) ? That's because developers are sloppy with the prefs files. In 10.9 Apple introduced a background process called cfprefsd. It mediates access to plist files, and, will put them back if they get deleted. The recommended procedure is now (in Bash). code:
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Jun 26, 2018 19:14
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Ever since the last public macOS update, my SMS messages are out of order with their replies in Messages. Everything is in the right order on my phone and using iMessage. Anyone else experience this issue?
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Jun 29, 2018 19:00
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Does anyone else use VOX player? I just came back from a Mac hiatus and found it's full of nagware bullshit now. Anyone else know of any other Winamp like media players?
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Jun 29, 2018 23:13
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BiG TrUcKs !!! posted:Does anyone else use VOX player? I just came back from a Mac hiatus and found it's full of nagware bullshit now. Anyone else know of any other Winamp like media players? What features are you looking for?
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Jun 29, 2018 23:37
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So it looks like in macOS Mojave Public Beta, APFS uber alles. Started an install with a freshly formatted HFS+ 1 TB drive, after the install it became a 1 TB APFS platter with four partitions. Even tried reformatting, disabling SIP, and trying to use the --converttoapfs NO command, nope, you gonna get APFS and you're gonna like it! There are reports that some folks have wiped a second drive with HFS+, then cloned their Mojave drive over, and it boots as it did before, but I bet they'll enforce APFS on any point update..
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Jul 2, 2018 22:43
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Can you run old versions of OS X using VMware or parallels that are old enough to run PowePC apps in Rosetta? Wasn’t sure if they only let you run the last couple versions or what
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Jul 3, 2018 01:09
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https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/8.0/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-474FC78E-4E77-42B7-A1C6-12C2F378C5B9.html You need to find a copy of 10.6 server. Before 10.7 only server could be virtualized (legally). I’m assuming the server version supported Rosetta, but I couldn’t determine that for sure.
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Jul 3, 2018 01:57
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10.6 did not support Rosetta in any version. You'd have to try virtualizing 10.5.
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Jul 3, 2018 02:59
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It was optional in 10.6. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/snow_leopard_installing_rosetta
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Jul 3, 2018 03:41
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Depending on what you're trying to run it might be easier to use SheepShaver.
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Jul 3, 2018 04:19
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Evis posted:https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-Fusion/8.0/com.vmware.fusion.using.doc/GUID-474FC78E-4E77-42B7-A1C6-12C2F378C5B9.html I was curious, so I tried this out. It looks like a fresh install of 10.6 server either comes with Rosetta out of the box or gets it somewhere along the update path. It ran a PPC app I had without downloading anything other than the updates I'd already installed.
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Jul 3, 2018 09:07
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Evis posted:It was optional in 10.6. http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/snow_leopard_installing_rosetta That's right, it was 10.7 that was the cutoff. My bad.
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Jul 3, 2018 13:29
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I just found this , when going through my iCloud notes. I *think* I wrote it when OSX first started trying to get rid of save buttons;-quote:Jonny Ives squints earnestly at the camera: I thought it was an amusing enough find to share.
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Jul 4, 2018 21:19
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oh I get it cause Apple jumped the shark, drat...
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Jul 5, 2018 05:04
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Last Chance posted:oh I get it cause Apple jumped the shark, drat... "Lets get rid of save" was definately a shark jump. Which if memory served me right, that nonsense was going on around the time the perplexing "Quit and keep windows" thing emerged. I never did quite work out what that was supposed to do.
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Jul 5, 2018 18:02
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duck monster posted:"Lets get rid of save" was definately a shark jump. Which if memory served me right, that nonsense was going on around the time the perplexing "Quit and keep windows" thing emerged. I never did quite work out what that was supposed to do. I'm so thankful that on the rare occasion that I have to update + reboot my Mac, I can just do it and my browser and apps reopen on the same monitors, showing the same sites, etc. Also, apps like Sublime Text and Pixelmator don't need to ask a million times if I want to save what I'm working on. They just close and re-open in their previous state. It's really handy. MS tried to do something similar with the Fall Creators Update in Windows 10, but it's absolute poo poo lol
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Jul 5, 2018 21:07
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Last Chance posted:??? That feature works great though. Glad it works for you but that has pretty much never worked for me while my macbook pro is plugged into multiple monitors. And it only halfway works when it's not plugged into monitors.
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Jul 5, 2018 21:16
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I'm hoping this isn't a meme post because jesus loving christ iTunes is an unbearable turd of an app. is there any decent alternative or am I abusing it? I've got a music library of around 300GB plus another 3TB in video content built up over the years all stored on an external USB 3.0 box and it just feels like its lovely library system of 'here's a glorified XML file bloated to gently caress' is utterly useless. Which is a shame because I love Apple Music, but right now that feels like the shiny chocolate coins placed into the turd on the bathroom floor like some chocolate stegosaurus.
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Jul 5, 2018 21:34
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Theophany posted:I'm hoping this isn't a meme post because jesus loving christ iTunes is an unbearable turd of an app. Any particular issue you're having? iTunes doesn't use an XML file for a database btw, it only outputs an XML file for external plugins to use.
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Jul 5, 2018 21:41
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If it's just an issue of poo poo performance, it might help to put the iTunes database files on an SSD, while keeping the media itself on an external drive
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Jul 5, 2018 21:47
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Theophany posted:I'm hoping this isn't a meme post because jesus loving christ iTunes is an unbearable turd of an app. I just use VLC and tell it where my files are
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Jul 5, 2018 21:50
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Last Chance posted:Any particular issue you're having? iTunes doesn't use an XML file for a database btw, it only outputs an XML file for external plugins to use. The greatest issue for me at the moment is that it refuses to load and populate the cache with cover/poster images. It seems to just give up half-way through, and has a very… ehm… interesting… tendency to not even read them properly so they come out low-res and with washed-out or skewed colours. Oh, and when playing video, it ignores underscan settings and either zooms the image in something fierce and/or fails to clear the buffer for the black bars if the video is anything other than a pixel-perfect fit for the screen, so whatever junk was shown full-screen the last time will show up there. Oh, and it fails to save its database with regular occurrence and also fails to remember the “don't show this warning” setting from one time to the next. Oh, and it forgets how to Wifi sync with iDevices after a while, and even forgets that they exist entirely, asking to run through first hard-wire security set-up to (ultimately fail) to sync with a device it “has never seen before” (other than the day before). And when it does, it loves to transfer duplicates of what's already on there. Oh and… actually, that's probably about it at the moment.  Really, the only thing that's keeping me from dumping it altogether is that I still need it to get some things onto or off of the iDevices and because it's still a reasonably neat media organiser. One by one, it has become utterly poo poo at every detail involved in those two functions, so if there's a fancy new replacement that duplicates that functionality, it would be gone in a second. (No, not Plex — it's so poo poo as a media organiser that even iTunes manages to beat it.) Tippis fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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Jul 5, 2018 21:50
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Honestly, aside from the video playback issues (which iTunes has always sucked at), that sounds like a slow or failing drive. If iTunes is having trouble saving the DB, then it probably can't remember which devices it's been associated with, and if it can't even cache artwork, something's funky there. are the media library and caches all on the same external drive?
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Jul 5, 2018 21:56
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Last Chance posted:Honestly, aside from the video playback issues (which iTunes has always sucked at), that sounds like a slow or failing drive. If iTunes is having trouble saving the DB, then it probably can't remember which devices it's been associated with, and if it can't even cache artwork, something's funky there. Nah, it's a known bug that they haven't bothered to fix in ages. You can find tons of helpful threads on the support forums discussing various waggling-a-chicken-while-jupiter-is-aligned-with-nepture solutions — most of which come down to nuking the cache and hoping that this time, it refreshes a bit better. The best guess anyone can offer as to the root cause is that a few versions ago, iTunes built up an aversion towards imperfect aspect ratios. So a cover that was 605×600px or 3:4.01 or whatever, depending on the media type, would be rejected.
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Jul 5, 2018 22:03
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Tippis posted:(No, not Plex — it's so poo poo as a media organiser that even iTunes manages to beat it.) Curious what your issues with plex are, I’ve got a lot more media than you’re running through it an never had any major issues in about 7 years or so. It’s flawed when it comes to things aren’t straight forward and it’s lacking in external files to guide it right, but that’s about it.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Curious what your issues with plex are, I’ve got a lot more media than you’re running through it an never had any major issues in about 7 years or so. It’s flawed when it comes to things aren’t straight forward and it’s lacking in external files to guide it right, but that’s about it. It does not acknowledge metadata and it demands its own very specific naming convention to populate its own fields, which are an absolute bitch to correct when it ultimately, inevitably, guesses wrong. It is so in love with its own in every idiotic heuristics that it is almost impossible to 1) convince it that no, the file called "Alien (1978).m4v" is actually the 1978 movie Alien, not the 1994 Tim Allen movie The Santa Clause, and 2) to not make the same educated guess a second time once you've corrected everything, and it decides to do a new lookup on that file because some other file was added, so let's start all the guesswork all over again. Ok, that's a bit exaggerated — I don't actually remember what it thought the Alien (1978).m4v movie was, but it definitely failed to pick the most obvious guess. e: I also found it slow and unstable, but that was very likely more due to a really bad local client — the reason I gave up on the server-side of things was that it was so heavily and unintelligently automated, with no clear or easy way for it to just use existing data and never ever look up anything. If I had started building from scratch, it might have been ok to manually fix every error as a file is added (and hope it doesn't suddenly decide to ignore it), but doing it after the fact with thousands of them is just not going to happen, ever. Tippis fucked around with this message at 22:24 on Jul 5, 2018 |
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Jul 5, 2018 22:12
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Last Chance posted:Any particular issue you're having? iTunes doesn't use an XML file for a database btw, it only outputs an XML file for external plugins to use. It's taking upwards of 5 minutes to become usable, basically. The itl file is stored on a local SSD but holy poo poo that seems incredibly slow, to the point where even searching for Apple Music is off the cards for roughly that same amount of time if the app isn't loaded. It's not a deal breaker, but this whole 'load an app 10 mins before you need it' is some poo poo I didn't sign up to with Apple, it's the antithesis of this.
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Jul 5, 2018 22:21
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Tippis posted:It does not acknowledge metadata and it demands its own very specific naming convention to populate its own fields, which are an absolute bitch to correct when it ultimately, inevitably, guesses wrong. Something was definitely not working right for you, most likely involving a scraper. Your naming scheme is how most of mine stuff looks, altho I have a bunch with way wilder stuff that’s less obviously readable, and I have a mix of films sharing folders and having their own. I redid a setup recently and had probably a thousand go in and I don’t recall any issues of it guessing wrong. Now things like stand up specials, concerts etc can require a little prodding but a file named Alien (1978) should be incredibly easy for it.
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EL BROMANCE posted:Something was definitely not working right for you, most likely involving a scraper. Your naming scheme is how most of mine stuff looks, altho I have a bunch with way wilder stuff that’s less obviously readable, and I have a mix of films sharing folders and having their own. I redid a setup recently and had probably a thousand go in and I don’t recall any issues of it guessing wrong. Quite, and that was what made it such a headscratcher → dump it thing — everything I read implied that it would work, and repeated attempts at fixing it were reverted by the automation for no clear reason. It could just be the documentation that was inadequate, but that's a no-sale argument in and of itself. But at the end of the day, it was the automation that did it in. I have infinitely better tools for determining what's in a file and how it should be sorted than this web app does, and it should simply not ever guess about anything — just read the drat data at its disposal, and do that and only that. If it can't read the data, say so and do nothing. Never guess. All I really want is something that reads a directory and adds what's in there to a searchable, browsable database — something that parses metadata and presents it, maybe even organises it in groups based on series/season/editions/extras. Apparently, this is next to impossible (other than for iTunes, right up until it become a bugfest… well… an even bigger bugfest). 
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Jul 5, 2018 22:45
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Alien came out in 1979 so I bet that’s your problem there
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Jul 6, 2018 02:11
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If anyone gives a poo poo, Mojave Public Beta 2 just showed up in System Preferences / Softtware Update. That's right, they plucked Software Update out of the App Store App and gave it its own prefpane in Mojave. Which sorta makes sense, I guess.
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Jul 7, 2018 22:04
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It's how it used to be up to 10.6, so it's gone to its rightful home. Beta 2 fixed a bunch of crap that I ran into. It's actually mostly usable! Except VLC/MPlayer still crash on startup.
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Jul 8, 2018 00:20
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Is there a way to reinstall Automator without reinstalling the entire OS? It death hangs every time I open it and given that I haven't used it for years I've little reason to believe there is a working version of it somewhere in my Time Machine backups.
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Jul 8, 2018 16:12
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Theophany posted:Is there a way to reinstall Automator without reinstalling the entire OS? It death hangs every time I open it and given that I haven't used it for years I've little reason to believe there is a working version of it somewhere in my Time Machine backups. Why not try deleting it’s preferences first? Pretty unlikely the actual app has been modified.
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I just gave that a try - deleted them from ~/Library/Preferences but no dice - am I being dim and missing something really obvious? e: nevermind, found the cause of it. There was a file in the /Library/Autosave Information directory that seemed to be causing it. Deleted that and it's working fine again! Theophany fucked around with this message at 08:03 on Jul 9, 2018 |
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