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Started the update to Big Sur last night and went to bed. This morning it was up and running and I clicked the usual "See what's new with Big Sur" demo and unfortunately it beachballed my 2015 MBP, so I restarted it. All went well after that but now I don't have the starting demo. I know it's inconsequential, but how can I bring that up again? I actually like to see those. Otherwise, it's not bad. I like the control center very much; it's nice to clear a lot of things off the menu bar but still have quick access to them.
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MintFresh posted:Feels good to be back on Safari due to the significantly better battery life when browsing. There's no good yootoob ad blocker on Safari is there?
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Nov 16, 2020 00:23
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1blocker works 99% of the time.
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Nov 16, 2020 00:35
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Jesus Christ installing the drivers for a Wacom Pen tablet under Catalina is utter absurdity. It's a total farce. "Install the software then restart, then authorise it in Accesibility, then log out, then log in, uncheck It and log out, then log in, and select it again, and it should work" "Also, if you don't do this in the first 30mins of downloading the software, you need to start again" I'm for privacy and security, but this is insane. 
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Nov 16, 2020 00:40
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Mad Wack posted:it got fixed for me by going to the mac app store and trying to get it through there Ya. That’s how I am doing it too.
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Nov 16, 2020 01:41
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This is quite neat, I’m doing the update and to log in to the system to complete the install I used Jump Desktop on my phone (remote desktop software, it’s great!) because I’m lazy, and the screen put up a notice saying ‘this screen is being observed’.
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Nov 16, 2020 02:23
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Yeast posted:Jesus Christ installing the drivers for a Wacom Pen tablet under Catalina is utter absurdity. What the living gently caress. Welp I guess I should have waited to see what Cintiq compatibility was like before I upgraded. Luckily I mostly use my iPad for Clip Studio nowadays but still, that is some bullshit.
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Nov 16, 2020 03:53
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Yeah, that 30 minute window kicked my rear end when I was trying to get vagrant and virtual box working after upgrading. I threw my hands up and decided to come back to it later.
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Nov 16, 2020 04:10
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My Outlook Attachments folder is taking up close to 1/5th of all the used space on my hard drive (2020 MBP). Apparently, once upon a time a user could compress a directory in Apple HFS+ file systems to reduce its storage footprint, but the 2020 model with AFS doesn’t support ‘real time compression’ - incidentally something my old NTFS Surface Pro seemed to do all the time (because it would proactively compress folders). I’m in no way a Mac power user. I understand that HFS+ compression is applied using a terminal command. But from what I’ve read, it can’t be done in AFS? That, or the compressed directory will behave differently or not be as accessible to the applications that use it (Outlook, in this case)? If there’s not a way to compress the directory while keeping it usable, do I have any other options? It seems like Outlook will probably just re-download my work email account’s entire lifetime of attachments if I just delete them off of my hard drive. SMERSH Mouth fucked around with this message at 04:15 on Nov 16, 2020 |
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Nov 16, 2020 04:12
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SMERSH Mouth posted:My Outlook Attachments folder is taking up close to 1/5th of all the used space on my hard drive (2020 MBP). Apparently, once upon a time a user could compress a directory in Apple HFS+ file systems to reduce its storage footprint, but the 2020 model with AFS doesn’t support ‘real time compression’ - incidentally something my old NTFS Surface Pro seemed to do all the time (because it would proactively compress folders). This might work: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/360218/37176
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Nov 16, 2020 13:55
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Started the update to Big Sur last night and went to bed. This morning it was up and running and I clicked the usual "See what's new with Big Sur" demo and unfortunately it beachballed my 2015 MBP, so I restarted it. All went well after that but now I don't have the starting demo. I know it's inconsequential, but how can I bring that up again? I actually like to see those. I had that popup on my screen and when I clicked it it was a web link that took me here - https://help.apple.com/macos/big-sur/whats-new/?lang=en&cases=kIFAGHvXTAepRptQXiXe5w,N0bfKOvERSiAp06mHOcgOQ#design
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Nov 16, 2020 18:05
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Why, Apple? Why do I still have to go to Terminal to do any kind of file operation involving lots of files to avoid you sitting there and spinning around like an idiot before you get the work done at a snail's pace?
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Nov 16, 2020 18:52
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Not in a hurry to update, but won't update until they fix the network issues anyway. https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/1318437929497235457
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Nov 16, 2020 18:59
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Apple's issued a response over the OCSP issue:Apple posted:Privacy protections
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Nov 16, 2020 19:01
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EL BROMANCE posted:I had that popup on my screen and when I clicked it it was a web link that took me here - https://help.apple.com/macos/big-sur/whats-new/?lang=en&cases=kIFAGHvXTAepRptQXiXe5w,N0bfKOvERSiAp06mHOcgOQ#design Ahh ok, thanks. I thought it would be an in-machine demo.
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Nov 16, 2020 19:03
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Malloc Voidstar posted:Apple's issued a response over the OCSP issue: Some suggested reading: https://www.security-embedded.com/blog/2020/11/14/application-trust-is-hard-but-apple-does-it-well https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/ OCSP is a standard (with flaws) that's used not just by Apple. It's not "unencrypted messages telling apple what app you're launching," it's a developer, not even application, cert that it's requesting a verification. Anyone (including web browsers) that implement OCSP have similar flaws and downsides. That said, Apple should do better and calling them out (though I would have done it differently) was the right move. kefkafloyd fucked around with this message at 19:15 on Nov 16, 2020 |
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Nov 16, 2020 19:11
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whats a good ad blocker for safari. i usually use ublock and i truly love blocking random site elements on sites i dont like.
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Nov 16, 2020 19:13
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kefkafloyd posted:OCSP is a standard (with flaws) that's used not just by Apple. It's not "unencrypted messages telling apple what app you're launching," it's a developer, not even application, cert that it's requesting a verification. Anyone (including web browsers) that implement OCSP have similar flaws and downsides. That OCSP works for web browsers doesn’t mean it’s a good choice here. For one element, OCSP relies on stapling for privacy and scalability, and Apple doesn’t staple responses (nor could they really given their architecture).
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Nov 16, 2020 19:21
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Subjunctive posted:That OCSP works for web browsers doesn’t mean it’s a good choice here. For one element, OCSP relies on stapling for privacy and scalability, and Apple doesn’t staple responses (nor could they really given their architecture). They staple responses for notarization (though it is optional, IIRC), I don't see a technical reason why they couldn't do it for OCSP for dev certs versus HTTPS requests which are far more numerous and wide-ranging. Regardless, they're going to be improving it, so we'll have to see exactly what they do.
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Nov 16, 2020 19:38
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Bob Morales posted:Not in a hurry to update, but won't update until they fix the network issues anyway. I think you're going to have a bad time staying with macOS devices long term if you think they're changing that behavior. All you need to know I'm right is to see how badly an iOS device pukes when hooked up to a bog-standard pihole over wireguard.
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Nov 16, 2020 19:51
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Is it safe to update to Big Sur or should I wait
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Nov 16, 2020 20:32
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Boris Galerkin posted:Is it safe to update to Big Sur or should I wait It's safe but you should probably wait until a .1 release if you don't want to deal with as many bugs.
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Nov 16, 2020 20:35
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SeANMcBAY posted:It's safe but you should probably wait until a .1 release if you don't want to deal with as many bugs. This was the .1 release lol
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Nov 16, 2020 20:44
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FCKGW posted:This was the .1 release lol .2 then 
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Nov 16, 2020 20:47
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Jesus christ Apple Remember that iCloud Mail bug / behavior I mentioned? Where clicking on a message immediately gives you a "CANNOT RETRIEVE THIS MESSAGE" popup dialog? And keeps doing it for like the first five or six times you hit-Enter-to-dismiss-the-dialog-press-down-to-select-an-already-loaded-message-press-up-to-try-the-broken-message-again-CANNOT-RETRIEVE-THIS-MESSAGE etc? Well now in the new version of Safari, hitting Enter does not just dismiss the dialog, it also pops up a (blank) viewer window for the selected, errored email. So then I have to close THAT window, adding yet ANOTHER step to my stupid hamster keyboard dance Just to i don't know, GET EMAIL a function that had been working fine since 1992
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Nov 16, 2020 23:01
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Nifty little program you oughta get called Uni Detector:Macintouch posted:Uni Detector is a Mac utility app from Takaaki Naganoya (Piyomaru Software) that checks the compatibility of applications on your startup drive vs. various Mac architectures: Apple Silicon, Intel (32- or 64-bit), PowerPC (32- or 64-bit), or unknown. Additional information includes version, minimum macOS requirement, “year”, AppleScript support, launch count, bundle ID, directory path, and more. There’s a search box for selecting applications, as well as menu options for filtering by various criteria. This little app told me I have eight apps with Apple Silicon code already embedded.. on my Mojave machine no less. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/uni-detector/id1531249804?mt=12
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CAROL posted:whats a good ad blocker for safari. i usually use ublock and i truly love blocking random site elements on sites i dont like.
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I’ll report that after updating a new (Intel, 13”) MBP to BS, I immediately began to have a hosed-up graphical glitch when powering down during a restart. When it happens, the screen becomes fully occupied by what looks like a freeze-frame of old TV tuner static, or (once) like static, but with purple instead of white. Lasts for 5-6 seconds. Shutdowns didn’t seem to be affected; only during Restarts. Couldn’t get it to happen in Safe Boot mode, and resetting NVRAM seems to have stopped it altogether for now, although it’s been replaced by a split-second flash of something. I have no idea what this all would mean, and now I can’t show the glitch to anyone who might know because it’s gone. So I’ll just assume it means ‘nothing’ - i.e., not the premature death of my new MacBook.
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Nov 17, 2020 01:33
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Data Graham posted:a function that had been working fine since 1992 if it helps, which it probably won't, email was bullshit in 1992 as well
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Nov 17, 2020 01:47
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What do you use to edit a video on a Macintosh laptop computer (MBP)? Something easy, I just want to chop out a little in the beginning and end.
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Nov 17, 2020 09:33
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I've used iMovie for really basic stuff like that. I think there's a free Youtube video editor as well.
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Cheese Thief posted:What do you use to edit a video on a Macintosh laptop computer (MBP)? Something easy, I just want to chop out a little in the beginning and end. You could use quicktime, although it's a bit more fiddly now than in quicktime 7. If you just want to trim the edges like that you'd probably have to split the video at the desired start and end points and then delete the excess "clips," rather than just select a bit and hit delete. Obviously, this requires your video to be something quicktime can open.
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Cheese Thief posted:What do you use to edit a video on a Macintosh laptop computer (MBP)? Something easy, I just want to chop out a little in the beginning and end. For just cutting it down? ffmpeg.
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Kreeblah posted:For just cutting it down? ffmpeg. Yea.. that's the responsible choice (responsible as in not being a noob) Got to read the man page which is a pain in the rear end given all the rest of the poo poo I have to figure out and know. Anyway thanks for all the suggestions.
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Anyone else using a MX Master 2S with Big Sur and can't use their buttons outside of the main ones?
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Matt Zerella posted:Anyone else using a MX Master 2S with Big Sur and can't use their buttons outside of the main ones? I'm still on Catalina for the foreseeable future. I have an MX Anywhere S2, but I imagine it behaves similarly. Do you have Logi Options installed? I know with mine, just using it as a vanilla BT mouse only gave me basic button and scroll wheel functions. Logi Options fixed all that.
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Proteus Jones posted:I'm still on Catalina for the foreseeable future. I have an MX Anywhere S2, but I imagine it behaves similarly. Yeah, I have Options installed but it looks like its not up to speed on Big Sur, this stinks!
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I updated a 2017 MBP 15" to Big Sur and everything is fine except my ability to control the volume of my external monitor with my keyboard. Sound Control doesn't work (...yet?). Boom3D doesn't work. Background Music doesn't work. Monitor Control works great except that it randomly turns off the monitor now and again. I'm so close yet so far. 
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Nov 17, 2020 21:04
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Anything that lists everything with M1 support or will have M1 support soon?
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SeANMcBAY posted:Anything that lists everything with M1 support or will have M1 support soon? MacRumors has a wiki thread that seems pretty well updated, that have the WoW announcement from yesterday https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/universal-and-native-apple-silicon-apps.2267176/
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