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Cheese Thief posted:I need VLC to be "always on top." I watch a lot of youtube videos that are streamed to the network VLC feature. It's nice to float the window over my text editor, so I can type away with the video on top to maximize screen space. The Mac company sure doesn't make it obvious, as I see no options for it. https://github.com/jslegendre/AfloatX
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Lazyhound posted:AppTrap.
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Holy crap I used Afloat waaay back. Now I want FinderPop, The Grouch, and Gravité to come back.
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On my Mac Mini M1 I've dumped Safari in favour of a Chromium browser and general browsing now feels so much smoother. I've found Safari to be a choppy mess when I'm scrolling a page that has pictures and videos.
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What's the best way to export only the photos from 2020 in Photos.app, such that I could restore them if needed? I'm making an archival backup on AWS Glacier and already have a 'full' backup, I just want the 2020 photos, preserving metadata, location, adjustments, etc.
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 OpenEmu 2.3.1 has been released OpenEmu posted:Fixed shader configurations not persisting. Rogue Squadron GameCube finally fills the screen (at least one way) like I want it to.
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I wonder if they fixed the obscure bug that caused you to have no audio whatsoever if you have a certain plugin installed for capturing audio in OBS. Also why are you not using Dolphin for GameCube games?
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OpenEmu uses a Dolphin core for GameCube games, works for me
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Since upgrading to Big Sur I’m seeing Safari crash pretty regularly (at least once per day, probably 3 or 4 times yesterday). I disabled a few extensions last night to see if it’d help but I thought the whole point of sandboxing extensions and making them only available through MAS was that they shouldn’t be able to cause these kinds of instability, so I’m not convinced it’s going to solve the problem. Is it just me or is something fucky with Safari on Big Sur?
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Yeah Safari is off. Meanwhile Messages is really being loving useless. It constantly is not updating. I’ll be using it on my phone and then when I sit down and want to continue on my Mbp it is out of date by hours. This is my most frustrating Big Sur problem
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Binary Badger posted:
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jokes posted:Is it M1 native yet? Nope, not yet, but supposedly they're working on it. It will be nice when it happens, as there's some lag on newer consoles.. They'll probably have it in 2.4.x... they did just finish getting it to be Metal compatible rather than OpenGL.. I was having flakiness on my Safari under Mojave, all of a sudden instead of autocompleting addresses, Safari immediately crashed out when I finished typing, or crashed in the middle of loading pages; I was able to fix it by doing a janitor whirlwind.. Empty caches in debug menu, re-synced iCloud History (also under Debug,) and then rebuilding Spotlight indexes (took like 3-4 hours to totally complete..) but YMMV and maybe just the first two steps might do it. Also disabled preloading top hit and show favorites, I didn't need that. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 16:55 on Jan 5, 2021 |
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Is there a way to connect to a SMB server without mounting a folder from it? Whenever I'm in Finder and "connect to server" it always wants me to mount a folder and I just want browse the root without mounting a folder. Also, where does the folder mount go?
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gariig posted:Is there a way to connect to a SMB server without mounting a folder from it? Whenever I'm in Finder and "connect to server" it always wants me to mount a folder and I just want browse the root without mounting a folder. Browse using the Network option (shift-cmd-k) for the computer, name, double click on it, and you'll get a list of volumes. Connect to Server is about mounting shares as volumes, not browsing—it's equivalent to Map Network Drive in windows. Even then, once you double click on the share in that Finder window, it will automatically mount it as a network volume. If you want to send files to a server via a path, using smb://server/volume/folder etc will do it, but it will force you to authenticate (or, if you already have cached credentials, it will map the volume for you). quote:Also, where does the folder mount go? /Volumes. Alternately, turn on network volumes on the desktop in finder prefs. They also show up under the Computer window (shift-cmd-C in the finder), so if you need to get there from an open/save dialog, just go to the top of the path dropdown.
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Lawen posted:Since upgrading to Big Sur I’m seeing Safari crash pretty regularly (at least once per day, probably 3 or 4 times yesterday). I disabled a few extensions last night to see if it’d help but I thought the whole point of sandboxing extensions and making them only available through MAS was that they shouldn’t be able to cause these kinds of instability, so I’m not convinced it’s going to solve the problem. Is it just me or is something fucky with Safari on Big Sur? I mentioned earlier that I've stopped using Safari. The only extension I had is AdGuard. While it didn't crash as often for me, I found it a pain to use - any webpage with video, tweets or multiple images would be painfully slow and stuttery. I'm now using a Chromium browser built for Apple Silicon and all the issues I had are gone. Performance is what I expect and haven't had any crashes.
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Are all the browsers M1 native?
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jokes posted:Are all the browsers M1 native? I think with the exception of Edge (it's native on the beta channels iirc) they all are now.
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I can’t figure out why I’m seeing old „ghost“ tabs in Safari. They’re showing up in the tab overview of both my iPhone and my Macbook, but they’re supposedly open tabs from an old MacBook I’ve removed from my iCloud account two days ago. I toggle Safari on and off in the iCloud settings, restart laptop & phone, sign out of iCloud and back in again on both devices... but this long list of tabs always reappears. I’d appreciate any help. There’s probably something obvious I’m missing, right?
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jokes posted:Are all the browsers M1 native? Opera is the biggest Chromium browser that isn't native AS yet. I'm using Brave until Opera comes out or until there's a faster and more refined version of Firefox. Skeezy posted:I think with the exception of Edge (it's native on the beta channels iirc) they all are now. I did try Edge but it's very Microsoft at the moment (it's hideous) Rollie Fingers fucked around with this message at 13:03 on Jan 6, 2021 |
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I'm fairly sure the answer will be "lol no" but I'm an optimist. Flash recently being taken out back and shot reminded me of an app (where you bundle the projector in with the file so it's standalone) I made about 15 years ago that I still have and wanted to run. Problem is that it's PowerPC and I'm on an Intel Mac now. Is there any way to use PPC apps easily without a full-blown VM or whatever?
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franco posted:I'm fairly sure the answer will be "lol no" but I'm an optimist. Flash recently being taken out back and shot reminded me of an app (where you bundle the projector in with the file so it's standalone) I made about 15 years ago that I still have and wanted to run. Problem is that it's PowerPC and I'm on an Intel Mac now. Is there any way to use PPC apps easily without a full-blown VM or whatever? Kinda sorta piggy backing on this but is there an easy way to run 32bit steam games? My shiny new M1 MPB needs some of these games on it.
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franco posted:I'm fairly sure the answer will be "lol no" but I'm an optimist. Flash recently being taken out back and shot reminded me of an app (where you bundle the projector in with the file so it's standalone) I made about 15 years ago that I still have and wanted to run. Problem is that it's PowerPC and I'm on an Intel Mac now. Is there any way to use PPC apps easily without a full-blown VM or whatever?
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MarcusSA posted:Kinda sorta piggy backing on this but is there an easy way to run 32bit steam games? My shiny new M1 MPB needs some of these games on it. The chance that those games will run through an Apple provided path is essentially zero. They deprecated support for 32-bit Mac apps long ago, killed it for real in Catalina, and it continues to be gone in Big Sur. This is true on Intel Macs too. There is a much greater chance that some of those games will eventually run on M1 through roundabout layers of emulation. The likely path is: once it's possible, virtualize ARM Windows 10 and run the Windows version of the game through Microsoft's x86 emulation layer. (VMWare and Parallels are both working on M1 versions of their products.) You may want to try installing and running some of the games just to see. I've discovered that the Steam website and client can lie about which games are 32-bit only, because Valve is a perfectly good and competent company. Specifically, I found out that Steam lists Snakebird as a 32-bit game. It's actually a fat 32-/64-bit intel binary which runs fine on Catalina or Big Sur. (I reported this as a bug against Steam using Steam's tech support, and was ignored by tech support people who wanted to close tickets in about 5 seconds by scanning for keywords and clicking a button to generate a form letter reply.)
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franco posted:I'm fairly sure the answer will be "lol no" but I'm an optimist. Flash recently being taken out back and shot reminded me of an app (where you bundle the projector in with the file so it's standalone) I made about 15 years ago that I still have and wanted to run. Problem is that it's PowerPC and I'm on an Intel Mac now. Is there any way to use PPC apps easily without a full-blown VM or whatever? Not really. Your best bet is either VM an old macOS or - if it's a Mac OS 8-9 application - SheepShaver, which will happily emulate Mac OS 9. (So it's basically a specialized VM...)
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BobHoward posted:The chance that those games will run through an Apple provided path is essentially zero. They deprecated support for 32-bit Mac apps long ago, killed it for real in Catalina, and it continues to be gone in Big Sur. This is true on Intel Macs too. Ok thanks I’ll give it a shot! Sucks there isn’t any simple way to do it though. Oh well!
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I’m interested in the current mac mini with the m1 chip. I’m on the fence between the 8gb and 16gb ram. I’ve heard some recommend it and others say its not necessary. My only task that I think will take up a lot of RAM is making songs in Garageband with 12-16 simultaneous tracks. The entry level price point is really the big seller for me. I’d like to get the $700 one if it can handle bigger garageband projects.
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If you plan to keep it more than 3 years I'd get the 16
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I can see the first generation of Apple Silicon stuff being like the 32-bit Intel stuff in terms of ongoing support, so unless you absolutely have to make a purchase right now I'd hold off for a bit.
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Thanks Ants posted:I can see the first generation of Apple Silicon stuff being like the 32-bit Intel stuff in terms of ongoing support, so unless you absolutely have to make a purchase right now I'd hold off for a bit. Been saying that from the start
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"Do not pay to be a beta tester for Apple" has been a thing for like 15 years in the Apple hardware thread.
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Counter point the M1 is amazing and absolutely worth it if you need a new Mac now. I sold my 2017 15 for a M1 and it was 100% worth it. The M1 is no joke and it’s only gonna get better. Edit : American McGay posted:"Do not pay to be a beta tester for Apple" has been a thing for like 15 years in the Apple hardware thread. No being snarky but what’s the last product this was true for? I’m having a hard time coming up with one.
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American McGay posted:Apple Watch probably. Eh maybe but I had my 0 till the 3 came out and I know quite a few people especially in the AW thread who did the same. It didn’t feel like a beta product to me.
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It had 7 hour battery life and didn't even have an always on display, lol.
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It also doesn’t get updated anymore yet the 2nd generation watches still do.
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American McGay posted:It had 7 hour battery life and didn't even have an always on display, lol. Oh come on now. At least make some good faith arguments!
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wolffenstein posted:It also doesn’t get updated anymore yet the 2nd generation watches still do. I believe only third generation and above watches are updated anymore. The comparison isn’t that great though. The watch was a new product line entirely. Apple has been making laptops and those chips for a while now.
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I do have a Mac OS question though! How the hell do you remove an icon from the launcher screen? Installed a steam game and the icon didn’t get removed. Dragging it to the trash doesn’t work. Holding down till the icons shake doesn’t yield the x to remove it. Everything I googled said just hold down till it shakes and hit the x. 
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MarcusSA posted:Oh come on now. I'm an Apple Watch fan and went 0 to 3 as well and I think the 0 was dog poo poo. Their initial roll out of phone tethered apps (which was replaced by actual watch apps like 6-9 months later) was terrible because the watch and connection wasn't fast enough, so I would routinely have apps sit on a black screen so long that they eventually crashed. They also were overly aggressive on limiting ram usage, so apps would constantly reload or take forever to launch. The hardware was pretty great, but the software choices were terrible and there is no way I would have suggested a "normal" non-tech person use an Apple Watch before S3.
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PRADA SLUT posted:What's the best way to export only the photos from 2020 in Photos.app, such that I could restore them if needed? I'm fairly sure you can make a big multi-selection of photos and then drag them into a new folder in the Finder window and they will be copied in it.
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