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binarysmurf posted:I'm running Monterey on my ancient iMac via OpenCore Legacy Patcher. I'm trying to create a bootable clone of my internal drive on an external SSD. Can you do a clean install of Monterey on the SSD (using OCLP) then just use migration assistant to pull everything from the internal drive during the post install process? Migration Assistant should see the internal drive just fine and use it as a source for a restore. Then you don’t have to deal with the partitions at all. I sort of just did the opposite where I restored my files via Migration Assistant from an OCLP install on an SSD to a new, supported Mac Studio and it worked fine.
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Migration Assistant in OCLP'd 12.4 seems to render a Mac unbootable after the transfer.. I had to wipe, install an older OS, run MA in the older OS, then gradually update using the downloadable OS installers until I got to the limit for that particular Mac, then OCLPd it. Just for laughs at the beginning I tried Internet Recovery mode and it wound up downloading loving Mountain Lion to start even though it had the Catalina 2022-004 update which includes the latest FlashROM..
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Anyone have recommendations for a M1 compatible git merge tool? I'm a big fan of the 3 panel approach of Linux software like Meld, but I'm open to other approaches as well. On my Intel Mac I used a Mac port of Meld, but it had issues with launching consistently, and as far as I can tell it hasn't been updated for M1 or Monterey yet. Prefer a free open source tool for this, but I'm not opposed to paid recommendations (within reason) if there's something good out there.
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Splinter posted:Anyone have recommendations for a M1 compatible git merge tool? I'm a big fan of the 3 panel approach of Linux software like Meld, but I'm open to other approaches as well. On my Intel Mac I used a Mac port of Meld, but it had issues with launching consistently, and as far as I can tell it hasn't been updated for M1 or Monterey yet.
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nexxai posted:Is there a reason the Github Desktop app (https://desktop.github.com) wouldn't work for you? It works with all git providers, not just Github but I'm not sure if you're looking for other functionality too. As best I can tell that's more a GUI for handling git commands and viewing diffs, rather than an editor that supports a 3 panel conflict resolution view, but maybe they've added something like that recently? What I'm looking for isn't really git specific, they'll usually work with multiple different VSC or in the case of something like BeyondCompare, be used for much more than just VCS conflicts. I believe Intellij has a view like this built in, but VSCode does not (AFAIK it only has a single pain conflict resolution view, but maybe there's a plugin that adds this). When git is in a merge conflict, it will markup the offending file(s) with things like "<<<< HEAD" to indicate where things differ. The type of merge editor I'm looking for instead breaks that single file out into 3 panes: your local copy, the remote copy, and the resolved version you're creating. All the conflicting sections are highlighted and there are buttons/hotkeys to pick and choose using the local or remote version for each conflict (or manually merge the conflict if there is code from both versions that's needed). I'm used to doing all my git related work via command line rather than GUI or IDE integration, so it's nice to just be able to type "git mergetool" and have a conflict editor pop up, save and repeat until all files with conflicts are merged. So in essence I'm looking for something that can easily be setup as a mergetool in .gitconfig. BeyondCompare Pro that I mentioned above has a 3-way merge editor, but that's $60 and it's entire feature set is overkill for just that. There's some other paid options for that price or more that I've found as well (Kaleidoscope, DeltaWalker, Araxis). KDiff3 and P4Merge seem like free options besides the Meld port. So yeah, I'm aware of some options but also hoping for some recommendations.
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Honestly, IntelliJ/Jet Brains' semantic merge stuff is so great that even when I'm not using IntelliJ I'll boot it up to handle a difficult merge. Which it normally does automatically and flawlessly with the magic wand button.
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Gitkraken? But I don’t know if has m1 native yet. Ran fine in Rosetta last I checked.
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May 26, 2022 06:34
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Yeah there's an M1 native version now.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Gitkraken? I just got this.
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Splinter posted:So in essence I'm looking for something that can easily be setup as a mergetool in .gitconfig. BeyondCompare Pro that I mentioned above has a 3-way merge editor, but that's $60 and it's entire feature set is overkill for just that. There's some other paid options for that price or more that I've found as well (Kaleidoscope, DeltaWalker, Araxis). KDiff3 and P4Merge seem like free options besides the Meld port. So yeah, I'm aware of some options but also hoping for some recommendations. You’ve listed all the major ones I can think of. I used to use Kaleidoscope but didn’t want to pay the upgrade fee after their reboot because Tower handles all of my relatively simple diff and conflict needs. You might also ask in the web development thread.
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May 26, 2022 12:51
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Does FileMerge have a three-pane view? I forget.
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Binary Badger posted:Hrmm, I haven't tried to make any bootable clones of my OCLP'd Macs lately.. SuperDuper has been kind of lovely for years now, so I switched to CCC and have been very happy with it. SD would periodically fail on overnight backups because it wasn't quitting properly but I've never had a problem with CCC. Family members still use SD, but their backup needs are simpler than mine. Binary Badger posted:People HAVE been able to make bootable Big Sur clones with CCC, but it appears that Apple is constantly fiddling with disk/volume structure, especially now with this Sealed System Volume business, such that since Monterey is still a work in progress it's kind of doubtful you'll ever get a perfect bootable clone with Monterey, and also remember Apple literally doesn't consider making bootable backups a priority.. their way is that you wipe/reformat, slap on a fresh system then Migrate Assistant yourself back to workability. Your take on this confirms what I read recently at The Eclectic Light Company. Easily bootable backups have gone the way of Steve Jobs, never to return.
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Does anyone know how to stop loving launchpad from coming up when I hit the home button on any of my game controllers? Reddit claims there's an options button in bluetooth to adjust the long press action, but a) that setting doesn't work, and b) the options button doesn't show up anyway.
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xarph posted:Does anyone know how to stop loving launchpad from coming up when I hit the home button on any of my game controllers? Reddit claims there's an options button in bluetooth to adjust the long press action, but a) that setting doesn't work, and b) the options button doesn't show up anyway. Sorry, but as far as I've found that's the only place they let you change that idiot default setting, and it only works if you can get os x to recognize the controller and actually stay connected. That didn't work for me with this random ds4 knockoff until I paired it in bootcamp, which somehow made it and os x actually work together. For what it's worth, the setting does stick, but I don't know if using bootcamp is an option for you (no idea if a VM would work, I half-suspect a key point is having the same bluetooth MAC address, and I don't know if bluetooth passthrough works that way). Couldn't even find a plist where the setting's saved, or I'd screenshot that and you could try defaults writing them in.
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Zenostein posted:Couldn't even find a plist where the setting's saved, or I'd screenshot that and you could try defaults writing them in. drat I was hoping someone knew the plist magic 
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https://twitter.com/MajinBuOfficial/status/1529809611582328833 According to this fairly accurate leaker, Time Machine has been finally fixed, spiffed up and is iCloud ready for macOS Mammoth.. I'll believe it when I see it. They still haven't even fixed Disk Utility.
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I'm not sure what Apple have to gain from getting involved in making wireless routers again, it's an area where people use whatever trash their ISP supply or some gaming thing with lights on (or they install their own wired APs). I had an AirPort Extreme in the wireless-N days and it was good but it had fewer than zero settings in it and having to use an app to set it up was 💩
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Thanks Ants posted:I'm not sure what Apple have to gain from getting involved in making wireless routers again, it's an area where people use whatever trash their ISP supply or some gaming thing with lights on (or they install their own wired APs). Never under estimate the average Apple user to pay extra to not have a garish black box in their living room.
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I think it’s be awesome if they made another airport router. The old ones were really good.
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They're probably tired of having to give support to the Linksys ones currently being sold in their store
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I’m real happy with my Eero router but I still use my Time Capsule as network storage connected to the Eero. It was/is the best router/nas I’ve owned and I would absolutely love to see them commit to it again. Same with Time Machine as a whole.
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I’d like a HomeKit router that isn’t hot garbage or owned by Amazon.
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It would make sense/be cool for them to make a new Time Capsule if they fix time machine and integrate with iCloud.
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Lazyhound posted:I’d like a HomeKit router that isn’t hot garbage or owned by Amazon. I could see this. Router as a HomeKit hub and has easy time Machine backups with an internal or external drive. I wonder if they’d try integrating it with the AppleTV. Don’t most peoples cable lines already come in by the TV? Could use the TV a “monitor” to manage the router.
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If it's a Matter IoT hub then that's a sensible decision, especially as 2/3 of the HomeKit hub options are crap (permanently connected iPad) or don't exist anymore as a product that Apple care about (HomePod).
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I'm kind of surprised they haven't taken their AppleTV devices and made them a dual purpose stream box/mesh networking system. People have them spread around their house giving good coverage for all of the other devices in the home that might have less capable WiFi hardware in them.
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You would think so but they didn’t even put an AirTag into the new Apple TV remote.
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That's where I thought Amazon were going when they bought Eero, but instead they just kept making GBS threads out Eero products. I was expecting an Echo device with the Wi-Fi mesh stuff built into it.
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Can someone help me debug a Safari problem? 12.4, M1. Safari won't load some websites, like it just sits there, like the site is loading but nothing ever finishes (blue loading bar moves about halfway then just stops). Happens on SA, for example, but also some sites that I've never visited before. Tried clearing the website data for sites I had visited and disabled all Safari addons, no improvement. However, the sites load perfectly fine in Firefox and Chrome, as well as mobile Safari on an iPhone/iPad. Other computers have no problems either.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Can someone help me debug a Safari problem? 12.4, M1. When weird stuff like this happens, if possible, I'll make a new throwaway user account on the system and see if it happens for that account too. If it doesn't happen on a new account, then it can be narrowed down (slightly) to something in the user's folder.
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Binary Badger posted:https://twitter.com/MajinBuOfficial/status/1529809611582328833 As a guy with a 16tb NAS I don't particularly give a gently caress if it's integrated to iCloud or not, I just want it to save backups to my NAS without nuking them on restore.
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PRADA SLUT posted:Can someone help me debug a Safari problem? 12.4, M1. This happened to me as well. What worked for me was going into Safari preferences, and under Privacy, uncheck "Hide IP address from trackers"
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tngffl posted:This happened to me as well. What worked for me was going into Safari preferences, and under Privacy, uncheck "Hide IP address from trackers" Oh man this has been driving me nuts for weeks, I had to switch to Firefox because every other site was failing to load.
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Is there an ad blocker for safari that is any good
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Several of them are very good, I’m using wipr - but there are limitations on what can be done with safari. In Normal usage you won’t notice the difference but although I use Safari for most stuff; I use Firefox with ublock origin specifically for any seedy underbelly type stuff - filez; porn; etc. those sites require a more aggressive touch and nothing is better than Firefox for the specific niche of controlling exactly what gets loaded.
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The Lord Bude posted:Several of them are very good, I’m using wipr - but there are limitations on what can be done with safari. In Normal usage you won’t notice the difference but although I use Safari for most stuff; I use Firefox with ublock origin specifically for any seedy underbelly type stuff - filez; porn; etc. those sites require a more aggressive touch and nothing is better than Firefox for the specific niche of controlling exactly what gets loaded. uBlock Origin is the cat's rear end, I use it in Edge for specific (non-seedy) sites, but it's not available for Safari due to Apple's restrictions about what browser extensions are allowed to do. I use AdGuard in Safari but I'm not completely happy with it.
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Anton Chigurh posted:I use AdGuard in Safari but I'm not completely happy with it. That said, I like Hush for blocking poo poo like cookie warnings (though some sites will break in weird ways until you actually engage with the cookie banner), and Vinegar converts YouTube videos to plain HTML5 video, with the happy side-effect of removing ads as well.
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I use adguard on my old computer, and it’s fine I guess, but seems to need a lot of help dealing with newer problems (Adblock notifications, the like)
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TACD posted:AdGuard is the best one I've found so far; anything that lets you use custom uBlock–style rules is probably going to beat anything you can't customise IMO. The problem that keeps cropping up with AdGuard for me is sometimes when launching Safari it won't be running and its shield icon has the pause symbol on it. Since I forget to look at that icon every time I start Safari, I'll sometimes be browsing for quite awhile before I notice it. The other issue I've run into is sites that detect I'm using an ad blocker still won't work even if I disable AdGuard for that site. Only uninstalling it completely makes the warning go away so I can view the site. I've had that problem with other ad blockers too though, so it's not specific to AdGuard.
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