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hooah posted:Wild. Well, at least I know what's going on now. No way to change that behavior? Probably not, I can't imagine there being a setting that completely disables the desktop. But out of curiosity why would you want to?
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Zenostein posted:Probably not, I can't imagine there being a setting that completely disables the desktop. But out of curiosity why would you want to? I don't want to get rid of the desktop (although I don't ever use it), but rather the null/fake window it causes for Finder. I'll often switch to Finder and the desktop "window" will be active, which is confusing when I don't immediately realize what's happened.
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dexter6 posted:To do this, the tech needs to be physically in front of the computer to scan a code after they have wiped the computer clean. So it's not trivial to add something to ABM after it's been purchased and set up by an end user.
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I dunno about MacBooks but I’m assuming it’s the same thing as phones where you just ask your reseller to add it to ABM. They’ve even done it after purchase too I’ve found.
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Ah, cool. I wasn't aware the reseller could retroactively add it. I've only dealt with it on the IT side and the only way I was able to do it was the way I mentioned above. Good to know!
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All resellers that aren't just box shifting will have the ability to add devices to DEP, the box shifters will also have that ability but just won't have bothered employing anybody who knows how. Adding the device afterwards can be done with an iOS device and the camera looks at a QR-style code on the machine. An enterprise that wants their laptops gone should send the remote wipe command from their MDM and then retire the hardware from DEP which permanently removes it from their control.
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 macOS 13.4.1, 12.6.7, and 11.7.8 have been released And if anyone cares, Sonoma Beta 2 has also been pinched out Security updates etc.
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General MacOS window behavior question: My understanding so far is that any app made "fullscreen" by way of the green button on the menu bar will have it's own "space" or screen where it exists on its own. The exception to this being split screen apps, also done via the aforementioned green button. However I've just gotten some interesting behavior where Steam has shown up as a floating window within my browser's dedicated "screen". This is a bit surprising as I didn't think that was doable. Is my understanding incorrect or is Steam being weird? Given how the client has behaved on the platform in the past the latter wouldn't surprise me.
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system settings window is still a war crime
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Warbird posted:General MacOS window behavior question:
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JAY ZERO SUM GAME posted:system settings window is still a war crime Facts.
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I'm a recent transplant from Windows and need some software recommendations. I'm also one of the weird people who has a Mac but uses an Android phone. I read the OP but it's 12 years old and some of the projects are even discontinued. I used foobar2000 for audio file conversion/tagging/bulk renaming, CDex for ripping (with metadata/album art retrieval and parametric file names), and MusicBee for syncing/transcoding onto my phone. I typically rip to FLAC for backup purposes but usually transcode to a lossy format when copying over to my phone. Just the basic idea of "rip to FLAC and then sync to Android in a lossy format without wanting to tear my hair out" is what I'm going for. Foobar2000 is available for Mac but doesn't seem to have nearly as many features (including the ones above). The others are Windows-only. I did look into DoubleTwist but apparently iTunes has been superseded by Apple Music? I can't confirm that AirSync still works and I'm not paying $8 just to find out. 95% of the guides I google up rely on iTunes and seem like they could be pretty useless now. What should I be looking at? Paid solutions are OK if they are cheap (<$15ish) and actually do the job.
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Discussion Quorum posted:I'm a recent transplant from Windows and need some software recommendations. I'm also one of the weird people who has a Mac but uses an Android phone. I read the OP but it's 12 years old and some of the projects are even discontinued. I don’t have an audio player rec but here are the others: Ripping: handbrake Transcoding for mobile: Plex is probably what I’d use if I hated Music or Spotify For automating the workflow, I would suggest setting up Lidarr to watch the output folder of your ripping software, then it can pull the files, identify them, rename them according to your rules, and put them in Plex’s music directory. Plex scans that directory, downloads some metadata for the folder, and publishes the contents so they’re accessible from any device with Plex installed, or a local DLNA player. Then you just hit download on Plex in your phone. Plex will transcode them and copy them over in the background. tuyop fucked around with this message at 19:21 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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Specifically, you want the Plexamp app. It's really good!
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I'll just insert my standard complaint/caveat that Plex is catastrophically stupid as far as properly identifying media and is really troublesome to override with proper data if you already have it. It works well enough within its very narrow and strictly controlled ecosystem where you stringently adhere to how the developer wants you to organise your music — any deviation will be punished with anything from double- or triple-work up to and including data loss. As always, your mileage will vary, but to put it into perspective: my mileage is that the experience of trying to switch to Plex was what made me decide to go back to (at the time) iTunes as the far more stable and reliable backbone for my media. This is a sentence that shouldn't even be possible to write. Tippis fucked around with this message at 19:33 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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Is there any sane way to get the umpteen thousand “favorite” photos off my wife’s phone and into a NAS? As best I can tell your options are more or less “plug into computer, lol iTunes” and/or “plug into Mac, lol now it’s in a database because deranged perverts made the photo app ecosystem”. I’m just mass throwing them into a dedicated album on the NAS via Synology’s Photo app but that’s a “dumb” option. I’d be curious to hear if there are better options.
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Warbird posted:Is there any sane way to get the umpteen thousand “favorite” photos off my wife’s phone and into a NAS? As best I can tell your options are more or less “plug into computer, lol iTunes” and/or “plug into Mac, lol now it’s in a database because deranged perverts made the photo app ecosystem”. I’ve been using PhotoSync for a long while now to backup my iPhone photos to my Synology… I have it set to upload at 2am each night when the phone is plugged in. It can work with smb/dropbox/backblaze/etc. if you want to keep multiple copies.
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Warbird posted:I’m just mass throwing them into a dedicated album on the NAS via Synology’s Photo app but that’s a “dumb” option. I’d be curious to hear if there are better options. Why is this a dumb solution? That would be my suggestion. It's what I do along with Google Photos (but I'm on Android). gariig fucked around with this message at 19:46 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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Warbird posted:Is there any sane way to get the umpteen thousand “favorite” photos off my wife’s phone and into a NAS? As best I can tell your options are more or less “plug into computer, lol iTunes” and/or “plug into Mac, lol now it’s in a database because deranged perverts made the photo app ecosystem”. It's in very close territory, so whether it's smarter or not is up for debate, but an immediate alternative would be to mass export via the Synology Drive app. It requires a bit of setup, but also gives you a handy semi-universal export option for all kinds of phone content.
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We use the OneDrive app to sync to onedrive and the NAS updates from OneDrive.
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I should clarify a bit, sorry. The “dumb” solution works for the most part but does require the wife to actually do the upload and delete the photos from her phone. It also produces duplicates on the NAS as the photos as a whole are backed up, though the favorites are not singled out. Ideally a solution like the existing photo back up being done in the Synology Photos app would be great (automated, skips duplicates, ect) but this may be good enough. I’ll have to take a look at the options that the Synology Drive app offers and the 3rd party tool as well.
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tuyop posted:I don’t have an audio player rec but here are the others: Plex - not what I had in mind exactly unless Plex has changed how it works? I'm talking about FLAC on PC -> AAC/MP3/whatever locally on the phone so I can then listen to it with Poweramp or whatever. I'm not some lossless purist, I just prefer to rip that way for backup and future flexibility but don't see the need to take up all that space on my phone. Although the Lidarr thing is neat and I'm pretty sure I could get that to solve the above problem for me (minus syncing playlists). I was dreading having to roll some dumb shell/Python/rsync solution and hating myself for doing it but that's basically what this is, I think. Thanks! e: Also, I had no idea Handbrake could rip audio CDs. I actually have it already but assumed it was only for DVDs. Discussion Quorum fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jun 23, 2023 |
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Is there a way to speed up how fast the emoji insertion animation takes (when using the built in OS emoji widget/keyboard thing)? It's so painfully slow.
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Splinter posted:Is there a way to speed up how fast the emoji insertion animation takes (when using the built in OS emoji widget/keyboard thing)? It's so painfully slow. It should be pretty much instant. If it isn't, that sounds more like you're struck with one of those lovely heisenbugs where some background app or text processing code is trying to interpret your inputs. I've had something similar happen with other text input because of an image view in the background capturing every keystroke to figure out whether it was something it should react to; or when an auto-expander decided that some inputs had to be very thoroughly investigated to check if something needed to be expanded. Does this always happen, even form a clean boot with absolutely nothing loaded?
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Tippis posted:It should be pretty much instant. not the op but this poo poo happens to me too, 100% of the time. double-tapping the "Fn" key on my laptop results in the emoji window taking at LEAST 3 seconds to appear, even if every single app on my machine is closed.
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For me it's not the opening of the keyboard, it's after selecting the emoji it does the genie animation back to my cursor and then only once the genie animation completes does the emoji pop up. It happens on both my personal M1 Mac Studio and work issued M2 MBP 16.
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XLD is what I, and a music ripping site, use for ripping CDs. It can rip to multiple formats at the same time. I have mine setup to rip to Apple Lossless, mp3 v0 (and 320kbps), and FLAC. You can turn the formats off and on easily too. It’ll write log files and all that cruft too. I stick the FLAC backups on my NAS and use the AL files in iTunes.
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nexxai posted:not the op but this poo poo happens to me too, 100% of the time. double-tapping the "Fn" key on my laptop results in the emoji window taking at LEAST 3 seconds to appear, even if every single app on my machine is closed. Splinter posted:For me it's not the opening of the keyboard, it's after selecting the emoji it does the genie animation back to my cursor and then only once the genie animation completes does the emoji pop up. It happens on both my personal M1 Mac Studio and work issued M2 MBP 16. Oh, ok. If it's on the other end then yeah, I'm seeing it too, but not nearly as slowly as you're describing. So while it may still be some kind of processing issue in the background as well, the animation is definitely part of the problem. The “easy” way around that — which ultimately doesn't save much time, unfortunately — is to make sure you don't have an active input cursor and only then press Fn to make the window pop up. This way, you have it open until you manually close it, and it doesn't do the auto-close, with its associated animation, every time you pick a symbol. Instead, it just immediately gets inserted wherever the cursor is active.
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Discussion Quorum posted:What should I be looking at? Paid solutions are OK if they are cheap (<$15ish) and actually do the job. You seem like the kind of user who would enjoy running a Raspberry Pi (or any old desktop, really) server running Navidrome and Lidarr. I know that sounds like a pain or headache, but once it's set up, you can manage it remotely from any device and its mostly automated. Managing audio files like that sounds like a major pain. Warbird posted:Ideally a solution like the existing photo back up being done in the Synology Photos app would be great (automated, skips duplicates, ect) but this may be good enough. I’ll have to take a look at the options that the Synology Drive app offers and the 3rd party tool as well. Why not pay the 99 cents a month for 50GB of iCloud space, set her photos to automatically sync and delete off her iPhone, and be done with it? If your house burned down, the NAS photos are gone. I back up to my NAS using immich and still keep uncompressed versions synced to iCloud because I'd still hate to lose all my photos if my NAS was destroyed in a house fire. Corb3t fucked around with this message at 05:49 on Jun 26, 2023 |
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Corb3t posted:You seem like the kind of user who would enjoy running a Raspberry Pi (or any old desktop, really) server oh god nooooooo don't tempt me down that road again, I am trying to do less computer touching, not more (also, can you actually buy RPis again without camping outside a Microcenter?) I know what I described sounds like a pain, but on Windows, it just worked (lol). Rip to FLAC. Plug in phone. Open library in MusicBee. Copy songs/albums/playlists to phone and wait a few minutes. Transcoding happens on the fly in the background. Done. I kind of assumed that iTunes would do this for iPhones, so I didn't think it was that weird. Most of my stuff can be downloaded from Tidal, so I'm not that desperate, but I am an elder millennial who likes to have the thing from a CD.
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Discussion Quorum posted:oh god nooooooo don't tempt me down that road again, I am trying to do less computer touching, not more (also, can you actually buy RPis again without camping outside a Microcenter?) You could also pay $25 a year to upload your collection to iTunes Match and stream it from anywhere - it's not free, but it is convenient. Unfortunately, your use-case is pretty niche in the year 2023. I'm sure there are some third party apps that might do what you're looking to do, though.
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Discussion Quorum posted:oh god nooooooo don't tempt me down that road again, I am trying to do less computer touching, not more (also, can you actually buy RPis again without camping outside a Microcenter?) I used to have quite an extensive cd collection but I got rid of it years ago, and now I just use Apple Music. Subscription services are the future, it’s convenient and I have so much more music than I ever could have had before, because I can just add a band’s entire catalogue - that would have cost a fortune buying each cd. Apple Music does lossless, you’ll get sound quality every bit as good as a cd, and you can download the music to your device so you don’t need to worry about reception or data usage. Edit: same goes for streaming services, they completely replaced my vast dvd library years ago and now I don’t even have a dvd player let alone a dvd.
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The Lord Bude posted:I used to have quite an extensive cd collection but I got rid of it years ago, and now I just use Apple Music. Subscription services are the future, it’s convenient and I have so much more music than I ever could have had before, because I can just add a band’s entire catalogue - that would have cost a fortune buying each cd. You’ll never convince me that bottom of this will not drop out as the quest for growth continues but that probably won’t be for a while.
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Streaming music is great because basically every service has essentially the same catalogue (if you pay). Subscribe to one service and you're golden. I still buy digital copies via Bandcamp to support artists I really love though. Streaming tv or movies otoh is a huge pain in the rear end because the content is spread out so much. I've actually started just subscribing for 1 month at a time to catch a show or a few movies when I hear about something I want to watch or just renting the movie via Apple tv. I also got rid of my cd and dvd collections years ago but I kept digital copies of everything I ripped on my plex because I paid for that poo poo, I don't care if it's technically piracy (at least with films; with CDs it's legal to keep rips in Canada).
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Yes I know, I use Tidal and have just been downloading via that. Not because it's lossless (I only care about that for backup purposes) but because I like the app better than Spotify. I am an old person with an old person use case and don't quite care enough to go setting up an entire infrastructure around it lol Grassy Knowles posted:You’ll never convince me that bottom of this will not drop out as the quest for growth continues but that probably won’t be for a while. Honestly part of the reason I still buy albums on the cheap is because I assume one day this system will fragment just like streaming video has and it'll be "oh gently caress I need to subscribe to three different services and I still will only be able to hear 80% of what I want"
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Another reason I buy music is one day I assume i'll become like every other old dude and stop craving new music experiences and just listen to the same 8 albums for the rest of my life.
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Edit: Arc Browser Invites gone
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Quackles posted:What is this? macOS-only (coming to Windows later this year) Chromium-based browser that is attempting to shake up expectations around what a browser does. It has some Pretty cool features outlined here. One of my favorite features, Boosts, let you Un-Enshittify many websites with ease, making them halfway useful again: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Z9bq_Q9qqk I personally love Arc's powerful Command Bar. You can even directly search sites from it: https://twitter.com/browsercompany/status/1646580021858037760?s=20 Corb3t fucked around with this message at 05:12 on Jun 28, 2023 |
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