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AlternateAccount posted:Can't seem to google this. Yeah that's a UI glitch. If nothing is listed in control centre then the mic isn't actually in use. A sign out/in fixes it for me.
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tuyop posted:Yeah that's a UI glitch. If nothing is listed in control centre then the mic isn't actually in use. A sign out/in fixes it for me. Thank you. Start the timer on which comes first: Apple fixing it or it driving me crazy.
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AlternateAccount posted:Thank you. Start the timer on which comes first: Apple fixing it or it driving me crazy. i don't bet on finished races :P
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Are Handbrake encodes much faster on Apple Silicon? I’m currently running a 2018 MBP for reference.
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Violator posted:Are Handbrake encodes much faster on Apple Silicon? If you want, share a file and a preset and I’ll tell you how long my computer took to encode it.
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Mar 28, 2023 11:17
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tuyop posted:If you want, share a file and a preset and I’ll tell you how long my computer took to encode it. That'd be terrific. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c0/Big_Buck_Bunny_4K.webm Fast 1080p30 Everything default, except Video tab -> Video Encoder set to H.265 (x265). My 2018 MBP took 21:08 at an average speed of 30.07 fps. It sat at 100% for a while while processing for some reason.
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Mar 28, 2023 17:05
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Those speeds already sound a fair chunk nicer than my 2018 Mac Mini, lack of video hardware on it the main cause I’m sure.
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Mar 28, 2023 18:22
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Violator posted:That'd be terrific. Completed in 11:13. Mine also hung around at 100% for a little while at the end. My computer:  This is my background CPU usage when I'm not using a VM. I'm just on a zoom call with a virtual whiteboard open and maybe 20 tabs of reference materials and a PDF in Acrobat.  My settings  CPU at ~2 minutes and 4 minutes   So my fans did kick on pretty quick, which is what I'm trying to show in the CPU screenshot. No throttling appeared to be happening and I carried on my work as usual. Sounds bad but this is the decibel reading with my phone right next to the laptop with the fans howling away (I actually can't hear them over the air purifier in the next room). 
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Mar 28, 2023 18:56
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God drat, super impressed. Thanks for the effort and all of the data, I really appreciate it. I should rerun and check the decibels of my MBP fans because they are distractingly loud while handbrake runs. I’ve actually emailed Mac hardware reviewers about this when the M-series was introduced asking them to do these kinds of tests. Run something that the reader can do as well as a direct point of comparison instead of synthetic benchmarks or esoteric noise reduction podcast software that few people run. My emails were ignored.
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Mar 28, 2023 19:26
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Violator posted:God drat, super impressed. Thanks for the effort and all of the data, I really appreciate it. I should rerun and check the decibels of my MBP fans because they are distractingly loud while handbrake runs.  And yeah I hear you. The wirecutter used to be like that! But money, I guess.
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9 minute encode on my M2 Pro, fans kicked on after a bit bit it wasn't overly noisy imo. I do wonder what it does while it hangs out at 100% for most of that time.
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Mar 28, 2023 23:11
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Got curious so I gave it a shot on an m1 air (with 16 GB ram, otherwise base model). Encoding time was 18:40 running on battery the entire time. The case got warm to touch but nowhere near the threshold where it starts throttling.
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Just for kicks, I ran this through Handbrake on my gaming PC - a Ryzen 3600/Radeon 5700XT computer. At full tilt I know the computer uses about 400W of electricity. 225 of that is GPU, which I don't think was used much in the encode, so let's say 175W. Quite a bit louder and I'm pretty sure it used at least four times the electricity but it did it in 17:16. So like, only marginally faster than a $1000 laptop with no fans drawing <40W. Pretty wild stuff.
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https://blogs.autodesk.com/autocad/autocad-2024-mac/ Autodesk announces that they just released an Apple Silicon native version of AutoCAD, hopefully this will meet the needs of long suffering AutoCAD Mac users who had to make do with running the Intel version in Rosetta.
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Xabi posted:What's wrong with Dropbox? I've got OneDrive and Dropbox through my job and both have worked flawlessly for me (Dropbox has been the easiest to use, but that could just be because I know the program better), unlike iCloud which can't be trusted. Nothing wrong with the service, just their storage pricing goes from a pitiful 2gb for free to a massive 2tb for $10/mo with nothing in between. All the other major cloud providers at least put some 50gb/100gb/200gb steps in between to cater to individual users, but Dropbox is $10/mo minimum even if you don’t need that much space.
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Once you get high enough it circles back around to being the cheapest. I haven't found another option anywhere near the $90 or so I pay for 50TB and counting I've got on Dropbox (though I'm also afraid that one day the gravy train will end.)
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Binary Badger posted:https://blogs.autodesk.com/autocad/autocad-2024-mac/ Eh, the Windows version in general is significantly superior to the Mac version, so while it’s good that it’s now native to ASi, I’d be interested in knowing how many are actually using the Mac version relative to just running it in Parallels even.
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SourKraut posted:Eh, the Windows version in general is significantly superior to the Mac version, so while it’s good that it’s now native to ASi, I’d be interested in knowing how many are actually using the Mac version relative to just running it in Parallels even. I had an awful lot of friends and coworker kids stuck on the windows version due to lack of the Italian language pack. Given the minimal complexity of the work done, even the limited Mac build will work wonders.
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Thought I'd jump on the bandwagon for shits 'n' giggles to see how the ol' gal would hold up, fully expecting it to be embarrassing hours. Same settings and pleasantly surprised: 34 mins and it barely got warm! As somebody who used to have to encode stuff for a job on an old G3 many years ago, that seems like magic even if it comes nowhere near you drat kids and your modern times 
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If we're feeling really froggy the version of Blender that just came out added additional M series support and it has something like 4x the frames it did prior. I've been meaning to throw the laptop at some old scenes and see how it compares to the 1080.
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Warbird posted:If we're feeling really froggy the version of Blender that just came out added additional M series support and it has something like 4x the frames it did prior. I've been meaning to throw the laptop at some old scenes and see how it compares to the 1080. Yeah, that’ll be interesting to see, because Blender is one of the main wedge issues that seems to drive certain Mac forums crazy in terms of Intel Mac Pro vs. Apple Studio/future ASi Mac Pro
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A weird one, and not really a complaint, more to see if I'm going mental: I mainly scroll (on these dead gay forums in Safari, say) with the mouse or spacebar/shift-spacebar but sometimes just idly tap on the up/down cursor keys. That would jump about a fifth of the page without any "inertia" and was still doing so with the last latest Ventura. After the latest latest (13.3) it barely moves you a single line of text and does so with the inertia effect. All kinds of searching about enabling/disabling inertia scrolling just comes up with trackpad/mouse settings or iOS stuff. System Settings is the same. I found that holding the key accelerates it, so I'm not going to cry, but still peculiar and I wonder if there's a way to change it back. Is it the same for all y'all? franco fucked around with this message at 08:35 on Mar 30, 2023 |
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Is there a way in Mac OS to ensure certain program windows open in certain monitors? I have a three-monitor setup and it would be nice to not have to drag certain apps around every time I open up the apps I use for recording DJ sets for example, or even just to have my Chrome startup tabs open across three monitors instead of having to drag them apart. I suppose the fact that I have a fourth monitor (a TV across the room) that I only turn on sometimes might throw a wrench in these gears, even if it is possible - every time I turn it on, my computer recalibrates its arrangement for a second, I could see this becoming a problem. What about Finder windows, do they always default to a certain size when you open a new one, is this something I can change? Dragging a window open so I can see more sort fields is another little annoyance that I could do without. Matter of fact, since I'm here, what about OSX keyboard shortcuts, is there a good database of these? I used to pride myself on my ProTools keystrokes (and kind of still do with Ableton), and I know there's a lot more quick-navigation I could be doing in Finder instead of using my trackball. Thanks!
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What’s the easiest way to download ALL of my photos & videos from the Photos app into a big rear end hard drive? That will be safe from being deleted from iCloud? Just as a backup of the iCloud backup.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:What’s the easiest way to download ALL of my photos & videos from the Photos app into a big rear end hard drive? That will be safe from being deleted from iCloud? Just as a backup of the iCloud backup. Every NAS producer has a "dump iCloud Photos to NAS folder" app, initial copy is going to take a while.
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Mister Speaker posted:Is there a way in Mac OS to ensure certain program windows open in certain monitors? I have a three-monitor setup and it would be nice to not have to drag certain apps around every time I open up the apps I use for recording DJ sets for example, or even just to have my Chrome startup tabs open across three monitors instead of having to drag them apart. I suppose the fact that I have a fourth monitor (a TV across the room) that I only turn on sometimes might throw a wrench in these gears, even if it is possible - every time I turn it on, my computer recalibrates its arrangement for a second, I could see this becoming a problem. Yeah there's an app you can use for 1 and 2 but I don't recall them #3 however, use cheatsheet.app, find it on home-brew. install home-brew
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Mister Speaker posted:Matter of fact, since I'm here, what about OSX keyboard shortcuts, is there a good database of these? I used to pride myself on my ProTools keystrokes (and kind of still do with Ableton), and I know there's a lot more quick-navigation I could be doing in Finder instead of using my trackball. Thanks! Apple actually has very good documentation for most of their systems. You can usually find anything you want to know about MacOS on their support site https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201236
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franco posted:After the latest latest (13.3) it barely moves you a single line of text and does so with the inertia effect. I think this is a bug with 13.3, I’ve seen other complaints about scrolling behavior.
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Warbird posted:9 minute encode on my M2 Pro, fans kicked on after a bit bit it wasn't overly noisy imo. I do wonder what it does while it hangs out at 100% for most of that time. curious about that as well. i tried this on my windows machine (amd 5800x) and it hit 100% at 5:30, but didn't complete until around 12 minutes.
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I like to keep my old laptops. I have like 7 or 8, each with different operating systems so I can run old software Is there any reason to keep El Capitan around? Anything it can run that Sierra or High Sierra can’t?
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Ever since the new update to MacOS and iPad OS, I've had issues with Universal Control working...is this a known bug?
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Seems so. https://9to5mac.com/2023/04/04/universal-control-handoff-not-working/
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serebralassazin posted:Seems so. Looks like the Apple Watch is also affected. Crap. Hopefully the rumor of the .1 update coming this week is true... Thanks!
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Is there any reliable way to stop Apple Music from opening whenever my bluetooth headphones connect? This is on a MBP that is on Big Sur (latest officially supported OS version). Can I just delete Music.app with no ill effects? I've tried some "disable" options within the app itself, as suggested via some searches, but that didn't seem to work (at least not consistently). I've seen some suggestions related to using Automator to solve this, but I feel like there has to be a more straight forward way to handle this.
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Splinter posted:Is there any reliable way to stop Apple Music from opening whenever my bluetooth headphones connect? This is on a MBP that is on Big Sur (latest officially supported OS version). Can I just delete Music.app with no ill effects? I've tried some "disable" options within the app itself, as suggested via some searches, but that didn't seem to work (at least not consistently). I've seen some suggestions related to using Automator to solve this, but I feel like there has to be a more straight forward way to handle this. Pretty sure that'll be on your headphones for sending a play/pause command on connection, right? Same thing car stereos used to do and it was maddening.
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 Ventura 13.3.1 has been released Apple posted:macOS Ventura 13.3.1 provides important bug fixes and security updates for your Mac including: More details about the security patches here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213721 Apple also has released Safari 16.4.1 for Big Sur and Monterey, which includes security updates and bug fixes, more details here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213722
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Installed the update on several Macs, does seem to fix the Apple Watch bug. Hoo boy if you run the update on an Intel without a T2 chip (some 2017s) does it take a long while, and has to reboot three times. As usual the quickest update was on an Apple Silicon (M2 Pro) machine. OCLP users will note that 0.6.2 will auto detect that you have run a system update and offer to run the root patches for you.
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101 posted:Pretty sure that'll be on your headphones for sending a play/pause command on connection, right? Same thing car stereos used to do and it was maddening. Hmm good point, I hadn't thought of this being something the headphones themselves send to the OS. It looks like my buds in particular do have an auto play/pause feature via some sort of ear insertion/removal detection, but as far as I can tell from the manual there is no way to turn this off. Is there anyway to block headphone play/pause commands on the OS side of things? I assume that would also block manual play/pause controls on the headphones, but for a laptop that doesn't matter to me since the keyboard has play/pause buttons as well. And again, it seems to only inconsistently trigger Music to open after turning on some disable options in the Music app itself. Short of just deleting Music.app I found this tool which seems like it should accomplish what I want: https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes. Still frustrating if this isn't something that's easily configurable via OS settings or Music.app itself.
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