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Quick tutorial on getting a virtual camera input on your Mac, I wanted to get this down before the iOS NDI HX Camera app isn't free anymore (June 1st) So even 2 months ago, getting a virtual camera and audio input on your Mac from an external source (like your iPhone's camera) was impossible or a huge pain in the rear end. Since then, a few things have happened: NewTek released new macOS NDI Tools that finally include an NDI Virtual Input utility for the Mac, and it works great! Get that here: http://new.tk/NDITOOLSAPPLE Zoom also had virtual inputs blocked for a while, but in the latest update (5.0.4) finally re-enabled it: https://support.zoom.us/hc/en-us/articles/201361963 quote:Support for virtual cameras will be re-enabled for users on client version 5.0.4. So finally, you can now have an NDI video/audio source as a virtual video/audio input on your Mac, for use with Zoom and whatever else. The free thing that will cost $20 after May is the NDI HX Camera app for iOS, which turns your iPhone into a very nice, low latency webcam: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ndi-hx-camera/id1477266080 There used to be an official Android NDI HX camera app too that got pulled for some reason. I haven't tried it, but it can be sideloaded... don't blame me if your Note explodes. https://files.catbox.moe/ntwodz.apk
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cryptoclastic posted:I recently got my first Mac and have some questions about MSOffice. Is it a setting in Preferences maybe?
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May 30, 2020 08:31
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pzy posted:Quick tutorial on getting a virtual camera input on your Mac, I wanted to get this down before the iOS NDI HX Camera app isn't free anymore (June 1st) FWIW I was never able to get this working - either in Quicktime video recording or in the updated Zoom. There's a knowledge base article saying if you're using an iPhone X to disable the microphone in app but that doesn't seem to fix anything for me. Sri.Theo fucked around with this message at 10:17 on May 30, 2020 |
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May 30, 2020 10:02
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beefnoodle posted:Is cleaning up old Time Machine backups supposed to be this painful? I have a filled-up Drobo that I'd like to free up. There are TM backups from machines I no longer use. Manually deleting the subfolders under Backups.backupdb is fine, but emptying the Trash takes ridiculously long, and rm -Rf in Terminal isn't much better, and it reveals some errors. Doesn't it clean it up by itself? I have a Synology that I'd allocated about 3TB of space for TM backups and Time Machine seems to police itself fine purging older copies when it needs more space.
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May 30, 2020 13:31
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pzy posted:Quick tutorial on getting a virtual camera input on your Mac, I wanted to get this down before the iOS NDI HX Camera app isn't free anymore (June 1st) Not too worried about using my phone for Zoom as my camera but this means you can use Snap Chat filters in Zoom meetings again. Woo https://snapcamera.snapchat.com
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May 30, 2020 14:46
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Proteus Jones posted:Doesn't it clean it up by itself? I have a Synology that I'd allocated about 3TB of space for TM backups and Time Machine seems to police itself fine purging older copies when it needs more space. I think these are for computers that the OP no longer has, not for the one still actively backing up.
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May 30, 2020 14:49
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tuyop posted:I think these are for computers that the OP no longer has, not for the one still actively backing up. Oh in that case, wouldn't using 'rm' in a terminal session be a little faster than using Finder?
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May 30, 2020 15:19
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Proteus Jones posted:Oh in that case, wouldn't using 'rm' in a terminal session be a little faster than using Finder? There’s also a question of whether they’re running “rm-rf” from the Mac on a share mounted over the network versus SSHed into the server and running it as a local command. Any big cleanups I do on my NAS are always done SSHed into the NAS. I don’t know the intricacies or how “rm” works but anecdotally, it has always been slower over the network versus on the local box so I’m guessing it does some iteration of inodes in batches? Alternatively, the implementations make different assumptions in Mac vs Linux (I have a QNAP)?
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May 30, 2020 16:01
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beefnoodle posted:Is cleaning up old Time Machine backups supposed to be this painful? I have a filled-up Drobo that I'd like to free up. There are TM backups from machines I no longer use. Manually deleting the subfolders under Backups.backupdb is fine, but emptying the Trash takes ridiculously long, and rm -Rf in Terminal isn't much better, and it reveals some errors. It's always better to do it on the machine itself, whether logged into the web interface or by remote terminal login. Otherwise everything has to round trip from the Drobo to the Mac and back again.
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May 30, 2020 19:01
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The Drobo is connected either by USB3 or TB2, it’s direct attached. I’ve already been using rm in a terminal, instead of Finder, with no improvement. And yes, these are TM backups that the current machine doesn’t own or manage.
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May 30, 2020 21:48
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pzy posted:Quick tutorial on getting a virtual camera input on your Mac, I wanted to get this down before the iOS NDI HX Camera app isn't free anymore (June 1st) Thanks for all of this. I had no idea such a thing existed.
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May 30, 2020 23:10
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Malcolm XML posted:everything involved with removing options, the general poor state of homebrew as a package manager (it's slow, it's not really architected well (git is not a good database for package managment, it takes over /usr/local), the churn in formula packaging for arbitrary reasons between taps and core, versioning is poorly supported...) and how much of these are things that have to be worked around because Apple are pains in the loving dick to work with and how many are problems compared to a linux package manger?
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May 30, 2020 23:10
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pzy posted:Quick tutorial on getting a virtual camera input on your Mac, I wanted to get this down before the iOS NDI HX Camera app isn't free anymore (June 1st) tyvm, I’ve been waiting for Zoom to reenable virtual webcams on mac (why didn’t they do it when they reenabled it on windows?? now I’m just waiting on a virtual webcam plugin for OBS on mac...why’s windows got all the cool stuff I want? 
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May 31, 2020 00:35
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beefnoodle posted:The Drobo is connected either by USB3 or TB2, it’s direct attached. Not what I meant. I have a Synology, so when I had to kill my old TM backups I logged into the NAS on its web interface and ran the delete command on an app running on the box itself. That's what I mean. Otherwise the Mac is the intermediary and is slowing the process down.
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May 31, 2020 00:36
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Jazz Marimba posted:tyvm, I’ve been waiting for Zoom to reenable virtual webcams on mac (why didn’t they do it when they reenabled it on windows?? You can install this alongside OBS and have an NDI output of whatever you want, which you can then pick up with the virtual input utility for Zoom: https://github.com/Palakis/obs-ndi Just make sure you have NDI Tools installed first: http://new.tk/NDITOOLSAPPLE
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May 31, 2020 00:44
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tuyop posted:Works great for me, I use it every day for coauthoring with my students. Do you have the OneDrive Finder extension enabled? Have you tried deleting and re-adding the sync record in OneDrive? Did both of these. Still the same. Going to try to uninstall OneDrive and then reinstall it and see what happens. I also have AutoSave turned on in Preferences, so I don't really know why this happens. Is there a special place I should install OneDrive or something? Right now I have it in my Home folder.
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May 31, 2020 02:39
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Chris Knight posted:Not what I meant. I have a Synology, so when I had to kill my old TM backups I logged into the NAS on its web interface and ran the delete command on an app running on the box itself. That's what I mean. Otherwise the Mac is the intermediary and is slowing the process down. I understood what you meant. Not applicable here, however.
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May 31, 2020 02:47
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Crunchy Black posted:and how much of these are things that have to be worked around because Apple are pains in the loving dick to work with and how many are problems compared to a linux package manger? what does that have to do with how poorly a homebrew is run? anyway homebrew is ok. the maintainers are mediocre. it's good enough for dev work.
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May 31, 2020 03:33
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cryptoclastic posted:Did both of these. Still the same. Going to try to uninstall OneDrive and then reinstall it and see what happens. I use the default that it suggests, I believe that’s Home/someaccountinfo - OneDrive and Sharepoint syncs do a similar thing. Does your OneDrive folder have a cloud icon? Can you right-click a file in your OneDrive in Finder and see specific options like share (with the blue cloud), view online, and keep on this device or whatever? I’ve had to reinstall OneDrive for a few different issues before, it’s not that painful, really. It gracefully recognizes and matches downloaded files so you don’t have to pull gigs of data down again or deal with duplicates.
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tuyop posted:I use the default that it suggests, I believe that’s Home/someaccountinfo - OneDrive and Sharepoint syncs do a similar thing. Does your OneDrive folder have a cloud icon? Can you right-click a file in your OneDrive in Finder and see specific options like share (with the blue cloud), view online, and keep on this device or whatever? I have all those options when I right-click. Everything is synced no problem, and it works fine. It's just that when I open a file the AutoSave function in the top left (in Word for example) is turned off, and I have to manually turn it on. Then it wants me to choose where to save, and it usually chooses the last folder I saved ANY file in, not where the current file is. When I do navigate to the right area and save it, it will autosave as long as the file is open. But if I close it and reopen it I have to turn everything back on manually and overwrite the current file. I just reinstalled OneDrive, and the behavior is the same. I don't know what's up.
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beefnoodle posted:I understood what you meant. Not applicable here, however. I mean you can try this AT YOUR OWN RISK (I'm assuming HFS or APFS format). I found this from 2006, so YMMV if it even works. quote:open the Terminal application in the /Applications/Utilities/ folder, and enter the following: so it would probably look like: code:
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pzy posted:You can install this alongside OBS and have an NDI output of whatever you want, which you can then pick up with the virtual input utility for Zoom: any chance you’ve tested this out? NDI usually has a 500ms delay, which is unusable with the music stuff I do. I’m guessing it’ll be a shorter delay cuz it’s just being passed from one program to another and not one computer to another, but I wanna make sure
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May 31, 2020 18:16
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Proteus Jones posted:I mean you can try this AT YOUR OWN RISK (I'm assuming HFS or APFS format). I found this from 2006, so YMMV if it even works. Thanks!
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May 31, 2020 20:27
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I realize there's a dedicated iTunes thread but the TV app in Catalina (and iOS 13) sucks. There's no option to purchase in SD and there's seasons I can purchase in the old iTunes app that don't show up in the TV app.
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Is anybody on this forum on the Panic Nova beta? I use VS Code but I want a native app and this one is looking quite nice.
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housefullofgarbage posted:Is anybody on this forum on the Panic Nova beta? I use VS Code but I want a native app and this one is looking quite nice. I've used Coda periodically. Didn't know that this was a thing. Neat.
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housefullofgarbage posted:Is anybody on this forum on the Panic Nova beta? I use VS Code but I want a native app and this one is looking quite nice. I’m typically a VS code user and I’ve been using Nova for a few months now - publishing updates to my website and the live preview are both really great. Admittedly, I’m not too particular about third party extensions, but I haven’t found anything that Nova can’t do compared to VS Code.
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Will Nova have plugins for multiple languages? I use VS Code for C++, Xcode for Swift, and Coda for web stuff.
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Gonna ask this here because this is Apple's fault. What is a good replacement for the Dark Sky website? I already own the app on my phone, but I really liked the very clean, simple layout of the website for checking the weather on my desktop. What can I replace that with when it goes away in July?
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phosdex posted:Gonna ask this here because this is Apple's fault. What is a good replacement for the Dark Sky website? I already own the app on my phone, but I really liked the very clean, simple layout of the website for checking the weather on my desktop. What can I replace that with when it goes away in July? I use wttr.in, you can just curl wttr.in or visit it in a browser.
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Jun 9, 2020 00:19
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iStat Menus pulls weather from Dark Sky. The weather sub is like $2/yr. Well worth it.
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Jun 9, 2020 00:29
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Pivo posted:iStat Menus pulls weather from Dark Sky. The weather sub is like $2/yr. Well worth it. I mean that won't really help when Dark Sky API goes away.
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Buff Hardback posted:I mean that won't really help when Dark Sky API goes away. They're promising support through 2021. Either way, I'm sure the iStat folks will find another awesome datasource by then. It's true though -- def suboptimal. I thought the API would continue longer than that. I just love the wealth of data iStat Menus puts in that dropdown.
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I have a feeling the Dark Sky api is going away and it will become an Apple weather API. I bet we hear about that at WWDC.
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What's the best solution to remapping the caps lock key to be an enter key? I don't know if it's because I'm not used to the Mac keyboard yet or if it's because its for a different language (with more letters) but the normal one is so far away- from the J to enter is 6 keys to the right, but the caps lock key is only 4 keys to the left of the F key.
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Jun 9, 2020 11:13
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Sri.Theo posted:What's the best solution to remapping the caps lock key to be an enter key? I don't know if it's because I'm not used to the Mac keyboard yet or if it's because its for a different language (with more letters) but the normal one is so far away- from the J to enter is 6 keys to the right, but the caps lock key is only 4 keys to the left of the F key. karabiner
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Generic Monk posted:karabiner Should I worry about the message which says system extensions will be incompatible with a future version of macOS, or is that a long way off?
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Sri.Theo posted:Should I worry about the message which says system extensions will be incompatible with a future version of macOS, or is that a long way off? They will likely be gone in the next version of macOS set to be announced in two weeks.
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Sri.Theo posted:Should I worry about the message which says system extensions will be incompatible with a future version of macOS, or is that a long way off? i’m pretty sure karabiner-elements was the update that took advantage of the new APIs which shouldn’t be affected by this i think? try: https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/
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Generic Monk posted:i’m pretty sure karabiner-elements was the update that took advantage of the new APIs which shouldn’t be affected by this i think? try: That's what I installed- through home-brew but it should be the latest version - and it still came up with a warning message. And as I'm here does anyone have a good solution for taking a solution for taking a screenshot and auto uploading to imgur and putting the url in clipboard? It would be great if it's something I can put in the Touch Bar to make that thing slightly useful. There are a lot of options but most seem unmaintained or for older versions of macOS
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