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I have a Ubuntu Server running some networked drives via Samba. Navigation via my Windows machines is as fast as needed, but my (2013) MBP doesn't seem to cache the contents of the drives and has to frequently pump the breaks to reevaluate the contents of larger folders. Are there any steps I can take to increase performance on either the server or Mac's end of things?
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jink posted:I held out for so drat long with my 2012 rMBP. Is that what that is? The hand me down pro I got when the Mrs. upgraded had that around the edges. I always thought it was from a cheap screen protector or something. Can that still be fixed?
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Mar 26, 2020 04:12
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Up until recently I had been doing time machine backups to a location on a shared NFS location and it worked pretty well. However I've since changed servers doing the NFS and now time machine errors out with no real explanation. I did some digging around and OSX thinks the .sparsebundle I made has gone weird, but I suspect it may be due to the host change. I'm not too tore up with the notion of just nuking it and starting again, but would prefer not to if possible. Has anyone encountered this? Are there best practices for having your time machine backup living on a NAS? I can't be the only person doing this, but all the solutions I've found seem a bit hack-y.
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May 19, 2020 16:25
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What is your use case exactly? Remote render/processing is fairly common, but you're typically throwing a project/code at a VM and letting it do the heavy lifting. Remoting in should work fine as well, but you're going to run into delay and compression issues as you've mentioned.
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May 19, 2020 17:10
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If you just need them to see something I'd occam's razor that poo poo and just OBS it out to Youtube or whatever but I assume you actually want them to be able to interact with something on this machines which is "a whole thing" and I'm not sure there's an easy way to handle that. Have you reached out to your Adobe rep and see if they could bend things a bit considering ongoing world events?
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May 19, 2020 20:23
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Is there a go to method for Time Machine backup to a NAS? I've done a couple of hacky implementations and thought I'd see if there was an agreed upon method that works for a good ol' fashioned SMB/NAS setup that isn't on a propritary platform.
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Jun 9, 2020 19:14
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Chris Knight posted:Depends on the NAS' OS. Synology has native TM support over SMB I’m doing an Ubuntu box with NFS and SMB shares. No proprietary solutions for me right now.
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Jun 10, 2020 00:41
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The 2015-ish MBP I've inherited from the wife has taken to turning off its screen and appearing to go to sleep when the screen angle is adjusted or occasionally just seemingly at random. The laptop becomes unresponsive and can only be revived by closing the lid almost all the way. Is this a known issue? Googling the terms is a bit of a mess.
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Oct 24, 2020 15:08
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 Anyone know what is causing the docker-desktop to appear here in iterm2? It’s been that way for a while now and I only vaguely recall it showing up when I installed docker on the MBP. I’ve uninstalled docker and tinkered with iterm, but it remains.
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Nov 27, 2020 07:08
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skull mask mcgee posted:That’s coming from your zsh config, not iterm2. Probably a plug-in that got enabled when you installed docker. I think the file to look in would be .zshrc in your home folder. Thanks, I’ll check it out
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Nov 27, 2020 16:13
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skull mask mcgee posted:That’s coming from your zsh config, not iterm2. Probably a plug-in that got enabled when you installed docker. I think the file to look in would be .zshrc in your home folder. Turned out to be kubernetes. .kube went out the window and that was that. iirc I tried to install it via the Docker 4 Mac Desktop and it got hung up or something so that explains that. Appreciate the push in the right direction!
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Nov 28, 2020 04:11
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Hey folks, I’m thinking about picking up parallels whoo it’s on sale as I’m planning to upgrade to a m.2 MBP from my current minspec 2013MBP. Is the standard version broadly considered “good enough”? I don’t think I’d need anything too fancy in the Windows VM but more power is always nice. I’m not fond of paying a subscription for it however.
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Nov 28, 2022 04:53
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Ublock Origin is the only real answer here unless you’re on a phone where you can’t install it.
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Dec 10, 2022 16:40
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The Lord Bude posted:That’s definitely the best adblocker but it isn’t available on safari, which is the best web browsing experience overall on a Mac. In the 6 months since I’ve switched from a PC to a Mac I’ve been perfectly happy with Safari + WIPR. I don’t see ads on any of the normal sites I use, nor do they break; and that includes ads in things like twitch and YouTube (every once in a while video ads appear but I open the wipr app and manually do an update and they go away again). Huh, no kidding? I just use Chrome so it’s never been a going concern. I’ve been debating moving to Firefox but there hasn’t been enough of a reason to move over for me, though the new manifest business may do the trick. Safari is enough of a pain in the rear end on iOS that I’ve never bothered on a laptop.
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Dec 10, 2022 19:24
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VSCode is the defacto “I need a good rear end text editor but not a while rear end IDE” for a while now in the enterprise world and I love it. If you’re doing Java it might be better to use something else depending on your level of familiarity and willingness to tinker first. It can and will do whatever you want but an off the shelf solution dedicated to Java or whatever may be smarter.
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Dec 29, 2022 02:31
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So I just spent an inordinate amount of money for a M2 Max MBP to replace the min spec decade old model I for SECG and from the Mrs. a few questions if you all will humor me: Would you recommend just doing a fresh install of the OS or doing a restore from a Time Machine backup? I have a NAS and the HDD on my current model is laughable so I don’t have documents I care about local on the machine. At most I’d just want to move over my zsh dot files and so on, but that’s no big deal to get taken care of. Additionally, and “must have” bits of software I should know about? I’ve looked through a few listicles and picked up this and that around Black Friday but I’d be open to any general suggestions. Finally, while I have been using OSX as a personal daily for a bit now I wouldn’t be surprised if I wasn’t missing some important bits or the other. Is there a must read onboarding guide that would be worth looking through or is the usual method of just googling whatever whenever something comes up sufficient?
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Jan 20, 2023 07:07
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How’s that?
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Jan 20, 2023 07:28
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What are the going solutions for local virtualization in OSX? I’m aware that Virtualbox is an option, are there others I should be aware about?
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Jan 30, 2023 05:17
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I picked up parallels around Black Friday but haven’t had a chance to mess with it yet. I’m intending on spinning up local K8s clusters for piddling around with so I’ll have to see if that can be hooked into Vagrant. No surprise on VB being awful though, that’s a universal constant.
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Jan 30, 2023 14:23
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Speaking of, how do you approach using the editor in your home OS? Naturally it’ll just work but once your home dir is of a given size it’ll stop tracking changes as well. You could scope it down to just a specific sub folder but then you have .VSCode folders running around everywhere.
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Feb 4, 2023 16:20
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It’s hidden by default so that may be it, idk. It for sure makes them, though I haven’t spent a huge amount of time in osx with the program so it’s possible it’s different there. The src directory is a pretty good idea, I could symlink off of it to my usual suspects and that should help with the scope issues.
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Feb 4, 2023 17:23
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Whoo boy I appear to have made a miscalculation on the state of virtualization on M series chips right now. As best I can tell the only two options for automate-able local virtualization are paying for Parallels Pro (naturally I bought Standard), or using a test version of one of VMWare’s products. Virtualbox support technically exists but is more or less on alpha and not usable beyond puttering. On top of that, there are basically 5 “boxes” available for Vagrant that are Virtualbox targeted and use ARM64, another surprise limitation that o should have accounted for. This isn’t a huge deal as I bought this for other stuff as well but it’s funny that this really amounts to a bunch of Raspberry Pi 4s taped together as far as my use case goes.
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Feb 5, 2023 21:43
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I don’t think I like IINA that much. It might be fine for local files but it’s kind of the pits for network streams. Opens new windows instead of old ones when called from CLI, doesn’t handle stream hiccups gracefully, defaults to ‘http’ for stream URLs and you have to type out “[url]https://“[/url] instead of just “s” (and no option to default to https), and doesn’t remember recent network steams in the pop up window except it totally does but you have dig it out of a sub menu. I can understand where people might like it but I really wish it behaved a bit better.
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Feb 24, 2023 01:54
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Small White Dragon posted:I thought there were some major concerns about data collection in Audacity? Did that turn out not to be true? Iirc it was mostly overblown by the, understandably pissed, FOSS community and you can opt out. Should that not be true there are forks people have made as a response but I can comment to their quality or if they have been rolling in changes/updates Audacity has made since (if any).
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Feb 25, 2023 00:57
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If it’s a Synology you’ll want to enable a setting or two in the file share section of the control panel to have it advertised as a network drive and so on. You’ll still need to click in and have it auto connect every so often but you don’t have to go looking. Additionally if you’re in Syn town, check out Synology Drive Sync if you’re on a newer Mac. It operates similar to Dropbox/Onedrive where it will list all the files in your shares in such a way that they show up but will only actually pull them down when needed or told to with the additional benefit that it’ll periodically clean up after itself and remove unused files. I actually prefer it to SMB for anything where I don’t need newly added files locally right this second (files have to be indexed to show up) or the files in question don’t really need to be available locally to begin with (bulk photo upload).
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Feb 26, 2023 16:26
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Yes? I can tell it to download whatever and keep it there at a dir or file level but default is to stream it down per file. This fellow walks through how to set it up and so on: https://youtu.be/iUxuiCLuj70 I want to say it hooks into finder as well if you use the search there. There are a few advantages with doing a network mount instead, but there’s nothing stopping you from having both.
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Feb 26, 2023 21:26
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I've been having two fairly consistent odd issues with my new m2, both on waking from sleep: 1. If the laptop is connected to my TB3 dock, external monitors will usually not be noticed prompting a re-docking to resolve. However this morning, it straight up would not recognize the HDMI monitor attached as well and a full reboot had to be done to get anything external to play nice, TB or otherwise. 2. Wifi will occasionally just up and not work from sleep despite being connected. Toggling on/off wifi will usually resolve it but it does seem weirdly similar to an issue I was seeing with the wife's 2017 MBP that appears to have been related to band steering by our router. Are either of these known quantities?
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Mar 4, 2023 16:58
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Hm. I was pretty sure I had grabbed the CD driver stuff for the max/doc but I’ll have to double check.
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Mar 4, 2023 22:03
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kefkafloyd posted:Any reason why the Synology Drive sync client won’t meet your needs? I use it for that purpose. Agreed. If you’re already using a Syn box this’ll do it. Keep the specific dir/file pinned on each device and it’ll sort itself out. Alternatively: rsync.
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Mar 8, 2023 20:11
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Sounds like you need a NAS my dude.
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Mar 12, 2023 00:00
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I mean additional NASs. Can’t have enough of them.
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Mar 12, 2023 14:21
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Just yeet the entire affair on the NAS, you have everything you need so long as you have the disks to accommodate it. If not, disks have largely returned to a normal $/TB ratio. (Thanks for nothing, crypto idiots) Synology drive does what you want from anywhere if you configure it to do so. Failing that, consolidate to iCloud or Onedrive (presuming the latter offers “here but not here” functionality like it does for Windows.
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Mar 12, 2023 17:18
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tuyop posted:Oh yeah, this is a good idea that I should have thought of. I can just use all the sharing and coauthoring poo poo with the webapps in the rare even that I actually need that and the other person even knows that it's possible (after I showed them two months ago). That should work but may require a step or two you haven’t done yet: https://youtu.be/TCLRp3KHV_M I don’t personally use it, but if you’re looking for finder integration it should do what you want. Not sure if it would hook into drive/drive sync though. Regardless if you set this up you can at worst use the DSM UI to do it. Also drive sync set up should you need it: https://youtu.be/iUxuiCLuj70 Note that if you have dinked around with Drive before you’ll likely need to convert your home dir in Drive to the “new” version so you can sync it.
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Mar 14, 2023 14:48
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obi_ant posted:My wife is currently using a 2017 MBP and is tired of her computer dying after an extended period of non-use. She says she 100% shuts it down, but I'm more inclined to think she closes the lid before the computer 100% shuts down and it goes to sleep, and dies by the time she gets back to it. It's her computer and I don't really mess with it. Just so I'm not crazy, there isn't a setting that keeps the computer up doing stuff in the background when it's shut down right? LTT had something about this a few weeks ago where there is often some “wake on LAN”-ish setting that gets turned on in lots of laptops that may be the cause. This was in reference to windows machines iirc but would be worth looking into as I want to say Mac stuff did come up as well. I think this was it. I hate hate hate hate hate the naming and thumbnail scheme he used but look into the sleep mode stuff he mentions here and do some digging: https://youtu.be/OHKKcd3sx2c Warbird fucked around with this message at 14:59 on Mar 14, 2023 |
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Mar 14, 2023 14:52
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Host a freshRSS instance and hook reeder up to that?
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Mar 15, 2023 01:38
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There are a few apps that separate direction based on input (pad v mouse) but I’d be interested in hearing more about a code based solution so I don’t have to make sure the Logitech app is running whenever I use a mouse.
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Mar 15, 2023 18:36
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Git and binaries don’t exactly play nice together. You’d frankly be better off just making a zip and sticking it somewhere. Failing that, snapshots of some kind I guess. Alternatively, Lidarr would probably be real real good at this. Probably do that and then zip things up.
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Mar 23, 2023 02:12
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Freeform is kind of disappointing imo. You can’t get stuff back out of it half the time. I had a board or whatever going to gather documents for a Visa and once in half the things can’t be copied out or even printed. It’s the damndest thing.
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Mar 27, 2023 19:31
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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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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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