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My MBP's doing a weird thing: sometimes (but not always) when I open it, with a far form empty battery, it'll do the dead-battery waking from sleep thing (with the slow progress bar), instead of just waking up normally. Anyone know why it would do that?
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I'm trying to download and install Catalina on my Mojave Macbook Pro, but every link from a helpful "here's the appstore link" article I follow gives me a "cannot connect to app store" error. The rest of the app store is working fine. Should this work, or is it impossible? E: Never mind, worked when I clicked the link from Safari instead of FF Bobstar fucked around with this message at 11:25 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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Dec 16, 2020 10:59
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Nitrousoxide posted:It will work within your network without a Internet connection. Obviously it is physically impossible for you to communicate from outside your lan into your lan hwithout an Internet connection. This is interesting to me, because I'm trying and failing to find a smart thermostat (in the EU) which I can control from my iPhone, but which doesn't see the internet - I eventually want to create a separate VLAN for my IoT devices and keep them walled off from the outside world. So HomeKit certified ones should allow this?
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Dec 26, 2020 21:06
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Nitrousoxide posted:Correct. The ecobee thermostat should be homekit certified. Thanks. Annoyingly, Ecobee seems to be the one major manufacturer that's North America only. Same chat in the home automation thread. I'll keep up the search. --- For actual Mac software chat, I've just upgraded to Catalina (I was hanging on for a vital app to go 64). In iTunes I liked to be in "songs" view, and then when you search, it narrows the songs list to matching songs. Now in the Music app, it jumps you to a graphical results page, which I don't like. Any way to go back to the old way?
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Dec 26, 2020 21:26
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Nitrousoxide posted:I did a few seconds of searching and maybe this would work? When I stayed in Germany for a month a couple of years ago I had a setup that this likely would have worked for. Ah, I had discounted them because they don't support OpenTherm, but it looks like they have a secret, more expensive option that does. Thanks!
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Dec 26, 2020 21:53
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Zenostein posted:For Music, you want to be using the filter field. Apparently, I didn't need to set the regular search shortcut to something else, but if it behaves strangely then maybe change that, too. At the very least, you'll need both the show and hide options, otherwise pressing cmd-f will only open, not hide the little search filter pane. Also, remember that for changing shortcut keys like this, you need to type the menu item's name exactly, so if you're not using english, you'll need to sort out what the appropriate menu item is. That's the badger. Thanks  SlowBloke posted:The valves/thermostat have no object/programming permanence, every status change comes from the internet so if internet goes down, HomeKit might not be able to fire up automation. I’ll test it tomorrow as RN the boiler is shut down. Much appreciated. All I want to do is set a target temperature from my phone, and maybe schedule a daily shutoff at 2300 in case we forget, without having my thermostat on the internet with another proprietary cloud account. Seems like it should be that hard, but that's IoT/capitalism... Bobstar fucked around with this message at 10:17 on Dec 27, 2020 |
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Dec 27, 2020 10:05
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Thanks Ants posted:Tado is HomeKit certified as well. Hive is poo poo, do not buy it. I saw them and discounted it because "No Internet connection just means that controlling your heating or air conditioning remotely via the mobile or web app is not possible during this time." And also because lots of people were moaning about a monthly fee to use the app, but again, if basic temperature setting via HomeKit is possible on LAN only, that would be fine (and cheaper than the Netatmo mentioned above).
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Dec 29, 2020 17:49
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Nitrousoxide posted:If its homekit certified it should work through the internet as well, as long as both the homekit hub and the iphone/ipad/mac that you're trying to change the temp through are online. Cool. I have just seen in their compatibility guide that it's suitable for my brand of heating system, except when the existing thermostat controls the fan - which mine does. So I think my heating system may be too obscure for an easy smart retrofit. Might contact the installers for advice. Thanks all for the HomeKit enlightenment anyway
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Dec 29, 2020 18:06
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What was the name of that Photoshop alternative that's good and you only pay once? Might have started with an A?
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Jan 20, 2021 21:31
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Affinity Photo That's the one, thanks!
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Jan 20, 2021 22:00
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My wife's loving her M1 Air, but she used to use this software called KnitBird on her old one, which I see is Adobe Air-based. I'm not totally sure what Adobe Air is (even after reading about it), but is she SOL on using this (abandoned) software on her new Mac? https://knitbird.com/
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Feb 21, 2021 22:12
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Thanks Ants posted:Maybe - there's mention of M1 support being worked on at https://airsdk.harman.com/ That worked. I swear I ended up on a Harman site before but there wasn't a handy download. Thants!
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Feb 22, 2021 19:06
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I'm finding Music better than iTunes because now the search bar only searches Apple Music, and I can Cmd+F to search my library. Don't know if that was possible before, but it's easier than what I was doing (searching then choosing which thing you wanted to search). Having to mouse-over the now playing area to see the elapsed and remaining times though - in space that is otherwise blank - is just silly.
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Apr 6, 2021 19:54
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What's the deal with running a Big Sur VM in Big Sur on the M1s? One thing my 2014 MBP struggles with is running an OSX VM smoothly, so I'm wondering how well it works/is possible for when I eventually upgrade. This is a surprisingly hard thing to Google, because it always assume you mean the host machine.
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May 10, 2021 19:38
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I think that was the cause of the bizarre phenomenon, many years ago, when my Mac stopped outputting system sounds (like the error ting or email send/receive sounds), but then when I plugged headphones in after a few weeks of not doing so, it would play back all the missing sounds, in order. Ping Ping Woosh Woosh Woosh Ping Ping etc... Very weird!
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Aug 18, 2021 20:38
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Is there any limitation on macos versions for screen sharing? I'll be wanting to use a High Sierra machine as client, and a Mini with unknown but probably not older than High Sierra as the host.
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Oct 4, 2021 13:34
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japtor posted:I feel like it should work, based on using it forever with different versions over the years (along with third party iOS apps). I think the only hiccups I've ever run into (if I'm even remembering right) are when they tweaked/moved the setting for it in the first place. Yeah that was my thinking too. I was able to test it with my own Catalina MBP as client yesterday (the host Mini is also on Catalina), so we'll see tomorrow whether the High Sierra machine works.
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Oct 6, 2021 09:05
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Semi-related to the above, what's the best way to back up the data on two household Macbooks to my Synology NAS? I have Time Machine working but am worried about horror stories... I remember having problems last time I tried, but I can't remember if it was recycle bin related, or the more worrying "whoops, all corrupted! Start again" problem. I had a quick play with the Synology drive, seemed ok, not the most intuitive to set up. But it's not clear to me how it works when the quota gets full - does it start deleting old versions, like Time Machine? Or does it yell at you and stop backing up until you manually make space? Is CCC worth a look too?
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Feb 17, 2022 19:29
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Cross-posting from the iPad thread: My Sidecar just broke. M1P MacBook Pro and 12.9" iPad Pro, I've been working on it all day with a wired USB-C connection, came back to my hotel, carried on working, and suddenly the iPad said "will resume when connection is better" or something, and I haven't been able to get it back since. Googling just gives a bunch of "try it over a wired connection" answers... the only difference is that in the hotel I'm on a VPN (during the day I had no wifi). But it worked for a few hours like that, then suddenly stopped. I've rebooted multiple times and turned off network connections. The MBP sees and trusts the iPad just fine. After the last reboot it's started saying "no network connection, why not try it wired?". Very annoying, I need two screens to just work! Any ideas?
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Apr 7, 2022 21:33
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knox_harrington posted:Newb here, how do I get Transmission to install as an actual application? I did the drag .dmg file to Applications but just seem to have a temporary app installed in a folder. I have a Transmission…drive? on my desktop. It doesn’t actually appear in Applications. Open the Trasmission "drive" (this is the open .dmg file), drag the Transmission application within into your applications folder. Eject and delete the .dmg file, and launch Transmission from Applications. This is how (many) Mac apps work. The .dmg is a disk image, think of it like inserting a CD, but then just dragging the .exe onto your computer instead of running an installer.
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Aug 7, 2022 11:37
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OldSenileGuy posted:A couple years ago I started paying for 1Password (after using it for years when I bought it outright, I begrudgingly switched to the subscription model to get the latest updates), and it's been totally worth it. Sorry I can't help with your question, but what features do you appreciate in the subscription version? I'm still using the bought-outright one synced over Dropbox as I have been for years. Curious if there are things I'm missing out on.
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Aug 10, 2022 19:16
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My M1P MBP keeps doing this No idea if I needed to censor that... but it pops up a dozen boxes like this, one after the other, with random hex strings in them. It was happening when I switched user accounts, now it's started happening for no apparent reason. A reboot makes it stop for a week+ Any ideas?
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Busy Bee posted:I just got a new MBP and I remember from my 2008 MBP that I could use a three finger swipe motion up to go to the top of the page in the browser. Is this not possible anymore and if so, is there an app I can download that would provide this functionality? This should be possible natively (I'm doing it right now), I think I had to turn off 3-finger upswipe being something else in System Settings > Track Pad > More Gestures
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