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 Apple releases Safari 14.1, this time they really mean it Available in Software Update on Macs running the latest Mojave, Catatonic.. Apple posted:Safari 14.1 includes improvements and bug fixes. Yeah, you two in the back that wanted Vorbis support.. this update updates Safari on Mojave and The Cat to 14.1, build 15611.1.21.161.7, 15611.. this fix was already rolled into Big Spur 11.3.1.. 93.5 measly MB on Intels.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 02:26 on May 5, 2021 |
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gently caress I was hoping they'd address this "problem repeatedly occurred" stuff in Safari that's made my Dad's installation useless.
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May 5, 2021 02:17
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Holy good gravy do I wish Chrome would do back/forward two-finger swiping like Safari does, with the whole page overlaying over the current one so you can pull it into view and peek at it and put it away again without actually navigating all the way to it, instead of that dumb little arrow-tab thing that fades into view on the left or right edge and you never know whether you pulled far enough for it to "take" Or failing that I wish Safari would figure out how to anchor to the forums post that the "last read" point in your bookmarks links to and doesn't reflow it into some unknowable netherworld as soon as the embedded tweets all expand, like Chrome seems to have no trouble doing
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May 5, 2021 02:56
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I'm just waiting for the 16 inch MBP so I can run awful.app on my Mac.
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May 5, 2021 05:13
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Follow up to my MBP wifi woes: I have no idea what the gently caress it was but it's no longer happening anymore 
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May 6, 2021 01:13
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Binary Badger posted:Intel or M1? Did 11.3.1 work for you? Intel, but I've also swapped docks to a CalDigit for other reasons. I did the upgrade last night, and it didn't crash this morning, so... maybe?
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May 7, 2021 18:38
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May 7, 2021 19:36
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Can anyone recommend a decent clipboard manager? Preferably something free/cheap that doesn't send all my copies to a dodgy server.
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May 10, 2021 14:42
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Xabi posted:Can anyone recommend a decent clipboard manager? Preferably something free/cheap that doesn't send all my copies to a dodgy server. The one build into Alfred is pretty sweet
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May 10, 2021 14:54
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Data Graham posted:Holy good gravy do I wish Chrome would do back/forward two-finger swiping like Safari does, with the whole page overlaying over the current one so you can pull it into view and peek at it and put it away again without actually navigating all the way to it, instead of that dumb little arrow-tab thing that fades into view on the left or right edge and you never know whether you pulled far enough for it to "take" That seems to be the only good thing about Chrome. Have you tried Firefox?
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May 10, 2021 15:22
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Not lately, but ... It seems to behave identically to Chrome, including the little left/right arrow tab things instead of the Safari-style pull-over.
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May 10, 2021 15:51
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nexxai posted:The one build into Alfred is pretty sweet Seconded.
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May 10, 2021 16:29
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Xabi posted:Can anyone recommend a decent clipboard manager? Preferably something free/cheap that doesn't send all my copies to a dodgy server. I use iClip, myself. It's pretty solid.
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May 10, 2021 16:46
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I've run into some limitations of iMovie (can't export 60fps if the source is bigger than 1080p, forced 16:9 crop rectangle) so I'm looking for a replacement. The video editing I do is pretty light, just trimming and cropping 60fps game recordings down to small shareable clips. Does anyone have a recommendation for a (preferably free) video editor?
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May 10, 2021 18:16
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Actuarial Fables posted:I've run into some limitations of iMovie (can't export 60fps if the source is bigger than 1080p, forced 16:9 crop rectangle) so I'm looking for a replacement. The video editing I do is pretty light, just trimming and cropping 60fps game recordings down to small shareable clips. DaVinci Resolve. It's probably overkill for what you're doing but really is a fantastic free program.
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May 10, 2021 18:18
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Somehow I trimmed, cropped, and exported video but my 5 second clip somehow has an extra two hours added on now. But it is 60fps so this will work, thanks!
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May 10, 2021 19:21
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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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Welp, just installed pfSense 2.5.1 on a 2012 Mac Mini, with both the OEM 1 TB HDD and a 512GB Hynix Gold SSD (pfSense on the SSD.) It automatically recognized the Built-in Ethernet (claims its a Broadcom Gigabit) and also auto-recognized the Apple Thunderbolt 2 to Gigabit Ethernet.. Should be good enough to manage my coming gigabit connection (it's 400 at the moment) and the gaggle of IoT and other network devices Thought about an EdgeRouter Lite 3, but Ubiquiti seems to be getting raked over the coals lately for their security mistakes, and why not put the Mini to good use? Apple decided to cut it off from Big Sur anyway.. Plus the 8 GB of RAM is a lot more than the 512 MB of RAM that I'd get on the ERL-3.. hopefully that and the 2.6 GHz quad-core will compensate for the lack of hardware acceleration/offloading I'd get on ERL-3.. Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 03:01 on May 11, 2021 |
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May 11, 2021 02:58
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Bobstar posted: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. It doesn't work today. It might in the future. Mike Roy, VMWare manager posted:macOS VMs are not in scope in the short term. There are challenges there which will require Apple to work with us to resolve. Basically, VMWare needs more information and support from Apple on the Apple Silicon boot process before they can commit to a product. Until then, they're focused on supporting Linux VMs on Apple Silicon. As far as I know, Parallels does not yet boot macOS on M1. However, based on their willingness to market running the Windows Insider preview, they might be more willing to hack something together without Apple's support. (It isn't actually legal to run ARM Windows on Parallels on a M1 Mac, even though it's easy to do.) In summary, things are still a little murky on what operating systems will be fully supported as VM guests on Apple Silicon. I think there's reasons to be optimistic, that the wheels are just turning and it's gonna take a little while for big corporations to be ready to announce things, but for now we have to wait.
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May 11, 2021 03:34
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Binary Badger posted:Welp, just installed pfSense 2.5.1 on a 2012 Mac Mini, with both the OEM 1 TB HDD and a 512GB Hynix Gold SSD (pfSense on the SSD.) After the pfSense WireGuard debacle earlier this year, you shouldn't be installing it on anything imo. Having read into other drama related to pfSense, that was probably a good idea even before the WireGuard thing, but after? There's simply no reason to believe pfSense knows how to write secure code, contract for others to write secure code, etc.
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May 11, 2021 03:44
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Welp, nobody's tried to break into my connection yet.. but I guess I'll make an OpnSense bootup drive tomorrow..
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May 11, 2021 05:02
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BobHoward posted:It doesn't work today. It might in the future.
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May 11, 2021 05:36
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Mercurius posted:The responses to that article are hilarious, especially considering the whole licensing thing. Yeah, VMWare has long been consistent about not wanting to piss other companies off by making license violations easy for VMWare users. They weren't gonna change that policy now just because everyone's excited about M1. For example, Apple's MacOS X licenses used to prohibit running it on anything but bare metal Apple-manufactured hardware. During that time, VMWare explicitly did not support Mac guests. Then one year (presumably after years of people lobbying) Apple added language to the Mac OS X Server license which permitted running it as a guest so long as the host hardware was a Mac. But since that was only added to the Server license, VMWare still refused to allow virtualizing the "Client" edition of OS X. (eventually Apple smoothed that out too iirc)
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May 11, 2021 08:27
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italian quid posted:DaVinci Resolve. It's probably overkill for what you're doing but really is a fantastic free program. Seconded. It’s amazing.
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May 11, 2021 16:01
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I think I fixed my Touch Bar problem. I drained the MacBook Pro battery completely and charged it back up and the issue seems to be completely gone. I wish Apple told me to try that. I'm going to keep monitoring it and if the issue doesn't crop back up, going to cancel my fruit stand appointment this Friday.
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May 11, 2021 21:14
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Just had the dumbest thing just happen. I’m playing a game where one of the characters is named something that sounds like siri. I’m also updating my MBP next to me. So the Mac is updating and it’s on the Apple logo with the bar under it. The game says the characters name and the MBP actually responded during the middle of the update. The other dumb thing is that my MBP responds but my HomePod doesn’t lol.
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May 12, 2021 22:16
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Has Time Machine become garbage in Big Sur? I constantly have issues with whatever external drive I use. I think it killed my last one, which was only a few months old, but was a replacement for a failed drive under warranty so could have been a dodgy refurb. For a while I had to keep wiping it it clean and starting fresh. Eventually, it just stopped recognizing it altogether. Now it's been unable to recognize my new one a few times until I unplug it/plug it back in. Had it for a week. It's going through a CalDigit dock, the one that's too much money but works well. Has no problems recognizing my other drive, speakers, etc (although it didn't recognize a monitor this morning waking from sleep).
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May 15, 2021 15:12
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Puppy Galaxy posted:Has Time Machine become garbage in Big Sur? I constantly have issues with whatever external drive I use. I think it killed my last one, which was only a few months old, but was a replacement for a failed drive under warranty so could have been a dodgy refurb. For a while I had to keep wiping it it clean and starting fresh. Eventually, it just stopped recognizing it altogether. Now it's been unable to recognize my new one a few times until I unplug it/plug it back in. Had it for a week. It's not necessarily Big Sur — it was just your time to finally succumb to Time Machine's general random garbage--ness. It's just not a very good feature and has been unreliable since its introduction. It was just unreliable in very unpredictable and uneven ways, where you'd have no issues for ages until one day, it just fell apart at the seams. The only change that ever really mattered was when they moved from a basic symlinked file system to storing everything in sparse bundles. That was quite a while ago, and all it did was make it even more unreliable and also more troublesome to browse (all those tiny bands would clog up the directory structure). It's possibly the latter that has somehow worn out your drives. I'm being thoroughly unhelpful here, but really, just look for a different backup solution — TM isn't it. It works for some lightweight every-day OS-integrated file history and versioning, but do not rely on it to actually keep any data safe because it won't.
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May 15, 2021 15:35
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Tippis posted:It's not necessarily Big Sur — it was just your time to finally succumb to Time Machine's general random garbage--ness. It's just not a very good feature and has been unreliable since its introduction. It was just unreliable in very unpredictable and uneven ways, where you'd have no issues for ages until one day, it just fell apart at the seams. The only change that ever really mattered was when they moved from a basic symlinked file system to storing everything in sparse bundles. That was quite a while ago, and all it did was make it even more unreliable and also more troublesome to browse (all those tiny bands would clog up the directory structure). It's possibly the latter that has somehow worn out your drives. Yeah I have Backblaze too. What's a better solution? I use CCC for backing up my media drive, maybe I'll see how that works as my main, frequent on-site backup.
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May 15, 2021 16:03
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Big Sur has been absolutely making GBS threads the bed when it comes to syncing my photos from my iphone via iCloud. I noticed that suddenly I had almost 2 weeks of photos not showing up on my mac. I was able to fix it once via restarting my MBP but it continues to happen and it's really driving me nuts. I blame BS because syncing is fine between my iphone and ipad. Does anyone else have problems like this and is there a solution?
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May 15, 2021 16:13
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Is there a way to find out what the hell made a notification sound? I'm on 11.3.1 and occasionally, out of the blue when I'm not using the thing, a loud notification sound plays. I can't see anything in the notifications history, I can't see any icons badged, but it keeps giving me a fright!
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May 15, 2021 17:57
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Tippis posted:The only change that ever really mattered was when they moved from a basic symlinked file system to storing everything in sparse bundles. That was quite a while ago, and all it did was make it even more unreliable and also more troublesome to browse (all those tiny bands would clog up the directory structure). It's possibly the latter that has somehow worn out your drives. TM never used symlinks, it's hardlinks all the way down. It was built around one of the all-time simultaneously brilliant and awful hacks: directory hard links, a very special HFS+ feature created exclusively for use by Time Machine. (Nothing else shipped by Apple knows how to create or manipulate directory hard links, and it's only possible for TM to work with directory hardlinks on locally-mounted HFS+ volumes.) And that brings us to sparse bundles. They didn't actually change how TM worked, they were just an additional abstraction layer (put the TM backup volume inside a sparse bundle disk image) to work around the limitations of a different abstraction layer (no network file system protocol on the planet supports directory hard links). By mounting the HFS+ volume inside the disk image locally, TM got access to all the special HFS+ sauce required for it to function. If you mount a TM sparsebundle yourself, what you'll find inside is exactly the same browseable directory structure you'd find in a local TM backup disk. This is repeating itself with the new APFS-based Time Machine. No network file system protocol understands the concept of APFS snapshots, so TM still has to store an APFS volume inside a sparsebundle disk image.
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BobHoward posted:TM never used symlinks, it's hardlinks all the way down. It was built around one of the all-time simultaneously brilliant and awful hacks: directory hard links, a very special HFS+ feature created exclusively for use by Time Machine. (Nothing else shipped by Apple knows how to create or manipulate directory hard links, and it's only possible for TM to work with directory hardlinks on locally-mounted HFS+ volumes.)  It's worse than I remembered. Still, the point largely remains. The extra funny bit is that even with Apple hardware, that should presumably have coped with — or just not incurred — the limitations, it was still unreliable. It's almost as if hacks aren't really a good foundation for this kind of thing, no matter how brilliant they seem on the surface.
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May 16, 2021 01:26
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Tippis posted:
Yup. I just wanted to explore the can of worms underneath a bit... In the WWDC session where they talked about APFS-based Time Machine, they mentioned cutting out tens of thousands of lines of corner-case code because everything's so much cleaner and easier with atomic snapshotting as a baseline FS feature. So at least there's hope for a more stable Time Machine as the APFS version of it matures.
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May 16, 2021 07:06
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Any idea what this new icon is?  I don't use macs and my father in law gets jumpy when new icons suddenly start popping up. This has been pretty awkward to google
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May 17, 2021 20:04
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any idea what this new icon is? Handover/continuity . Safari is detecting that the same user is logged on multiple devices and it’s suggesting to open the last tab from what it looks to be another macOS device.
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May 17, 2021 20:08
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FuzzySlippers posted:Any idea what this new icon is? He has Safari open on his phone/another device
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May 17, 2021 20:10
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He can disable it by going to System Preferences / General and unchecking the box marked 'Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices.' He might get mad that he will also no longer be able to answer phone calls on his Mac if you do that, though.
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May 18, 2021 00:12
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Welp, Apple is pinching out the Release Candidate for macOS 11.4 for some reason. Maybe they wanna say they're shipping 11.4 out in time for WWDC? 11.48 GB on Intel, whoof. Someone with an M1 can be smug a post a smaller value for the Apple Sillycon version Edit: it's build 20F71 Binary Badger fucked around with this message at 01:14 on May 18, 2021 |
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Ugh finder was non responsive last week so rebooted, and today worked out why. One of my HDDs in the DAS isn’t mourning anymore. Rebooted both the Mac again and the DAS, power light is on it but is a no show in Disk Utility. Is there a go to piece of software or technique these days to see if there’s any hope of recovery? Fairly recent purchase, 10TB WD.
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