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TACD posted:I finally bit the bullet and bought myself a pair of wireless headphones, and so far my experience is absolutely confirming all my Old Man Yells At Cloud opinions that prevented me from doing so earlier. Using them during the workday on my Mac and sometimes they'll be absolutely fine for hours, and sometimes there'll be microstutters every minute or two that wreck the whole experience. I'm poring through console logs and Bluetooth Explorer trying to find any activity that correlates with the stutters and feeling massively disheartened at how common this issue seems to be, and that there's apparently no decisive way to troubleshoot something that should have been solved years ago. Some headphones get real lovely when paired with apples BT stack. My Bose soundlinks at boot with stutter like 20-30% of the time, and I need to shut them off and on a few times to get it to stop. It’ll clear for a few weeks if I unpair and repair, but I’m lazy. If it’s not a stack issue like that, it’s probably interference. BT is pretty much figured out for audio playback, especially at 5.0. Usual culprits are mice, keyboards, cordless phones, even routers sometimes.
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TACD posted:I finally bit the bullet and bought myself a pair of wireless headphones, and so far my experience is absolutely confirming all my Old Man Yells At Cloud opinions that prevented me from doing so earlier. Using them during the workday on my Mac and sometimes they'll be absolutely fine for hours, and sometimes there'll be microstutters every minute or two that wreck the whole experience. I'm poring through console logs and Bluetooth Explorer trying to find any activity that correlates with the stutters and feeling massively disheartened at how common this issue seems to be, and that there's apparently no decisive way to troubleshoot something that should have been solved years ago. bluetooth sucks and mac os's bluetooth framework is a burning dumpster fire judging by the number of kernel panics i've seen it cause over the years but it really shouldn't be that bad. unfortunately, there are a lot of very expensive and very lovely bluetooth headphones out there.
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SMERSH Mouth posted:If I have the latest (and probably last) 13” 4-TB Port Intel MBP running BS and the most recent version of Premiere Pro CC, is it unusual that scrubbing through a 1080p timeline previewing titles, graphics and transitions runs smoother in (deprecated)OpenCL than Metal? If it's the 2020 model with the Ice Lake CPU, not unusual.. according to this article here: https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel...s.422772.0.html Apple is still keeping support for both OpenCL and OpenGL in Catalina / Big Sur; they're still moribund versions, it's something like OpenCL v1.2 and OpenGL v4.1.. If they didn't keep this moribund support, it would break countless scientific / imaging apps, some of which don't have any Windows equivalents, and you can bet that some will never be ported over.. the screams of the dying would be a nightmare for Apple unless they want to send out legions of programmers fluent in developing for the Metal API to re-teach people, and that's a guaranteed never happening thing too.. Apple probably is using Intel provided source code for its iGPU drivers which have supported OpenCL for the longest time on Windows; they probably contract out writing the Metal drivers because it's Apple proprietary bullshit and as a result less efficient than the Intel OpenCL code where they've had years to refine it.
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I ordered a 16GB RAM/1TB SSD MBA on November 12, and a new Apple Watch for my SO on Thanksgiving morning. The Watch is both “Scheduled for Delivery” but also in sitting in Korea according to the UPS app and my laptop has yet to ship. I thought I would stop by the MacRumors forums to see what the fanatics were saying about shipping times and it is truly a pathetic thread. These people are beyond obsessed. They track UPS flights that could potentially have apple devices on them down to notifying each other of when planes have landed and are taxiing to gates. It’s fascinating. I feel awful for anyone working for UPS/FedEx or logistics of any kind right now. Ugh. Has anyone received a higher spec’d M1 Air from Apple yet? I am curious if mine will reach me by Monday, which is the end of Apple’s delivery window. I don’t see how that will happen. I’m not in a hurry to get it or anything and really don’t want to go into a mall to get to the nearest store if they were to get them in stock, so I’m happy waiting. I’d like to play with the thing during my week off later this month though since there is nothing else to do.
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Dec 4, 2020 17:45
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For those of you with Bluetooth issues, do you by any chance have a USB3 hard drive plugged in? I'd get major drops with my Samsung T5 plugged into my TB dock. I removed it and now my keyboard/mouse/headhpones are rock solid.
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Totally Huge posted:I ordered a 16GB RAM/1TB SSD MBA on November 12, and a new Apple Watch for my SO on Thanksgiving morning. The Watch is both “Scheduled for Delivery” but also in sitting in Korea according to the UPS app and my laptop has yet to ship. This sounds more like mental illness than obsessed.
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Totally Huge posted:I ordered a 16GB RAM/1TB SSD MBA on November 12, and a new Apple Watch for my SO on Thanksgiving morning. The Watch is both “Scheduled for Delivery” but also in sitting in Korea according to the UPS app and my laptop has yet to ship. I got a 16GB/1TB Air same day of order, but that was by catching the moment when a local Apple Store showed as having one available for pickup. If you don't want to obsessively play around with Apple's website followed by going into a mall (understandable because COVID), you'll have to wait for the currently hosed shipping logistics to work themselves out (also thanks COVID).
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Dec 4, 2020 20:33
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BobHoward posted:I got a 16GB/1TB Air same day of order, but that was by catching the moment when a local Apple Store showed as having one available for pickup. If you don't want to obsessively play around with Apple's website followed by going into a mall (understandable because COVID), you'll have to wait for the currently hosed shipping logistics to work themselves out (also thanks COVID). This time of year I wouldn’t set foot in a mall regardless, but COVID really strengthens that stance for me. There are other non-mall Apple stores I could go a little further away but meh, like I said I am not super desperate for this thing and don’t want to spend time refreshing their store. I just want it before Xmas week so I can have some free time to mess around with it. I looked at that insane MacForums thread some more and it seems like anything coming out of China is F’d, but any shipments marked “Express Delivery” by Apple in the US are shipping from local warehouses overnight. Mine says Express so I suppose it’s possible I’ll get it sometime this year! Several people that ordered day one are saying their delivery dates have been pushed back to January because some kind of big SNAFU. I cannot express how pathetic that thread is though. My god.
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Quick question about time machine. I have ordered a new mac mini m1 512gb 16g of ram. Delivery is scheduled for 12/23. However, I would like to buy the cheapest mac mini m1 and use it till my better mac mini arrives. Obviously, I would then return the cheaper mac mini. Will time machine backup work between two machines like this? Will the rest of my 512 gb just show up as useable disc space after I use time machine, or does time machine work like a disc clone app? Thanks! I only have a week off of work next week, would rather set everything up now then during the busy flu/covid season at work over the next month.
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Matt Zerella posted:For those of you with Bluetooth issues, do you by any chance have a USB3 hard drive plugged in?
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TACD posted:Nothing at all plugged in for me, though my partner does have a RAID connected to her Mac at the other end of the desk. If an external drive connected to a different machine causes Bluetooth interference then I’m giving up on technology and moving to the forest. On the 2018 Mac mini it’s pretty bad, I basically have to use the Magic Trackpad wired cause of it, and gave up using my Powerbeats for Zoom cause they can be inconsistent. Supposedly just using the TB/USB-C ports are ok 
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Are there any free folder icon sets in the new Big Sur style to use in Finder?
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japtor posted:Don't they have that already or are those on ear rather than over ear? I think they classify as on-ear, but that's not my beef with them, they are just woefully antiquated compared to modern Apple-ASIC powered headphones.
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Dec 7, 2020 18:06
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Anyone have a recommendation for adblocking in Safari now that uBlock Origin doesn't work?
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Dec 7, 2020 19:09
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Less Fat Luke posted:Anyone have a recommendation for adblocking in Safari now that uBlock Origin doesn't work? I’ve been using 1Blocker like I do on my phone and it seems to be working well.
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Dec 7, 2020 20:57
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Is there a good alternative to Smooze? I really like it but it’s a bit jittery on the Mac Mini M1 with a 144hz display. The Mini’s performance is buttery smooth so the jittery grabbing and auto scroll stands out.
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Crunchy Black posted:I think they classify as on-ear, but that's not my beef with them, they are just woefully antiquated compared to modern Apple-ASIC powered headphones. 
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the GPU stuff is interesting but i don't see how Apple gets the two big GPU user segments on-board: CUDA compute users and gamers
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Less Fat Luke posted:Anyone have a recommendation for adblocking in Safari now that uBlock Origin doesn't work?
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Dec 8, 2020 01:22
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japtor posted:USB 3.0 has been known to interfere with Bluetooth. We've seen it at work a couple of times. That's in 4 years on a campus with 6 or 7 thousand Macs. https://www.bluetoothandusb3.com/the-explanation
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I have an issue, when I use Discord the smart bar or whatever it's called on my 2020 MBP, it started showing an emoji icon on the far left. I think it started yesterday. I forgot how to customize it, but the thing is driving me nuts because as I type the happy face icon just blinks and blinks, it's super annoying and I need it gone. What WERE they thinking :avgnface:
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Dec 8, 2020 15:03
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Also my loving iphone keeps asking me to setup 'Apple Pay.' I'd never trust them with my credit card. I need them to stop pestering me. I might even call them on the customer support number if I keep getting pop ups.
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Dec 8, 2020 16:28
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Cheese Thief posted:Also my loving iphone keeps asking me to setup 'Apple Pay.' I'd never trust them with my credit card. I need them to stop pestering me. I might even call them on the customer support number if I keep getting pop ups. Just setup your card you Luddite
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Dec 8, 2020 16:36
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Yeah Apple Pay is great if you’re security conscious. No more giving vendors your actual card number, just a one off code with a payment attached. Apple don’t get it either, it’s kept entirely within a secure area of your phone.
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Learning how Apple Pay actually functions immediately took me from “I don’t want or need this” to “ if Apple Pay is an option I will always choose it.”
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Apple: "we literally do not want to know or even see any of your sensitive information, we will fight the law if we have to in order to avoid us having even the ability to read any of your encrypted data" Customers: "I don't know something seems fishy about these guys"
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Cheese Thief posted:I have an issue, when I use Discord the smart bar or whatever it's called on my 2020 MBP, it started showing an emoji icon on the far left. I think it started yesterday. I forgot how to customize it, but the thing is driving me nuts because as I type the happy face icon just blinks and blinks, it's super annoying and I need it gone. What WERE they thinking :avgnface: It’s a new feature in Discord called “stickers”, basically super emoji that they want you to buy in sets for about $3. e:oh you might be meaning the MBP Touch Bar itself in which case idk.
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Cheese Thief posted:Also my loving iphone keeps asking me to setup 'Apple Pay.' I'd never trust them with my credit card. I need them to stop pestering me. I might even call them on the customer support number if I keep getting pop ups. lmfao
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Nitr0 posted:Just setup your card you Luddite
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Nitr0 posted:Just setup your card you Luddite
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Data Graham posted:Apple: "we literally do not want to know or even see any of your sensitive information, we will fight the law if we have to in order to avoid us having even the ability to read any of your encrypted data" Let’s not go that far. Apple is better than most on security but they still have issues.
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Don't they record every single application that you open on MacOS and phone home to Apple about it?
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Nitrousoxide posted:Don't they record every single application that you open on MacOS and phone home to Apple about it? https://blog.jacopo.io/en/post/apple-ocsp/
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Nitrousoxide posted:Don't they record every single application that you open on MacOS and phone home to Apple about it? no
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Is there still a way to turn off Spaces, and the behavior in which maximizing a window makes it full-screen in a new Space?
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Haven't used macOS in a while since I moved to being one of those iPad as my computer types. I'm back on Big Sur and I'm pretty sure music.app notifications aren't working? I remember it notifying me on every single track change but now it only seems to work if I go backwards in a playlist? What's the deal here?
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SeANMcBAY posted:Let’s not go that far. Apple is better than most on security but they still have issues.
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Nitr0 posted:Just setup your card you Luddite I think I have an anti authoritian mindset that I can't help. I hate people telling me what to do!
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Skeezy posted:Haven't used macOS in a while since I moved to being one of those iPad as my computer types. I'm back on Big Sur and I'm pretty sure music.app notifications aren't working? I remember it notifying me on every single track change but now it only seems to work if I go backwards in a playlist? What's the deal here? Make sure "When song changes" notifications are turned on in Music's preferences. Mine pops up a new notification whenever a track changes.
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KOTEX GOD OF BLOOD posted:Is there still a way to turn off Spaces, and the behavior in which maximizing a window makes it full-screen in a new Space? And here I am lamenting that its not a full X11 implementation. Question: Big Sur: Too Soon?
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