your favorite little computer program hoonja-doonja (mac version)

I have a large list of people and their various availabilities. I want some software to reconcile this list into 3/4 dates where various meetings can be held. I’d need to tell it what people are needed at which meeting because there will be some crossover

are there any hoonja doonjas for this

i wish there were trackpad gestures for a) hiding an app (not minimizing, command-H hiding) and b) opening a new finder window upon switching to the desktop

I really want to meet someone who's a true trackpad gesture wizard - five-finger expand, the works - and find out what exactly what they're using Mission Control for.

xp bettertouchtool is worth every penny

oh, what you'd expect. seeing all the windows when there are lots of them. and occasionally i guess it technically shows up when i'm dragging a window up to the spaces bar, although i mostly just leave two spaces open, plus the dashboard space, and side-swipe between them, without ever needing to move the windows that i permanently keep in them.

now expose, the three-finger downward swipe, for only the front app's open windows, is the one i never use. i guess for some things it might be marginally more useful - some apps like vlc show open windows and also a row of recent files opened, which would be there even without open windows.

xp hm that's pretty good. once annoyance of setting up a 'hide' gesture is that you then prevent the mission control gesture from helping you get back from it, since mission control shows visible, not hidden, windows. i made a different gesture to bring up the command-tab application switcher, but that's not quite the same. not as fluid.

i find keyboard shortcuts faster because you don't have to move as far. the two gestures i use are exceptions where that's not true. one hot corner is lock screen which i most often want to do when i'm already standing/walking away from my desk, so just throwing the pointer to the corner is easier than a kb shortcut. another hot corner is show desktop which i most often do when i'm already dragging a file.

so you can already see some files but not others and you pop over to a corner onto the way to wherever the destination has been hiding?

i have always been a big application hider, with the keyboard or by option-clicking, but when i'm not actively using the keyboard for much, the surplus of ways to navigate in and between my usual applications with gestures, and less clicking than there used to be, makes the need to use a keyboard shortcut to hide stick out. really even having to mouse over to the dock to bring a hidden app back to the front demands excessive precision, by comparison (maybe a sign that i should dial up the magnification or something).

maybe i can rig up a bring-last-front-app-to-front gesture, i haven't played much with the BTT settings yet

cmd-tab brings a hidden application back fwiw.

the show desktop hot corner is useful when i'm dragging a file from somewhere and i want to dump it on the desktop (or i want to drag a file from the desktop), but the desktop is covered with other apps and obscured. that's pretty much the only use case for me.

haha oh dur right so i can use BTT to send a keyboard command

ah, i used to have files all over and care about actual drop locations on the desktop, but now i barely keep anything there and use stacks anyway

btw IINA is the best general purpose media player on the Mac currently, suitable replacement for NicePlayer

https://iina.io

what's the catch

it crashes sometimes if you click too much but it's getting better I think

also the default setting when you open a file from the filesystem is to add all the other media from that folder to the playlist, but you can turn that off

i dunno man doesn't sound like a sweet deal, might stick with my combo of vlc and quicktime player

RIP

what can i say i love 2 click

I was being a bit glib, I think the crashes I occasionally get are more likely from trying to open streams and something being buggy. Anyway it's good

looks like a cool vlc alternative

I think I'm nearly sold on plex as my "media I own" manager :/

Don’t have a reason to switch from vlc, not sure what more I need in a media player than to just play everything that I throw at it, which it does.

Thinking about plex and a new Mac mini

Whenever the urge for new hardware comes along, my motto is “do it”

I have a few hard drives of accumulated music going back a few years. Any tips for a mac application that will delve into the folders and subfolders and just list out all the files?

you should be able to just do that with finder, searching ".mp3" (or whatever else), right?

in the terminal:

find path/to/music/folder -type f

Yeah zs that was what I thought at first! Then just export the filenames from finder to text/csv?

I tried your route silby but I'm not very literate with terminal so i don't know how to find 'my big fat drive' but thank you.

yeah, it's even easier than that! you can just command+A to select all the search results, than paste it into textedit, excel, whatever

before the command silby gave you do

cd /Volumes/my\ big\ fat\ drive

and then just give the path in silby's command relative to the folder structure of the drive (say, if there were a folder called 'music' containing everything you wanted to search, you'd just type 'music' at the place where silby specified a path). you can actually do it all at once in one big path once you know the path.

in a terminal

type "find " (i.e. find with a space)
*drag* the big fat drive to the terminal
type " -type f"
hit return

magic!

Thank you j. and silby and KM, it worked!

Now I'm going to try caek's trick...

Dr Caek the potion is working...

oh yeah dragging from Finder to Terminal in macOS is great

thanks to the kind souls who patched over my grognard suggestions

32-bit apocalypse is finally upon us

still hoping someone remakes Tangerine and xPad

I’m guessing I have a bunch of VSTs that are 32-bit so no upgrade for me.

I need SwiftUI for my current work so I went all in on Catalina on day one. So far so good - I’d planned well in advance for the switchover. All of my audio software survived and, as expected, my SDR stuff on macports is completely borked. I unsubscribed from Adobe a couple months ago and switched to Affinity. Good riddance.

the new security standards are messing with an un-notarized (?) math app dependent upon calls to other apps like python which themselves expect security authorization, which i am too distracted to fix but i don't need the app for anything anyway.

other than that, fine i guess. the music UI is juuuuust a touch disconcertingly different—can't remember quite how i had things arranged in song browsing before but a bunch of it was not migrated with the rest of my settings, and the new defaults leave a lot of info turned off—and the in-finder ipod syncing seems cruftier though nearly the same operation. migration was mostly frictionless although with the silent switch away from xml library format it seems the thing has become determined to re-download all artwork, and it elected to re-sync devices from scratch, presumably to match something about the change in library format. itunes scripts were not migrated—haven't checked yet to see if maybe they would still operate if moved appropriately, though i suppose their code probably targets itunes by name.

i think something undid my tweaked display color profile, but i'm not messing with it to be sure.

the boot drive has silently been separated from the rest and made read-only, i had some app making a reference to the usually-concealed data partition the other day, but it operated ok. i read that firefox might require full disk authorization for similar reasons, though it hasn't complained to me.

i had a few files separated out as 'relocated items' on my desktop after installation, but the readme the installer dropped in with them did not really do much to explain why they violated security settings—an automator workflow and launch agent among them, which makes sense, but also some sort of font-related junk, who knows what it used to even be for.

I am updating now and expecting everything MacPorts related to be borked. QGIS I am hoping will be ok but that seems to be a pretty vain hope.

Everything went swimmingly, nothing broke managed to recompile Mac ports and then ......

rsync is borked. Bad CPU type in executable which I presume means that I have a 32bit version lurking somewhere

just out of interest, why are you using macports rather than homebrew?

Historical reasons, it does what I need. Also what is Homebrew?

It’s what everyone uses instead of macports and has been for 5 years at least. https://brew.sh/ It’s good! It has a big community, it keeps up with upstream, fixes things quickly etc. If macports works for you maybe don’t worry about.

When I last tried Homebrew I hit a brick wall trying to build some GNUradio plug-ins. Might be fine now, but my head is standardized on a macports.

FWIW, I think the criticisms of Homebrew here are valid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19783624

homebrew is slow as hell and has some surprising dependency chains, it's now my third choice after appified distributions and native installers

like my new work computer setup I installed Vim with MacVim and Python with their installer

yeah i don't use homebrew python

one of the reasons it's slow is this *insane* default setting:

       HOMEBREW_AUTO_UPDATE_SECS
              If set, Homebrew will only check for autoupdates once per this seconds interval.
              Default: 60.

i.e. by default, it does something that takes as long as a few minutes, every time you use it, unless you've used it in the last 60 seconds!