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.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 9 October 2019 23:09 (four years ago) link
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.
― j., Wednesday, 9 October 2019 23:53 (four years ago) link
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.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 10 October 2019 01:48 (four years ago) link
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
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 10 October 2019 02:37 (four years ago) link
just out of interest, why are you using macports rather than homebrew?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:11 (four years ago) link
Historical reasons, it does what I need. Also what is Homebrew?
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Thursday, 10 October 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link
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.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 05:14 (four years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:52 (four years ago) link
FWIW, I think the criticisms of Homebrew here are valid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19783624
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 10 October 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
homebrew is slow as hell and has some surprising dependency chains, it's now my third choice after appified distributions and native installers
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
like my new work computer setup I installed Vim with MacVim and Python with their installer
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
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.
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!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
the hell
― president of deluded fruitcakes anonymous (silby), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:06 (four years ago) link
it's insane that the unit of that setting is even seconds!
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:57 (four years ago) link
typical unix innit?
― j., Thursday, 10 October 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
man, the syncing interface is DUMB. if the music app—which you probably have to open separately if you ever do any tweaking of playlist contents to get them to fit as you change their contents—is open then it gets an item for an attached ipod, and it has an 'eject' menu item that doesn't eject, and in the finder if you try to eject after syncing while the music app is open it won't eject because some of its resources are open for the music app!
― j., Friday, 11 October 2019 23:02 (four years ago) link
are there any hoonja-doonjas that enable a focused-writing-style interface in any text field that gets handled by the os, like textedit windows? i mean the kind of thing that fills the screen, darkens other text but highlights the current line, etc., that are popular now.
i can do this with other apps but i like to do it and it'd be nicer if i could do it when i wanted within normal apps.
― j., Friday, 10 January 2020 05:52 (four years ago) link
TextMate used to have an edit in textmate thing, but I don't know if that still works.
― stet, Tuesday, 28 January 2020 16:17 (four years ago) link
https://samperson.itch.io/desktop-goose
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 8 June 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
i am shook
https://www.caseyliss.com/2019/10/8/brew-bundlehttps://github.com/mas-cli/mas
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:57 (four years ago) link
understanding the dependencies here gave me a headache
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:06 (four years ago) link
hmmm I guess that would have been useful back when I was breaking work machines every six months
― lukas, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
there's a cool-looking native Gmail client called Mimestream
but it requires Catalina so I guess I'll never get to try it
― lukas, Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:37 (four years ago) link
anybody using Brave?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:44 (four years ago) link
i tried it ON IPHONE for a while but it feels like multilevel marketing tbh
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
'volunteer to watch ads in exchange for bitcoin' is certainly a weird USP
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 22:24 (four years ago) link
Firefox with sync is great these days imo
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:39 (four years ago) link
i like Opera for some reason. i’ve forgotten why.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:52 (four years ago) link
you like the arts
― mh, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:11 (four years ago) link
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
alt-tab between *windows* (not applications) and it knows about full screen and spaces.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:36 (four years ago) link
Oh, will try this. Will this replace my beloved and abandoned Spectacle?
― beard papa, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:31 (three years ago) link
i would never and i will never abandon spectacle, and how dare you for even raising that possibility
*holds spectacle so close*
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 17:43 (three years ago) link
I switched from spectacle to rectangular and for my uses it’s exactly the same
― joygoat, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:00 (three years ago) link
you know spectacle, it might be time for you die. goodbye old friend
hey what's up rectangleeeee
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
I prefer to use option tilde control, what is wrong with you guys?
― calstars, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:13 (three years ago) link
i just attempted to do that with my left hand and now i'm in the er
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:18 (three years ago) link
no joke though, i did just install rectangle, and i do appreciate it's added options (especially being able to use + and - to make windows just a tad larger or smaller, which feels intuitive because it's similar to the feeling of using the same keys to zoom in/out in other apps)
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
its
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 26 September 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Saturday, 26 September 2020 20:21 (three years ago) link
Alt-tab app not great for me. It'll bring up the window previews and tick through them but doesn't focus when I let go.
― koogs, Saturday, 26 September 2020 21:13 (three years ago) link
I am a savage and use the trackpad gesture to reveal all windows
― mh, Sunday, 27 September 2020 13:54 (three years ago) link
― beard papa, Thursday, 1 October 2020 22:19 (three years ago) link
Audion is back (ish) https://panic.com/blog/facing-forward/
― stet, Monday, 18 January 2021 14:14 (three years ago) link
so this was like the Mac analogue to Winamp?
― Nhex, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:03 (three years ago) link
Yeah - it had a bewildering amount of skins, and until iTunes came along (it nearly became iTunes) it was probably the best MP3 playing app.
― stet, Monday, 18 January 2021 17:16 (three years ago) link
I’m an idiot, how do I install skins (faces?) Link in app gives a 404I downloaded the pack but can’t drag and drop and no installer
― calstars, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:28 (three years ago) link
File menu -> Open Faces Folderthen copy whatever faces you want, or all of them, into that directory. each face is a directory within their archive zip
then if you go into preferences, they show up in the list
― mh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:35 (three years ago) link
of course they'd already written those directions: they're at the bottom of the README.md on this page:https://dev.panic.com/panic/audion
― mh, Monday, 18 January 2021 18:37 (three years ago) link
https://xbarapp.com/
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
and https://hmarr.com/blog/vitals/