just out of interest, why are you using macports rather than homebrew?
― π ππ’π¨ (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
Itβs what everyone uses instead of macports and has been for 5 years at least. https://brew.sh/ Itβs good! It has a big community, it keeps up with upstream, fixes things quickly etc. If macports works for you maybe donβt worry about.
― π ππ’π¨ (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!
― π ππ’π¨ (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!
― π ππ’π¨ (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 appβwhich you probably have to open separately if you ever do any tweaking of playlist contents to get them to fit as you change their contentsβis 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 (three years ago) link
i am shook
https://www.caseyliss.com/2019/10/8/brew-bundlehttps://github.com/mas-cli/mas
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Sunday, 19 July 2020 03:57 (three years ago) link
understanding the dependencies here gave me a headache
― Nhex, Sunday, 19 July 2020 04:06 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
anybody using Brave?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 19:44 (three years ago) link
i tried it ON IPHONE for a while but it feels like multilevel marketing tbh
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 21:22 (three 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 (three years ago) link
Firefox with sync is great these days imo
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:39 (three years ago) link
i like Opera for some reason. iβve forgotten why.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 15 September 2020 23:52 (three years ago) link
you like the arts
― mh, Wednesday, 16 September 2020 02:11 (three years ago) link
https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/
alt-tab between *windows* (not applications) and it knows about full screen and spaces.
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 23 September 2020 16:36 (three 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 itβs 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
― π ππ’π¨ (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
Iβm an idiot, how do I install skins (faces?) Link in app gives a 404I downloaded the pack but canβt 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/
― π ππ’π¨ (caek), Wednesday, 24 March 2021 23:52 (three years ago) link
and https://hmarr.com/blog/vitals/
that looks fun, thanks
will hopefully replace "cmd-tab to terminal, ctl-r pi enter" to ping and "new chrome tab, type weather, erase .com, hit enter" for weather
― lukas, Thursday, 25 March 2021 01:47 (three years ago) link
every few months/years I look into finding a good solution to sync and/or transfer my bookmarks from chrome to safari so I can quit chrome, for a bit, or forever and usually find nothing good. Thought I finally found something with this:
http://www.sheepsystems.com/products/bookmacster.html
downloaded it and it's literally the most confusing thing I've ever seen. I mean I've barely started using it so maybe it'll be obvious once I do, but this thing is not gonna win any UI/UX contests.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 March 2021 02:32 (three years ago) link
xbar doesn't like me. well, it doesn't like the fact that I'm still on Mojave.
― lukas, Thursday, 25 March 2021 02:55 (three years ago) link
me too
― dan selzer, Thursday, 25 March 2021 03:32 (three years ago) link