Yeah I’ve had this problem before with iOS - you can’t seem to retrieve the wallpaper photo from anywhere if it’s not in your Photos library any more. I’ve definitely got this photo on a hard drive but pain to have to find it again. Good to know you can combine photos and widgets though
― Alba, Monday, 26 September 2022 14:00 (one year ago) link
Not feeling the lockscreen excitement.
Checked out a youtube on 'coolest os 16 lock screens '. I wonder if half the excitement is in techie-style tweaking of lock screens itself - as I'm not getting much out of looking at them.
― Luna Schlosser, Tuesday, 27 September 2022 10:50 (one year ago) link
I set up two different lock screens with work / not work focus modes, which has been a nice life upgrade.
― death generator (lukas), Tuesday, 27 September 2022 11:18 (one year ago) link
goddamn this is going to improve my life right now about 1000x
macOS Ventura - Image Capture app enables OCR for PDF creation
Here is a small, well-hidden novelty from Ventura: an OCR option in Image Transfer, Apple’s application for importing photos to your Mac. This offers to transform the text of a scan into an exportable layer that can be more easily extracted on other platforms.Image Transfer is not only used to recover photos from your iPhone: it also allows you to scan documents, for example using a scanner or a connected printer. By scanning a document via the app, it is now possible to check a new OCR option, which will extract its text in passing.
Image Transfer is not only used to recover photos from your iPhone: it also allows you to scan documents, for example using a scanner or a connected printer. By scanning a document via the app, it is now possible to check a new OCR option, which will extract its text in passing.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 October 2022 04:22 (one year ago) link
that’s great but i want it to automatically add the OCR text to the file metadata and make that available to spotlight and Photos search
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 October 2022 07:43 (one year ago) link
I think you can do most of that with Shortcuts? I haven't gotten involved with Ventura yet to see what's changed in shortcuts or how addressable OCR / Live Text is. I use a shortcut to remove all metadata from files - I think you can write into those attributes also?I'm an old man here because I still think in AppleScript/shell script combos. i never found Automator helpful (prob that robot icon)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 October 2022 08:31 (one year ago) link
i just want the OS to do the recognition and metadata enrichment on import
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 21 October 2022 08:33 (one year ago) link
OCR is awesome when it works!
Personally I am still using my 2007 Macbook at least for Garageband
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 21 October 2022 18:26 (one year ago) link
with Ventura this apparently works now ^Guys can i say i am a MASSIVE fan of Stage Manager?? i have it set on the left side of the screen. i have my Dock set to self-hide. so if i need to drag from one app to another i can still do that via the Dock. it plays nicely with Spaces and Mission Control if you use those things. suddenly my computer feel fuckin… Marie Kondoed. elegant. clean. simple. visible. really feels like the first (baby) step outside the flat 2D overlapping desktop window paradigm (for Macs at least)
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 November 2022 10:01 (one year ago) link
i mean like all UI experiments some will hate it but it’s extremely.. calming to me somehow. i’ve hidden my desktop as well, and starting to wonder why it exists at all. there should just be one massive pile (“Downloads” probably) and then anything else you want to create, possibly with the help of Hazel. but Stage Manager isn’t really about files it’s about apps, which makes sense for the app-centric view of the world that Apple’s been pushing ever since the advent of iOS
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 November 2022 10:50 (one year ago) link
I had Stage Manager running for a couple of weeks but I was also having huge system slow-downs and I noticed I often had kernal_task using ~1000% cpu in Activity Monitor - possibly this is because I am on an Intel mac and it hasn’t been optimised and bug fixed properly yet.
I did quite like it, although I wish there was an option to open new apps in the current stage rather than always opening a new one. I’ll try it again next time the OS is updated.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:25 (one year ago) link
Lol I don’t even use it properly I don’t think. I’m just using it as an app switcher. I’m on an Intel Mini and it seems fine. In fact the whole computer feels a teeny bit quicker. Kind of wild how the windows update in real time in Stage Manager. If there’s an annoying animated ad it will keep plowing along over there.
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 November 2022 11:30 (one year ago) link
The thing that annoys me most about stage manager is how I couldn’t figure out how to just have the calculator floating in front of my window so I can still see the numbers I’m adding. I ended up getting this app that puts a pop out calculator in the menu bar.
― Jeff, Sunday, 20 November 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
Yeah I can see that being annoying. Could you add it to the same “stage” as the thing that has the numbers or something?
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 November 2022 17:37 (one year ago) link
I tried it but 90% of the time I'm using an external monitor as an additional display and stage manager requires each display to have separate spaces which kind of breaks my whole workflow
― joygoat, Sunday, 20 November 2022 19:52 (one year ago) link
that’s dumb if you’ve extended your desktop
― Tracer Hand, Sunday, 20 November 2022 20:25 (one year ago) link
Was like "what is this Stage Manager thing?" Then realized my iMac just got dropped for support. I guess Apple is not so subtly nudging me to get a new computer...
― Nhex, Sunday, 20 November 2022 22:32 (one year ago) link
Yeah I have no idea what it is eitherI need fewer screens in my life, not more
― calstars, Sunday, 20 November 2022 23:51 (one year ago) link
ok
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 5 June 2023 18:37 (ten months ago) link
seems like it'd be great for domain-specific stuff
really selling it hard as a general purpose device
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 18:39 (ten months ago) link
it looks way better than any of the other headsets
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 5 June 2023 18:40 (ten months ago) link
god damn bob iger?
tech nerds where everyone in the office is wearing them.
Porn.
They'll sell if they actually look/work as well as they say. Obv curious about eye control, like maybe I'd rather just point at stuff? Wonder how weird that will be. Of course I never thought touch typing on a screen would take off.
― dan selzer, Monday, 5 June 2023 18:44 (ten months ago) link
think they just admitted to extensive phrenology
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 18:46 (ten months ago) link
I was joking with a friend that there was a cable coming out of it for the 20lb battery pack
and...
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 18:48 (ten months ago) link
apple engineering is so nuts
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 5 June 2023 18:55 (ten months ago) link
I assumed it was going to fake your appearance in video chat so you wouldn't see the goggles, and yup
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 18:56 (ten months ago) link
$3,499!
― Position Position, Monday, 5 June 2023 19:04 (ten months ago) link
I was thinking it would be like $500 and that would feel like a lot.
― Position Position, Monday, 5 June 2023 19:05 (ten months ago) link
Apple's new Vision Pro will deliver new immersive experiences to users for example, in the photos below, these two women are experiencing for the very first time what its like to be a huge ass loser pic.twitter.com/eVlFztsPTc— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 5, 2023
― INDEPENDENTS DAY BY STEVEN SPILBERG (President Keyes), Monday, 5 June 2023 19:07 (ten months ago) link
I was expecting $5k tbh
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 19:40 (ten months ago) link
I mean, PSVR 2 has 1080 resolution, a fraction of the cameras, and requires a whole-ass PS5 to work at all and it's $550
This sucker has the hardware equivalent of several iPhones in it. $3500 ain't no bargain, but
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 19:43 (ten months ago) link
Were they just completely vague on whether the new Mac Pro will have any support for third-party GPUs? My guess is that they left it vague because that's completely based on whether hardware vendors will collaborate on drivers.
Ars Technica's coverage was claiming that adding ARM driver support would be very arduous and I was thinking "hmm, citation needed"
Not that the driver model is similar, but NVidia has ARM Linux drivers, and they already have a long in the tooth macOS driver
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 19:46 (ten months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/eF4JLUZ.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/PKNqsIw.jpg
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Monday, 5 June 2023 19:53 (ten months ago) link
I know that they're definitely still working on the deepfake-style video conferencing appearance but I reeeeally want to see more footage from whatever stage the prototype is at
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 19:59 (ten months ago) link
Were they just completely vague on whether the new Mac Pro will have any support for third-party GPUs?
“Nothing to announce today.”
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 5 June 2023 20:07 (ten months ago) link
lol
My friend who tracks pc hardware more assiduously than me was explaining that 24GB ram modules are becoming a thing as the new budget compromise and guess what? The new Macbook Air maxes out at 24GB of memory!
They're still trying to sell the base model with a criminal 8GB
― mh, Monday, 5 June 2023 20:13 (ten months ago) link
I was a bit sceptical of 8GB, but I do some quite heavy lifting as a FE developer with just 8GB on the 13" Air. It isn’t meant to be a “Pro” machine anyway but it smokes the old i9 2019 16" Pro machine I had with 16GB - and without running any fans.
― Chewshabadoo, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 09:37 (ten months ago) link
fair. I end up having to fire up some containerized stuff on my own machine from time to time and it’s hard to work around hard memory limits in that casenot as if I don’t do a large portion of my computing on a phone and tablet with less
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 11:57 (ten months ago) link
companies want people to wear computer glasses so bad but people dont want to, lol
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 12:15 (ten months ago) link
Waiting for Vision 3GS
― calstars, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 12:33 (ten months ago) link
soooo with that price this is just a toy for the super rich, right?
― Nhex, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 13:10 (ten months ago) link
that's kind of what every new apple product gets badged as tbh
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 13:48 (ten months ago) link
soooo with that price this is just a toy for the super rich, right?― Nhex, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 9:10 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Nhex, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 9:10 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
It’s shocking. They have a very good professional software team (Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Motion) and, as far as I know, they didn’t announce anything. Someone somewhere suggested a mixed-reality AutoCAD and Revit competitor. That would’ve been sick.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 13:52 (ten months ago) link
I got the impression they only locked in the APIs at the last minute and almost all the software features that were shown outside of the interface were video mock-ups
The Disney presentation was pure Imagineering with a couple clips interspersed from their existing products. I think I caught a clip from one of their previous Star Wars VR games
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 14:30 (ten months ago) link
I got the impression they only locked in the APIs at the last minute and almost all the software features that were shown outside of the interface were video mock-upsThe Disney presentation was pure Imagineering with a couple clips interspersed from their existing products. I think I caught a clip from one of their previous Star Wars VR games― mh, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 10:30 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
― mh, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 10:30 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
Ah. That makes so much sense.
― Allen (etaeoe), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 14:38 (ten months ago) link
They mentioned Lightroom and the ability to selectively edit a 10’ photograph does sound like fun
― calstars, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 14:46 (ten months ago) link
I mean it’s cheaper than what they were selling in the 80s and 90s. They’ve only recently become a mass market brand.
Still, lol at face computers.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 14:57 (ten months ago) link
early 2024 reads as late March at earliest, to me
all of the apps that run on the device (as opposed to using it as a remote display for your laptop) looked like the iPad versions hovering in the air, and obviously they were all mockups because what else would they be, someone attached a camera to one of the devices eye holes and shot video through it?
― mh, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 15:11 (ten months ago) link
I'm admittedly and embarrassingly kind of intrigued by the idea of having all my work apps around me in the air and manipulating them by waving my arms around like I'm conducting an invisible orchestra while the virtual heads of my coworkers float in front of me. I can't imagine wearing something like that outside - it seems more like the answer to an Occulus (which you use at home but you can't see your physical environment) than the answer to google glass (which was ostensibly designed to wear outside).
Like most tech, I will wait a few generations before even considering a purchase, and certainly not for $3500.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Tuesday, 6 June 2023 16:15 (ten months ago) link