iPhone Tricks, Gigabit Wi-Fi, and Life on 256GB

week by saying, I completely forgot about how you can drag and drop between apps on the iPhone. I was recently trying to send a contact to a contractor. The contractor had messaged and called me, but I never saved their number in my contacts. But I needed to share a number with them. So I went into my contacts app, tapped share, and loved, of course, that I could choose exactly which info I wanted to send, just the name, title, location, and phone number.

And it was at that point I realized because I didn't have the contractor's number saved, I couldn't choose them as the destination of this share. So I long pressed the contact card I had created, kept my finger on the screen, swiped to the home screen, opened messages, of course with the other finger, and dropped it right into my existing conversation with my contractor and it worked perfectly. It turns out that drag and drop works across lots of apps now that I've rediscovered it.

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video this week i'll link to it in the show notes where he compared the perplexity app which is perplexity is one of the LLMs that's out there the perplexity app with everything that you could do with Siri and, There is so much that that perplexity app can do to control your iPhone, including starting things in Apple Music and doing all kinds of stuff. So while I don't think it would have access to it could have access to contacts and messages, though, couldn't it?

So it might be if you allow it. Right. Yeah, exactly. So I don't know that it'll do this, but there was a whole list of things. It was such a good list that I believe the perplexity CEO wound up sharing it on on Twitter. But I'll put a link in the show notes to it so that you can all watch it. Steven Robles on perplexity versus Siri. I told him that I hope that one of at the time I saw the video, it was like three days old and he already had like 52,000 people who watched it, which is awesome.

I told him that I hoped that one of those 52,000 was Craig Federighi. But, you know, one can only hope. Where are we going next? You got Joe for Joe.

part of my reading routine. Apart from general reading, I use it to access otherwise paywalled publications like the Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, and my local newspaper. When I hit a paywall while browsing the web, I select the headline and trigger a keyword maestro macro to find the article in Apple News Plus, which gives me access to the full article 95% of the time. One criticism that ads on the service are obnoxious. I would pay extra to avoid them.

Hope you find this useful. Cheers, Joe.

And I tried it. I found an article on Wall Street Journal that I couldn't read on the web. And it worked. It's great. What a brilliant thing. Yeah.

It works sometimes and definitely works for my local uh paper so hopefully no one my local paper is listening um and they get smart and figure out how to block this but so then i also just for for that domain uh changed the settings so that it automatically opens in reader mode whenever i put anything to go there so it just just never pay well for me

The friction is is too prevalent i don't know what the answer is.

you just you just want the information what's weird to me about especially the small local newspapers paywalling their stuff is that they have ads on there so my workaround bypasses the ads also so if they would just let me on there they would have more eyeballs on their ads which i would presume would mean they could charge more for their ads so like it's like i don't understand the the business model that

either like i think ours here is run by a company out of dallas or something like that. Anyway, I digress. Yeah, I digress. You want to take us to Ben, Pete?

all afternoon yesterday. And when I went this morning, so we've got a deeper discussion coming up. We've been talking about the mysterious disappearing desktop folder and Benson in a link to an article or a thread in, I think it was an Apple support forum, where it said, if you go into library preferences and delete com.apple.finder.plist and restart your Finder, then your desktop should remain in your sidebar.

And someone else wrote in and asked, well, isn't that an option in your Finder settings? It is. You go in and you set desktop, but that's iCloud desktop is where it appears. I've been dragging the desktop up to my favorites and it's been disappearing. Well, yesterday I deleted the com.apple.finder.plist, restarted Finder, restarted the computer, and the desktop remained in the Finder side window. Until this morning.

it's not actually in your home folder because it's you know but whatever go to iCloud Drive or whatever find your desktop folder and then drag that into the favorite section and see if it sticks i wonder if because it's checked in the finder settings sidebar to be in the icloud that.

open my Finder and looked at my desktop folder in my favorites in the sidebar, it had a set app icon on it. And I just drug it and then dropped it again, and then it refreshed, and the right icon came back.

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And then finally, I think, if I do that, which I understand is using two Ethernet cables from my modem to the primary Eero, how then would I add a switch, which currently manages the hue hub and my eufy hub to take care of lights and security cameras

of the ont's support that i've seen support port bonding but they all have two ports on them One is a one gig ethernet port and one is a 10 gig ethernet port. So you would want to use the 10 gig ethernet port because that's faster than two. And then depending on which Eero you have, you will realize faster speeds over ethernet. The Eero six that you have, just like the Eero six plus has two ports on it. And they are both one gig ethernet ports, unbondable to my knowledge.

So you would, if you stick with what you have, your connection from the. Fiber to your Eero would be capped at one gig. If you have an Eero 6E, that has also two ports. One of them is a one gig port and one is a 2.5 gig port. So that would get you up there. It's an auto negotiating thing, just like the 10 gig port would be. So it would negotiate 2.5 gigs. That's effectively what I'm doing here with my setup without distracting us with a tangent. But that's essentially what I'm doing.

I have a 2.5 gig port on my router and a 10 gig port on the ONT. The Eero Pro 7 has two ports. They are 5 gig ports each. So they would negotiate to 5 gigs, presumably, and up you go. And then if you go all the way to the new Eero Max 7, that has four ports. Two of them are 5 gig and two of them are 10 gig ports. And you could use them as you see fit, depending on what kind of devices you want to connect to them and all that stuff. With the Eero, any port can be the upstream port.

It sort of auto senses and figures that out. So you just sort of pick and you're good to go. To answer your question, though, about Wi-Fi speeds. I have been doing some wi-fi testing uh with my iphone 16 not pro. But i think the wi-fi chip is the same in the 16 and the.

16 pro uh and the eero pro 7 the eero outdoor 7 and also the oh and i don't have the monolumber right in front of me but the unify uh u7 i think is what it is the access point for uh the the two by two access point for wi-fi seven and i get uh when i'm doing local speed tests so i'm not relying on the internet for anything because that can be a bottleneck uh because my connection only does about one point i i pay for one gig fiber so i get about 1.1 gigs.

Is what i get but if i'm testing locally using iperf from my phone to these access points i see about 1500 megabits per second 1.5 gigabits per second both up and down on wi-fi 7 which is pretty darn cool that we have wi-fi connections that can go faster than gigabit ethernet so yeah it it would you're gonna be fine if you stick with your euro 6 on this you'll probably get uh yeah obviously you're not going to get wi-fi 7 speeds you're probably going to get somewhere my my

experience was you know seven to nine hundred megabits per second uh with the with the euro six i think if memory serves and for most of what you're going to be doing if not entirely everything you're not going to notice a difference between that and you know 1.5 gigabits.

Depending on what you're doing with your phone, if you're like me and i know you are and you want to know that you have the fastest speed possible then yeah wi-fi 7 is going to be your magic answer that's what i have on that i don't know if either of you guys have something adam you have anything to add to that.

Save at like i don't know it's never fully two and a half gig e like it it might start there but then you know we're dealing with right speed on the disk station which is pretty good there's five drives in there that are working hard and all that but it usually is about you know maybe 1.8 to 2 gigabits kind of where it settles in and don't get me wrong i'm still i've only had this for like four or five months so i'm still super excited when i see it going that fast but it doesn't

really matter like if it was but if it was 10 that speed i would notice because i'd be sitting here waiting for it to finish eventually right so depending on what you're doing yeah and and like when i upload the audio it's really nice to have that go up at it you know and even that i think is only going at five or six hundred megabits per second because the server on the other end that's the fastest it can take it but still that's awesome

when i can upload the audio and have it just like you know an uncompressed audio file you know it's usually 400 megabytes or something and it's just like instant almost it's like okay that's pretty cool so yeah yeah it it but i'm not using i'm maybe using half of my connection that i that i pay for currently but But, you know, two years from now, there'll be more things to use. So, yeah.

So I, I, I canceled that, but we did have a problem, I don't know, a year and a half ago or something. And I just called Comcast and I was like, Hey, can you turn this on? They're like, yeah, what's the Mac address of your cable modem? And I gave it to him cause I had it in my files. I didn't even have to go look at the thing and they were like, yeah, okay, uh, just restart your cable modem. And so I turned it on because it was off and it did its thing and synced up.

And I mean, it all told probably took 30 minutes from the moment I picked up the phone to where I had connection there. And it was fine. But in terms of like reliability and robustness, the fiber connection is far more robust than the cable connection. We had an issue last week where our fiber lines for the entire neighborhood were laying on the street. They were down. And the only reason I knew about it was because I couldn't get out of the neighborhood that way.

Like it was blocking one of the arteries in and out of the neighborhood. And it took Fidium, which is our fiber company, two days to get here to fix it, which seemed like preposterous to me. We had the neighborhood basically closed off for two days because of this line that was even. I was going to say it was low voltage. It's no voltage. It's fiber. There's no issue. Yeah, it's light. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But no, I don't keep that anymore. It just wasn't worth the whatever.

I don't know. 500 bucks a year or something that I was paying. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. I don't know. Where are we here?

My Mac used to run fast. Now it is not even close. Well, that doesn't seem nice to give you that kind of a downgrade. But it was free. I mean, put an SSD in there. if you're bothering opening it up. Anyway, sorry, I digress. My main issue is storage. I have a lot of pictures as well. And I used to store a bunch of movies on my computer to put on my iPad when traveling. So do I get another two terabyte device? Or do I go smaller and look at some sort of server?

I'm torn and I don't know much about setting up my own server. What are the pros and cons of this versus having a bigger having bigger built-in storage take care sean

And that NAS drive is a Synology disk station and it acts as a personal cloud. And the cool thing about that, it's like my own Dropbox, for lack of a better way to put it, you know, to mention a name. The nice thing about that is, you know, I've got my media there, but I can also share those folders with my children, with my wife. So if my wife needs access to an insurance policy or a credit card statement or anything like that, it appears locally on my hard drive.

And you can set it up so that it's basically, I believe Dave was right to say it's an alias to that NAS drive. You don't have to keep it all. It's not an alias. Okay.

So just don't do that. But otherwise, the Synology has worked out to be a really good thing. It forced me to learn Synology, which is slightly different. It wasn't super intuitive at first, but man, is it super versatile. I got a Plex Media server on there. I can run it as a tail scale on it so I can see it from anywhere in the world. Whenever I log into tail scale, it's always there. It's always secure. Yeah.

And, you know, I can put a couple TV shows or movies on my iPad when I'm ready for more, drop those off, grab new ones as long as I'm connected somewhere and I'm good to go. And I know that Dave has several use cases. We were talking pre-show. He's got some business stuff on his. An entire office suite is available to you there. So I don't think you need the two terabytes local unless you want it. And it's fun to tinker and learn Synology and or QNAP.

I don't think there's any other good ones out there yet. Those are the two.

But then it's like, well, what are the limitations of this thing? Is it ready for prime time? I don't know. So eventually they keep telling me they're going to send me one, which is why I haven't purchased one outright. But then it's like I see him six months later, like, oh, yeah, we still got to send you one. Like, OK, well, eventually I'll probably just buy one so that I can test it and talk about it on the show.

But I have thoughts on this. But Adam, do you have thoughts on on on Sean's question in general?

And it's great. But in terms of of compensating for a lack of local storage, especially on a desktop machine, and especially given the cost of a network storage device, I would just buy a two terabyte external USB drive and SSD.

And i would make that my boot drive and just it and just go yep i i wouldn't i wouldn't think twice about that unless unless i already had the synology and it was it was like all right by golly i'm gonna figure out how to make this work using what i already have but otherwise and if you want to get a synology i mean trust me i understand like it's a tinkerer's dream i love the thing We all do.

And over the years, I've done that. In fact, I used to –, When we started doing Mac Geek Gab, we were on spindle drives.

Fairly frequently so i used to save the audio live across the network to my disk station to avoid saving to the local drive but it was like even that was like oh man like if the if the network connection i mean it was a podcast so if the network connection died like i had a problem anyway but you know it was not the best solution so i think a local drive is is the right solution for sean here and as much as a.

You can use anything you want in there and i often wind up putting uncertified drives in mine and and what it usually is is like i just the last time i put a 20 terabyte drive in mine from seagate sinology had only certified up to the 18 terabytes because they just hadn't tested the 20s yet they were too new and so it's like you know this drive isn't on our list our supported list i'm like yeah but like it's 18 terabyte brother is like it's going to be okay and obviously it works

out totally fine so yeah it's it's the enterprise units that require synology drives not not everything so just wanted to just wanted to, share that yeah go ahead what what is okay stupid.

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They have slightly more RAM and processors, and they're the things that tend to run Plex servers better and that sort of thing.

Uh and it is so it is new devices out this year in the plus tier are limited to sonology branded drives which is an interesting limitation i'm curious to see how long this sticks but they do say that uh you can migrate your old you know your current things into a uh your current setup when you get a new Synology, let me put it this way when you get a new Synology, as long as it has at least as many bays as your old one and at least the capabilities of your old one you

can migrate all of your disks over to the new one and your installation comes with it, of course all your data comes with it, that migration is super easy and as far as we understand it, that will not. Incur any drive uh limit drive brand limitations it's when you replace one of those or add to them that these limitations have either so we'll find out more but thank you kiwi graham for the heads up on that we will uh we'll it's it's a developing story so we will know.

What should I do? I just replaced the power supply in mine and it was back up and running inside of uh three i got the power supply off amazon it was up and running within three days it was a simple simple operation to replace that so if yours dies take a look at maybe doing that so

gigs, how does that work out for you? Because we realized that this works well for a lot of people. Glenn has our first of two comments that we'll share about this today. He says, a few years ago, I decided to forgo my laptop as my primary device and switch to an M1 iMac. I kept my old 2015 Air that I had upgraded with a 1TB SSD. Being retired, my travels can often be 2-3 months in our RV. Sounds awesome. While I can handle most of my mobile needs with an iPad, there are times where

I really prefer a Mac. So for the past few years, I traveled with the Air. However, I got tired of dealing with older versions of macOS and something's not working. He says, I started looking around and found a 13-inch M1 MacBook Pro for $350 on Craigslist. It was a base model, 8 gigs of RAM, 256 gigs storage, and the camera no longer worked to a third-party screen replacement. No big deal, and the price was right.

Now, how to deal with the small SSD when my iMac has about 400 gigs of storage used? I sync all of my files to iCloud, but keep a complete copy on my iMac for local and off-site backup. While I do use optimized storage, the limited bandwidth on the road could be a problem. Solution! I have an external SSD on the iMac that gets cloned daily. I take it with me and I can always access any large files that I can't get from iCloud.

I recognize that a lot of people don't want to work with multiple Macs or depend on cloud solutions. However, I find that easier than dealing with external drives on a laptop. Thanks, Glenn. Yeah, it makes perfect sense. Yeah, there's ways of making it work. You want to share Brian's thoughts on this?

Of note, this isn't my work computer, but rather I use this for my personal endeavors, which tend to not include a multitude of files. And the files that I use on a regular basis tend not to be too large. Example, word processing and spreadsheet documents with presentation and photo files making up the larger percentage of the saved files. That said, I did buy this computer as a secondary device. If it were my primary machine used for work purposes, I would buy a larger drive.

However, I would also be comfortable to offload some of the lesser used files to a NAS or external hard drive too. So very similar to, I think, Glenn's comments.

i have recently switched from my trusty 2012 mac mini server with 16GB and a 2TB SSD to an M.2 Mini base model with 8GB and 256GB as an interim solution until I can get an M.4 Mini with 24GB and a 2TB drive. I have all of my data on an external Samsung 2TB SSD, including my large photo library with over 65,000 photos. Is there a way to set macOS to also use my Documents and Downloads folder on the external SSD instead of storing it on the internal drive. Best regards, Chris from Houston.

Moving just your documents or your desktop folder like i don't there are no official ways of doing that and everything that we've heard of where people have tried has kind of failed the the exception to that is where you leave all of the sort of default folders where they are and then on an external drive you create a folder like you know chris's documents and then just choose to make that the default place that you store your stuff and that's fine

and you could even put a folder in your regular documents folder that you know just says like star star star don't save here just to visually remind you as you're going to save things like oh yeah i gotta change the default for whatever that app is to over there and if you do that obviously that's fine but uh otherwise if you want your desktop folder over there relocate your entire home folder and believe it or not It's it's it's doable.

There's a Lifehacker article that we are going to link to a sorry a Lifewire.

Article that we'll link to that still walks through the correct steps it's a few years old the screenshots don't look exactly like what you'll see in mac os 15 but the steps are still the same and that is you go into system settings you go to users and groups you right click on your user account and then go to advanced options which is an advanced options dot dot dot it's the only thing that appears when you right click on your user account and you

can you can set the location of your home folder this does not move your home folder you need to do that separately and preferably first and then you can change the location of it so if i were going to do this i would create a secondary admin account i would log out of my first account use the secondary account move the data over whatever i needed to do then use the secondary account to change the prop for the property of where the home folder lives for the first account,

then log back in and you know, keep my fingers crossed and knock on lots of wood. But I know people that have done it and it works, but you know, your mileage may vary. I see Adam laughing at the benefits of doing this show. Don't do it. Don't do it. Yeah, exactly.

And like your home folder and like where your stuff is being on a local drive will just keep your life nice and simple and easy. I like your other tip dave of just like if you need to offload storage you know put it put that on the external and you know because we all have files like it's boot

Like do some house cleaning. Like how, what do you need on your actual like drive is probably the stuff that you're working with for the past six months. You know, there's so many of us are just like getting this habit of like, I just, I mean, I know I'm guilty of it.

I just had to clean house uh this week because i i had you know i did a lot of work for clients i'm not doing client much client work anymore if at all and i had decades of stuff in you know like websites i had worked on yeah and i haven't talked to these clients for years i don't even know if their websites still exist but i have their entire website file all their images all you know like everything's sitting on my local hard drive

and i'm like running out of space and i'm like i need space and it's like well i know these are backed up to my synology they're backed up to my drobo they're up in in the cloud like why are these even here like just and i offloaded like terabytes you know yeah

Archive it. and you know it works great it is a cornerstone of my workflow here and how i live with the 512 storage that's in the the max studio i don't even think about it it's just totally automated i get an error message if hazel can't do it and the only reason it can't is because my network drive isn't mounted properly it's like oh yeah let me remount and then i watch it just go and file stuff off okay.

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use thunderbird he says and i have several email accounts set up personal business town committee organization etc i can't count how many times over the years i have sent an email from the wrong account usually it's not a disaster but inconvenient since it gets stored in the wrong sent folder replies go to the wrong account etc then i found a plug-in,

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It takes one more click on each email I send, he says, but I haven't sent from the wrong account in a very very long time well thank you larry that's cool while on the subject of did you have something to add to that pete before i i do realize i've.

But as of this morning, it's out to the release channels. And so I updated my computer in the office and it was indexing folders that it could not index before it had not finished yet so i couldn't really test it by the time we recorded but, there is hope on the horizon that said i did hear about another email client this week guys and i started

playing with it our friend david jameson who makes a piece of software called gig performer uh i was talking to him this week and was lamenting something about email and he said oh have you tried em client and i said no i don't even think i've heard of it it's a cross-platform thing it It works for Windows, Mac, Android, iOS. It is unlike most third-party email clients, EM client is a good person.

It feels like it's built for people to customize for themselves, like Apple Mail, like Thunderbird, kind of like Outlook, unlike, you know, Spark, where it's like we've come up with the way of using email and we built our client around this idea. There's nothing wrong with that. There's lots of email clients that way. It's if you find one where your needs meet the developer's needs, then you're off to the races. But if you don't, then you've got Apple Mail,

Thunderbird, Outlook or EM client. It's very flexible, extensible. Well, I don't know that it's extensible. Maybe that's the wrong word. But it is, there are features being added left and right. It is a little bit, they have a setup process that makes setup very straightforward. And in fact, it would even import all my mail from Thunderbird if I wanted it to, and my settings. I chose to go through the onboarding process, which is very straightforward.

You could do it all manually and then regardless of how you get there the settings are extensive, all the different things that you can do and controls and and how granular you can get with various different things i i was really impressed by this like it it's got me i want to test i've tested it on my mac uh i have not tested it on ios yet but if it allows me to do the things on ios that it allows on the mac or even a fraction of them i might move

to it as my default ios mail client because of just how flexible it is. So yeah, really interesting stuff. And they've even got a cool thing where you can export, you get all your settings ready on one computer and then export your settings to either another computer or to your iOS device, even through like QR codes. So yeah, it's very...

Very interesting i'm surprised we've never heard of this before guys have well i'd never heard of it before have either of you heard of this adam is this new to you too nope.

in my 30-day trial so um i i currently have access to all the features yeah it's really it's it's fascinating i'm i'm kind of blown away that we haven't seen it yet my yeah yeah i know it's all the years we've been doing this i'm surprised it hadn't come up um it's built by a company in the czech republic or a team in the czech republic i don't know but yeah fascinating so i share yeah i i think that's uh that's it do we have any anything else to uh to share for today guys,

Are we finished? I think we're finished. I think I'm hearing the answer to the question, which is we're finished. So yeah. Thanks for hanging out, everybody. Fun stuff.

Let me see if I can find the band. I did. Look, there's the band.

But without that, all good. And I have another way of running it through. If I need to use it, I can run it out of band and keep it out of the mixer. And then everything's fine. Adam, how has your Wi-Fi been for this episode?

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