It's time for MacGeekGab, and listener Joe brings us our quick tip of the week with... Ever wanted to have items and reminders be indented, like shop at Lowe's versus at Ace? Sure you could create a different note, but with a general shopping note, you could make things easier by having subtitles, as it were, right? Well son of a gun! Notes can do this! Who knew? All you do in iOS is slide an entry to the right and a little indent area shows up. Tap it and it's indented. Easy peasy.
Who knows how to spell that anyway? More tips like this plus your questions answered on today's Mac Geek Cab number 1060 for Monday, October 21st, 2024.
Greetings, folks, and welcome to MacGeekUp, the show where you send in tips like that, and we share them. You send in your questions, we share them, and hopefully can provide some answers or at least some guidance. We honor the troubleshooting process here. You send in cool stuff found,
we share that. we string it all together loosely into an agenda such that we are each perfectly set up to learn at least five new things every single episode our sponsor for today is onepassword.com slash mgg that's where you can learn all about one password extended access management uh which will solve all the problems that traditional iam and mdm can't touch we'll talk more about that in a little bit. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.
And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
And here also in New Hampshire, where it was a cool 28 degrees this morning, it's Pilot Pete. Good to be back with you guys on show 1060, 1060 code for squad in the area. I guess we're your geek squad in the area today. And in some locations it's also dead dog so we will do our best not to kill your dog during this show.
No no no no
No that would be that's bad today also october 21st national apple day which i thought was fitting all right yeah you know some apple picking well or we'll do our own version of apple picking right here is that in the show we'll pick things apart we'll uh yeah we'll do it
I at some point need to pick up a new iPad I think
Is the new iPad mini that just came out the thing for you
No okay no i'm uh i'm a full-size ipad guy i know i'm not an ipad like
Uh mondo what do
They call the big one now i want an ipad pro but 11 inch i guess you just say 13 inch or 11 yeah yeah
That's what people that's generally what people say yeah yeah
Yeah yeah i tried the big one way back when when they first came out and it was too huge okay okay but no i i have i mean i'm rocking i don't even remember what generation my ipad is to be honest with you it's probably like a gen
2 oh yeah wow
Pro pro gen 2 i mean
Wow so it will it run will it run ipad os 18 or no
I don't know it's a good question okay yeah i haven't picked it up if only there
Was a show you could send that question into and ask.
You can tell how often i use i just pick it up and use it and i watch things on it and i haven't messed with it and you know recently i don't i don't know yeah
Yeah yeah the ipad's an interesting thing i am not compelled to upgrade my ipad as routinely as i am most of my other devices in fact i think i upgrade my ipad less frequently than I upgrade my Mac. I don't know if that's true. But it feels like that.
Yeah. Well, it's true for me, but only because work provides me one. So I use that one instead of another. But I did, man, I loved that first iPad Pro when that first came out. I love that thing. I got the little magic keyboard that came with it and took notes. And that was a great machine. And now that they're all on, that was pre-Apple Silicon. So yeah. Now that they're all on the same Apple silicone chips, then I think we're going to, you know, that I may move more to that direction.
Yeah, the new, I'm an iPad mini person. So, of course, I was very happy this week when I saw that Apple gave some upgrade love to the iPad mini because, you know, I don't know how popular that device is. It's a weird size. I get it, you know, that it's not so much bigger than a phone that most people think, well, if I want an iPad like you, Adam, like I want the 11-inch.
But I like the mini. it serves me well I use older minis on stage iPads are one of the things that I don't hand down to my family members I just put them they move from the house to the studio and then they wind up going with me to gigs and things like that and it's it's great um and the mini is usually perfect for me for for gigs um but it's been it's interesting speaking of which I gotta to charge my ipads because i have gigs tonight oh um uh oh we'll wait yeah yeah this might be like i'm
trying to think maybe you guys can talk while i go put them on charge uh but like i i am not compelled to upgrade to the new ipad mini even though my ipad mini 6 won't do the apple intelligence stuff right i i know that uh so maybe eventually once that once that once all of that really comes down the pipe maybe i will want my ipad to be upgraded but i don't know the way that i use it i think i can live with it the way that it is i don't know let's see yeah
I know I'm going to have to when I, when I retire and I'll, I'll definitely go to the mini for use in the airplane because it's a much, yeah, right. Yeah. Much better for, for charting and that sort of thing. Sure. And, uh, in fact, I know one gal who used her iPhone to cross the Atlantic ocean instead of even a mini. So, oh, that's terrifying enough, but to do it in a single engine reciprocating.
Yeah. Yeah. That's a lot of time over water, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
400 plus miles of the shot.
But people did that before we even had iPhones.
Yes, they did.
You know.
They did it with a compass and a clock, baby.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly. Well, not us. No. No, that's not how we roll. You want to take us to Bruce, back to Quick Tips?
We, yes. I'm going to so do at this time. As soon as I get notes pulled up, there we go, Bruce. Bruce writes in and he goes, Guys, you mentioned in previous episodes that there was a website or URL you can go to that will essentially force your device to bring up the hotel Wi-Fi capture page. Can you mention it again? Thanks. And, yeah, boy, nothing is more frustrating, right, when you get on a Wi-Fi at a hotel or an airport or something like that, and somehow you miss or it
never comes up. Here it is. It's neverssl.com. And if you like using Apple, then go to captive.apple.com. And essentially what that does remember is it forces it to go to an unencrypted page because that's all sent in the clear because everything is trying to default to the HTTPS encrypted.
Well, yeah, the way I remember never SSL or at least initially the way I remembered it is it to your point,
Pete, the problem of your socket.
Well, but the problem is, Those captive portals, which are the sort of, you know, redirect pages that you get when you go to a hotel or a public Wi-Fi that you have to sign into, they're generally not actually redirect pages. What they are is they steal the DN. They route the DNS to the wrong place intentionally. So if you were trying to go to, you know, www.google.com, if that's what your browser was going to bring you to, it's going to it's going to think it went to google.com.
But what's going to be displayed is this splash page because of this essentially hijacking. I mean, it's it's intentional hijacking.
You have to agree to their terms or put in, you know. Yeah.
But in order to do it, they hijack it. And instead of delivering you google.com, they deliver you their Web page. And the problem is, if your browser was going to Google.com, it was going there at HTTPS, the secure version of Google, and your browser will choke on this and say, whoa, this doesn't have the same security certificate that matches Google.com. And so I'm not going to let you go there. And everything just stops.
So you need to visit some page that is not secure so that when this hijacking happens, it actually works. Because in this one case you want the hijacking to happen and that's why never ssl is the right thing because it's it will that page will never be ssl and that's a good thing so that's why this works it's and that's sort of how i remember in my head i thought i thought maybe the background would be good for people no absolutely yeah so that that's why i don't know um
I guess I'm bringing us to Todd after I ranted there. Now it's my turn. I got to bring us things. I have no idea where I am. So Todd reminds us, or tells us, he says, I use an Apple MagSafe Duo charger by my bed. And before iOS 18, my iPhone screen would go black shortly after putting the iPhone on the charger. Now it dims, but still shows the time and bottom buttons, which is annoying
while trying to sleep. My phone is in do not disturb focus mode when I sleep, but I couldn't find a fix in those settings. Someone in Discord suggested that I adjust the standby setting, but that only applies when the iPhone is on its side and mine is flat. I solved it by creating two shortcuts to toggle always on display and set automations to activate them when do not disturb turns on and off. Works perfectly. Oh, that's smart. I like that. Okay.
Um i have a i have another idea though why not just put your phone in sleep mode which will then let it um dim the screen i mean i think that's what sleep mode's for so great
Okay i don't know but is that just dims though right it does does it or does it
No sleep mode turns off the screen or at least it did on my 15 pro with ios the ios betas yeah yeah yeah i mean if i tap it it'll wake up, but it doesn't leave it on all night in sleep mode for me. Am I misremembering?
No, no, no. I don't know. Okay. I have this bad habit now of... I think I mentioned this on a previous show because this is how I found out that YouTube will play hour-long, hour-and-a-half-long ads if you... Like, there's people that are, as an ad on YouTube, doing their entire podcast, like an episode, will just come on.
And I think it's because I watch long-form, like two three hour long minecraft streams in the middle of the night or i don't watch them i turn them on i put my phone face down and i listen oh interesting to the audio basically as i'm falling asleep so i listen to audio these shows but i'll wake up sometimes in the middle of the night and it'll be like what the frick is this it's like some weird like total podcast i would never ever listen to right and it's like i
pick it up and it's like how did it get on this and it's like no it's actually running an ad oh interesting like an hour-long ad it's crazy yeah
Yeah yeah huh that's rude
Huh it
Must be that must be their way i
Thought it was genius i thought it was like genius yeah like we should get in on this action yeah
If it's if it's cheap right sure we can we can pretend we have more
Listeners in the middle of someone's youtube video you know right in the middle right in the middle i mean you can skip it's got the skip you know it's skip button so you can go back to your show but
Yeah we should well not for that reason because that that's like it's misleading at best but like if youtube ads are that inexpensive we should take our like we chop this show up i say we um sadie does it for us uh it chops the show up into like little snippets and segments and we put that out as like youtube shorts those might be good things for us to actually pay to advertise and and spread the word about the show i don't know
Maybe you look into that yeah anyway yeah it's an interesting thing but yeah so i i don't know if it goes to sleep back to the sleep mode thing i don't i it is in sleep mode but i'm always playing something so i won't remember right right but i have a tip for you guys yeah this actually came up because i'm watching youtube videos that irony in the in the lead-in um so occasionally and this will be controversial probably in this community I watch Linus Tech Tips on YouTube.
And Linus finally went back after years to daily driving an iPhone because he was kind of excited about some of the new features and wanted to try some things out. And so he went on a long rant. He had a lot of complaints. I think some of them valid. Obviously, some of them probably not valid.
And one of his complaints was about the keyboard on iOS, because I guess on Android, a lot of the keyboards are more the on screen keyboard for the phone is more like your typical keyboard where you'll have the alternate characters like above the key. So like if you look at, you know, the number row on your keyboard, and you want to know where the at symbol is, it's above two, right?
He's like on iOS, it's annoying, because some of the special punctuation, it's like three layers deep, you have to like tap,
Tap, tap, you know,
Which I think is valid, right? Because on the Android, you just press and hold on the 2, and then it turns to the at symbol, and you tap it. Or you let go, and it goes, apparently. So I'm not an Android user, but that's what he was kind of talking about. So somebody pointed out, well, you can save a little bit on iOS if you tap and hold on the 123, which brings up the, you know, secondary keyboard, and then just swipe to the character you want.
And then when you let go, it'll automatically return back to the main keyboard.
Man, it does. That's awesome.
What?
That's cool. All right. It's kind of like the whole thing.
So then you don't have to tap that button, you know, twice. so you don't have to tap to get to that keyboard, tap the character, and then tap to go back to the alphas, right? Yeah.
That's a double bill.
You folks need to try this. There's a lot of these things that it's like, oh, I see, okay, sure. But this, it makes all the sense. Wow. Huh. That saves me two taps. It brings it from three taps to one. Wow.
Yeah. Yeah, because my favorite is, you know, I overuse the ellipses three periods in a row, like nobody's business. And so, yeah, I would have to go to punctuation and then hit it three times and then, you know, back to letters. Whereas this one, if you just hold down the one, two, three, slide over the period, and after a couple seconds, the ellipses comes up and let go of it and you're back to your letters.
Yeah, that's pretty good. you
Too can abuse the ellipses folks.
That's right oh so i use
Them all the time
I want to see so if i do that oh yeah oh look at that huh yeah all right i
Like this now the only bummer is you can't get i don't think you can get the two layers deep but you know to the to the secondary special characters
Keyboard right you're right you'd need to yeah what so you'd have to hit that one But it does work, the same tip works if you tap the one, two, three to bring up that keyboard, like tap and release, and then hold on the special one with pound plus equals. You can drag over to something on that and it will revert you to the numbers keyboard.
Back to the numbers, yeah. But I mean, yeah. Often what you're probably wanting to get back to though is the main...
Is the alphabet keyboard.
The trick here, and that was his point on Android, they just have all of those above every they you know double yeah on every key every alpha key and so not you know and this isn't because a lot of people were like well you can tap and hold on the uh you know on the end and then you get all the like accented characters he's like no that's not what i'm talking about i'm talking about all the you know extra punctuation characters like
tilde and you know slash and backslash and you know all of those things yeah Yeah. Huh? Square brackets.
Early brackets. Yeah, we got to stop. I got to stop playing with this. Folks. It's a tip. It's a great tip. Yeah. Wow. All right. Good stuff. Andrew says, I learned a few things about networking over the weekend, trying to fix an issue where AirPlay 2, from my Mac Mini, iPhone, and or iPad to various HomePods Gen 2 and HomePod Minis and Sonos devices would drop out on my network from time to time. I'm running on an Orbi, but I don't think that matters here.
Some Google foo and Reddit foo recommend reserving the IP address for all of my AirPlay devices. So AirPlay 2 devices, so audio and video devices, which of course can be done through my Orbi's web interface. I did that. And so far, so good. He says, I also have a Sonos system with a Beam 2, a Submini, and two IKEA Symphonisk speakers as rears, but only one IP address for Sonos was showing on my router.
That's because Sonos only shows one IP when devices are grouped, and he has all of those grouped as one speaker in the living room or one set of speakers in the living room.
If you want to reserve a port for all or an ip address for all four items you ungroup them reserve it and then one by one regroup yeah it's because they won't get ip addresses they they effectively become part of sonos net and only the primary device is on your uh you know directly on your network but yeah that's i had i have seen this issue with airplay too and the idea of Setting up DHCP reservations so that your AirPlay 2 devices aren't necessarily
jumping to different IPs all the time could make a difference. And I said that this wasn't necessarily an Orbi issue. I might come back to it and say it is or not. Well, some routers do a calculation, like a hashing almost, of the hardware address of the Wi-Fi device or of the Ethernet device when deciding what DHCP address to assign.
Like the Synology, for example, if available, Will always give the same IP address to the same device because it does a hash on its MAC address and calculates something that matches. I don't know what its lookup table is built like, but it will try and by doing that, give the same IP address to the same device, even if it hasn't been on for a couple of days.
Again so long as something else doesn't already have that address and what's nice about that is you sort of get the benefit of a dhcp reservation without having to go in and do dhcp reservations um i've i've recently moved to the unify router that i mentioned i don't know if that does it i haven't bothered to look but i know synology was doing it and i think others might do similar things but the orbi clearly does not it just kind of
goes in order and gives ip addresses out and that will cause things to change. And the Orbi isn't alone. Many other routers do that. I was, I was surprised, pleasantly surprised when I saw the Synology. It was like, oh, they must be doing something here. That's interesting. I don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something.
So, but yeah, any, any devices that you are air playing to, and I would, I would zoom that out actually and say any device that you are connecting to on a regular basis. So air play being one of the things, but if you have a server in your house or even if you're screen sharing often to one of your Macs, I would argue in all of those cases, that's a good reason for a DHCP reservation, Meaning that they get the same IP address every time.
Because if your Mac has or iPhone or whatever you're trying to connect from has that old address cached in it or whatever, it's just going to cause some headaches. Or even if, you know, if you're connecting via Safari, say, to some server engine on something, you know, if you're like, oh, no, it's not at .43, it's at .92 now, I got to go change that. Like, why bother? Just set a reservation and you're good to go. One additional piece of advice about DHCP reservations.
Let's say your network range is 192.168.1.x, right? And so your router is usually at .1.1. And then generally speaking, it'll start assigning addresses from .2 on upward. It could, on most networks, it could go from .2 or from .1 to .254. .255 is reserved as the broadcast address. We won't touch that one. What I often do is set my DHCP range on a network like that to be, say, from .100 to .254.
And then my reservations, and I know this is going to sound counterintuitive, but believe me when I'm telling you this, my reservations are all pre-100. And that's so that the DHCP server doesn't randomly assign two things to the same address. It shouldn't, but there's no reason to fight that battle. The DHCP server will assign, like let's say I reserve .20 for my Mac, right? So my range is from .100 to .254. And then I tell it, reserve this for .20 for my Mac.
It will still hand out .20 to my Mac, even though it's not part of the range because the range is for all the other devices. And by separating it out, your life can be better. I hope I'm explaining that well. am i making any sense to at least youtube and the folks in the
Chat because i do the same i do i do something very similar i get even more crazy about it i got even more crazy about it when i did it and i then took ranges and assigned the dhcp reservations by like type of device so like i gave all my macs are the in like 40 40 range right and all my ios devices are in another range and my Sonos devices are in another range and my networking gear is in another range and my IoT devices are.
I think that's smart. Yeah, it makes sense to me. I did the same thing because I have a spreadsheet that's called Home IP Addresses. And if I lose that...
You have a note.
Oh, yeah, okay.
I have a note that I sync.
Oh, that's smart. Yeah, my spreadsheet is synced so that it's always on all of my devices all the time if I ever need to look it up. And in it, I keep the name of the device, of course, the IP address and the MAC address of it. So if I, yep, yep.
Same. Yeah. And the, what's the network identifier you can give it to? Like I use that too on the DHCP reservation.
Oh, like a name you mean?
Yeah, there's like an ID. I'd have to go look in networking because I can never remember what it's called. But yeah, where you can like give it an actual name that'll show up.
It'll show up. Yeah. Yeah. A DNS name or local DNS or something. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. It's part of it. Exactly.
Interesting. My method is slightly different, so I don't have to write it down. I don't worry about all of it. But for instance, things like the printer and the synologies and all that, they get dot one dot, you know, one through 10. And my wife gets 11 through 20, I get 21 through 30, my daughter gets 31 through 40, my son gets 41 through 50, and then I let everything else go above the 50s. So I know that, for instance, my son's iPhone is on .1.41.
I like that. So you're assigning by people as opposed to device category. Yeah, it makes sense. Sure.
And then, like, the hard things, I leave, what's the word I'm looking for? Not the, it isn't the hard things. It's the things that I know I want to be able to get to.
Your servers.
The Mac Mini. Yeah, the servers, that sort of thing. For some reason, I've not done it with the Apple TVs. I've just let them go, but airplane to those always seems to work just fine anyway.
Okay. I've had issues air playing to Apple TVs over the years. And I think this might be part of why. So, yeah.
Oh.
Yeah. Like intermittent issues.
Yeah.
Yeah.
All right. We ready to move from networking? Yes, please. To some photo tips. So Alex says this, and I'm going to try and do this right, but if I mess it up, I'm just going to let you know. It's a little bit tricky how he wrote this, but I think it was clever. Alex says, It's common knowledge that it's possible to manually reorganize the order of the photos in an album in Photos app via press, hold and drag. And it's only me who hasn't realized this until today, isn't it?
It's not only Alex. I didn't know you could do that.
Oh, yeah, I knew. I thought this came up recently on the show, but maybe I'm remembering back to my own show. The only thing I can't remember about this trick, because I do this on some albums, I think... Don't pin me on this, but I think if you then reorganize that album, like choose to reorganize it by like name or date, I don't think it retains your manual sorting. So like, you can't go back to manual.
Like once you've reordered it, it will, you're going to have to reorder. So be careful with this. If you carefully manually organize your album, you now can only manage it manually. If you want to like sort that by date or sort that by name, you're, you'll, you'll lose all of that manual sorting and you're going to have to redo it.
Yep. Makes sense. Makes sense. All right, Pete, you want to take us to Todd?
I'm going to take us to Todd. Yeah. Todd wrote in and, and you know, I have the same thing and I haven't done it yet, but I'm going to fix it today. I was just thinking about this this morning going, I need to get rid of all these stinking reminders that keep showing up in my calendar.
He says, I use time reminders a lot, and throughout the day, I use, hey, yes, lady, remind me at 1 p.m. today to do X, Y, Z. He says, this saves me each and every day from missing something important, but what I do need is all those reminders, or what I do not need is all those reminders in my calendar. MacOS Sequoia and iOS 18 added them, and it took me a bit of time to figure out how to turn them off. On the Mac, in the Calendar app, under the View menu, select Show Calendar List.
On the left, list your calendars. Toward the bottom, under Other, uncheck Scheduled Reminders. On the iOS Calendar app, bottom center tap Calendars, and at the bottom of the list, under Other, uncheck Scheduled Reminders. Teach their own but i feel at peace with them out of my calendar i also taught feel at peace with those reminders not hitting my calendar the reminder is all i need i don't need a calendar item to to hit so yeah.
That's interesting i've never
Yeah yeah, Yeah, I've noticed it coming up in the calendars lately, and I'm kind of like, I don't really want that there. Because, for instance, this is going to sound a little morbid, but I try to send a card or a text or something to somebody on the anniversary of them having lost somebody important in their life.
Okay, yeah.
And, for instance, tomorrow is the 16th anniversary of my father-in-law's passing, so I want to make sure I can do something for my wife. she doesn't need to see on my, cause she has access to my calendar. Yeah. She doesn't need to see that that's how I do it, but.
Right. Yeah. Yeah. Sometimes you don't want to know how the sausage is made. That's right. Right.
Right. You just want to taste the sausage and enjoy it.
That's it.
Or in Zoe's case, the bacon.
Right. That's right. That's right.
There's bacon people. There's sausage people. Sausage people are wrong.
I mean, you know, when given the choice between the two. Yeah. Obviously. Obviously. Kurt shares.
Kurt has, yeah.
Yeah. You want to go? Yeah.
Yeah. So here's what Kurt says. Kurt says, hi, in MGG 1058, you offered advice at about 55 minutes into the show to the listener who had a failing drive. You made the sensible suggestion that if one manages to get the drive spinning, your first and only priority should be to get the data off the drive. However, sometimes that can be difficult with Finder as it will abort if and when it enters and encounters when it encounters, excuse me, a drive error.
The best method, I think, is to drop into the terminal and use the utility rsync. I'm away from the computer, so I can't give you the exact command screen, but rsync can be configured to keep going and push on, regardless of any errors that it encounters. I think Unix copy CP will also ignore errors. Finally, if your disk is spinning, but also has many errors, there is a Linux utility called ddrescue.
You'll have to boot into some flavor of Linux and have a second drive to serve as a destination clone, but it can work wonders. It will read all the blocks that it can read from the source without error and then go back and repeatedly try to read the bad blocks until it manages to get the data off. It employs some tricks like seeking to the bad track from each side. Disk wizard stuff like that.
Oh, huh. just dd rescue is that does that exist on the mac uh i
Bet you probably could install it through homebrew
I guess i'm trying right now yeah brew install dd rescue let's see what happens i i did a witch dd rescue from the terminal which uh would tell me if there was one there and in fact I did, and there was not, so there wasn't one built into Mac OS. However, I did a brew install DD Rescue, and it just installed on my Mac. And so let me make sure it's the same DD Rescue. Data recovery tool. It copies data from one file or block device to another.
Trying to rescue the good parts first in case of read errors. Yep. Wow. Oh, that's good. All right. Huh. cool have either have either of you used dd rescue i don't i don't this is my no
I have not.
Interesting huh fun cool
Stuff i'm trying to think i think there's a command for brew where you can just have it yeah brew cask search
Okay and
Then the app name oh really so you wouldn't have to install it
Yep yeah right yeah yeah yeah uh well it says brew cask is no longer a brew command use brew command dash dash cask so maybe that's not the one is there is there brew search uh is it just that simple yes in fact it is just brew search and then i put dd rescue yep There you go. Good stuff. All right, folks. You know those nice brick paths on a college campus? They're like your company's well-behaved, IT-approved devices and apps. Neat, tidy, predictable.
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You go yep and first up is juergen this week he says hi guys this is my story may it serve others not to make the same mistake up until 2020 i was using apple music to sync music to the cloud my music to the cloud. I had lots of problems with the last played field, so I stopped syncing to the cloud. Since then, I have ripped all of my CDs and added them to my local collection. Many thousand songs. So, I was in need for an additional backup to my local backup.
Since the collection is large, I thought switch on sync with the cloud was the solution. Boy, was I wrong. After a long time, the process finished and I took a look at my library was I stupid and thinking Apple would just mirror my current library to the cloud it certainly did not instead the old cloud status was taken as the new current status. The good news, it seems, is I haven't lost any of the since 2020 newly added songs, but all the other songs that got their metadata from 2020.
Now I have a library with outdated data, covers the last played ratings, and the list goes on. So if you ever turned on syncing and turned it off, think twice about turn it on again, Juergen. And I was like, ooh, that is a classic don't get caught if ever I heard one. Any pre-solutions to that, Dave? I would think a complete backup to a local drive or something and then.
Yeah. I mean, the solution would be for Apple to build it to ask you, hey, you have old data out here. Do you want to merge with your old data or replace your old data? In lieu of Apple doing that, I think the solution would be to start with a blank music library, right? If you know that you have not synced in years, and now you want to start again, knowing what we know from Juergen, start with a blank music library.
You can just create a fresh one. You don't have to delete the one that you currently have.
It create a fresh one turn on syncing with that and then let it do whatever it's going to do and it's probably going to take a little while and then in that blank library erase everything wipe it all out that will push that wipe up to the cloud hopefully erasing everything that's in the cloud then when you go to sync then you know quit that switch to the other library change to the cloud make a backup in case it decides to honor
what you just did in the cloud and erase everything in your local library but hopefully it won't do that uh and hopefully it'll just let you Um push everything up to the cloud the only other thing i could think of is call apple care first and say hey can you wipe my music library in the cloud so that i can start fresh and is it possible that i know that mac wasn't syncing since 2020 but did you have another device that was like is your
phone syncing for i don't know like i don't know yeah i don't know yeah i yeah that's a tricky one yeah yeah but
Good advice don't don't just assume it's gonna do what you want.
Well i mean i guess the i guess the advice is because in i'm sure there are some people who have seen exactly this work just fine right and do what they expected it to do or at least thought it did what they expected it to do right i i i think the advice is back up your music library before you turn on syncing
You should have that anyway. So, yeah.
Right. Right. But that was the thing is he turned this on because he wanted a backup and thought this would be a great, you know, free backup. I got to stop hitting this.
Do we want to get into those semantics again?
No. No, sir.
Oh, boy. Just so anybody who doesn't know, my opinion is syncing is not a backup. Just like syncing to iCloud. i
I agree with you right up until the point that syncing has versioning and once syncing has versioning it does become a backup
Fair that's fair that i'll accept that yeah yeah there's
An asterisk that's all but in general like just sync is not and
I just say that often because the number of stories throughout the years that i've heard from people that are syncing whatever you know we're talking music here but it could be photos it could be your calendar it could be your contacts it could be whatever the number of times i've heard from people like i turned on syncing and everything got messed up oh yeah yes that's why i feel it's not a not a backup because it can go wrong whereas if i if i point in time like you said in this this is where
the versioning comes in point in time i say i want a copy of this over here nothing else is touching this over here something can happen this thing here i can go back to that thing there yep yeah so yep
I agree i i agree absolutely Todd. Oh, Todd is me. Woe is me. All right. Speaking of backing up, Todd says I created... Yeah, and syncing, right? I created a shared folder called recipes in notes and shared it with my wife a number of years ago. We were cooking an onion soup and I highlighted two lines of the directions so I knew where we were in that note. My wife sat down at her computer and accidentally hit a key on the keyboard.
She did not notice for about five minutes or so. And by then we could not recover via undo. She accidentally deleted this note. It hit me like a ton of bricks. How would I recover lost notes? A complete restore from time machine? I did not get caught as I had an older iPhone still syncing all my iCloud data that miraculously I had turned off the previous day. I turned that on and immediately put it into airplane mode so it didn't have a chance to sync.
I found the unaltered version of the recipe note and duplicated it and then let it sync and everything was okay. But I was amazed to see that there is no easy way to get all of my notes out of the Notes app. Export to PDF for pages, but one at a time, yes. I did some Googling and found an article about a comprehensive guide for backing up notes on your Mac and we'll put a link to that. But there's not a great option for backing up notes from your Mac.
I mean, you can back up the notes folder, but that is, you know, it's a SQLite database is essentially what's in that folder for notes. And so you'd have to just replace the whole thing. And that could get wonky with syncing and all that stuff. And then, of course, there's Time Machine. But, yeah. Yeah.
I know that the problem with non-document based apps on the Mac, you know, they don't qualify for like the time machine versioning thing because you've got to restore the whole like database.
Yes. But the thing is, it's a database. Like in theory, someone could write a utility to go in to the SQL light database and, and like save out all your notes individually and allow you to migrate certain ones back in or out or maybe even just save them off as, I don't know, RTFD files or something so that...
I mean, with notes, you actually, I mean, you could go in and use a tool like... There's a bunch of database viewers, and there's a few, I think, on SetApp for opening SQLite, you know, wizarding kind of things. So you could go find that library file in Time Machine, right?
Yep.
Restore a copy of it somewhere and then peruse through it and cherry pick out what you're looking for. Wouldn't be fun.
No, no.
You'd be spending some time, but you could do it.
But you could do it. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Like, yeah. Yeah, what's interesting.
The data data back you can't i don't think there's a real easy way unless you know what you're doing to like then take that and insert it back into the database i'd that'd be a little hairy i think but
Well so that's the interesting part is i can go into notes and i can export and this is in the apple notes app i can export as pdf but if i export as a pdf when i choose import to notes uh i can certainly import a pdf i would think but it's going to bring it back in as a pdf not as the note that it was so there's no way to export and re-import and keep the format the same correct yeah yeah that's not that's not the best uh apple not the best like it like i'm thinking of
contacts you know formerly address book yeah that'll export as a whatever it is the contact file i can't remember the format because i've got this whatever man flu thing going on but um i don't know like i can you can export it as whatever that is the vcf and then import the vcf and it comes back in the same way so yeah yeah i don't know i can't remember that but i I can remember that pre-show, Pete, I asked you if you could spatchcock a jackalope.
And you know what my answer was, Dave. Just don't get caught.
That's right. That's right. Yep. But can you? Like, this is important.
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, this is a clean show, Dave. Okay. A clean show. That's right.
You want to save us from wherever I'm taking us?
Stop it. Yes, I'm going to do that at this time. so first thing I'm gonna do is for those watching on discord I just posted the photos and they should be coming up momentarily but, Andrew writes in with his journey on Apple's time machine and to Adam's point a few minutes ago that Sinking is not a backup.
This is what Andrew is doing and man. I like it, My journey on Apple's time machine since day one in 2007 I've used Apple's time machine in the 17 years since I've had a handful of occasions where I've done full restores with it More so in the days of spinning dries nonetheless. It's a habit Good habit to be in, everybody. I used Apple's time capsules for years. First, the squat one, then the tower one. I retired this machine two years ago after moving to Netgear Orbi for mesh networking.
Then I switched to a Synology disk station. But this was a bag of hurt with time machine. I will concur that it's not the easiest thing to set up. But once you do, oh, it's nice. Back to the note. It kept dropping out and requiring reconnection. I gave up and resold it at a loss. Man, I'm sorry to hear that because I love my Synology. But I digress. Again, I still wanted some form of Time Machine with my Mac Mini. So in the most recent Amazon sale, I got some Samsung 2 terabyte SSDs.
I grabbed one for Time Machine and it works perfectly. I also have two old Samsung 500 gigabyte T5, which I run as a carbon copy cloner backups at 2 a.m. each morning. One drive is used for a month and then goes off-site and is swapped out with another drive, and a month later, the rotation again. This works perfectly. So where do you put these small drives? I Velcroed them to the back of my monitor, and that's what's working just fine.
And rather than take up USB-C ports on the Mac, I grabbed a Satechi 4-port USB-C hub, which moves data only at 5 gigabits per second, but that's just fine for backups. So...
Wow. That's pretty good.
That is good, and it's a relatively... Relatively being the keyword cheap solution for uh.
Huh we're
Doing the backups yeah.
I wonder yeah i wonder how like it would heat be an issue to like melt the velcro glue off of there or something over time i don't like i don't know apparently it's
Probably not if you get that industrial gorilla velcro tape or whatever like they have stuff that's meant for like yeah you'll never get it off your monitor or your drive ever again right well
There's that right and that's there's the uh the glue i use when i need something i'm certain never gonna go it's called e6000 and i think that thing will survive on the surface of the sun i don't know yeah it's amazing glue.
How hot do i mean monitors probably don't get hot no like but this was drives is this the back
Of his monitor or to his iMac yeah oh okay all right okay back of his monitor yeah okay
I don't know if there's any issues with that sort of thing going on yeah and the velcro might act as somewhat of an insulator right
I think right right yeah yeah right because it would it does give you an air an air gap right uh
Sure i was more thinking the velcro is you know just because it's a fabric material would kind of prevent heat dissipation.
You mentioned that you're heating up and falling off.
Where the Velcro is, yes, is an insulator, but otherwise you get an air gap between the disc and the monitor. The rest of the drive. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So here's a product someone can make for me. I've thought about trying to figure out some 3D printed thing or something like that.
So I have all my, I mean, I have three and a half inch drives not the little two and a half inch drives but like external usbc drives they're all about the same size and shape they're not exactly the same size and shape but i've often wanted some sort of i just have them set on my desk you know next to each other and i hate it and i'm like i've wanted somebody who would would make or design like a rack like a little tiny shelf
system for those drives you know that just stacks up and can maybe be expandable and i'm like there's got to be a product like that i've never found one you know that's like ideal does
12 south make anything i feel like they're the
Company they had the back they had the the what they called the do they call it the backpack or whatever the little shelf or
Whatever yeah the shelf yeah
It was a shelf that you could put on the back of your iMac i think it even locked into the little uh cable management hole i think it kind of clipped in there and then created a shelf out the back of your yeah iMac from i think i remember yeah it was set your drives on that but this is more i want i want like a a rack almost like you know they they make them for you can get like in uh an enclosure for you know internal drives that you stack up but like i just want like a
little they need to be little small shelves that are just stackable dr dream says use legos yeah you could build one with legos i could also figure out a 3d printed thing for something like that but yeah i just i'm so surprised they're not some commercial product yeah where you could just kind of stack them up and have them vertical because you don't want to set them on top you know because i've often thought about sending them on top of each other but then you're going to get heat so
you don't want that yeah all right uh i digress yeah i've been digressing we got a lot more stuff to get I'd like to get to that conversation about Vision Pro.
Okay, great. You want to take us to Joe quickly, Pete?
Yeah. So Joe has another one. This one's pretty long, but it will get through thoroughly. Guys, I have a PSA for the listeners towards the end. He said, I just got my iPhone 16 Pro Max. I've been having issues getting my backup of my iPhone 14 Pro Max onto the 16. I use the out-of-the-box approach Apple builds into the phone to start, But then it hung when asking for a confirmation number supposed to send to my old 14, which I never got.
Apple support really wasn't helpful, but at least I got to where my eSIMs were transferred using the new device mode versus from the backup on the other phones. And if you're Mint Mobile, you have to do this anyway. You don't get your eSIMs transferring over. Once I got the 16 at least running, I pulled it into my Mac 2017 MacBook Pro running the latest Ventura. But the phone never apparently paired with the Mac and the 16 will simply not mount on the Mac. My 14 will, no problem.
Interestingly, iMazing did not work as it never sees the iPhone 16 Pro Max. Although I do have solid backups of the 14 from Finder Backup and iAmazing Backup. I have two PSAs for Don't Get Caught. Number one, with iPhone storage getting larger and larger, it seems nearly impossible to get the backup on iPhone to internal storage on an SSD Mac. Apple should make it obvious with a button to backup to a different external location, but they do not.
The solution so far, anyway, seems to be to create a link via the terminal using the command ln-s.
To link the uh to link it i won't go into the whole path of that experience suggests that it makes uh though to make it a local connected drive and not to a nas is it'll probably drop the link which makes sense uh assuming you have a large drive anyway this now solves that problem presumably forever psa number two apparently apple in their wisdom assumed that anyone buying a new iphone 16 must be running the latest mac os2 even on the apple discussion
forums apple support is basically telling folks this really how stupid can it be for Apple for goodness sake to using a brand new Apple USB-C to USB-C cable directly to the MacBook Pro USB-C port the 16 will not mount the Apple forum said replacing it with USB-A to USB-C cable via a hub would bypass the issue but in fact it does not for me anyway with their cable and. With either cable, the 16 starts charging, so something is detected,
but the PSA is, do not buy an iPhone 16 if you are not running the latest Mac OS. I'm like, hmm. So my thoughts in there first were, remember the old Sanuti, which was iTunes running, or spelled backwards, I thought, you know, something along those lines. So I looked around and I found, where is it? I've lost it in my notes here. Well, let me back up. I'll get to that recommendation here in a minute. The first thing I'm wondering is if it won't mount, did he bypass the trust
settings? Because I had this happen to me. Yeah, you know, trust this computer. And if you accidentally hit no, or if you somehow didn't see that screen and bypassed it, now your computer won't trust it and vice versa. So you can reset it by going into settings, general, transfer or reset iPhone, and then reset, reset location and privacy on your phone. That'll reset any trust settings so that when you plug it in again, it'll go, hey, do I trust this device?
And then you can go, yes. I'll put that in there. I'll put that path in the show notes so that people can follow it. But yeah, settings general, transfer, reset, and then reset location and privacy. Okay.
Yeah. Yeah. Because I know somebody very well who recently experienced this.
Sure. No, that's, it's great. Yeah. That's great. Interesting.
So that may have been, I was just having trouble mounting. It wouldn't mount. And, and once I got to that, it, it works. So hopefully that's a simple problem, but, or the simple solution to the problem. But then the other one was the ancient program, in tech terms, and Sanuti. And I'm like, Hmm, that's probably not an option. And I'm shocked that iAmazing didn't work.
But I, I found iMobi.com. That's I M as in Mike, O B as in Bravo, O I E.com has a program called any trans. And it purports to be able to mount and access your phone. It looks like there's a free download and some pay options in there as well. But I'm wondering if any trans may be an option for you to try as well.
Yeah, that's interesting. I'm assuming that Joe doesn't have his 14 Pro Max because, of course, then you could just transfer over the air or use the free iCloud temporary storage to do this. If you had enough bandwidth to, for that to be feasible.
Um, transferring Bluetooth over the air, phone to phone takes an hour or two. Yeah.
But I mean, way faster than whatever he's going through. Yeah. Absolutely. You know, sometimes I know that delay. I, cause I'm always, whenever I see that delay, I'm like, oh, it's going to take an hour. Like, oh, there's gotta be a faster way. It's like, yeah, but Dave, how long is it going to take you to set that faster way up? And what's the headache going to be? This one has already begun.
And it's the same logic that I used to use with clients, like working on a machine windows, especially back in the day. And I'm, you know, rewinding back, you know, 20 plus years where, you know, we would try three or four things to solve whatever the problem was. And it was like, okay, look, we can keep looking for the needle in this haystack or we can rebuild the haystack. And one of those has a known time associated with it.
Whereas the other one could be much shorter or much longer. And we don't get to know until we're at the end. And so, right. Like, you know, right. Um, yeah. Yeah, this is an interesting scenario.
And depending on how long, you may never know.
You may never know, right?
The world may never know.
Well, there were times back in the old days where I would have to tell people, and this was, you know, when processors were much slower, and we were doing everything off of floppy drives, which were also slow. And it was like, look, you need to factor my time into this because people were paying, you know, dollars per hour. Or sometimes it was cheaper to buy a new computer than it was to pay me to fix the old one.
And just in terms of the amount of time that it was going to take, it's like, look, you know, this is just the reality of it. Yeah, I'm happy to help. But the dollars for donuts, you're going to be better off if you buy a new computer versus paying me to dig in and fix this one for you.
You know you want me to spend a day in my time or do you want to and then you have your same old computer and of course this was at a time when Moore's Law was like you know raging and it was every 18 months CPUs doubled in speed so it was like you could pay me the same amount of money that you spent on a new computer to have an old one that works just like it did before it started acting up or or yeah so anyway yeah it's interesting totally Weird Dilemma.
Thanks for sharing, Joe. Yeah, it's. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know that I have any advice for it, but there we go. You want to take us to this Andy. I know you wanted to make sure we got to Andy, so I'm going to go ahead and read that for you here, Adam. Thanks. As soon as I find it, but it's here. Andy says, I was stuck at the Apple store waiting for a Genius Bar appointment, so I asked about a Vision Pro demo, which they were happy to provide.
I own and enjoy a MetaQuest 3 which I use mostly for exercise but have played with other uses of. The AVP is clearly higher resolution, wider field of view and seems better in pretty much every way which of course it should be for $3,000 more. That said, I left the demo feeling the same as my reaction to the original announcement. It seems like an amazing solution desperately hoping to find a problem. So I'm curious to hear your thoughts about this.
Adam, do you use yours very much? If so, when and for what?
Yeah, I think this is a great question for a lot of people who are wondering about the Vision Pro. And I was happy that Andy asked me this because when I'm being honest, you know, I said to him, your assessment is, I think, spot on. It's very quite right. I absolutely love my Vision Pro for the promise of what it will be someday, not so much as what it is today. And I knew this buying it.
I knew that, you know, I had, here's the thing i've been in the apple community for you know decades now and i've never bought a bleeding edge product myself um when the first iphone came out i wasn't even gonna get the first iphone i had a very generous listener who bought that for me and they were expensive remember six seven hundred bucks right i think and then they dropped the price pretty quickly but um yeah so So I had the wherewithal. I had the opportunity.
I wanted this experience. So I knew what I was buying. I knew I was spending crazy money on something that I'm probably not going to get a lot of use out of. And that was true for a lot of early Apple products too. This isn't anything new. But you're kind of paying to fund the future, I think, a little bit. I very firmly believe that the Apple Vision Pro is the best AR experience you can get.
Now, I haven't tried a lot of other products but i have used uh i think a quest i don't remember what what version sure at some point um and it was kind of this it was in a lot of ways the same it was a vr experience and people were playing games on it and you know that wasn't being used for a lot this was a couple years ago and i know things have changed but i you know i do think that apple offers the best ar experience you can get
out of any consumer device on the market right now and i'll stand behind that. And it's because of the cost and what went into it and what's in it. You're not going to be able to match that at a $300 price. You can get very close, but there is a slight difference. But yeah, definitely, I would say personal to answer the usage question. Yeah, I'm kind of using it to... I love it for watching movies. I think it's amazing movie watching experience. And that's probably the most...
The thing i do most with it um it's incredible uh i and then other outside of that play around with a few games and try and try new things as they come out but there's the problem the rub right now is that there's a total lack of apps and developer support and you know it's a it's a two-way street cyclical thing whatever you want to say right until there's more devices out there you're not going to have more developers making things for it um but you know the reverse is also true right
it's like they got to make more things for it so that more people want to buy them so that you know but apple will get that figured out and we've seen this over and over again i mean when the first iphone came out it didn't have apps i think people forget that like there wasn't other than what apple gave you to do on it there wasn't a lot to do on it till we had a robust developer community so you know i have no doubt that this thing's going to get better apple's going to make cheaper versions.
It's going to get in more consumers' hands. When that happens, more developers will jump on board. It's all going to come eventually. So Apple Vision Pro 1.0, as it exists right now, is a consumer beta. It's a consumer beta device. And it's for early adopters and for people who want to mess around with this and developers who want to try to figure these things out. And it's going to take a few years.
But as it gets more affordable and better, then you know it just like the the ipod 1.0 versus what we had at the end just like iphone 1.0 ipad apple watch like there's a cycle to this i think
And i could be wrong that in 15 years hence that this thing is going to be like the glasses that you and i are wearing adam.
But yeah maybe i don't know if you saw the new ones that meta came out with but they're getting a lot of controversy see right now um very very cool yeah the new meta i mean they're not available to public but they showed off their new like glasses glasses and a lot of uh tech reviewers have been able to try them and it kind of shows the future uh there's obviously security and privacy concerns about that sort of thing because they look like just glasses that
Ship has sailed.
Well i but i mean there's a whole etiquette and thing that like sure when we have those what do you do when you need to use the restroom yeah do you take them off You leave them on like,
Right. Oh no, I, I'm just saying that ship is sailed because whether you follow the etiquette or not, there are people who won't. And you know, that's, that's the world in which we are now find ourselves.
Um, but I mean, what do you, I see plenty of people in men's rooms right now with their iPhones in their hand the whole time. And, and it, it, in the men's room, Where is the camera aimed when you're just messing around on your phone while you're waiting for your business to finish? Right. I mean, like, yeah. So, but you're right.
That's sadly the world in which we live.
It is the world. Yeah. The etiquette thing is something I occasionally think a lot about. I don't obsess about it, but when I'm stopped, when presented with it, it's like, you know, I think about, I think I've said this before on this show, I think about cars, right? When the first car, right now we have this whole robust system. I mean, we have roads, which, you know, we sort of had, but they were paths for things.
But we have this robust system of laws and enforcement and you have to get a license and all these things. That was absolutely not the case, 100% not the case the day the first car came out, right? And so it evolved over time as things do and as things are with the smartphone. And if I think about the car, there are all the laws and there's all the things. But then there's also etiquette and there's a merging of etiquette with laws. There's a codification of etiquette with laws.
And what I'm thinking about with cars or one of the things that I keep coming back to is the four-way stop moment.
Think about what happens at a four-way stop now i know we're all trained to do it because it's been codified and i i think probably somewhere you could be you know cited with a violation if you do it wrong but for them and i know we can all complain that oh that idiot over there doesn't understand how a four-way stop works and sure but the number of collisions that don't happen at four-way stops tells me that even that idiot does understand what's
happening here even if they're not doing it the right way you know i'm using air quotes i and that took a while to get to the point where the four-way stop wasn't people getting out of their cars and like waving at each other and doing the thing right like we came up with a thing and it's okay the person to the right that gets there if you get there at the same time the person to your right goes first and otherwise the person who gets there like the whole thing that
evolved into what we know it as today is it No, I don't think we've hit the four way stop point with the etiquette of smartphones yet. So we're getting there and it's it's getting better. But like that moment. Even that moment hasn't yet happened, I don't think.
Right, yeah.
So we're figuring it out. Yeah, yeah.
And we will. I mean, there's all sorts of things, right? But yeah, you know, I think you're right, Pete. I mean, that's the future that we're pushing towards for this kind of device if society chooses that that's the next thing. I think what's interesting about glasses and Envision Pro and all this other stuff is it seems like tech has decided that's the next thing that we're going to or want to go to. And then maybe after that, it's some sort of implant or something like that, I guess.
I don't know that society will choose that ultimately. It's going to be very interesting. And I think we're at that point, right? Right. Whereas like phones, when we went from, you know, cell phones to smartphones or whatever, that felt like it was a more natural transition. It didn't have as many of these kinds of social roadblocks, I think. And again, you're right, Dave, there were those though. I'm not saying they didn't exist and we're slowly trying to figure them out.
I think the biggest one, you know, hitting our society right now is just you know, you're, you're out anywhere and nobody's talking to each other. They're just all looking at their phones. Like that drives me batty and I'm guilty of it too. I know I'm guilty of it.
And it doesn't just happen when we're out. Like Lisa and I have been, you know, we're, we're navigating our way into this empty nest world. And like, you know, that that's a change for us. It's, I mean, it's the natural part of things, but it's a change regardless.
And we've noticed that oh wait if we're not intentional about this we'll sit on the couch together at night lost in our phones and and it it's easy for it to happen because sometimes i do need to do work on the couch or sometimes she does need to do something and so one of us will see the other you know buried in their divisive choice and figure okay well i don't want to interrupt them i'll get buried in my divisive choice and and suddenly two
hours has gone by and it's like well i guess i'm gonna go to bed you know and that's right that's probably not the best thing uh for the next you know we're about to hit our 26th anniversary and uh this coming week congrats thank you and uh it's probably not the best path forward for the next 26 years for us right like so so you're
So you're not on a break.
Dave we're not on a break that's right no that's right but our phones sometimes think we are right yeah that's right um so i like i think i it like we have to be in our house we have to be intentional about it um and yeah and and and i think that's something that will probably start at home like a lot of these things do and then begin to spill over when we're all you know out in society and we'll find some version of that yeah yeah yeah
Again i think Linus Tech Tips was talking about this, but there's a lot of people that think the glasses are going to solve this problem i'm a little bit leery about that because i have a feeling like worse you're going to look like you're you know connected and you're really just you know parsing all the stuff that's flying by your eyeball right and
If my wife thinks i'm listening to her now wait till i have a pair of those glasses on and i'm looking right at her and she's talking to me.
Another thing that came up i think this came up online is steps too because there were some university i think that took this technology and merged it with ai right and it basically you would look at somebody it would scan their face it would use ai and go out to the internet and just start grabbing all the information that it could find to that person and then just like present it to you it's like where they live who they are their social media accounts they're blah blah like yep terrifying i
I mean that's handy
Right like
You know you're in a conference i would like that but yeah
Well it's handy if it's handy if it's grabbing that information from data that you've maybe put into your phone in your contacts app right yes it's not handy if it's like just people out in public who you don't know and it's just doing that well
Yeah in fact i'll tell you what though there's amazing and i forget the name of it there's a facial recognition program that the guy was just playing around with when he decided, you know, I want to learn how to do this.
And now it's available mostly only to law enforcement. But if you're in the background of a photo that someone else took at a fair that, I mean, they've caught wanted felons using, you know, this thing scans the internet and find, you know, Joe and Mary are out and they take a picture at a fair and you happen to be in the background and you're a wanted felon. They can pinpoint you were at that fair and they know what town you're in and
they've, they've caught people doing this. It's like, oh my God.
You know, I'll take it a step further. Cause Meta made these glasses that we were showing off and talking about. Right.
Yeah.
Now it's doing that for everybody that has a set of those glasses and sending all the data where.
Hmm. Yep. And that's, that's the end of the question.
Including where that person was, where they were, all the people in a crowd, like Yeah.
It's, it's a brave new world to quote somebody, you know, it'd be a good title for a book maybe.
And you're right, Dave. I mean, there's going to, so there's absolutely going to have to be very much laws and codification and restrictions on what corporations can do with, because the data, I mean, we're already there with smartphones. It's just going to, when everybody's got a pair of glasses that has all these sensors and all this AI technology and all these like, yeah, talk about big brother
One thing you know 1984 well and and i mentioned on an episode a few weeks ago that one of the things i love to do is in the car is i use currently chat gpt eventually i'm assuming you know the s lady integration will just let me do this but i use the voice mode of chat gpt's iphone app to talk to it and ask it questions and have it teach me things while i'm thriving which is amazing but sometimes it's like hey i'm having this little medical problem or
whatever you know or a potential medical problem let's let's diagnose this together like is this you know and i know how to parse this information as to i think as to whether or not it's time to call my doctor but i just like to learn things or even if i was just in my doctor your own prescription maybe i maybe i want to be a doctor that's right so but anyway like i'm sharing private data with this thing and i'm fully aware that this means it is no longer private right like there's a
world however we need a future where right now the data that is in our heads is protected we cannot be compelled to share that data i feel like we need laws to protect the data That we outsource from our head to a device because these devices become the assistance to our brains. Like I don't, I used to remember everyone's phone numbers.
I don't have to anymore because I have a device now, whether somebody's phone number gets out there, like that might not be a big deal or it might be depending on who's the, whose phone number it is. But other things that I offload from my brain to my device for convenience need to be protected the same way. And that's just it's a big deal, I think, and a huge barrier to.
Us really as a society embracing this maybe although clearly i'm embracing it even without that in place but like we need it i think but that's just part of this evolution i don't know we could go on like this forever we
Could i want to let me close it out then with the thought going back to your intersection mode and and that was actually in the early days the theory was you sped through an intersection for less likelihood of a collision and that's kind of where we are right now i think we're speeding through the intersection and until this gets codified so.
That's that's yeah fair point
Yeah it reminds me of an old george carlin bit but you know where he's like he speeds through all the inner he speeds through all the red lights and the person in the car is like what are you doing and he's like oh it's fine my brother does this all the time he has no trouble and so he just speeds through the red lights speeds to the red lights gets to a green light and he slows down the person's like what are you doing he's like my brother might be coming the other way
so exactly you know yeah well
At least you didn't go to the seven words you can't say on tv.
Uh could you say those on a podcast i have a checkbox i could tick we're not gonna you could
But not this one.
Not this one no no um can i i know we're a little over but i want to ask you uh the question that zoe asked you pre-show adam because i think this is timely and relevant and And brings us back to tech tips before we actually close it out. Zoe asked, I am trying to do the iPhone mirroring and my MacBook is trying to connect to my old iPhone and not my new one. How do I fix this?
Yeah, I hit this exact problem when I upgraded finally my Mac to the new operating system and it popped up and it said, hey, do you want to do, you know, the iPhone mirroring thing? Or there was a icon in my dock and I think it clicked it. But and it tried to connect to my old iPhone, which was way out sitting in my office. And I'm like, no, I don't want to do that. And I couldn't find an option to tell it something different.
And I was like, how do I do this? So how you do it, folks, is you go into settings on Mac OS Sequoia or 15 or 16. What is the number?
Mac OS 15 is the one we're on.
15. I got it right. Yep. Then go into settings, desktop, and it's under desktop and dock. And then down under a section called widgets, you should be able to see iPhone. And it says this iPhone will be used for iPhone mirroring and widgets. And if you have multiple iPhones connected to your iCloud, I'm assuming it's through iCloud. Your iCloud account, then you can select which one will be the iPhone. I don't know why there's not a way to do it from the mirroring app.
I think that's a little bit crazy, but it's buried in settings.
Okay. Well, thank you. I think that's good advice and a nice little treat for all of us that stuck around through our crazy little ramblings here. I know we don't do the crazy ramblings often, but sometimes they're good. And, you know, to me, that was one of the things I was kind of looking forward to when you brought you came into the fault here, Adam, and essentially brought some elements of MacCast with you. And that's kind of one of them. So I like it. Yeah, it's good.
It's a good conversation to have. We shouldn't be the only ones having it.
Right. Right. Yeah. Well, we need for everyone to be having it. It needs to be everyone. Yeah. Yeah, for sure. It does. Uh... Please remember to go to MacGeekUp.com slash giveaway. Eternal Storms is our giveaway partner for this month of October here. Giving away copies of both Yoink and Screen Float. So MacGeekUp.com slash giveaway. Don't forget about that. Thanks to Eternal Storms for being our partner with that for this month.
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