It's time for Mac Geek Gab, and I've got our quick tip of the week. I like using ChatGPT for all kinds of things. I was using it for some troubleshooting the other day, and the logs of my Synology of a Docker container in my Synology were not easy. I couldn't just copy and paste them into ChatGPT to do my troubleshooting. So I thought, well, let me see what happens. So I took a screenshot, and using one of our quick tips, I just used the option key to put my screenshot on the clipboard.
So a screenshot of the logs, and this is now just a PNG or a JPEG or however it's out there, pasted it in, just Command-V right there into the chat GPT text window. It uploaded the screenshot. I said, please evaluate these logs and tell me whatever question I asked. I forget. And it parsed the text out of the image, understood exactly what the logs were, and then gave me some advice, which may or may not have been right or wrong. I can't remember. But the screenshots work in ChatGBT.
More tips like this, plus your questions answered and maybe even some cool stuff found today on MacGeekUp 1070 for Monday, December 30th, National Bacon Day, 2024. Greetings, folks, and welcome to MacGeek, the show where you send in tips like that or we bring in tips like that. You send in your questions and we answer them. You send in some cool stuff found. We bring in some cool stuff found.
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And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
And here also in New Hampshire, it's Pilot P1070, police code, improperly parked vehicle. Let's see if we can get this one moving along.
I like that. That's good. Improperly parked vehicle. I did that last night and I plan on doing it again tonight at the gigs I'm playing. I love finding the wrong place to park. Well, it's not the wrong place. It's the right place for me. It's right up against the load-in door. So that's right.
You've got a lot of stuff to carry. It's not like you've got a piccolo or a flute.
Yeah, exactly. I always improperly park and I'm happy about it. I did have an issue at Foxwoods once and that was the moment when I realized, wait a minute, I'm not actually on U.S. soil. I might just want to go along with what the chief says.
Follow the rules. Yes.
Like, right. Over there is U.S. soil. this they have their own way of doing things i will follow them
Yes right.
All right shall we keep on going with quick tips guys or is there more yeah okay
Let's do one the next one was uh one that i ran across my entire life like a caveman when i had to turn something 90 degrees to the right in preview i would go up there and i'd click three times so it would turn 270 degrees to the left to get where I wanted. However, if you just hold down the option key, it changes the direction that it will turn. So you just hold down the option key and click once and you can, yeah. So instead of clicking, turning it left.
I learned a thing. Wow.
Works in photos too.
Of course it does. Yeah, of course it does. Okay.
So, but you were talking to him real quick, You were talking ChatGPT and putting that screenshot in there. When I was searching for that video that I'm going to show in a little bit, I put in the word Vegas because that's where I happened to shoot this video. And it found a picture of a ticket or some kind of text somewhere in there that said Vegas. So, I mean, it's searching all kinds of stuff. It's terrifying.
But that was photos that did that, not ChatGPT, right?
Yes, that was photos. So yeah, that's the intelligence that's everywhere now. Yeah.
Yeah.
It's true. It's only getting more.
Well, the Apple stuff is not everywhere.
No. We talked about that. That's right.
It's local. Just last week. It's local.
That's fair. Yeah, that's right.
So when Photos is searching, it's just searching your data. It's not.
Yeah. It's not. But it is pretty amazing that it can find a tiny piece of text in a photo taken 28 years ago.
I mean i've noticed that it finds stuff like tiny tiny text like that i can't even read in the photo normally in some cases yeah it's pretty amazing very very cool uh speaking of very very cool so earlier in the pre-show dave dave let out an expletive not even a not even a bad one just i was worried about him for a second because apparently he'd closed a tab in his browser that he didn't want to close and didn't know where it was
and luckily got it back but that made me think hey there must be a shortcut for most browsers nowadays have a reopen closed tab feature. I think in the case of Safari, we said it's reopen closed window. But if you do command shift T for tabs, so instead of, you know, command T would normally give you a new tab, I think, or open a tab. Command shift T will reopen a recently closed tab. So it's your kind of tab. I closed a tab. I want to undo it.
Tip. Yeah. Command Z doesn't work. Command shift T does.
All right, so command T to open the tab. I was part of this conversation in pre-show, but it, like, the muscle.
Command T gives you a new tab.
Yeah, no, I know that. So I'm learning the muscle memory. I would have thought command option T would be the one to, like, undo what I just did. But it's command shift T.
Okay, all right. I'll learn that.
You'll cross the streams, and then the universe is we know it, so don't do that one.
Yeah, don't cross the streams. That's right. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. I get it. All right. I'm just thinking through i
Think i mean there is a bunch of shortcuts around tabs i think but yeah
Yeah all right good thanks see i'm learning the things i got two now all right we're barely barely five minutes into the show well we're seven and a half but who's counting someone is your podcast app is counting is what it is so
Chat gpt is counting
Yeah it always is it's true and there you go you got our next one pete Oh, is that me? Oh, it's me. I think the next one is me. I don't know why I didn't.
Good thing because my mouse is acting up again. I can't move anything anyway. Great.
This one actually isn't me. It comes from listener Jeff. He says, I stumbled across a feature in Calculator. Not sure how long it's been there. Did you know that you can put the Calculator into conversion mode and then make simple conversions like feet to meters or acres to hectares?
Just tap the little calculator icon at the bottom right there in the iPhone you tap the little calculator button that's in the lower left on your iPhone and then you can put it into you can slide it into convert mode and do all of these things I had no idea that's awesome it's hiding in plain sight right there in front of us love it thank you Jeff you
Can use also spotlight search to do conversions i do that all the time
Yes okay will that work on the iphone too i
Think in the spotlight yeah this was you get a swipe left from the home screen to get to spotlight
Search no i just no i just um pulled down and got into pull down that's right yeah yeah and i put in three ft and it says it's 0.91 m so yeah okay
And then you could say 2in and it probably would do inches
Yeah uh it won't will it do like if i do one cad for canadian dollar 0.69 us dollars yeah as of this moment on december 20th we're recording this one a little early just in case something crazy happens with values yeah
I use it on my mac all the
Time yes same command
Space bar and then whatever i want to convert
Bonus quick tips love it Love it.
But the calculator thing is really cool. There is a lot of stuff in calculator.
There is. And bonus tip in calculator, if you pull up calculator on your iPhone and, you know, it looks like it looks. If you turn your iPhone sideways, there's more features in there. And there can be even more if you hit the little button. So, yep.
That allows it to do, what is it, scientific or something like that?
Yeah, it can go into scientific mode. I don't know why mine didn't go into full scientific mode.
Yeah, I was noticing that. When you turned yours sideways, it made you a liar.
Oh, no. This is different now. So that little calculator button at the bottom, the one where you can, you know, you tap the button and it sends you into convert mode. That is also where you can go into scientific mode. And now you can do scientific. This must be new as of iOS 18. Now you do scientific in both portrait or landscape. So scientific mode is not just in landscape anymore. So I went to share an old quick tip and learned a new one on the fly.
So there it is. And at least on my phone, I can put it into math notes mode there too. It's that little calculator button at the bottom. So I could theoretically, can I do math notes? Oh, I have to create a new math note. I haven't created anyone. My phone i see okay so that's where you do it that little calculator button in the lower left is kind of the magic with the uh 18 flavor of ios amazing we learn all kinds of things what we do yeah i feel like i've already hit my five when
You yeah what it won't do is when you like add up numbers in your bank account it won't give you higher numbers it won't convert it to higher numbers no matter how hard you try.
You
Just have to save.
Pete you just need the right Mine seems to
Convert it to lower numbers, awful.
Your problem is you're logging into your bank with your password. You need to find the right password to log in to change those numbers. Oh. There you go. That's all I'm saying.
Adam, can I have your password? That's right. Adam, what's your mother's maiden name? Asking for a friend.
What's funny about, so another quick tip on that, what's funny about that is I absolutely, obviously, for security reasons, hate those sites that ask you for the, you know, give these questions so we can tell you what your password is. Because a lot of times the things they ask about are things that people might be able to find on the internet about you, right? So it's a terrible security practice and nobody should be using it.
So my tip for everybody there is I just have 1Password generate random stuff and just pick whatever question and I just put that information in my 1Password. So it's like for this one, what's the first, what's the street, the name of the street you grew up on, it'll just be some random thing is what I put in there. Never put the right answer. So even if you knew my mother's name, it wouldn't help you.
Yeah, I do total non-sectors. Like, you know, what is the square root of pi? Pi's a round. That's the answer. Or frequently, well, like my home network. It's named Sharpie because there was a Sharpie pen sitting on my desk when I was setting up my first Wi-Fi router to this day. Sharpie is my home network.
That's why Sharpie is your home network. I always wondered. Okay.
It's interesting. You know, Yamaha. We had it for a while. We had it in Florida named after our dog, but I'm like, well, this is silly because now I've got to put all new passwords in and all that. So now in the two places, it's the same and the passwords are the same. So stuff just joins. But usually I'd go non-secular. like Adam said.
I'm curious, what does everybody, what and why, why do you name your Wi-Fi network what you name it? Let us know. This is fascinating. Feedback, of course. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com, not feedback, of course.
You heard him. Feedback at MacGeekGab.com. Send it in. Send it in now. Pull over on the side of the road and send it in.
Feedback at MacGeekGab.com. I would name mine, you know, I name mine something like, we'll steal your data.
Yeah i i named i named my wi-fi network dave the nerd because it was like oh you know that's like the thing i used for my consulting business that's you know dave the nerd so i put that in there i was like oh call it dave the nerd little did i know of course as with all of us that this would be something that i will now carry with me until probably that that of all the things i've done the name of my wi-fi network will be my everlasting legacy because there you go the family once i'm
gone the family's not going to want to change all the devices to match some new network name just like i don't want to change them but like my my son just named he has a cat named martin and so when he moved into his apartment and had to start his own wi-fi network he called it martin's mansion and i said to him i said okay here's the deal though that name will move with you to everywhere you ever go for the rest of your life.
And I don't know how long you think you're going to live, but my presumption is that you will outlive that cat and many after him. So just be ready for that to just be there forever. Yeah, right.
Martin two, Martin three. My favorite Martin.
How has he's had a cat named martin since 2021 how has how have none of us in the house ever called him my favorite martin i
Don't know oh well i've seen some good ones you.
Will know you will know yeah
Yeah we will oh i definitely will tomorrow martin's coming to visit my favorite martin is coming to visit so
Um so while we're on this topic i guess i just realized that maybe I was psychic way, way back when, when I first got my first airport because I thought I was being clever. And so my Wi-Fi network is called Air Max. So I thought I was being with it, M-A-X, but it sounds like Mac. And I had Max on my network and I had an airport. So it's like Air Max and it's been that way ever since. But that was way, way before Apple started using Max for anything.
Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah, these things. This is fascinating. I love doing this. This is great.
It's holiday. One of my favorites ever was FBI surveillance.
Oh, yeah.
Exactly.
I've seen that one. All right. All right, should we get back to quick tips?
We probably should.
Do you think, what is the, I know that there's some betting happening out there. I'm not encouraging nor discouraging this. I'm just acknowledging that I'm certain it's happening. What are the what's the over under on whether we actually finish with quick tips and get to anything else today that's that's the question i'm
Under i'll take the under, All right. Well, the next one is a key. This one drives me nuts in messages. I'm typing a message and I mistyped something and, or better yet, I'm trying to type something and autocorrect wants to fix it. I don't want it fixed. I want it to be what I typed. And I have to stop and take my trackpad and go to the little X and find it down there in the window and click on that to get it done. Hey, you know what? just hit the escape key and it leaves you alone.
It will now leave what you typed. Oh, yeah. And if you move away from it already, that's if you get it beforehand. If you move away from it and it's auto-corrected, you can hit Command Z and it'll undo it as well. But if you're still on it, rather than have to go move the mouse to where you want it, just hit the escape key and you can keep typing. And if you've got a name that you frequently would get auto-corrected, you can then go into settings and tell it. Let's see, how do I write it down?
Settings keyboard is where you want to go.
Yeah, and you want it to learn the misspelled word. So let's say you have a friend whose last name is friend, only they spell it F-R-E-I-N-D, and you want that to happen. You can go in there and say, I want it to spell it this way.
Wait, I want to talk about this because I was potentially misleading people to keyboard and then what is it? Keyboard shortcuts. No, not keyboard shortcuts.
Yeah, I think it's keyboard shortcuts. Text replacements. You can add it to the dictionary. Right click the misspelled word and choose learn spelling. That's what I found. Oh, really? So, yeah, so type, in fact, type the word best or something like that, B-S-E-T, or T-S-E-T for test. Okay. If you right-click the word.
Yeah, I see it. It underlines. If you look down there,
You should see learn spelling.
Add to dictionary.
Yeah.
Oh. Yeah. I'm doing this in, that was in Discord, so.
Yeah. Where is learn spelling? Mine is not letting me do it in notes, but.
Yeah, I'm not seeing this learn spelling thing.
It did it in pages and I think it'll do it in messages as well. Interesting word yeah.
I'm not i did type like b-s-e-t
Okay so you have to highlight the whole word yeah right click on it and then learned learn spelling is down below all the suggestions i.
See it you're right there's learn spelling yeah huh
I wonder where i wonder where it goes because i would have thought it goes like into some sort of personal dictionary inside the dictionary app but i just opened the dictionary app and i'm not seeing that but what i did just find now i gotta share this i did just find the apple the dictionary has so when you go into dictionary the dictionary app and open it up it has wikipedia it has the thoris it has dictionary so up at the top
there's these little tabs it has all one of the dictionaries is apple and this comes up for me all the time when i'm like what apple calls that feature or that thing like something so like i just went in there and i typed the letter e and up pops things like expose expose a mac os feature that lets you temporarily move windows out of the way or off the screen entirely. In 2011, Exposé became part of Mission Control. Also see, Mission Control.
There you go. Yep. Yep.
But Taptic Engine is in here. Like, all these things.
All the things from the Appleverse.
Yeah.
So if you're wondering what that Apple thing is, you can use the dictionary app to find it.
You can use the dictionary app. That's fascinating. All right. Go figure. I mean, I guess it makes sense.
I got one other question. Yeah. What's another word for thesaurus?
Andy has our next quick tip.
Run, Dave, run.
He says... Talking about wireless music, unlike you HomePod and or Sonos aficionados, I use either a newer receiver with built-in AirPlay or an older receiver with either like an old Apple TV, which of course is an AirPlay destination, a cheap Roku or Raspberry Pi with AirPlay software involved, something like that. With my Yamaha receiver and my buddy's Denon receiver, both of them have AirPlay and Bluetooth built in, we have had situations where we lose connectivity.
We finally figured out that totally disconnecting power usually fixes the issue. So a full reboot. As both of these types of receivers are at least semi-on or semi-off when turned off, software gremlins still apparently reside until all power is cut off from the device. I'm not sure this solves 100% of our issues, but so far it has. And I forgot to mention that my buddy has an Android phone. So this was some sort of wireless networking glitch in general with receivers, not AirPlay only.
So the lesson from Andy is if you are having problems with especially a receiver or some piece of stereo equipment that is an AirPlay destination, the power button on it does not actually turn it off it just goes into kind of a low power sleep mode so that it can power up quickly but it doesn't cause a full reboot like i always call It causing an a resistance issue or you know a high impedance air gap uh by removing the power plug from the wall so uh however um i have had this
issue and i had it with my apple tv as an airplay destination at times too but certainly with receivers and those other sort of devices that you can get that are airplay receivers go into your router and set a dhcp reservation for in this case your receiver having it not change ip addresses often is the solution and uh and of course you know repowering it causes it to go and refetch from the dhcp server but if you give it a reservation and just let it be the
same ip all the time that will likely solve your issue it is something that i've seen solve this issue in the past so yeah that's that's my thoughts on that yeah yeah i realize it wasn't sent in as a question but as we were talking about it yeah it is with great reservation that i say pete what do you have next
Who, me? What, am I up? Just kidding. So, let's see. I think it's Andrew. Yep, Andrew writes in, and he said, This is prompted by Pilot Pete's comment last week, well, two weeks ago now, that he reinstalled iOS on a device by plugging an iPhone into a Mac. On iOS, you can delete Apple apps, for example, podcasts and Safari, and reinstall them later through the App Store. However, on macOS, you can't reinstall deleted apps through the Mac App Store.
You have to do a complete reinstall. Here's my problem. Ever since I went from macOS 14 to 15, my podcast app just crashes not long after launch, whether I play something or not. I thought, okay, I'll wait until 15.1 and that will fix it. But if Dave would say, no bueno, 15.2 arrives. It's no bueno. It's no expletive bueno. Fish shake at Apple. There are multiple recommendations in Google Foo on this.
However, before spending hours waiting through suggestions, I thought I would quickly nuke the preferences or p-list or whatever master data is stored in the library or elsewhere. However, I get super nervous poking around in the library for fear of doing something wrong. Can someone please tell me the files and or folders to nuke and reset the Apple Podcast Mac app or user data? Thank you, Andrew. And so I thought, you know what? I don't use podcasts on my Mac very much, so I'll play with that.
And I went in there and I did some research and I thought, okay, I'll delete the com.apple.podcast.plist file and the com.apple.podcast file. And that should work. And since I don't, like I said, since I don't use it much, I'll do it a test run and see how it works out.
Uh it wouldn't delete with you know all kinds of it it would probably if i went in and did the terminal and pseudo overroute everything and all that i could probably get rid of it but in aviation we call that a clue bird strike apple does not want you getting rid of those files, so but he he actually wound up with a follow-up he got the answer uh by uh reinstalling the os And so, I'm sorry, yeah, he reinstalled from recovery mode, and that was not hours and hours.
It just reinstalled the OS, and now it is working. So, that's option one. And then, or the second quick tip out of that is do what he did, which is go to our macgeekgab.com slash discord, go to the help desk channel, put that in there. And someone like Ben, who is regularly in there and giving good answers, will likely answer you. And we've got an amazing community in there on the help desk. But that's where he got the answer. So I wanted to pass that along.
Go to our help desk, probably better than Apple sometimes, to get the answer you want quickly, the right answer.
Cool.
Unless I answer it, in which case, go to Apple Support.
Also go to the help desk. Too funny.
So. Yeah. What do you think, Dave? I mean, when it won't go to the trash can, you know, you're in that library, which is a hidden folder anyway, and go into a com.podcast, com.apple.podcast.plist, and you try to delete it, and it goes, uh-uh. It's trying to tell you something.
Well, yeah, it's probably an active file or something. I mean, there's a few ways of deleting things. Yeah. Well, one is to go to the – the first thing I would do is go to the terminal and do sudo, S-U-D-O, space. And all of these terminal commands are potentially terribly destructive that I'm about to say here. So venture forth with great caution.
And lots of backups on standby.
Yeah, sudo space rm space full path to the file. Be very careful not to hit return until you're certain. But that would do it potentially. And if that doesn't do it, then rebooting into single user mode. Can we even still do that with Apple Silicon? As I'm saying it, I have not done that. But single user mode, one issue with deleting files sometimes is that the system is actively has that file open.
And so, yeah, it's not going to let you muck with it. However, single user mode ain't nothing open but a shell. So, you know, usually those kinds of things go away. But can we do single user mode on Apple Silicon?
Maybe not.
Yeah, I don't know.
Yeah, I don't remember. I haven't done it in a long time. While you're looking for that, so when it literally did not let you put those files in the trash?
Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, I forget the exact came up, but it was a user permissions thing. Even though I'm the admin, I was in an administrative account on my machine, it was not happy.
So there's no more single user mode um i'm i'm looking at apple's uh knowledge base article on it and and it says first of all the command s to start up in single user mode is only a key combination for intel based max there's nothing for apple silicon and then it also says command as startup in single-user mode disabled in macOS Mojave or later. So, no wonder I haven't used it in a long time.
Right?
Yeah.
So, safe mode would be closer because at least you're not running all the system services and you just open a terminal or or couldn't you launch into the the on apple silicon you can launch into disk that the whole thing where you get disk utility up you can run a terminal from there you would have to mount the drive as read write and then you could do it so i think it's still doable it's just a a a a different path yeah
Did i see something in there about target disk mode you could get to it that way too if you mounted it in a connected to another.
Machine yeah that that's true does target disk mode work with apple silicon what
You just had up i saw the words target disk.
Mode well yeah but that's that's on the intel that's on the intel list oh
Yeah yeah yeah right okay so it may.
Not work in there but it might like there's all i don't i obviously i'm not going to restart this machine into the the right for for all those reasons because then i couldn't keep doing the show but yeah yeah there is that that screen so there there are options there i i forget if target i think target disc mode is i think it's still there yeah man i got it you know what i will i will take some time over the holidays and and peruse through that i mean like
You mean the holidays just passed.
Well this is true yeah yeah we're still in the midst of the holiday anything before we go to ces is considered holidays for me um in that i just keep still working no matter what but i this idea of i want to go into i clearly i don't have a working memory of what's all of what's available in the menu options that exist when you hold down the power button to start up your M1 or Apple Silicon Mac on anything Mac?
That is valuable stuff to know, not just for doing this show and answering questions on the fly, but also for ourselves when we have these problems on our Macs, knowing that, oh, I can go over there into this special mode and do this thing. That's valuable. And so I want to spend time doing that. And so I will. So just to familiarize myself.
I think I actually know what this might be.
Okay.
I'm going to guess that what you ran into, Pete, was system integrity protection, SIP, which is a new thing in macOS. It restricts certain system files, directories, processes from being modified, deleted, or replaced, even if you have admin privileges. So it modifies the root, the actions, or it limits, rather, I guess that's just the correct way to say it.
It limits actions on the root user account for certain kinds of actions to protect the operating system and critical files and things that apps install or really the OS has installed. So it is literally designed for two things. One, to prevent people from getting themselves in trouble deleting system files. But also more importantly, if you got malware or some sort of thing on your system, it can't go in and trash things, even if it has root privileges.
You can turn this off. And this is part of the reason why I'm bringing this up, because to Dave's point earlier, it's good to know about these things. You'll see tips sometimes online where you're trying to do something and someone will tell you to turn this off, to do an action.
Make sure you one make sure you know what you're doing when you're doing this because again like Dave said it could be highly dangerous if you're if you're not careful number two if you do turn it off for some reason make sure you turn it back on you want this on your system
Right. So, and I didn't remember it was system integrity protection, but that's what I was saying when I said, you know, this is Kluberts, right? Apple's got you, got your back, so to speak on this. And I was tempted, like I say, to go into terminal and use the sudo RM and drag that file into terminal.
Which is how I get my path.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. No, it wouldn't have.
It wouldn't have because of system integrity protection. But I was just thinking, I was tempted to putz with that. And then I went, you know, it's kind of late at night, and I don't want to create more problems for myself than not. And he had followed up with the reinstall through the recovery mode, and that worked. But it's right there in the page you had up earlier, Dave.
It says all these files you can't delete or mess with. And one of them was files related to the pre-installed apps that come with the operating system.
Yep. To answer a question that I had earlier and stumbled through in this page about disabling system and re-enabling system integrity protection that we will link to in the show notes at MacEcab.com. It talks about restart your computer in recovery mode. So that's the hold down the power button until you get into recovery mode. And then, at least on an Apple Silicon Mac, and then launch terminal from the utilities menu. So there's your single user mode-ish right there.
So, yes, it is right there. And then there's commands to run to disable and re-enable system integrity protection and all that stuff.
Yeah, sweet. And then we got this comment from Danny, which is a gutty move, man. Gutiest move I've ever seen.
The comment is SIP is one of the first things I disable. There are scenarios where that is necessary to disable and leave disabled. I had, I don't know. I can't remember. I don't think it's true of my current setup, but there was an audio device and its drivers required me not to just disable SIP to install them, but to just never do that again. And I think that's all been remedied. I can have SIP on and all that now.
But yeah, there was a time when because of the audio hardware that I was using, SIP was not part of my workflow up here. But that's all fine. Uh, speaking of things that have changed since we have, you know, now that we are in this deep into this migration from Intel to Apple Silicon is, uh, from listener, Bobby says, uh, You were talking about, uh, using grand perspective, uh, to, uh, as a replacement for space lens in clean my Mac back in episode 10 68.
He says, I tried Grand Perspective, but it didn't work for me. But something new in the latest version of CleanMyMac did help me restore some free space on my volume. When it did my last scan, it highlighted a number of my apps that had code for both Intel and Apple Silicon. It said that since I am running Apple Silicon, I don't need all of the Intel code. And it allowed me the option to remove all of that Intel code from the apps
on my Mac. I was afraid that I might get caught, but I do trust MacPaw software, so I gave it a go. Bob says, it saved me almost a gig of space and everything seems to be working just fine. When we moved from 68K risk processors to Intel processors, we called those, and the same thing happened, right? Apps were compiled with both 68K and Intel code, and we called them fat binaries.
So I know now we call them universal binaries, but they're still fat binaries because they have intel code that we don't need anymore. So, yeah, this idea of thinning out fat binaries, that's... I'm always hesitant to do that. I feel like, don't get me wrong, getting a gig of space back, awesome. Glad to hear it, Bob. But if a gig of space is what makes the difference, your drive is still too full. And so as I'm reading this, it's like, yeah, I could go through and thin those out.
I trust that I'm never going to need to run this on an Intel Mac because I don't have any more Intel Macs, at least not that function in my house. So all good. like that's going to be fine but if that's really this is you know deck chairs off the titanic at that point so i i think there's there's more to be cleaned and maybe you know space lens or daisy disc or grand perspective you know is is necessary so to find some other things so yeah i
Know we also called those fat binaries back in the day it was still universal that was apple's marketing term even for x86 to or for power pc to x86 it was universal
Oh we just called them fat binaries that was just us okay well
I think that it might even have been said that in the system like if you looked at like the you know get info or whatever uh but the marketing term was universal you know app always has to have their marketing terms right um and so and then the current implementation is called universal two technically
Oh that makes sense okay yeah all right okay but same concept yes yes of course yeah there's still fat binaries to me um yep i uh i had i had an interesting experience uh that you inspired me to have adam and that is i went to see they might be giants in boston at the orpheum this is relevant uh i don't know a week and a half ago or something and as i was leaving the house i have my i'm going to a concert checklist of course on my uh in apple notes and i bring special i bring
different glasses for concerts i actually bring glasses that have a little bit of they're almost sunglasses they have a light blue tint which is great because it it helps mask the the bright lights um i started wearing them on stage is really where that came from. But that's an aside. And on the list is like, you know, a sealed bottle of water that hopefully I can sneak into the venue and my earplugs.
And so I grabbed my custom fit musicians earplugs that are perfectly tuned and make everything sound great. And then I also grabbed my AirPods Pro Gen 2 and I hooked them on. I have a little case from Catalyst that I hooked onto my belt loop and off to the show we went. And we got there and, you know, got our seats and everything was good. And I thought, oh, yeah, I'll try this.
And so I put my AirPods in. I put them in noise canceling mode and I turned off conversation awareness because I kind of figured that would be a good thing.
And uh the first thing was as soon as i put them in having it remove the din of the crowd noise even before the show just the noise the noise canceling part of it was utterly sublime being in there without being subject to that just you know auditory barrage was lovely and then the band started and i was like okay now this i've seen they might be giants before it's been a while um you know i was like okay like they had the full band and and they were rocking
along i was like okay this is really nice the sound was good with my airpods everything was great i looked at my watch because on the face of my watch i keep the uh sound the spl levels i'd like to know how many dbs it is that's just me i'm a nerd i like to know that all the time so i look at my watch and i was wearing like a it was cold in the venue our seats were kind of on an aisle that that had like an arctic breeze coming from the door. So I still had like a sweatshirt on or something.
It hadn't quite warmed up because we were only a song or two and they'd finally close the doors now that everybody was in. And so it was kind of getting better, but, um, And the sound was clear, like it was really good. And the Orpheums, the sound in there, it's a difficult room. It's one of these old, old theaters, very charming, has this low-end rumble that just exists in the room. It happens with every band I've seen there.
And you can, like if you're a good engineer, and this person was, you know, you can get a good sound, but it's hard work. This room is not going to just give it to you. And so I was like, oh, yeah, the sound is good. I look and I'm like, oh, it's because he's got it so quiet in here. I'm like, there's something wrong because my watch said it was 75 dB. I'm like, there's no way. Like I'm 15 rows from the stage. There's no way. Something must be wrong. Maybe my sweatshirt was covering my
watch. I'm like, okay, well, whatever. So I looked at it like two songs later and it still says, you know, 75, 80 dB. Like even just me talking here right now in this room has me over 80 dB at my watch.
So I was like, wait a minute. and I tapped the little thing to bring up the full like whatever that app is called that shows you your your sound levels and it said 76 db with airpods and I was like oh that's to me and then I could tap the little with airpods thing and see the ambient sound and it was 102 and I was like what how loud is it in here and I took out my airpods it was like wow it's loud in here it was It was amazing.
And then I did A, B back and forth, of course, because I'm a nerd. I can't help myself. So I put my, you know, my, I'll call them passive earplugs in, my, you know, musician's earplugs. And it was like it brought the sound level down, the 20 dB that they're supposed to.
But it was not as clear and good because it like i was still getting that low-end rumble of the room yeah it it you know it's like okay and my it's interesting my initial thought so i put the apple one the my airpods pro gen 2 back in and that's what i used for the rest of the show my initial thought was i could use not a little more bass guitar i could hear the bass but all i was getting was sort of the high-end sound of the bass i wasn't
getting the low end i was getting low end from the kick drum, but I like feeling it in my body, but I wasn't getting that kind of low end push from the base. And as I did all these back and forth experiments, I realized, wait a minute, wait a minute. I'm not getting that because the engineer is not putting that in the house. They have pulled that out of the house because if they put that in the house, it would add to the mud that that room already delivers.
So I'm actually getting what the engineer is putting in the speakers without the resonance of the house. I would actually have preferred, like, to split the difference. I want a little more resonance than my AirPods Pro 2 were giving me and less than my passive earplugs or just, you know, having no earplugs and were giving me. My guess is that either Apple, right, will give us an option to sort of tune what we might want out of these things.
Or another company will come out with their version of active earplugs.
Concert mode.
Yeah, concert mode, right, whatever. One part was interesting. I turned around at one point. This is a thing I do at concerts. I like to just sort of slowly turn around and just look at all the people in the venue. It's something I've always done. And so I did that. And boy, did that screw up my AirPods when I finally faced the band again. It was like it took about 10 to 15 seconds for things to like, OK, I'm reoriented. I see where the sound is coming from. But like, that's the thing.
They figured out this is the direction from which the primary sound source is coming from. And everything else is reflections. Get rid of them. It was really amazing.
That is eye-watering when you think about it. Programming that's gone into that oh my goodness.
And here's the thing that's my airpods progen 2 i think i paid 149 for them on on sale but they're normally 169 or 179 my musician's earplugs i paid 230 for those plus a visit to the audiologist which was another probably 50 or 75 to get molds me yeah half the price essentially for airpods progen 2 with the the airpods progen 2 are the first airpods where apple's tips actually fit and seal in my ears prior to that nothing had worked but you inspired
i don't know that i ever would have thought to try this adam if you hadn't told me that you tried it oh
They're great yeah
It's amazing so
But you do it in transparency mode not noise active noise canceling mode.
I put them into noise canceling mode oh
You did okay.
Oh yeah but
And they're still okay.
But when i put them back in after i'd taken them out because i took i took them out actually both for just using my passive earplugs but also just to listen to you know the listening to one song at 100 db is gonna be is okay like it's it's the time of exposure duration of exposure i should say uh and when i put them back in they went into noise like what you and i would know as noise canceling mode immediately and that was wrong
and it took again that 10 to 15 seconds for them to go aha i need to go into earplug mode and then they did and it was like then everything was back to where i wanted it okay nice
Because like when i was at that jimmy's jazz club um we were getting about anywhere from one uh 100 to 105 decibels and i had the foam earplugs in and i was like i wish i'd have brought my my airpods pro to to try that i bet it would have been a much nicer experience in that small room especially.
Yeah so yeah um gen 2 those are the only ones that have gen 2 yeah you gotta have the gen 2 yeah right yep
Yeah i uh oh no i was just gonna i was just gonna add i finally uh enabled and did the audio test through apple although like we talked about in a previous episode i could have pulled up the audiogram that i did you know with the third party app way back when um but i turned on the uh hearing aid finally because i we were watching a movie i was watching a movie for uh the new podcast and it was through like tubi or one of those services where you got to watch ads it was the only
place we could find the movie. But the sound was just terrible. Like it was just really low and I didn't want to be blasting my speakers. And I'm like, well, maybe part of it's me because I have a little bit mild, mild hearing loss. So I set up the, the, the AirPods and They work great for that too. I actually had, or have, and I hate them, but I don't wear them. I have like hearing aids, like professional hearing aids.
I went in and those things were not cheap. I think I want to say they were three grand.
Yeah.
And the AirPods Pro, in my opinion, are way better. The issue I have with the hearing aids, and I went in and had them tuned and retuned, and I have an app, I can tune them myself on the, on my phone, no matter what I could do. It was like having this fake superhuman, like I could just tell when I have them in that the sound is like, especially like very soft sounds are amplified. And it's like hype. I become hyper sensitive to like little scratchy sounds.
Or if I touch, even if I touch my head, it's like super loud and uncomfortable. And I just don't enjoy the audio experience. The AirPods have a little bit of that but it's way way better and add to your earlier point way cheaper
Way cheaper yeah i mean the difference is that these in the hearing aid mode these are over the counter hearing aids for the airpods pro versus medical hearing aids doesn't mean that one is better than the other It does mean that one has been, in theory, certified by an audiologist to be suited for you and your problem. Correct. Right.
And the other has millions of dollars of R&D going into making them great. It's true.
Well, that's the thing. You know, having been involved with sound and especially ear monitors, the in-ear monitors for two decades now. This is actually my 20th year wearing in-ear monitors. Um, I've learned that the audio industry is very small, like the people that work in the hearing aid, like hearing aids, in-ear monitors, the people designing like earbuds and all that stuff. It's the same. Let's say 50 people, but it's probably less than that. So it's very tight knit.
And yes, there's money there, but it's not a ton of money. You know, and so when, like you just said, Pete, you know, you take Apple's dollars and pour them at this because clearly they chose to invest in this. And Apple has probably spent double what the entire hearing aid industry has spent already. And they're probably not done.
And I bet they brought some of those engineers in.
I'm sure they did.
That were audiologists.
Yes, of course. Of course. Yeah, it's really fascinating. Yeah, yeah.
So two final things. So I will point out, you know, for me, I think part of it too is I have very, very mild hearing loss. It's very minimal. There's just certain higher tones that I can't hear. So that's why it makes it hard sometimes when, you know, voice on a movie or certain voice levels. Like my family frustrated them. I, you know, I have daughters and a wife, so it's all females and they're all in that more upper range. So there's certain things that I just can't hear. So it's very mild.
So my experience might be very different if I actually had, you know, severe or moderately severe hearing loss. You know, I might have a very different opinion. I don't know how the AirPods perform in that situation versus the hearing aids. But secondarily, I kind of brought this up because the other thing was once I enabled the hearing aid mode, which is in the, you know, in the settings.
So when you have the AirPods and you got to go into the settings and there's a toggle for it, once you've got it set up, I am throwing out there, I don't know that there's any way to put them back into the non hearing aid mode other than going into the app, because the next time I wanted to use them just as AirPods, I was still getting all the hearing aid stuff. And I actually had to go in and disable that before I could use, you know, regular active noise canceling and all those other settings.
They were, you know, like permanently in hearing aid mode. So if anybody knows a quick way, like I didn't see anything in the settings where I could do that, you know, squeeze the stem thing to toggle that, but maybe I just missed it. I don't know.
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Absolutely, Dave. Is that a question?
Or a suggestion?
DerJazzMeister has one for you. I have an M2 Mac Mini running Sonoma. I have not yet upgraded to the latest OS. I also regularly use a 2015 MacBook Pro, which cannot be upgraded to the latest OS. If it can't It can't be updated to Sonoma. My question is this. If I upgrade my mini to the new OS and start using the fancy password manager, will my updates and changes still sync with my MacBook Pro keychain and vice versa? Do I run the risk of forking my passwords if the OSs are out of sync? Thanks.
Forking his passwords so um huh the short answer is you should be okay because the it's all designed to work around your iCloud keychain so if you've got an old machine logged into your iCloud account a new machine logged into your iCloud account all your passwords should sync you're probably not going to be able to use pass keys and some of the advanced password sharing and all that kind of stuff on the old machine, on the old system.
It isn't designed to do that as yet. But as I understand it and all the research I was able to do, and I want Dave and Adam both to jump in here and tell me if I'm wrong, but my understanding is the iCloud keychain is the backbone of that system and you should be fine across all os's you're just not going to have all the features, but uh make sure you have a backup yeah yeah you know which is good advice any day but, yeah that's that's a very short way of saying you know i wrote him a rather
long answer uh based on all the research i was doing but but i think that's the basics of it you're going to be fine, It's not going to fork things off in different directions and have, you know, one password on one machine and a different password on another. If you change a password, it should translate across using the iCloud Keychain system.
That was sort of my understanding of what Apple was doing, that the new app was basically just a new skin on top of the existing iCloud keychain sort of database or data, for lack of a better term to call it. It's like a big update to keychain access, really.
That's my understanding, too. Yeah. Is that, yes. And actually, it's my experience because I run some of my iPads that I have in kind of my gig mode here, which I use for either mixing like the sound for my ears or elsewhere or looking at like charts or notes that I've made or whatever. Those many of the I have I never passed like we never get rid of iPads here.
We just use them until they no longer hold a charge. and uh but some of them can't run ios 18 at all like some of them can't run ios 15 but the like the passwords that i sync to apple passwords still i haven't had an issue with that so let's put it that way so yeah yeah yeah yeah i think you'll be all right i think i think should be fine yep yeah yep i think so i mean
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Yeah absolutely all right pete i've got a question for you from abraham who writes I have an old iMac that I'm thinking about replacing with either a new iMac or a Mac Mini. The problem is that Apple has been so good about making these machines light and portable, but the actual moving them comes with some pain. I would love if they would come with even a small internal battery so that when I want to move them, I don't have to power off and power on.
Is there some other solution for this, like maybe an external battery pack that the computer power cable could be plugged into, which would then be plugged into the outlet, so that when I want to move the computer, the power cable would still be plugged into the battery pack and could stay on, or is there a different solution for this?
So, yes. Yes, there is. So, what I found is basically a 450-volt-amp battery pack available at Best Buy. We'll put the link in the show notes. that should get you up and running. The problem is you're going to have to power down to put it on this battery support. But yeah, I've never thought about moving the iMac or a Mac Mini that much, but like you said, they are kind of portable. So if you need to move them, buy a new laptop.
All right, just kidding. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But yeah, but that's the smallest they have is a 450 volt amp. And that ought to keep you running, you know, for i don't know better part of an hour i'd think uh if you're not doing heavy heavy stuff on it um and then they have a 750 volt amp before you start getting into their really heavy hitters 1500 uh multi-thousands but yeah that looks like it'll it'll do the job yeah yeah.
Yeah that would that would work um i have i have some other thoughts on this pete
Yeah i wonder if any of those power bank bricks would.
They should how
Are you gonna.
Yeah it depends on you
Gotta find a way to plug it in.
If they have ac power correct you need you need ac power for this not just um not just like uh usbc power right
What is the use maybe i'm confused on the use case or the question here am i totally confused on the question here i
Don't know understanding is he wants to move like an iMac from one room to another without powering down he.
Wants it to be portable with powered while in
Temporarily right not like indefinitely yes yes yeah so oh
Go ahead adam
Am i getting this wrong like if if you had a i don't know what the power draw on the m4 mac mini is it's like 65 watts or something like that yep so if you had a battery a usbc battery pack that did so let's call it 100 watts because those exist i'm pretty sure that can provide a hundred watt draw which is more than enough for the m4 mac mini Isn't any USB-C port draw power? So couldn't you just have a battery pack plugged into a different USB-C? I don't want to get an inverter to
Get AC power.
Well, you're both saying two different things. So what Adam is suggesting is, can't you just plug in USB-C on the power bank to USB-C on the Mac Mini and have that run? And I don't think that's the way it works. I could be wrong, but I don't think the Mac Mini will draw power over USB-C. What Pete's saying is I think correct that the only place the Mac mini will draw power is from its AC power adapter and wherever that is, 220 or 110 here in the US.
So it's not like a MacBook?
I don't think so, no. But I haven't tried that, but I don't think so. But assuming if what you suggested is possible, that's the best answer.
If it's not um there's two products that come to mind for me one is um what blue eddie i believe is the name of it they call it they're hands-free and they have the hands-free one and hands-free two this is a uh a set it is a backpack with a monster battery that can fit inside it it can also just be taken out it is a portable backpack it has ac outlets on it um and also usb outlets and all those things and you can even solar panels put solar you can
get solar panels for it the solar panels are optional but um but you know it comes with this monster battery that you can plug something into and so that would absolutely solve this issue uh for for them so that would be one solution is the bluetti hands free And again, you could get it with solar if you really want. And it comes in this backpack form. But I have one. The battery, it comes out of it and is like, it's like a, maybe it's like four laptops.
That's the size of four laptops stacked on top of each other. It's big, but form factor wise, it fits in this backpack and you can actually carry it around. Like it's fine. And it has a handle on the top of it. So you can just carry it by itself. The other thing would be from our friends at Anchor. They have the Solix brand, S-O-L-I-X. Now, the Solix brand runs the full gamut all the way up to things like what you have, Adam.
I know you don't have the Anchor brand of it, but, you know, like the house generator replacement kind of things with a battery. Yep. Yep, and they'll do solar and all that. That's why they call it Solix. But they have the Solix C300. So the Blue Eddy backpack is $399 on Amazon. The Anker Solex C300 right now is $249. It's a smaller battery, slightly different form factor. It's more cube-like. It's like a tall cube, which I realize isn't a cube.
And it has a handle. And you can get it in DC mode where it has just tons of USB-C and all that stuff on it. Or the standard one, which has three AC outlets on it and also three USB-C and I think one USB-A and whatever we call the cigarette lighter adapter. I forget what that is. But this, too, would do the same thing and you can carry it around and it's got a handle on it. So I have been using the – I have something like this.
It's an old version. but in my office where i don't have the the full-time generator i have it's going to sound crazy i have my ups plugged into one of these so that uh this will power the up it's it's two layers of battery protection right you know this will power the ups until the ups dies or until it dies and then and only then will the ups go into kind of its power saving shut down the computer's mode and you know all of those things so um so it should in theory buy me quite a bit and
then of course this thing's plugged into the ac outlet so Those are my thoughts on this.
Nice. Yeah. So you've daisy-chained your batteries a little bit.
I've daisy-chained my batteries. Yeah, and the reason is that my UPS links with all of my router gear and the devices that are plugged in via USB to tell them that they should shut down before the power just goes away. And so I like that functionality. But, yeah, it's an extra battery, so I've just daisy-chained them. I've tested it as much as I can, like, you know, pull the power from here, pull the power from there. Does everything still function? Yes. Okay, great.
My biggest issue is none of the things I have that I've tried will happily deal with my laser printer in the office. So because it draws too much power for any of them. So that just has to be plugged in separately. But that's okay. It's fine.
I mean, it's not worse. so dave i was doing a little research while you were doing all that and i think you guys are right you do need a power inverter but it looks like the guys over at folks i guess i should say over at mac insider um created this exact setup with a m4 mac mini and they found a battery pack that has an inverter an ac outlet on it that's about just a little bit bigger footprint than the actual mac mini even better yeah let's see it's not it's not a huge battery and that their
only complaint is you could probably find a better battery one that would uh it sounds like maybe provide more power again this only provides enough for a the non uh pro mac mini okay okay i think because it It sounds like the one with the Pro processor needs 140 watts or something. You can read the article, but yeah. Depending on your mileage may vary, but this is one solution.
They were saying they're using it as a portable Mac Mini setup with Apple Vision Pro for podcasting and stuff like that. So they have the Mac Mini and then use the Apple Vision Pro as their display.
Oh, wow. Wow.
That's really smart that they can take in a backpack and yeah. Yep.
Oh yeah. Huh? So I like it. Yeah. All right. Well, we'll put links to that in the show notes too. Cause that's only 60 bucks on Amazon. So it's all it, but it only has 20,000 milliamp hours. So I don't know how long that's going to, going to run for, but, but to, for Abraham's question, moving, you know, from room to room kind of thing and then plugging back in might do it for you.
Yeah. it's really yeah it's they said about two hours
Oh okay oh
Wow okay yeah.
Huh because
The mini draws the mini draws 12 to 15 watts
Yeah on
Average for them
Yeah yeah for
What they for their use again and depending what what you're doing on it and all they you know your mileage is going to vary
That's fair yeah yeah fun stuff yeah there's a lot going on in like the battery realm right now it where i and i i just have to assume that it's related to kind of I bet we could draw a line back to electric cars, right? Like all the learnings and things that we've figured out about batteries. And I say we very, very generally, like not us, but we humanity.
You know, these things spill over. It's like, well, wait, now that we've figured out how to make a battery efficient at that size, what if we shrink it down and, you know, carry it with you? Okay. Well, wait, this could power my house? Oh, this is interesting now. Okay. But there's an opportunity here. So, yeah, I like it. Are we calling it for the year, guys?
Shall we? I think so.
You want to take us to.
All right? Yeah.
Take us to what? We can do one more real quick.
Yeah, what do you want to do, Pete?
Pete's eager beaver.
All right, what do you want to do, Pete? Let's go to Jed. Jed?
Okay. Hey, gents, sorry it's close to gentlemen, but, you know, close enough. It's the end of the year. You know, happy new year. He says, I decided this plurge for a magic trackpad, but it's not working as it should. Wired or wireless. When I hook it up, it behaves as a mouse, and in the system settings running 14.7.2 on a Mac Studio, it shows mouse and keyboard, but no trackpad options. By the way, on another computer, it worked fine, which suggests it's not the hardware.
I can upgrade to the newest flavor of macOS 15, but I shouldn't have to, should I?
No. And I think he said he cannot upgrade. But either way, the question is valid. I shouldn't have to,
Right? Yeah, I can't upgrade. Yeah, I can't upgrade to the newest.
So... This is one of those sort of stump the geek things. So I go whenever I encounter this from one of you or in real life, although this is also real life, in person, I should say. I would I go into, OK, well, what would I do next if I were there? So I would look in system information in Bluetooth and or USB, depending on how you've got this thing connected.
And I would try connecting it both ways. right because when a trackpad is connected usb it also registers you know with via the lightning port and all that so i would look in there and see how the system identifies the device it should give you some detail about it hopefully that kind of frames things uh and and and tells you what's going on and i would do the same on another machine and make sure it's telling you the same thing uh if it's not then that tells me that the drivers in
the system for this have gotten foobard so if you it so there's there's a couple ways to solve that the first way i would solve it is i would go all the way back to mac geek ab 1069 last week and i would boot that mac in safe mode and see if that just magically solves this issue. And then also after safe mode, reboot in regular mode, see if it remains solved.
If it doesn't in one or both of those cases, then the next thing I would do is reinstall the version of the OS that you have on there, whatever that is. And hopefully that will replace whatever damaged driver-ish thing that's broken. That's what I got.
That's what i was going to say like just try it over the top install of the operating system like don't even do anything weird but your advice of trying safe mode first just to validate before you go down that path is good good advice yeah that sounds right but i mean he again he asks well what about just upgrading to 15 that problem might fix it too i mean that could be the same same solution so if you're if there's a not a specific reason you're waiting
to upgrade to 15 and i would just say upgrade to 15 my
Yeah my guess is if he said he can't upgrade it's probably i'm using oh he
Said he can't sorry i just did the same thing pete did yeah
But like i know the max studio can can run mac os 15 i i have one in front of me it's also not running mac os 15 yeah right like because i have reasons that i don't yet want to upgrade uh
Yeah so just over the top install 14.7.2
But test it first yeah safe mode might fix it I would be that's a curiosity for me just because we talked about it in the last episode like will this do it why does
That work it should.
No it should safe mode does a lot alright folks well that is going to do it for us for the full year of 2024 before.
Done for the year.
Done for the year. That's it. We're not doing any more shows this year. But we'll do some next year.
I hear the band.
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Well, there's that.
Adam, do you have any advice to share with our friends?
Yeah. Just keep doing what you did this year in the new year and don't get caught.