It's time for Mac Geek Cab and listener Uncle Jamie brings us our quick tip of the week with in many text editors on the Mac you can hold down the option key when selecting text with the mouse. This allows you to select a rectangular block of text that includes parts of multiple lines. Once selected the usual cut copy and paste operations apply. This is particularly useful if your text includes column-oriented information.
I've used this in BBEdit today, but it also works in text edit, pages, preview, and even Microsoft Word. This has been around for decades, but I bet many people didn't know you could do this. More tips like this, plus your questions answered, today on Mac GeekCab 1066 for Monday, December 2nd, 2024.
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We'll talk more about that in a little bit as usual. We'll see what ChatGPT has me say about that because I have ChatGPT. Write me ad scripts. And most of the time you hear me reading them cold. So I don't know what I'm about to say until I say it most of the time. So here on. Yes, it's today. December 2nd is World Computer Literacy Day. But perhaps even better. It is also both National Skip School Day and National Bartender Appreciation Day.
So I know what to do if you're skipping school today, I guess. I don't know. Depends on which school you're skipping, I suppose. Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton.
And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen.
And here in the frigid white north of Anchorage, Alaska, is Pilot Pete and show 1066. Notify the medical examiner i told you last week it was dark folks
Oh okay so that matches the one i came up with in in the list i look at which is check officers well-being.
Uh well yeah that's a nicer
Way of saying it maybe you know less direct though yeah.
Oh yeah well hopefully we won't need one as cold as it is and i've got a a light summer windbreaker with me just in case I need it.
Yeah, your schedule has been bounced around like crazy on this trip.
Yes, I started off in Dubai where it was a pleasant 85 degrees and Mumbai, India where it reached almost 90. I'm not planning on going to Anchorage on this one.
And here I am.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah. What did I do to myself here? Okay. All right. I hid the chapters document, which is not a good thing. Yeah.
There you go.
Our giveaway, you're going to have to, we are recording this ahead of, well ahead of December 1st. And even though it's the second, because of the Thanksgiving holiday, we're doing this over a week early.
I was going to ask how your Thanksgiving was,
Dave. Over a week early. My Thanksgiving was fantastic, I mind you. There you go. Yep. I'm happy to speak about the future and the past.
So i don't have the the details on our giveaway but you can go to macgeekup.com slash giveaway and sign up for the new giveaway because it happens every month i know there is one i know who it is but i just don't have the details so i'm not gonna announce it yet in case in case something happens between now and then porthos john no sorry porthos john does have a tip for us that adam's going to share next after this but pc unix uh says if you have added chat gpt to siri on
your iphone uh you can if you have those instances where you ask siri a question and uh you know she says i i can't tell you that uh while you're driving or anytime uh you can say you could say you know hey s lady using chat gpt please tell me x and that will force it i don't have tried this in in the current builds of of 18 point whatever that i'm running it works it automatically goes to chat gpt and and gets you a response so that is a yeah great tip thank you pc that's that's.
A beta feature right now though right you have to be running the beta i don't think that's been officially
Released i think i think you're right well i am running the beta uh right i am on 18.2 yeah but yeah yeah yeah.
But it's coming for the rest of you but you can't get on the beta probably i think it's even probably part of the public beta it is in the so just be aware of that yeah
No good call thank you for uh for for saying that yep well.
Here is porthos john uh he has a tip for us he says uh disable.ds store on network drives exactly what the title says it's in some utilities but super important if you use a nas or Dropbox, Google Drive, etc. In Terminal, you have to type a default writes command. We'll put it in the show notes, but it's default writes com dot apple dot desktop servers dot dns don't write network stores and then Boolean true.
This is super important for syncing as non-Macs will consider this file as a regular hidden file, and it will version it, meaning that every time you change a file, or if you have a really complex folder structure that is deep, can mean lots and lots of changes to those files, tying up, versioning, and syncing. Also note that even with show all files in the finder, or showing hidden files,
.dsStore will not show up in the finder, but will show up on network drives and other operating systems so you know that pesky ds store file anybody who lives in the you know linux unix world also knows about that i was hoping to do i forgot to do a little research i wanted to do some research on this and remind everybody what's in that but i think on the mac right that stores like folder name and information and icon it's like the things about the files and folders right yeah
You're right that it's the things about the files and folders what i thought it stored was locations like if you like in the window if you rearrange things in a icon based window it stores that kind of stuff but they're probably other things but um but yes it's metadata, This is, it is available, as he said, in, in utilities like Onyx, and we'll put a link to that in the show notes.
That's probably the easiest place to do it. When I did this in Onyx and check the box, it told me I needed to restart my Mac in order for this to take effect. So just be aware of that. But yeah, yeah, it, it, it is a good thing. Like you said, for versioning and things like that, you don't want it to just go nuts versioning those files.
Yeah. It's also like another thing that I do is just because it's unnecessary, you know, if you use a FTP service or you're doing like syncing or something to some external drive that doesn't need those folders, like I have my transmit automatically set to filter out .ds store files. So when I'm doing like a sync on an FTP, I'm not like sending up a bunch of files. It's very much, that's very much a Mac only file. Like only your Mac needs that file.
Yeah, right, right. Yep. Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Your Mac does. Yeah, yeah, exactly. All right.
Well, Porthos John sent in another one. He had to trifecta today, actually. But this one is cool because if you've ever tried to help somebody do something with an iPhone and they're telling you what they see, but they're not very descriptive, you're just pulling your hair out. I can't help you. I'm sorry. Here's how you can remote control an iPhone. You can't natively control an iPhone remotely. You can only view the screen, but here's how it works.
If everyone's on the latest Mac OS and iOS, you can remote control an iPhone and help support by having your family member enable and activate iPhone mirroring on their Mac. And then you start screen sharing from your Mac to theirs. You use the most common way to do it is to use what their Apple ID is. That's how you get your screen sharing to work. And that's it. You'll be able to control the phone via the screen sharing and mirroring.
That's smart. They're making it easier and easier. It's brilliant. I mean, how many times have you tried to help me, Dave? And I'm like, oh, this is what I'm looking at. If you could see what I'm looking at.
I was trying to help my dad the other night with something that I'll talk about as we get deeper into the episode here. But it was something we had to do on his Mac and then on his iPhone. And on his Mac, I just screen shared and looked at it, and it was a weird thing. And then when we got to his iphone i was like dude i i can't like we're gonna have to do this like the the hack and slash way because i can't see what you're seeing and this is this is going to be frustration so yeah if.
If only he could have had
If only i knew about this screen.
Mirroring on yeah
Well i.
Have more on this later because this is a frustration for me so we'll get into this uh in a later section when we talk about my mom but just remind everybody that you can share an iPhone screen iOS screen on in FaceTime. So
What? You can?
Yeah, there's a button for it. Yes.
Yeah.
What? Yeah, it's been for a while.
Yeah, okay. See, this is why I do this.
You have to be on a FaceTime call.
Yeah. Yeah.
There's a little screen share button.
I used to try that on my mom's iPad. I never had good luck with it.
Let Adam finish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What were you saying? No, it's okay.
I'm just saying there's a little share content button in the little control panel. Oh. It looks like the two little screens.
Like right on the FaceTime screen? I feel like I haven't seen this. Okay, I believe you. I'm just trying to get enough context cues. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'll grab the article from Apple.
Yeah, cool. Pete, what were you saying?
Yeah, you can't control. You're not controlling the screen, just to be clear, because Borthos Jones, people get confused on this. This is not screen control. This is just mirroring.
Right, right. No, that part of it.
You can tell them. You see those little dots? Touch those.
Okay.
You can tell them what to do.
You know what? But later, I'm going to FaceTime call you, Pete, and you're going to walk me through touching the dots so I can share my phone screen with you.
There you go.
Let's do it. Oh, I think I'm up next. I was trying to do the edit and put the link in there, but let me do this first.
Yeah, do this first. It's all good.
So our next tip is from, why do I not have a person in there?
I thought you just found this, but maybe somebody else found it. I know somebody in our Discord found out.
Oh, I know. Hold on. I'll grab it. Someone found out that you can install large files from the App Store on an external drive.
It was Steve Hammond in Discord.
And it was Steve. Yeah. Somehow I didn't get the name on there. But I just found this. It was actually from a Mac Rumors article. So we'll try to make sure the link is there too to give them credit.
But he says, if you're running out of space on your Mac's internal drive, mac os sequoia 15.1 includes a handy new feature that lets you install large apps directly to external storage here's how you could use it to preserve space on your boot drive you connect your external drive to your mac obviously open the mac open the app store click app store in the menu bar and select settings check the box next to download and install large apps to a separate disk,
and then you select the external drive that you want to use from the drop-down menu. Boom, you're done. Now, of course, this only works with apps that are larger than one gigabyte. You need to be aware that the external drive has to be obviously connected to enable the setting. The drive should be formatted in APFS format. And then depending upon the app, some apps actually store like data.
Data is still stored on your main drive. So we're just talking about super large apps in and of themselves. So I would imagine, you know, things like games or anything that's a super large application.
Okay huh that's actually a really nice change uh i mean it would it would be nicer it's a good step right yes it's.
A step forward
It's a step forward yeah i like that yeah that's good good stuff um richard has a uh a tip for us he says i like using freeform on the ipad but it's always been difficult to use for me, he says, on a desktop Mac without a trackpad, as there was no easy way to pan around inside a freeform canvas. However, with Mac OS 15.1, this has now changed. You can press the space bar while dragging on the canvas to pan around.
So it kind of toggles you back and forth between selecting mode or clicking mode and grabbing with your hand, your virtual hand, and moving the canvas around when you hold the spacebar down uh this is a very nice improvement oh that's great i gotta get into uh freeform more i i have a feeling i know you use it right adam.
But i have not because i don't have anybody to use it with this is the problem with apple creates these great technologies right but like i i work in an office with people on max people on pcs like you know so we end up using tools like zoom instead of facetime or you know like yeah yeah that's you know the problem with the apple ecosystem is they don't make this stuff cross platform and i think they need to grow out of that at some point right if they if they want to build collaborative
tools they need to be truly collaborative with everybody they can't be in the walled garden or restricted to the walled garden it's
Fair it's it's why all these um cross platform, lives in your web browser tools are as popular as they are because they work with everyone, like our sponsor, Koda, right, I mean, it's one of the things, that's the beauty of it is get yourself in front of a web browser and you're done. Like, well, I mean, then you can start, but you're done with the friction, like, yeah.
Another great example is like, you know, you know, pages and numbers, you can now do it with the web. So at least they opened that up, but I mean, That's kind of, I mean, that's great for personal stuff, probably, but at an office, that really doesn't work. So, like, I still, I love numbers. I prefer numbers way more than Excel when I'm doing stuff. So, I do everything in numbers at work and then just export out to an Excel file when I need to give it to a developer.
Do you ever have any problems exporting to Excel?
No, because the stuff I'm doing with Excel is nothing complex. I'm doing, like, web developer stuff, which is just, like, data mapping or something, you know, like. It's just simple columns and rows. I'm not doing any fancy, fancy stuff. So it's not generally an issue.
Yeah, I find that I need to not – I have numbers. I prefer numbers like you. I use it for all of the spreadsheets that are only for me. A lot of them are personal. Like it's where I have my list of IP addresses and that sort of thing, which is great because I can easily pull it up on my phone or wherever. And it just works. But for anything that I need to share with anyone, even if they're also a Mac user, I either use I don't pay for Excel and Word.
I don't pay for Microsoft Office, but I do use Libre Office, which is absolutely fantastic. I it it feels like a Mac app. So it's you know, it's part of the open office thing. It is freely available for you to use, and it is a perfect clone of Excel and Word and PowerPoint and all of those things. I mainly only use it for Excel documents, but it's spreadsheets that I wind up sharing around. And you can set it to save. By default, it saves in like the OpenDoc format or something.
I set it to save in XLSX format, and so it effectively acts like native Excel. When I pull things in, I save them out. There's no import-export. It's just open-save. But I either use that or, like I said, Google Drive to share spreadsheets or Synology Office where you can like self-host your own web spreadsheets too, which is – that Synology Office is amazing.
The fact that I can do that on the disk station that lives at my house, and that would be the case with the disk stations that live at all of our houses. You've got the 423 plus, I think, Adam and Pete. Yep.
Love it.
Yeah, I forget which one you have. I've got the 18-15. That's it. Yeah, I think you can even run it on that. Yeah. So, yeah, it's Synology Office is awesome. We use it entirely for one of the businesses I have instead of Google Docs or Google Sheets because when we started the business, we're like, why would we want Google to have access to all this data whenever they want it? And I know they say they don't, but if it's stored on their servers, they could.
So it's like, well, I can just do it here. It's like, yeah, fine. And it's all web browsers, just the same way. So anyway.
What's the saying? There's no cloud. It's just someone else's computer.
That's it. Exactly. So yeah. And Synology Office is really a cloud-based thing. It just runs on my computer that I can, you know, I'm the only one that touches it. And if I need to, I can also unplug it from the internet myself. Yeah. Yep. Yep.
Well, speaking of security, here's that trifecta from Porthos John. He has one last one for us. He says, I know it has been mentioned before, but my life with wife and kids has been changed because of this. No more nagging to log them into Hulu, Netflix, etc. I set up password sharing. This is the new password sharing and the new password app for Mac and iOS. He said, I set up a password sharing group for the family group and put Wi-Fi, Hulu, Netflix, and the rest in the shared group.
Added bonus that when I change a password and save it, the changed password is changed for the shared group. Most interestingly, if there is a two-factor, multi-factor authentication via a code, you can share the code generator if you are using the password app for it, obviously. in the shared group too. He says, I have mixed feelings about this last one from a security angle.
So I would advise, be careful and don't get caught with the codes because you really don't want those falling into nefarious hands. And I love this because I think I told you guys earlier, you know, I have 1Password family, obviously, and I love 1Password and I'm going to stick with 1Password. But for the life of me, I gave it all to my family. I showed them how to use it. and I still get like, yeah, I didn't install the app or I don't understand how it works or whatever.
So, I mean, at the end of the day, this is kind of a Sherlock thing that Apple is doing, in my opinion, a little bit. Sure. But the advantage is once it's in there, it's integrated into the operating system in a way that it's going to just fill those passwords in. It's just going to prompt them and say, do you want to log into this thing? I already know the password.
I already know all this stuff and just do it. And again, 1Password does all that stuff too, but it does it a little bit differently. And it obviously can't be as tightly integrated as what Apple does. So I'm going to totally do this because I get those calls. I'm trying to get into Netflix or Disney Plus or whatever it is. I'm not entirely sure we're not married
To the same family, Adam. Just saying.
What's the code? And it's like I put it in 1Password. It's in 1Password. You guys can grab it.
I don't know how to use that.
Yeah, exactly. My family's...
I showed them how to use it.
My family's capable of using 1Password. Like if I say I put it in 1Password, that ends the conversation.
That was my hope.
And they log in. However, when I look over at least some of their shoulders, I see this absolute mess of a combination of 1Password and this. And if I – Lisa's going to probably get mad at me for calling her out. But if I ask Lisa, hey, what's your Apple ID password, which, of course, I also have in my 1Password separately because it comes up all the time. But if I'm at her computer and I ask her, what's your Apple ID password? I get this, oh, you know, and it's like, why is this that moment?
Like this is a simple thing. She said, well, I think I have it stored in four different places, and I don't know which one is current, and this, that, and the other. I was like, okay, never mind. I look it up on my phone. I'm like, this is your password. So, like, the fact that Apple also has a password manager is the problem. If 1Password was the only one on... Her computer or their computers, then it wouldn't be an issue. It'd be like, oh, yeah, we just use one password. It's totally fine.
But it's the mix of both. And I know you can turn off Apple's, but it's on by default. And because of that, they've all got some passwords in there. So I can't just like say, turn it off. So, yeah, I've toyed with the idea of moving everything to Apple passwords. And it's gotten to a point now where it's robust enough that maybe.
Well, it's his own app now.
I know.
It's literally its own app. Yeah.
As opposed to just the key chain.
Yeah. Right. Right. Exactly. But the way it's sharing and the fact that you can do groups and all of those things, it's like, okay, what am I, what would I miss if I moved to this? And, you know, some of the shared notes and the secure notes and like my driver's license, my passport, those kinds of things. I can't yet store.
The good news is you and I, we can use both.
Yes.
We just don't have to force our other family members to use it. we can give them the
That's the that's the key yeah i've also thought about setting up my own bit warden self-hosted on my synology i actually do i have it running but i i don't use it uh but bit warden is you know a password manager that is server-based and you can run it for free if you have a synology.
That's what we use it that's what we use at work because we have to be pci and all that stuff yeah we can't i mean we literally don't put stuff in the cloud for very good reasons
So your bit warden is self-hosted and that way you can check all the right boxes yeah.
And my and our cio controls it
Right yeah right and that's it and that's it yeah no that that makes sense oh yeah yeah.
It's on our servers in our in our racks in our like so like you said if there's a problem you could unplug it
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Yeah, I was going to say, here's a question from Larry. He wants to know, he says, hey, geeks. Hey, who are you calling geeks? It's been a while. It's also been a while since I've listened to the podcast. Well, why is that? Yeah, welcome back. Glad you're here. I've been spending time with political podcasts. Oh, yeah. No. Welcome back.
Welcome back for sure.
Welcome back to that same old place that you talked about. Sorry, folks.
Yeah, no problem.
What time is it in the morning for you, Pete, over there in Anchorage?
It's a little after 6.
A little after 6. A little after 6 a.m. And we've been, yeah. Okay, so that explains it. We've been a little over an hour. Yeah, that explains it.
My Christmas gift to you is I won't do that again.
Don't do that again. Let's help Larry here. He says, anyhow, I went to use my PDF pen on my iPad, but it's crashing. So I went to look and see if maybe there was an update, but there is nothing in the App Store. I searched for them online, but can't find. All the other PDF apps are using the search term PDF pen to lure people in. I imagine they're truly gone. Yes, they are. Larry, they've moved to a different company and the app still exists,
but it's different. They've got more of a business focus, I believe, from what I remember.
I think it's Nitro, right?
Yeah, Nitro is the new company. And I think they're very much more focused on business than personal use, in my opinion.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I figured you would, you would, or we would basically know because you proselytize for them so much. Yeah, back in the day. So the only reason why I even tried opening it up is because I'm having a problem with a fillable e-book. This is a journal that we were given at work in a route to the author to see if there was a fillable version, as I do not write with a pen.
Oh, okay.
They said they were looking into creating one. Okay, so it's not a fillable version. They were looking into creating one, and after a few weeks, I got it. I'm trying to fill it in using books, however, and I have to click on each line as it does not automatically go to the next line. Okay, so he's working with his PDF in the books app, I guess. Also, it starts to pick up a letter, of course, even if I am in the middle of
a sentence. for some reason. I cannot click in the middle of the line if I need to edit something in the middle of a sentence. And finally, when I try to fill in something down the lower portion of the page, the keyboard covers up the page. Yeah, it's all really annoying. I'm wondering if there's anything, I'm wondering if they did something wrong in creating this. Any suggestions about what to do or maybe a different app?
Thinking the latter is going to be the better answer here, but I'll get your guys' opinions. I have all the regular standby PDF programs. Maybe you have a recommendation of one.
Yeah. So Dave and I both answered this. And I don't know, Dave, maybe you remember, have we mentioned on the show before, there's this thing called SetApp? Yeah. Oh, once or twice.
Yeah, okay.
So it is a subscription. And so I'm sorry to say, Larry, I know you don't like subscriptions, but this is one that is i've found to be well worth it um great value at twice the price oh sorry don't do that setup just kidding keep it where
It is that's right.
Exactly so uh no fantastic value because of all the wonderful programs that they do make available and one of them happens to be nitro pdf pro now oh so that's the one yeah that's the one that's the one
That pdf pen became.
Penn Became, and it has 90% positive rating on 2,500 reviews. And there were some scathing reviews in there. I got to say that I was kind of like, eh, you know, I'm sorry to see that. But so I, too, use PDF Expert. Expensive? Yeah. Now, if you know anybody that's got an edu, email address, .edu, I used mydaughters.edu and got a substantial discount.
You're looking at the guy if you're watching on youtube who's paying the tuition so i don't feel too badly about taking that discount fair um and uh and and you know what if she was buying it i'd be paying for it so i'm paying for it either way yeah um but i find myself using pdf expert so often that i almost it's almost looking for pdfs to go edit it's
So good it's were we talking Are you talking about PDF Expert or PDF
Pen Pro? PDF Expert.
Okay, I got confused there. It sounded like you were recommending the Nitro app.
Well, in the answer to Larry in the email, I said, you know, I don't use this, but it's got mostly good ratings.
I got you. Okay.
I did find some poor ratings in it, though, that were kind of like, oh, really? So I can't give it a fair and honest review. I haven't used it.
Got you.
But I did see that there was an editor, PDF Nitro Pro, in that app.
Got you. i got lost there a little bit yeah nitro so uh smile sold pdf pen to this company nitro a few years back so that's what's happening here yeah and they took it over and they've done a bunch of things with it from what i understand and like you said in the community there's a lot of mixed reviews because we had a lot of love for smile and this product and now it's different so i think that's where a lot of that is just coming from and i i'm with you i can't tell you
if it's good bad or the other because i moved on as well i
Can tell you that i moved on i think either right before or right about the time that smile sold pdf pen because i had to edit some pdfs while i was traveling and i had pdf pen of course because that's you know they were a sponsor for a long time they were the ultimate pdf editor for certainly for the mac for a long time yeah and And I was like, man, this is so frustrating. Like it took, I was able to get it done, but it was always a little bit, and this was always true.
You know, PDFs are janky. You've got to figure out. I'm like, I wonder if somebody's figured this out. And that's when I tried PDF Expert. It was like, oh, yes. The answer is yes. Someone has figured it out. And I haven't looked back. It's so, I can't imagine not. It's intuitive. Yeah. And it just, it's smooth. It's friction free. Even when you're editing stuff, it's, yeah. So yes, it's expensive and worth it. You know, it says the guy who gets a free review copy.
So I should, I should state that, that I don't think I've ever paid for PDF expert, but I would if I, if, if faced with the decision, I would pay for it. I might already have. I can't remember. I definitely got a free review copy initially. I don't know if that's continued. I can't remember. Right. I spend a lot of money on things, so this might be one of them.
So do I, Dave. I spend a lot of money on things, too.
Yeah, I know. It's true.
Just ask my wife.
Right. Right. Yeah.
When we're saying expensive, how expensive is expensive?
I think it's over $100 a year. Yeah, I was going to say with the discount, it was $90.
Okay, so it's $80 a year or $200 and you're done for life.
And with the discount, I think I paid for it $90.
There you go. Oh, yeah, you got to do your educational email address. Yeah, okay. Yeah, yeah.
I mean, hey, if it's good and it's really good, I mean, this is an app from Riedel. so for people who don't know they do Spark and documents and they do a lot of great
Work yeah it's true it's true.
I would have no qualms giving them my money
Right same as said yes that's.
Right alright
Should we move on.
Yeah so LockTutor put on Discord frequent kernel panics and he says My aging 27-inch 2019 Intel Mac is having daily kernel panic attacks. I don't know, Dave. We're doctors. Can we prescribe something for that? Mac OS 15.1, 64 gigs, 2400 megahertz memory. The most recent was Media Analysis D, but previous crashes show Chrome Spotlight Knowledge D, launch services d md worker underscore shared knowledge construction d photo analysis d pages app google chrome helper bluetooth d isd and several lots
Of apps yeah.
Yeah yeah and and a lot of the d uh i'm noticing so there's a theme there okay yeah this is a daily occurrence sometimes multiple times and it started a couple of months ago sometimes it happens when i'm working on something and other times it'll happen overnight when the computer is idle upgrading to sequoia feels like it made it worse but i have no hard data is this behavior a known issue with a reliable cure New computer. I'm sorry. I didn't mean to answer that.
No. Luckily, this one came from Discord, and we've mentioned the MacGeekCab Discord numerous times. This is a great place to go to get support, help from the community, just a great community in general. So I encourage people to sign up or go in there. If you haven't, I mean, you don't have to sign up. You just got to just go in and join the Discord.
MacGeekCab.com slash Discord.
Yep. Yeah, it's free to join. There's no cost. Just come hang out with everybody.
But that's where like uh porthos john chimed in on this question and he definitely had what i think is the right answer he says in my experience on intel max kernel panics are most likely but not always caused by bad kernel extensions and maybe not bad kernel extensions it can be a bad kernel extension but just maybe old kernel extensions these are things that different applications use to like add functionality at a more root level of the operating system.
It's a mechanism for doing that. K-text files, you might've heard of these, but you know, they can get corrupt or have issues or things can happen. So he says, Onyx, which is a great tool, has a rebuild process for the kernel extension cache. And he says, I would try that. There's also a knowledge-based article that goes into system and kernel extensions in macOS and what they are and what they're for.
So if you want more to know more about these, but just know part of the operating system, things can happen and Onyx has a tool for rebuilding them. And then R. Stanley in the Discord chat chimed in and said, if you use the Apple menu from the top left of the screen to view about this Mac and then select the system report option, You can scroll down on the left side to the software section and choose extensions. And that will generate a list of these extensions. It can take a while.
And you can see the ones that are there and which apps have them and stuff like that. But they both kind of recommended looking into this. And I believe, if I remember from the thread in the Discord, that it did resolve the issue. Running the Onyx tool resolved the issue. So at least for now, we haven't gotten any more information back on it. But yeah, I mean, another one would be, you know, make sure your applications are up to date.
And also the tip from R. Stanley, I would recommend going in and looking at that list Because maybe it's an old application that you installed way back when, and it's having some sort of conflict, and you're not even using that app anymore. And then you could uninstall it using Onyx or an uninstaller, you know, like, clean my Mac 10.
Right. Right. Right. Yeah. This is one of those scenarios where nuke and pave starts to like this is in support of a nuke and pave. If you have especially old kernel extensions, the ones that he mentioned are all other than Chrome. I think we're all Apple, you know, processes running.
But right the kernel extension that cache can can absolutely get you know get mucked up and um but if rebuilding the kext cache did not do it then you know the the nuke and pave does get rid of all those old kernel extensions sort of by definition you know that's how it works uh sure yeah but there is more surgical ways of of doing that like you said uninstalling with clean my mac and all that stuff would be another way to go about it.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah. I'm not a huge fan of Nuke and Pave, by the way.
Not anymore. I mean, it used to be a thing back in the day. I avoid it more often than do it. It's one of those last resort things, in my opinion, at this point. If you've exhausted every other solution and you're still having problems, then, yeah, I would say go for it. But, yeah.
I'm going to bring us – well, first of all, Pete, before I sort of expand into a tangent that is actually another question, do you have anything to add to this one?
No, just an observation that – we haven't mentioned Onyx. We mention it all the time, but not a whole lot recently, it seems. And I just think – it seems to me that everything's gotten so much more stable for the most part with the recent operating systems that that's why we don't need to nuke and pave like we used to have to do. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah, that's just frustrating that his observation is it seems to have gotten worse with Sequoia. That's –
Well, Porthos John is in the chat here, too. He's absolutely the MVP of this particular episode. Right on. And he notes that Kecks, these kernel extensions, are deprecated in Apple Silicon. But deprecated only means that they will eventually be discontinued. They are not yet discontinued. And you get that warning every time you upgrade your operating system.
And it's you know here these currently these are going to go away but we swear but they haven't gone away yet uh and and so we're still dealing with this problem but this is why part of why apple is making those go away so um but things yeah that things things rely on them i uh yeah i want to bring us to eric's question uh i'm jumping in the agenda for anyone who's watching which is not many of you so it doesn't really matter but um eric brought us back to
episode 1062 where uh joe had sent in a note and asking should i start fresh with a new computer or just use migration assistant and all of us said use migration assistant eric wrote in and said well.
I i don't know about that advice and and and i'm actually conflating eric's email with several others and so eric please allow me some creative liberties with um putting words in your mouth but the the general just was hey you know if you're moving from intel to apple silicon uh you know i've always heard the advice to be absolutely do a nuke and pave so that you have your fresh apps and all that and i i know that that was probably something we even said back
when Apple Silicon was first a thing, but I, I don't, I, I wouldn't say that anymore. All the apps that are out there are fat binaries and the operating system, migration assistance still works, but that's just me. What do you, what do you think, Adam?
Um, I mean, I, years back, a couple of years ago, I don't remember when it was, whenever the MacBook, the first M1 MacBook air came out, I got one of those for my wife and she had an old Intel Mac mini, like a 2014, I think it was or something like that. And I migrated her and she's been using it ever since. And I don't remember, I remember zero issues.
That's all that's all I can speak to. Like, I don't know, but like I only from experience, like I, I did the easy route, just migrations assistance her from that to that and done went on with my life.
I took the easy route here in the studio a year ago when the 2019 Intel iMac died from lightning. Right. And I replaced it with this Mac studio, obviously an Apple Silicon machine. And I didn't have time. I didn't hadn't carved out time to do any of that. Nor financial budget either. So time budget and money budget didn't exist to do the thing that I had to do. And, you know, my setup in the studio here is not vanilla. I have, what, two, three Thunderbolt hubs, a Thunderbolt audio interface.
Three displays, all kinds of weird stuff under the hood, software audio devices with like loopback and all those things that are a juggle.
Act to keep stable right and so you know changing even changing operating systems i'm still not on 15 on this computer for because it you know it ain't broke um and so change until it is dave well i know but that's the thing is i then i changed out the core hardware of it and it just dropped in seamlessly there was nothing to do so i like i speaking as you said adam from experience also speaking from experience i i didn't i probably would have
done it if i planned for it all but i didn't plan and didn't do it and still here a year and a half later obviously it's working mostly fine hang on i needed to knock on some wood there yeah i want to make sure this episode actually records but yeah it's.
Uh yeah and it kind of dovetails with my earlier comment and that you know it's it seems perfectly stable i used to be a huge fan of nuke and pave and i just i haven't in a while either and it's been it's thank you apple i
Was never i mean
It just works i
Advocated for it um i was a fan is probably going too far but like you know every couple years i would do it like you know at like the third or fourth time i was doing a pay you know install over upgrade i'd just be yeah it's just time but you know it became toward the end it became mostly about that was my forced spring cleaning that was my way to force myself to really not reinstall apps that i hadn't opened in three years
or not have a bunch of crud in my application support folder or whatever yeah yeah i mean it's still good for housekeeping housekeeping Like Dave was saying, if you're like, man, I just want a clean house, and you haven't done it in years and years and years, it's a good way to go because it forces you.
It forces you.
You're going to spend a lot of time.
Not as much time as you think, but you're still going to spend time.
More than an installer. Sorry, Pete, go ahead.
I was going to say, if you've got a 256 or 512 hard drive in your laptop, then you're probably going to be more likely to do that. You know, it also makes us lazy that they give us one and two terabyte options and more.
That was the hardest part for me because I think I had at least a one terabyte drive in that 2019 iMac. The Mac Studio that I bought is the base model M1 Macs Mac Studio with a 512 gig internal drive. Now, I have gobs of external storage hanging off of this thing, but I still, Migration Assistant does not care about that. So that was the, that was the tricky part. And thankfully I was able to make that work. Cause I think I had about 600 gigs of data on my internal drive.
I was like, all right, I, I, this, I need like that. I had to do for.
I'm going to get choosy.
Yeah. Yeah. So I just, I, I made a, obviously I made a backup of it to my Synology and then just started hacking and slashing. It's like, I don't need this anymore. Don't need this. Move this to the external drive. Crap. Need another external drive. Okay. Here it is. You know, those kinds of things. So.
Yeah
Yeah uh it it uh it was as far as when this comes out it was thanksgiving um as far as we're concerned it will be thanksgiving language intense is so weird um so yep uh but i know a lot of us will be helping our family members over thanksgiving it turns out you and i adam are uh trendsetters this year. So, uh, pre, pre Thanksgiving tech support for our family members.
But, uh, Oh man, go, let me tell you this story. I told the guys this story, but yeah, I got a, I got a panicked call in the middle of the day from my mom, you know, and you're like, Oh my God, what's wrong? Who died? Like what happened? Um, and no, she's like, I'm at the grocery store. Like, okay, here we go. Uh, and she was literally at the grocery store. I could hear the checker in the line.
She had gone to a grocery store. She normally doesn't go to, and she's trying to get a discount on her Turkey. She's buying the Turkey for Thanksgiving. I'm going out there to be with her and my daughter for Thanksgiving. And, uh, they had something like some discount, like you buy $25 worth of groceries and then you can get 99 cents a pound on your turkey instead of $2.99 a pound or whatever they like. So it was like not an insignificant savings.
But she gets up to like check out and she's qualifying and they're like, well, you have to have our app. And so she's trying, like, in the grocery store, trying to download and install the app. Like we talked about with the passwords earlier, it then prompts her for her Apple password, which that's a whole new thing that I have to resolve when I get there because I don't know why for a free app download she has it set up to require a password to, like, download the app.
But the App Store wants her iCloud password. Well, she doesn't know her password. And before she called me, the checker just said, well, you don't know your password, just reset it. So she reset her iCloud password in line at the grocery store. And now she can't log in. She can't download the app. They're not going to give her the discount. It was like this whole thing. And I was just like, God, why?
Just give her the discount, right? But they're making old ladies download apps in the middle of...
It's like ah so then i had to deal with so where this really goes though and where the tip and information for everybody else is who might need to do support is that uh when she finally got the app or when she finally got home right she ended up having to pay full price for the turkey by the way they wouldn't give her the stupid discount without the stupid app yeah and just i don't know what happened to customer service but anyway um so she gets the turkey gets oh i i
said i'll call you later we'll get this all sorted out we got to get your password you know and i know her password her old password because like you dave i have it stored in one password of course and i know she's not gonna she's not gonna remember it you know and um but she had changed it to whatever you know who knows what it is And, um, so luckily there's a couple of things to be aware of this. So if this happens to you or someone, you know, luckily she had changed the
password on her iPhone. She also happened to have an iPad. She doesn't have a Mac. She has an iPad and that was still logged in. So if you have another device where you're already logged into iCloud, and even if you change your password, you can change it again. You can go into that device. So I had her go into her iPad, go into settings, go into her account, and just change the password again to something that we could both know.
And so she was able to change it that way. But what I didn't know is you can also change the password on a borrowed device. And I think I accidentally closed my window that had this information up.
But there's an article on Apple support where you can actually go into a borrowed device with the apple support app and so you download the apple support app and it has an option that you can go into to help somebody else change their password now they have to have a known device with them like their iphone or whatever this is going to send a confirmation to them so they you could either you know hand them your device and they can go into the app store and do it
themselves and and reset the password from there and i didn't know that was a thing so yeah you actually can help somebody with the apple support app change their change their apple password their apple password yeah
You launch the the apple support app support tools reset password help someone else look at that huh that's pretty good yeah that's awesome.
Huh so i learned something i mean at least i learned something but like grocery stores and people out there just help older ladies just like give them the discount it's not going to kill you right
Like yeah yeah yeah she qualified other than not having the.
App they didn't get her phone number yeah they needed to
Be able to track data right they didn't track yeah that's that's where the value is for them yeah the discount.
Wasn't for spending 25 bucks it was for giving us your debt
Correct correct yeah exactly.
Groceries are expensive america just like let's be kind to each other can we just be nice to each other for a little bit not corporate chills so
Oh uh yeah it's true uh my dad texted me the other day it was like sunday or something oh yeah i was in the middle of like a all-day video shoot with this band i'm in and so, He texts me and he's like, I haven't gotten mail on, he has his own domain and he got it before Google stopped allowing free accounts for their Google apps for domains. So he still has it grandfathered as a, like his email all goes through Google.
And he texts me on Sunday and he's like, I haven't gotten email since Friday on my personal account. And I'm like, what? Okay. And so it's, you know, I'm not in front of a computer. I'm not really in a spot where I can stop and do this. But, you know, idly in my head, I'm thinking, okay, did his domain get, like, expired somehow? Did he not do the thing that you got to click a button and log in as an admin once every six months or, you know, whatever? Did he not do that?
Or is his mailbox full? Like, did he use his whatever it is, the 15 gigs that you get with those free accounts at Google? Like any of these things could be possible. So I'm like, all right. So I forgot about it on Sunday because he texted me early in the day. And then, you know, we had like an eight hour shoot or whatever. Monday, I'm like, oh, okay, I gotta look. It's late on Monday night. I know he's asleep. So I dig in and obviously he's
being very patient, not getting his email, which is nice. I suppose. I wish I, I wish I could be that patient if I wasn't getting email. Actually, that's a really nice place to be. Now I have goals, which, you know, I want to be more like my dad, which is sort of my goal every day. But, uh, so I logged in and looked in the admin interface for his domain and nope, everything's fine there. Then I logged into his email account. Cause I, turns out I still had his password.
Nope. He's got, you know, eight gigs free of his 15. Okay. So that's not the issue. And I can see in the web interface messages that are poured in, including the tech test message that I sent him on Sunday. You know, it's like trying to do this like, okay. All right, great. So we just got to figure this out. And I know his password hasn't changed, too. And in Google, you can look at the devices that are either logged in or recently logged out.
And I see my computer is the only one that has an active session. Everything else, including his iPhone and other Macs, which I'm assuming are his, are all showing is logged out as of the day that he last got emails. So it's like, OK, this is all checking out with a huge question mark. Why? You know, and why is it not just asking him to log in again? So we screen shared to his Mac and I controlled it. I did it with the iMessage, you know, the messages app screen sharing worked totally fine.
And so we did that and we, I logged into his Mac and I was like, this is really weird. And I, I was able to, oh, I, I turned the account off in internet settings and then turned it back on and at that moment it why that's when i got the you need to log back in and so great so we logged back in with his existing password and boom email filled up on his mac it's like okay.
Sure and it's like okay but you're right he's like i'm like what about your iphone did that like open the floodgates for you no and this was where you know he's i'm trying to walk him through but i don't know i don't even know what i really did on his mac to get it to ask to re-authenticate his account so and i and i don't know how to replicate what i don't know on his on his iphone.
Especially flying blind playing the operator game you know tell me what you're seeing on your iphone right and my daughter had just gotten home for her two-week thing and i'm like i don't want to like i love talking to my dad but i don't want to like take an hour and a half away from my daughter to go to like my dad's house and fix this and all this stuff so i was like all right dad uh we're just going to delete the account from your phone and re-add it because that's going to to do this
and and then he's like yeah that sounds fine and he's fairly technically savvy you know and so he's like great yeah i know how to do that so we i stayed on the phone with him obviously and he deleted the account re-added it of course like it should when you add an account it told him you have to go and like authenticate with the oauth google stuff and like yep yep and he did it and he's like yeah okay there's my email i see it i'm like great so but
this was a server side thing the fact that it happened on both of his devices at exactly the same time and i looked there was no notification in his email from google saying hey we noticed x and expired all your existing sessions but they certainly did expire all his existing sessions like there's no question about this was not something he did on one device because it was both of his devices at exactly the same point in time
to the minute like in the list in google it was like yep at that minute everything stopped. So I have a question. I have two questions. Why? Why? Why? And I realize these these these aren't rhetorical, but they may be treated as though they are because we don't have the answers. So why did this happen? And then the more pressing one is how can I like?
Well maybe there's two how can i tell my devices to re-authenticate with google and and b why didn't like why didn't it offer to do that and i realize these are all yeah yeah what did you call.
My hands up
Pete the shrug shoulder salute oh yeah yeah yep yeah there it That's the Alfred E. Newman salute. The what? Me, Worry? Right. Yeah. Yeah.
So I know the answer, but if I tell you, Dave, you won't learn anything, so go look it up. Who's your buddy? So you said he's got a Gmail account, though, right?
Yeah. It's his own domain hosted at Google. So it is effectively a Gmail account. Yes. Yeah.
Yeah, so just by coincidence, when I started this trip, I had a day in Memphis, and I have some dear friends there that are well into their 80s now. Not super tech savvy. Similar thing. Email just stopped and was over two weeks, and I happened to be there, and she's like, I'm not getting email. But all she has is the iPad. So I signed everything out and signed everything back in, and it didn't work. I'm like, you know, let's verify, let's reset your password. Didn't work.
And the next morning when I landed in Dubai, I got an email from her. She said it started working.
Okay. So maybe this problem is more widespread than my dad's one account.
Yeah. That's why when you said Gmail, okay.
Well, that's part of why I wanted to share this on the show. So in case anybody else is running into this, because clearly, as I said, it happened on the server. So, you know.
Yeah. And with no indication.
Right.
That, you know, hey, this is, you've got an error or anything like that. Nothing.
No. No, it did say that his, like on his Mac, the, you know, it's like a lightning bolt or whatever in mail, Apple mail, that shows that an account is offline.
But in in trying to take it online there was it it wouldn't and i i even looked at the logs because then you can go into like activity manager and mail and then open up like the raw logs of the communication with the mail server and there were no errors in like it was weird man yeah yeah i don't know i don't know that's hey shrug, Moving on.
I have one last thing to add to my... I want to say one last thing about my story, because we mentioned earlier the cool feature where you can use iOS now to share your screen. So the other thing that... Just be aware, if you have parents like my mom, you're trying to help people like my mom. I've tried to do this so many times with my mom, because we're remote. And I'll tell her, let's just get on FaceTime, because I'm trying to walk her through the interface, right?
And she's like, not clicking on the right thing or not getting the right thing. And I'm trying to describe it right. But there's just a communication barrier that often happens there. And people who've gone through this probably know exactly what I'm talking about. So I'm like, let's just get on FaceTime and just share your screen. So she was on her iPhone. She was on her iPhone at home talking to me. Right. And inevitably, what happens is one of two things.
I'll be like, all right, let's FaceTime so that we can share the screen. So she knows how to get on FaceTime. We get on FaceTime. I call her on FaceTime. That's not a problem. But like in this scenario, she was at home and like I mentioned, she has an iPad, but when she was at the grocery store, this was an app she needed on her phone.
So I helped her like install the app and we were trying to configure it and get her logged in and we're just struggling with it so i'm like get on facetime she gets on facetime and she answers facetime on her phone but she's been installing the app and configuring it on the ipad but she hadn't told me so then she's like trying to aim the camera at the ipad and she's like flipping the phone around and i'm trying to describe to her how to flip the camera around
and she's not holding it close enough so like your mileage may vary the the the moral of the story is your mileage may vary even if you're trying to screen share like yep
Yep yep yep.
I love my mom to death but she's thus not a tech person so i'm like i'm gonna be there next week i'm gonna show you all this stuff we'll resolve it when i'm there yeah
Right yeah exactly i i thought i thought i was gonna have to tell my dad uh we might need to wait till thanksgiving for this but thankfully Hopefully we were able, obviously, to get past it. Should we, let's do some, because it's the Porthos John episode, let's do some cool stuff found. And who better to start with than cool stuff found from Porthos John. This one definitely falls into the what will they think of next column, but it's kind of cool.
And it is, it's called Ringo. it has nothing to do with the Ringo we all know and love the stick wielding Ringo that we all know and love.
I don't think but it is a Ringo water bottle where the top of the water bottle has a flip up circle that is exactly the right size and shape and material construction that it is a MagSafe holder for your phone so you get this MagSafe water bottle holder uh thing and they uh they say um you have to take the whole top off to drink so there is no straw mechanism on this and the uh don't get caught note from porthos john and i think i'm attributing
this to porthos john accurately i know there was there was a discussion about it um the amazon listing for it which is about 60 bucks on amazon it says it is stable when empty and it kind of is but if empty i would make sure you have it in a cup holder of some kind as it is quite top heavy which obviously makes sense yeah so yeah.
So i'll buy one if they make a version that has the the bottom you can unscrew and stick a beer bottle up in there and put it back
Sure there you go pete that's the one they have.
Those by the way that not not with the mag safe holder on
Top it looks.
Like a water bottle you can enjoy your kid's soccer game a little more next next week
Wait what's what's this i might need to find there.
They're fake water they look like water bottles but the bottom unscrews and you stick a beer bottle up in in there and screw the bottom on and so yeah so you it's for
That's brilliant you have yeah.
Oh you call did you call one up
Uh i think so it's called sneaky booze it's a 36 ounce water bottle diversion safe stainless steel portable coffee no this is just to put like your unmentionables in oh.
And it looks It's got cards and
Keys and stuff in the bottle. Yeah, this is not to put your beer in. But why couldn't you just get a water bottle that's built to hold carbonated beverages and- There you go. And pour your beer in that one. Relocate your beverage of choice into the water bottle. Fair enough. I don't know. Yeah. You could do that. Yes. I'm sure.
They have all kinds of stuff like this. I think somebody has like a split divider one too, where you put- coke and one side and you know yeah urban on the other or whatever oh yeah and then there's a little switch that flips it
So you can mix it.
Or you can mix it or you could have solo or you can mix it like shaking
That stirred um oh getting punchy logic logic pro 11 one is out and i i love that Apple still is not charging for upgrades to Logic and Final Cut, right? Like, they just keep adding things to these. And if you paid for it a decade ago or whatever, you're on the list. You know, you're good.
Really?
Yeah. Yeah. I don't use Logic for the show anymore, but I absolutely use it for recording music. And also, it's my mixer app for the studio when I have live rehearsals, which has the added benefit of, hey, you want to record that quick? Sure. Hit the button and boom, you're good to go. But I use it to just make sound come out of speakers and all those things. Logic Pro 11.1 adds two functional features that I have wanted for a long time.
One is you can finally reorder channel strips in the mixer.
So if if you have channels it's super easy to just select channel strips even non-adjacent channel strips and just move them around that's a game changer way easier than the other way of having to do it um in the tracks area so if you're using it as a mixer you can just drag the things around you don't have to go to the tracks area anymore and number two perhaps even bigger for me is you can search for plugins by name you don't have to know okay this is i got to go to audio units
and isotope and rx10 voicing or x11 now voice denoise you know you just search for rx11 and boom it comes up that's not their lead feature but those are my lead features their lead feature is a cool reverb unit that they call the quantic room simulator uh this is used in studios around the world to create reverb sounds that actually sound like specific rooms or specific room types as opposed to here's a plate reverb or here's a chamber reverb this is.
Using models to say here's what it would sound like in a room with these kinds of reflections and that sort of thing so that's the quantic room simulator but the other two the reordering channel strips searching for plugins those are the game changers to me so just wanted to share that it's fun. Um, shall we, uh, we have two follow-up cool stuff's found from, uh, from Bruce and, uh, the one from Bruce, it's maybe relevant here.
He said in the last episode, a listener wrote in about their 2017 iMac and what you thought they should do as it with it, as it ages and can't run the latest Mac OS.
Bruce says as these older Mac age and the highest operating system that run gets out of date a geeky way to deal with this is to use open core legacy patcher and I know we've talked about this on the show before and I always dismiss it I mean we mentioned it but it just doesn't stick in my head Bruce says there have been many hacks over the years of people trying to allow older Macs most of which have stopped working OCLP open core legacy patcher
is about the closest thing to a computer miracle that I've seen is this is what bruce is saying he says i'm using it on my 2017 27 inch iMac primarily because i needed to run the latest version of final cut pro uh and older mac os's wouldn't allow it and he's able to do it like that to me is the like the selling point of this like okay if the software you need to run it's not just checking the box of hey i'm running the current os but you can't
do anything with it this actually he's saying final cut pro which is a fairly resource intensive app is okay running on the new os via oclp so i we i think we need to remember this thing and not and not i need to remember it not dismiss it so have you have you ever used it adam no.
I usually upgrade before that day i mean fair you have a really old mac if you're if you're running that thing
Probably 2017 like and i have that old well.
I have a 2019 and i feel like it's old at this point
Only because only because of the intel to uh to apple silicon correct i think 10 years now with computers nowadays accepting that switch are is is the right age so 2017 in and of itself doesn't seem old to me it but that switch obviously obsoleted some things before their time, I think.
Yeah, my Intel Mac is still running great, and I plan to use it for another couple years, but I would imagine in two years I'm going to be ready to...
Yeah.
Like once, yeah, I can't get the latest operating system on it, I'm probably dumping it.
Sure. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's a good time for it.
But my observation is, and correct me if I'm wrong, Adam, you work with PC more than anybody here, I think, But the Macs just seem to last much longer. Between upgrade cycles than than most pcs
Yeah i think that's still mostly true i think it's more because apple i believe and i have to triple check this but i'm pretty sure apple does a better job with the operating system supporting older and older machines you're right then windows even does currently they're getting better though i mean all of it's getting better if i'm being So
My son's gaming rig is like four years old and he's already this last month. Well, that's a complete new motherboard and all that stuff.
That's a, that's a separate thing though. Like gaming, all bets are off. You have to, if you're not running the latest CPU and more importantly, the very latest GPUs, you're done with the latest games.
Cause every game, every new game is pushing the total limits of, and and for those guys like if it's not doing 120 240 frames a second or whatever like which i don't even understand that part of it but maybe somebody can explain that to me one day because i thought humans could only see a certain rate like but i don't know yeah
Go
Invest in nvidia folks
Yeah well that's been that's been that's been true for a lot of reasons uh for for a little while now yep yep, Um, so one, one last cool stuff found. That's a followup from a previous episode. Tony reminds us in 10 63, we had tons of great info on window management for Mac OS 15.
An application he says that is similar to Moom that you mentioned is a better snap from full of aura and a better snap tool lets you move and resize any window to standard or custom locations with hot corners hot zones key combos it's extremely configurable available on the mac app store and uh so i we will put a link to that in the show notes too yeah this i know we've talked about this one before too but uh it's you know it's easy to kind of get get
into the routine of the ones we use and forget about the ones that we don't but this one deserves deserves to be to be considered so yeah well.
There's a lot of great tools out
There i know it's.
Hard to like it gets hard when someone wants you to recommend just one because like everyone is kind of unique and has its own little features and yeah and things like that so i think you just got to try them out and figure out which one works for
You yeah which one fits your use case i agree none.
Of them are bad that's that's yeah it's often the case in the apple world you
Know with these third-party.
Tools is lots lots of times it's like they're all great
Yeah so.
Which is a great problem to have. It's like, you're good with any one of them. Go for it.
Yep. For sure.
Yeah.
Oh, man.
Well, and of course, Portho John has one more comment from the discord city offered his daughter's gaming rig with the last generation video card. And she scoffed.
Yeah.
Yeah. No, thanks.
Exactly.
Yep. Yep. That's how it is. Yeah. Thanks for hanging out, everybody. Make sure to check out macgeekup.com slash giveaway so you can see what our December giveaway is. Also, this might be premature, but I feel okay about it. I want to begin thanking the folks who are sponsoring us for CES and allowing that trip to actually work. And the first sponsor that came in is, of course, none other than the folks
at Bombik Software with Carbon Copy Cloner, aka CCC Backup. So big thanks to them for stepping in and there will be more. We'll, we'll share those as they, as they come in. But, uh, but yeah, yeah, I'm, I'm thinking awesome.
Yeah.
CCC is like, I haven't checked my email while we're doing the show, but I'm pretty sure they're in. I think it's safe to say that I've said it. I might now, now if they're not, they have to do it. Now they have to be right. Yeah, exactly. Now they look bad. No, no, no. There's many reasons people can't do sponsorships and timing and all that. It's always fine. We love the folks that are able to currently sponsor us, and we also love the folks that have sponsored.
Like last year, CCC was also the first on board to sponsor us for our CES trip, and those trips aren't possible without time investment and certainly financial investment to pay for the whole trip. And we try to be pretty fair with our sponsors. We don't look at them as huge profit centers or anything. We just need to get our costs offset and make it so the trip is smooth and silky. So, you know, I'm old. Thanks for hanging out. Thanks to Cashfly for providing all the bandwidth to
get the show from us to you. Check out Adam's show, the debut film podcast. Check out Pete's show, So There I Was. Check out my other shows, Business Brain and Gig Gab. Fun stuff coming up on all of those shows. Yeah, there we are. Reviews, natgeekup.com slash reviews. We love your reviews. Love them. We'll share more in an upcoming episode. Until then, do you have anything to share there from Anchorage, Pete?
Well, maybe I'd like to start by wishing people retroactively a happy Thanksgiving. Hope it was great. And don't get caught.
Later.