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Was that me or was that you? That was me. Oh, okay. I hear I'm wrestling with my MacBook Pro Right, okay, and it just I reinstalled the OS. We'll see what's going on. No sound Dave Yeah, this is weird. Tell tell us about the Symptoms and the specifics the symptoms is if I try to play music Like a video I Don't hear anything But I still hear the startup chime. Okay. All right, so So it's not a hardware problem. It's a software problem. So my first Instinct is reinstalled the OS and it just finished doing that but got it with that now So did you do an over-the-top? installation or like a Recovery, I just said reinstall the OS. Yeah, okay. So over the top. All right. That makes sense I assume before you did that you went into like sound system preferences or whatever to Yeah, yeah, you know and and your devices were all still there Did you try plugging in like a USB? sound device or a Bluetooth sound device just to see if You know if it was all sound devices that wouldn't make sound or if it was just one ah Outfitted with it. All right. The thing is I was trying to think of different ways to troubleshoot it because that's what we do here Yeah, I mean the thing is I was fiddling with playing sound through my HomePod minis Okay, and I don't know if that setting took hold or Won't let go right right. Yeah, that's fair. That's I mean turn off Wi-Fi To test that right like I may have you know if it's a if it's a Wi-Fi speaker Well, don't don't show it to it and see what happens. I'm just I don't just I mean I know you've you've already done the over-the-top reinstall and hopefully that fixes it But if if anybody else sees this or if that doesn't like that's what I would start looking at I would also look I Would do all those other things first, but you know there there is the oft-forgotten Audio MIDI setup app Ah Okay, and and that's it's an interesting little Little place to go it's where you can configure the bit rate and You know the sample rate of your output whether it's stereo or You know mono or or five channel or whatever like you you have more options there than Then it's probably healthy for most of us to have including those of us that know what what what they mean Because you can really go in there and drive yourself crazy But and you can also create aggregate devices Which is actually how my whole setup pulls together because like for example logic will only see one audio device But I want to tie several things together and so you create an aggregate You know virtual audio device if you will but yeah audio MIDI setup would be another place to It's a great place to go to to sort of force a reset on an audio device because by Changing the sample rate from whatever it is to something else And then if you like back again that sort of forces the system to to reintroduce itself to the device and that can Sometimes like give you yeah The other thing is I was thinking of maybe deleting So I have loop back on this machine and I don't really need it there So I'm wondering if it's acting up It could be I mean the trick would be to just go into loop back and delete the any virtual devices that are there because other that because that Without those loop loop back is doing nothing on your system Just it's kind of the way it works It just inserts a new device into core audio or it doesn't you know and actually in loop back You don't even have to delete the devices you can Turn them on and off at will and then they appear disappear just like you unplugged or replugged the You know an audio cable or a like a USB cable for an audio device Yeah, yeah, yeah, also audio MIDI setup you can set master levels for devices so that might It like explain these symptoms right because the hardware works the startup chime does what it does. Okay, great But then you know the system comes up it loads whatever preferences the OS has and you know The way it goes and then so maybe setting that slider I don't know in the in audio MIDI setup So yeah, it's a fun place to look or or a not fun place to look whatever the case may be Yeah, and if I can't figure it out. Well, I still have Apple care on this machine. So right right Yeah, I guess the next thing to do would be to boot from a clean fresh install or is there is there sound? available in Recovery mode like could you go into recovery mode and make it play a sound like in the preference pane? I don't obviously I don't they have a machine in recovery mode in front of me So I can't test that but that would be another thing or boot into safe mode and test sound because that would rule out Any third-party stuff? No, no, you know These are all the things. Thank goodness. We recorded this John So if you wind up with problems, you just come back and play it You know, not only do we record these things for all of you We also put chapters in so you can use your favorite podcast client, you know Apple's clients do this the overcast does it I think pretty much every podcast client now supports chapters and you can jump around in the episode and say oh What they were talking about that thing where John's MacBook wouldn't play sound. Let me look Oh, you see the chapter of John's MacBook Pro 16 inch Intel won't play sound boom get right to the beginning of it You can jump around so we do that for you lovingly Handcrafted by us and the wonderful folks that join us in the chat room at live.mackykev.com when we do the show Cool stuff found is gonna be the Focus of today's episode So we say eight minutes in the first one is a Website called Wi-Fi is PC.com Wi Fi S PC Com and the cool part what this does is it shows you the Wi-Fi passwords of The public Wi-Fi hotspots near you Which I don't know if you folks have experienced this But you know you go to a restaurant you go to a cafe you go somewhere and then boom You know there's a there's Wi-Fi you see it, but there's a password. It's like why why you know What's the password and you're looking around you? Do you think well? Do I need to ask the staff? what's the deal and And this website will I'll show you what they are so they can use your location to find it I think my location of my Machine here is not It's not permitting it. It's something weird about Safari on this machine So if you were watching the video and saw that you see what like put me in Germany or something But I don't think I'm in Germany that I said I was in Durham, New Hampshire, and I I meant that so but But yeah, super handy Wi-Fi is PC.com. Had you ever? Had you ever heard of this website before mr. Braun? No. Yeah, I don't know where I found it Somebody was like I think it was some tick-tock or something You know here we go Anyway, that's that's my first contribution to cool stuff found. I think you have one from listener Matt. Yeah Yeah, let's let Matt tell us what's up Is always at a is it an audio thing? Oh, I will play Matt then great. Yeah Hey John Dave and hopefully pilot Pete This is Matt Collin from North Carolina with what I think is a quick tip This regards having to power cycle my cable modem and my dox is 3.0 Cable router or Wi-Fi router and that may give you the idea of the problem Which is sometimes having I guess buffer bloat because I'm not at 3.1 yet And I don't know about you but my I have a UPS where I plug in This equipment and then we have the issue that I can't so easily unplug things I can't turn a light flip a switch on the wall for them to go off and suck power cycle You have to do each of them and that's a pain So I came up with an idea and it's been working great for me. I will attach the Amazon link, but essentially it's a to outlet switch So there's a kind of a key fob switch that turns this On and off you plug on the one side. I plug my cable modem on the other side. I plug my Wi-Fi router. I plug that into the UPS and now I have a switched Way to Power cycle both of those at the same time. I know people say ideally you would do it in sequence But I have found that it works great I put that key fob in a very convenient place So I don't have to move my TV and go digging around by my UPS and when I notice that my internet speeds are running slow I just hit the off button and wait for 10 seconds Hit the on button and both of them go back on so work great for me I know some people have these devices in places that are hard to reach maybe even in walls and panels So I hope that helps folks not get caught and with that you can cut me off here That's pretty cool Huh, I like that idea. That's that's pretty neat. Huh John. Yeah, that's cheap too. Yeah 14 bucks today on Amazon Is what I'm seeing on online here the I did want to kind of Dig in a little bit here Matt said that he was using this to solve buffer bloat I think there is some sort of buffering issue Or a memory issue that's happening probably on his router And rebooting the router sort of flushes all those cues and caches and all of that stuff and that you know Freeze things up and he gets better speeds buffer bloat That is not buffer bloat though what buffer bloat is the very specific thing that happens when you have All of your devices or one device Using your entire upstream and then it slows down all your other devices because of the way cable modems cue things They basically just throw out stuff once the once you hit your speed cap So I that's not what's happening to Matt So it's just it's just a different term is all it is But I think you're right that your router is hitting some kind of limit if you're seeing this regularly I would Consider getting a different router. I Mean I would I would try and isolate this so the next time it happens I would you know try just power cycling the router not the router and the cable modem So try you know one and then the other see what fixes it Assuming it's the router and and that is my assumption here But again, you know, we're doing this remotely so can't say for sure But my gut says it's the router and you probably now Have more devices in your house than that router was built to handle would be my guess And it's just getting a little overloaded with sort of managing all those connections So try you know a B test it next time it happens Just restart the router see if that fixes it if it does great Then the time after that just restart the cable modem and make sure that doesn't fix it although it might because the router might do some cue flushing when it realizes its Disconnected from the cable modem the other way to test that would be to not power cycle either of them and just Unplug the ethernet cable for a minute between the two plug it back in let it sort of reconnect But I'm guessing it's the router and replacing the router would be the solution. I Think but it could be the cable modem so Or upgrade your cable modem as far as I know we don't have 3.1 support on our network So I Like upgrading your cable modem is rarely a bad idea Mm-hmm and Docks this 3.1 will solve buffer bloat But again Matt's problem is not buffer bloat Right because buffer bloat is the real-time issue when you're when you're uploading data So and up and soaking your upstream. So yes upgrading to a newer, you know Replacement D31 cable modem, whatever probably not a bad idea But I also probably not gonna solve this problem unless the issue is a hardware malfunction With your existing cable modem. So the buffer bloats not Matt's issue. That's that I think that's the most important takeaway from from that part of things but But it doesn't mean Matt doesn't have an issue. It's just called something else. That's all But we just got to make sure we're not solving for a different issue I You so you don't have gigabit speeds available to you with your cable modem, John. Is that right? Oh I think I think they came to get you Yeah, yeah, something's going on here You can't buy gigabit because gigabit the doc says 3.1 is no we actually yeah, I have to Yell at the cable modem people, but no they they actually advertise packages My package is no longer available. So I have 200 down 30 sharp up They now have three different offers and one of them two of them are cable modem, but then They're actually offering fiber, which is interesting. Oh, that's one gig up one gig down Right. Okay. So that yeah, that wouldn't be a cable modem. That would be a now Why did this happen you ask and that's because there's another company in town? Go net speed I think is their name and they're also offering fiber Symmetrical so I think that's what prompted Optimum to offer a fiber Did optimum actually go and run fiber lines or are they just piggybacking on the go net speed people? um Well from what I understand Most of the cable companies are it's a fiber backbone and then it's cable to the house Correct. So I think they already had the lines installed Interesting interesting. I mean, yeah. Yes, right. It's a fiber backbone, but generally they're not running fiber on the poles Right like the fiber. Yeah, but they're upgrading because I actually saw them on my street I'm like, you know, and it was a contractor and I'm like, hey, what do you guys do and it's like, oh, yeah We're upgrading the optimum Got it connection. I'm like, oh nice Okay, so they are rolling their own fiber out. Okay. That makes sense. Oh interesting. Wow. Good for them Good for you having I mean having competition is great having competition that both offer fiber like two fiber options. That's Now you're now you're living the dream. That's good Cool. So when are you when are you gonna place your order? I don't know. It's probably cheaper. I mean my my fiber is way cheaper like half the price of what I was paying for a slower connection with Xfinity so Hey with with regards to matt's Outlet that he found there I wanted to Share something that we have discussed on the show before this also wouldn't solve matt's problem Because matt's problem isn't that his connection goes down It's that his connection gets slow But if your connection goes down and a reset of your devices is the key the keep connect plug is A fantastic little thing that I know a lot of you out there have used and we've talked about it on the show before You plug it in you connect it to your wi-fi and it pings a server outside of your network on a semi regular basis When it notices that it can no longer ping that server it Turns off your router for whatever 30 seconds turns it better turns off the outlet Which presumably has your router or your cable modem or both? Turns them off for 30 seconds turns it back on and and resets things But again, this wouldn't solve matt's problem because matt's issue is not holy like it's not binary But it's more gray area, but um, I figured I'd mention that keep connect plug because it it's a good one. So yeah Moving on john indeed. We constantly get questions routinely. I don't want to say constantly that makes it sound bad It's good. We routinely get questions people asking us Is now a good time to buy, you know, whatever apple product I need next or what apple product is right for me in this scenario And josh centers who we all know from tidbits for the last decade plus Uh or almost decade. I guess he I think he's been there for more than a decade, but he's been the managing editor for For since 2013 has started a website called apple buying advice dot com And he focuses on he makes it really simple The homepage basically tells you if you are a standard, you know, general user Here are the best things to buy right now the best iPhones and iphone 13 128 gig the best mac for most people Is a 512 gig air, you know the the best apple earbuds. He says bet beats fit pro So there you go the apple watch we like series 7 gps And then you can dig in a little bit and say well I I have some specific needs so You know, maybe the best iphone for most isn't necessarily the best for me Do I need an iphone pro and that question is answered and you know, do I want a little phone versus a big phone? and and then he says skip the iphone se for now because Reliable sources indicate that a new se is around the corner. So apple buying advice dot com from josh centers Is my next contribution here for cool stuff found? Yeah fun stuff. I like it Yeah, good Good good. All right. What's next man? Oh god. I mentioned that What's next? um, I think next is robin um Who recommends something? I've never heard of Um, and robin says I just wanted to share this quick tip in case you don't know it. I find it very productive install carabiner elements And we'll link to it in the show notes, of course um And then assign the cap slot To forward delete so you can then use your left pinky to do that instead of function delete Okay, oh That's that's pretty quick interesting Yeah, so uh, so I guess uh, yeah reduce the uh How far your fingers have to go to get something done? Yeah, but just in general this carabiner elements or carabiner Yeah, I don't know how it's pronounced is it it changes the function of one key To another key right and and so like robin's example is to take cap slot can turn that into forward delete But you could do it with anything you can change You know like your function keys at the top of the keyboard are generally mapped to media controls where you could map them differently If you so desired wow Huh I wonder how I haven't used this I wonder how this differs from like keyboard maestro if it's is it simpler Is it more efficient? Is it just another thing that does the same thing but differently? I like it interesting Huh cool. I see I love learning about this stuff. That's great. I'd never heard this before fun one Fun fun. All right. What else do we have here? Oh Todd Uh has recommended the uh, well, let's let's pull up Todd's thing here and see what we've what we've How Todd recommended this Todd says, um My ups has started alerting me to a low battery at random times throughout the day and night And uh, it produces a sound that you do not want to be woken up to So instead of replacing the battery on my ups He says I decided to upgrade and got myself a new cyber power cst 1500 s Thinking ahead, uh, I'd like to know if there's an issue with my ups well before it starts warning me at 3 a.m That also Lines up with not getting caught. He says I'm daydreaming of emails and push notifications regarding low battery and power outages With the usb connected to my mac with a usb cable Maybe I can do this because his old one did not have a usb cable. And yes, some ups will talk to energy saver I have yet to find something that has the notifications that I want Uh ahead of time. Well, like like I would love to know that its battery is getting worse But I I haven't ever found one that tells my mac that but this uh This cst 1500 s. I mean it this thing looks like a a workhorse. It's got a couple usb ports on the back of it It's got or on the front of it. I should say On the back. It's got two sets of out outlets It's similar to the one of the ones from apc that I use where It's sort of a tall configuration And like I said, it has two sets of outlets on the back one for just surge protection and one for battery power and I think One of the sets on the back is Uh, oh, there's even some Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's what it is. So battery and surge on one side and surge just on the other That's fascinating. Pretty cool. I like it. I never I guess we have talked about cyber power on the show before It's not a that's not a new brand for us, but it's uh, it's not the first brand I think of so thanks for sharing that Todd keep us posted I'd love to know how it works out for you and how it links up with your mac and all that good stuff. So Fun fun Well, we have lots more cool stuff found to talk about here if we can find the time to do So we have some of your questions that will sandwich in the middle there and then we'll get back to cool stuff I've found the next thing that I would love to do mr. Braun if it works for you is talk about our first few sponsors here Okay All right. 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I love it interestingly. This change is not present on my 2017 27 inch iMac also running 12.2.1 any idea when this appeared and why it only seems to work on my macbook pro um And he sent a screenshot with the menu and i'm like well, that's interesting that kind of looks like My apple menu Oh, really? Oh, okay. This gets interesting for me now. So and it's interesting to begin with The reason it does is that in a prior episode Dave we actually um Suggested a way to create um additional Options in your menus to allow you to use a function key for example to do restart or shutdown instead of having to click um And that's what happened in this case So if you go to system preferences keyboard shortcuts um That's where you can modify uh One place that you can modify What you see in the in the uh in the menu interesting So, uh, apparently he had done this at some point and forgot So right and so by putting this in the menu putting this in keyboard shortcuts Uh and in like the screenshot that you shared john You've got restart map to f10 and shut down map to f12 And by mapping those it opens up the alternate menu items For whatever reason this is this must just be a a side effect right of doing this on mac os And his screenshot was similar. He had function keys mapped to the the the ones with ellipses So so these are not These menu items um are not Nessus they're not uh, what's the right word? They are always available to you as bram and roe and the chat room points out you can hold down the option key Uh when you're over the apple menu and you can watch those ellipses go away for restart shutdown And for logout So you can get this doing that for sure But it just so they're they're there, but they're not there And it must just be that because you've assigned this this function key to the ones with ellipses mac os then exposes the non ellipses alternates and As as you are always quick to point out john the ellipses means you will get there is more to this before it takes action Without the ellipses it takes the action immediately. So Yeah Good stuff. I like this. All right. See we're learning stuff here. That's this good All right Yes, great great great Okay, so Let's see. Oh more on that or is it time to move on? Uh Yes Yes, all right. I guess I know what that means So steve asks he says is there any way you found to remotely log into your mac from an external network Without first requiring the mac to be logged into a user account So on the surface it seems like yeah, I do this all the time But we get deeper into this and we figure out what the actual issue is steve continues He says on my 2015 iMac I used to have automatic login for my user account enabled and thus never had issues with remote access using real vnc Or other remote apps i.e log me in et cetera I recently moved to a new m1 macbook pro and have file vault and touch id enabled in this setup apple will not allow Automatic login for security purposes. You have to disable file vault in addition apple pay and other features are disabled if you enable automatic login This issue uh become the issue becomes what to do if your mac crashes or restarts for any reason and you need to remote in If a user account isn't logged in then none of the remote access apps are loaded and thus you can't log in Remotely since I tried enabling enabling apples built-in remote desktop as well as remote login But uh that didn't uh that didn't change anything So yeah, so the issue here is It's not that automatic login is disabled Automatic login is disabled as a byproduct as as he points out as steve points out of having file vault enabled And and that is correct because when you start your mac up You need like it vary if you if you notice the timing of things You get the login Much earlier with file vault enabled than you would With uh without and the reason for that is that your mac Needs to decrypt the drive and it needs your key and permission to do that so file vault disables automatic login because Not not because of some ancillary issue, but because your drive literally when you're sitting at that file vault login There is no operating system running. It's waiting to decrypt the drive so that it can load that And that's the issue with your remote access apps. So if you leave automatic login disabled But file vault also disabled then you'll be able to run Real vnc your mac will start up to the os's login prompt not the file vault login prompt And maybe that's the right way to think about this as i'm explaining it So we've got the file vault login prompt. We've got mac os's login prompt It will get you to mac os's login prompt, which generally has all of these other services Enable that doesn't matter whether you're logged in or not. So you need to get mac os up and running and you can't do that with file vault There there are some ways to do it on like a one time basis, but It's not really the way it works That said if you've got an m1 mac certainly, but really any mac with the t2 chip in it Your drive is encrypted regardless The only difference that file vault makes and i'm over simplifying intentionally here That the only difference that file vault makes is that It changes whether or not It's using your key to decrypt the drive or only its key to decrypt the drive But the drive is encrypted either way. It's just who's controlling Access to the key. It's actually encrypted with the same key either way because the key is baked into your your t2 chip but it's just who who gets to access that key and With file vault disabled your mac can do it by itself With file vault enabled you have to authenticate before your mac can do it if that makes sense So I don't enable file vault on my on my machines anymore, but largely for this reason Um, I mean, I guess I haven't enabled on my laptop. I guess that's not true I I do have it enabled on that um And maybe I feel better about that when traveling But i'm not sure like people would still need to know how to log in To get at the data because if they rip the drive out Like if it's in my computer to get at that drive you'd have to um And correct me if i'm wrong folks feedback at macicab.com Uh, you'd have to know my password. I don't think there's any other way and if you rip it out of the mac Then it's like not gonna talk to it so Right, do I have that right? I think I have that right john. Yeah feedback at macicab.com that I have right But do I have my my file vault? And security am I thinking about this the right way? Am I am I going to mexico as protected as I think I am? I think so All right, well, that's good If you make it back, then uh, we'll know Well, it's more about my data, but you know, yeah All right Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah So You want to take us to dave john. Yeah, I don't I don't have a I don't know if I have an answer for this. Okay, but here's the question. What do you think the reason is that we can't do apple Use apple cash card on the mac And i'm like, hmm. Well, that's weird Um, like apple pay cash is is what we're talking about here Yeah, so the the thing is if you have the apple card Um one option you have so technically it's Yeah, the apple cash card So one thing you can do is if you have an apple card you can take the cash back and put it in an apple cash card Right, which everybody has You don't need an apple card to have an apple cash card, right apple apple pay cash Is its own thing right and is not dependent on you having an apple card Yeah, and if you if you dig in it's actually a discover debit card sure But that's sort of a distraction um Yeah, the problem the problem is Is that he's right is that If you want to do apple pay on your mac and I looked at my mac All of my cards that are in my wallet on my phone Are in the the list on the mac except for The apple cash card interesting um So I was like, hmm. Well, you know, let's be clever here a lot of cards that you have in your wallet You can get the actual card number But not the apple cash card I tried it shows you part of the card number And I actually found a support article. Um, and it's like nope You can't get the number because if you could put the note if you could enter the number manually Then it would probably add it to your wallet But you can't and I don't know why this is Huh, that's a good that's I like that hack though of of just hey find me the number and I'm good to go Huh, yeah, but I wasn't able to find a way to get the number. Um The best I think you can do. I mean it's kind of lame. Um, but Uh, the apple cash card you can link to a bank account Correct. Yeah, right you link it to your debit card or whatever you're so and I actually do have debit cards So you can put debit cards in your wallet. It's just this one just doesn't show up and I don't know why That's interesting. Yeah, when you when you first Put this in the agenda I thought well, maybe that's just because it it's like not You know, whoever's testing this isn't doing it on a t2 mac or whatever and so I dug in It's like no, it doesn't seem to it seems odd like that you can't do this But I mean, I'm not saying it's incorrect. I'm just saying like I don't understand why I'm sure it's some Either we didn't code it or we decided for security reasons. We're not going to do it thing, but huh Yeah, okay It still doesn't make sense to me Like my mac is It either supports apple pay because you know natively Which like my m1 mac does or it doesn't because you have to use your phone to do it But in either case like if i'm using my phone to authenticate, why would you limit me from using my apple Hey cash, is that really true? Like because the way I so what i'm thinking here is I uh, I send Money via apple pay using messages all the time, right and You know, I go into messages I I tap the little low row of icons and I hit, you know, the apple pay cash one and I type in the amount and You know off goes the the money along with maybe a nice little note from here or something But yeah, I'm looking on my mac it well the one in the studio doesn't have a t2 chip or anything So like it's probably the wrong place to test but i'm looking on my mac and I don't yeah, there's no Like there's no apple pay icon there so Interesting Maybe somebody knows so you got to do the hokey pokey and yeah put it in another Send it to another card right right right. Yep Fascinating. All right. Well, it's just how it is I guess Doesn't make sense. I don't like it I don't like it uh All right, we talked last episode about snapshot about restoring From snapshots on mac os and how it was a little bit less featured than It could be and I I mentioned that I was Conversing with mike bombick about this mike bombick of course is the chief architect of carbon copy cloner And he also is a former apple employee Not but I don't think he worked on any of this there so this his experience with this is very much from the outside You know and being a very interested Outside third party because he makes this app. He says so there's two words that he uses snapshot restoration Versus snapshot reversion And snapshot reversion according to mike and I like his definition Is the process of instantly reverting a file system to a previous state That is functionality that you get from true snapshots on any other file system, but not with apfs at least not with apple That said he he says it's possible to restore so snapshots snapshot restoration You can restore a file system to a previous state from a snapshot And carbon copy cloner offers a few methods for doing that and they have they've detailed those in there how to Uh how how to restore from your backup Section so we'll put that link in the show notes for anybody that wants to dig into that and you you can you can go in and you mount a Essentially what you do is you mount the snapshot like a drive and then you know can start bringing things over or you can have carbon copy cloner sort of You can you can point carbon copy cloner to the Snapshot as a source and then your drive as a destination is is a way of of doing that Um Going back to why we don't have snapshot reversion though gets a little more interesting Mike says the functionality exists within the file system, but a special in so it is there That so now now let yourself get frustrated and or at least understand why someone like mike might be frustrated Uh, he says the functionality exists within the file system But a special entitlement is required from apple to access that functionality Just for example like an entitlement is required to create snapshots and carbon copy cloner, of course has that entitlement apple has thus far been unwilling to grant the reversion entitlement and hasn't been very Transparent about why says I make this request every year with specific points about how I'd use this functionality In the context of what we're talking about here He says it's important to note that he has requested snapshot reversion with the specific Exclusion of reverting apfs system volumes in other words. He says i'm willing to get the reversion entitlement even if it means I can't revert system volumes And and that's more The based on the assumption that apple doesn't see a future in third party manipulation of a system volume So it's like okay. Well, I might disagree with you on this But if you'll give me access to you know, let reversion happen for just the user volume at least that's a step So it gets very interesting Um With this reversion versus restoration But I I appreciate Mike taking the time to explain this to all of us because I I was not clear on that but yeah Reversion is the thing that we would want in a you know in a pinch like oh, okay crap like malware got my you know some Uh, it could yeah, it could be malware. It could be you know some ransomware or something It's like all right great. Just revert and we're good to go and that functionality is not there for us. That's a bummer Thank you for But it's not a bummer that we know So now we know and maybe apple will grant someone like mike You know this or or themselves like if apple were to provide this functionality Then third parties wouldn't necessarily have to beat down their door to to get it Yeah, you want to you got any thoughts about that john No, okay great. You want to take maybe I should revert my mac See that right that would be the thing is being able to dance through Different spots in there to test out things like imagine how powerful that that would be for us I mean it would be I can see where you could get yourself tied and knots with it But you know if you know if you know why you're doing what you're doing then it's okay And that's kind of what we do here on the show is we try to Teach everybody so anyway uh You want to take us to bob john? Um Right bobs next. Oh bobs me. Yeah bobs you All right for some reason I thought bob was you had it in my thing that bob was you so Bob writes that in the last few days Maybe related to the latest os updates Maybe not the address book on my ios devices has duplicate cards via my iCloud account For each and every contact the address book on my mac os devices has duplicate cards for iCloud and another set Of the same cards in the on my max section What's the best way to clean up this mess? Should I delete the on my max set of contacts? I don't know how to do that. Will the iCloud contact cards still be available to me when my internet goes down So these are good questions The answer is yes Your iCloud contacts and calendars are synced with your device from iCloud Not loaded via an iCloud like web view or something So you do have a copy of them on your device at all times regardless of whether you're connected to the internet now If a change is made elsewhere and you haven't connected and and therefore your phone hasn't synced It won't see that change, but you'll have it right there. So that yes, you're fine You don't need to have things on my mac in fact I would say that my advice for most people is don't put things in the on my mac section Just leave them in iCloud and that way they're synced and all of that Of course, you might have a reason to do it on my mac, but make that choice intentionally As far as removing duplicates Um, the first thing I do is I go on my mac. I go into contacts I'd go to file export and save a contacts archive That is the easiest thing from which you will ever restore your contacts database Yes, you can do it from time machine. Yes, you can do it other ways But creating this very specific snapshot Probably the wrong word to use in time of your contacts database and saving it in an easy to find spot Is is going to save you from headaches down the road. So do that file export contacts archive Then also on my mac is where I would do this I would go to the card menu and choose look for duplicates And it's kind of a there is scary thing to say yes to because well you say merge is what happens It'll show you I did this the other day I do this probably every six months when a question like this comes in john And somehow it always finds duplicates, which is a little bit unnerving But it found 62 duplicate cards and 54 duplicated entries And it gave me some options. But one of them was canceled the entire idea, of course But the other was merge and then I could choose to also merge cards that have the same name But different info like different phone numbers or addresses. I did not do that because I thought well let's say You know, I have someone who you know father and sons share the same name I definitely don't want to merge them together without Knowing what I'm doing and this doesn't show me those things. So I just chose merge and moved on But of course I shot it back up first. So that is my that's how I would Fix a duplicate context issue Wow And do you have any any thoughts on doing it in a different way john? now I've I did this one time because yeah my my contact list is mess Yeah, and I actually had to run look for duplicates multiple times before It didn't think that there were any more That's a great Point no, I yeah run it until it comes back clean for sure. Yeah Yeah, yeah, so I found that sometimes you yeah, you have to do this operation multiple times. Yeah, great great too. Yep While we're talking about duplicates and while we're trying to get ourselves back into cool stuff found to wrap up this episode john would you Would you like to take us to lee's cool stuff found about duplicate photos indeed so um Duplicate contacts duplicate photos. There's duplicates everywhere. Why? But uh lee says I heard the topic of sorting and managing a perhaps Unsorted photo collection come up again. Here's the best tool for that whole process Especially when you are faced with a giant collection of images and folders I'm not affiliated with uh over max in any way. I just use the product every day and it's called photo sweeper from over max And it's 999 And according to lee it's amazing It'll analyze hundreds of thousands of files in complex folder directories. Yes, I've done it For duplicates and similars you can adjust whether you want exact matches or how similar matches are after the image scan Uh photo sweeper will group duplicates or similars into groups that you can manually peruse to select the wanted or unwanted Um, it will automatically select images you want to keep or remove Using combinations of image data such as file name image size image dimensions date time taken file location file path length apple photo album location and more Uh, once you've added to isolated keepers or files to remove photo sweeper will trash them copy them move them renail them Whatever you want Uh, and yes, the holy grail of sorting photo sweeper can compare the images between two folders or set of folders To find duplicates and similars Uh, for instance, this lets you compare a folder of to be sorted images to a folder of already sorted images to prevent Accidentally adding copies to a clean collection Um, and it works, uh with apple photo library. Uh, it's able to do that. So Thank you. Yeah, that's good stuff. I've I'd always used, um power photos right for for this, um From fat cat software This uh is the one that i've always used for for this in the past and it has done a fine job But this is great to know about I had no idea that photo sweeper existed. All right Thank you. Lee. Oh and a follow-up. Uh, yeah They also make uh a companion app called photo mill, which is a good batch image converter renamer and metadata tool Huh Look at that. So never heard of these guys. No, I yeah, this is what I love about doing this show, man We uh You folks get to listen. You don't like john and I not that this is a complaint But you know We have to we have to pull all this together We're the stewards of all this and we still get value out of but you folks you you you know, yeah Let them win. This is great. I love this I'd sit here and listen to this show, which I guess is the whole point I always tell people when they want to start a podcast I say we'll create the show that you would want to listen to and chances are there's other people like you Uh, they also want to hear the same thing. Maybe not a ton. Maybe a ton. You never know That's great. 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It is definitely cool stuff found And we'd like to thank as always other world computing at max sales.com for sponsoring this episode great stuff All right, you want to take us to todd john indeed Um, so todd says following up on your bit last week about tracking your location It reminded me of two seldom heard of ios apps that i've used to track how long i'm at a location Uh, they tracked the location of my phone and I could reference within 15 minutes when I left that location so I could charge appropriately Uh, I found that to be super helpful over the years and I believe slightly more privacy conscious I don't have a preference of one or the other um And use both What are they called so, um Where have I been? Okay, that makes sense and arc Yeah arc app for location and activity. So I'll check them out the what's interesting. Dave is I Seem to recall but it seems like apple has changed something um If you go to settings Privacy location services system services significant locations From what I recall in the past dave it would actually show them to you but I couldn't get a list It it if I go here it says. Oh, yeah, you know, I've I've logged a whole bunch of them But when I click on it nothing happens. Yeah I Yes, I I have seen it used to It used to be like, okay. Well, you know, you go here pretty often, you know Westport or norwalk or wherever. Yeah, sure. Um, but he used to list list them in more detail But apparently it doesn't do that anymore. So I guess that's that's the reason you have these Yeah, I I'm in there on mine and in the past. I would not have been comfortable showing this on You know a publicly available video necessarily But right now there's nothing in here. It's showing recent records Which is one record and it shows that I went to coals the other day. I did I bought a new suitcase. I'm really stoked about that But um, you know what it lists It does list the date and the time that I was at coals, you know, February 20th at 10 in the morning or whatever uh But I can't like tap on it says that there are 93 records I cannot tap on those. Yeah, I can't see them That's and you're right. You used to be able to dig through and see your own stuff That's kind of weird. They don't let you see that anymore. I don't know Like it's my data. I mean, it's why are you teasing me? It's like, yeah, I have all this data But I'm not going to show it Yeah, I'm not and like in order to get into that screen It forced me to face ID again, right? So I went to system preferences Uh privacy location and then when I tapped on significant locations It face IDed me to make sure that you know, I wasn't about to show the wrong person My private data and then it didn't even show me my private data. So yeah, I don't like that. That's not it's not good That's a no bueno All right Yeah, let's do a geeky one. Sure Adrian sends in A cool stuff found for us that I swear I'm gonna find He says, uh I don't really have an answer to your email woes Although several of you have have chimed in and confirmed that I'm not crazy I take that back. Several of you have chimed in and confirmed that you have also seen What I called the email conspiracy two episodes ago. So thank you for that Uh Adrian says I don't have an answer to that but thought you might want to take a look at a site that I use from time to time it's called mx toolbox's super tool and uh He thought maybe it would help track down my issue. It I don't I don't it's not really related to to my issue Except that it's about mail. However It's a pretty cool thing at this this super tool at mx toolbox where you can do all kinds of Different look-ups. So you could you if the issue was that? You know a mail server was in a blacklist database you can type in You know that I can I can do an mx look up for You know mac geekab dot com and it will look it up and it will tell me Okay, like that routes through mail root dot net and here's their ip address It has a 60 minute time to live Uh, it says we don't have a d mark record published which maybe we should publish a d mark record Sure, uh, and we don't have because of that. We don't have a d mark policy enabled But you know, we certainly could and maybe again, maybe we should but uh, yeah, that's a pretty cool tool Thank you for that adrian. I like it I mean, you can do all this stuff with the dig command a lot of it. Sorry you cannot look up Blacklist but an mx look up you can do with the dig command, but this website makes it way easier So I just looked in the blacklist check for mac geekab dot com john and and uh, we have there are none, which is outstanding That's that's good Means we're not known spammers john And I use the term known d mark record. Did you say what was that exactly? Yeah, that is a great question my friend Um, I don't know the answer, but we're about to find out together domain-based message Authentication reporting and conformance. It's a it's an add-on to the mail protocol that gives Like us as the domain owner the ability to say To protect against spoofing, right? So what we would do in a d mark record and this is part of why I haven't set it up because I know I would probably screw it up and People would stop getting our mail because they would think that we were spammers, but uh the The idea is in the in the d mark record you put in Who is allowed to send? mail as you Like what mail servers are allowed to send mail as you and and I think like I'm probably conflating what d mark does and what an spf record does but But the combination of them Keeps people from just sending mail as us Willy-nilly, uh people get to check with our domain record, which is Theoretically only controlled by us and and confirm that the server they're getting mail from is the server is one of the servers We have granted permission to send mail as us so We host our mail at at google apps for domains, which we may have to change or pay or start paying for but Part of the reason I never did a d mark record is it's like well if google like we're using google like the rest of the world so What are we really protecting against I don't know, you know, but I don't know. It's probably a good idea I probably should do it. Believe it or not. I have it on my to-do list and I just keep kicking it down kicking that hand Any more thoughts on that john No, no, it's good to know their protections out there because as you and I know It's trivial to forge a from address. It is trivial Yes, I I I think it's it's been it hasn't been long enough So I won't tell the story about how we did that with to get the dns for mac observer when we Initially bought the site or for webintosh when we bought that site 23 years. Yeah. Yeah as I remember Actually back in the day it was funny. I was you know showing somebody this they're like, you know You know, how can you make an email look? Like it comes from someone else and I'm like here. Let me show you. You know logged into the uh smtp server Yeah, right smtp server and You can just craft From I think it's a or reply to I think is this Is now you can do it from address. It's totally fine. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, the mail server is like, okay. I trust you. Yeah, it doesn't it's not quite that simple now Because most mail servers are locked down with authentication, right? So unless you've created your own mail server an outbound mail server You don't necessarily need an inbound mail server to do this But if you create an outbound mail server, which is also I mean in the grand scheme of things fairly trivial there's instructions to set it up You send up, you know set up postfix or send mail or whatever and uh Then you if you have control over it You can decide what you let happen through it But of course you might also get flagged as a spammer if you start letting the wrong things happen through your mail server But like to send mail through google or even your isp Or you know fast mail or any of those you have to authenticate as you so that the mail server then knows all right, not only Who is this person? But what addresses are they allowed to send as and you know your mail server when like for fast mail when I go In and I say okay. I want to put in feedback at mac ekeb.com so that I can send that through fast mail What it does is it sends me an email to feedback at mac ekeb.com with a code in it like one of those two factor authentication codes So if I don't know that code fast mail is going to be like you don't get mail to this address We're not letting you send mail from this address. That's it. You know, so But you're right. It's set up your own mail server. You can do whatever you want. So yeah DKM helps it's good Hey, um, you know me john. I love microphones and I especially love microphones that are built for broadcast use aka podcasting and I saw that universal audio just released a bunch of microphones including their sd dash one Which is their standard dynamic mic dynamic mics are really the gold standard or the The standard I will say the gold standard implies that there's just one of them and there's not but Generally dynamic mics are the standard for broadcast work. They tend to be better In general at proximity stuff and also not picking up all of the room noise Certainly you can tune the right condenser to do that but dynamic mics just kind of make it easy It's part and parcel of what they do and so this This sd1 I have not tested it out yet, but it looks interesting and if you have A universal audio interface Then the two will talk to each other even more or the you can get presets for your interface for the For this, you know specific mics so that you can you can do that. But yeah, yeah pretty good. I'm I um I would be eager to check it out. I'm looking to see what it costs And maybe sweetwater will tell me What it costs. Yeah, there it is shop now sd dash one It's 300 bucks. Okay, so that's right in the range of of what you would pay for a good Uh a good dynamic mic and it's it's kind of got to mount like the one that I'm currently using here Which is the uh ethos from from earthworks where it it mounts with a Up so you can put it on a boom stand or whatever and it just kind of sits right there. So yeah Pretty cool. I like it I like that stuff and for those wondering If you can't tell which actually usually I can tell when I look at a mic Uh who makes it but I'm on the hyal pr 40 which I think is popular with a lot of the uh Yeah, it's built for broadcast work and and made made Very popular in the podcast world because of bob's bob hyal's sort of involvement in the podcast world. Yeah No, I I love the pr 40. I have in fact, I have one Not too far away sitting next to me because it is my standby I you know, I like to test things and and see things and I I have been Surprisingly I'm surprised at how long this ethos mic has lasted here I kind of figured it'd be a few weeks and then I'd go right back to the pr 40, but It like it sounds just like the pr 40 to me And so it sounds like me and therefore I like I haven't been compelled to you know unscrew it and screw the pr 40 back in Uh, the next thing that I want to talk about john is the a thing from anchor and we love the folks at anchor It is the b600 video bar. Um, it is it's a 220 dollar thing It's a it's essentially your your webcam, right? But it has a light bar above it so that you light yourself From the front you don't have to worry about getting a ring lamp or any of those things It connects via Actually, it has two usb c connections one for the digital connection to the computer But because it's got this light bar on it It needs more power than a computer could reasonably be expected to provide And so, uh, you have a power input for it as well. It's, um It it's a pretty cool thing you can control the uh, the nature and brightness of the light bar it's got, uh, a four mic array in it with Its own ai for noise cancellation and and all that stuff. So yeah, I like it I tested it out a little bit. I mean it it works. It does what it does what it's supposed to do. It has a, um It has this, um You know one of these mounts that that like just sits on top and is adaptable to whatever monitor you kind of have I'm trying to I'm having trouble. There it is. Yeah, so it's for those of you watching the video You can see it's you know, it's like most webcams. It's sort of this Universal top of monitor or top of iMac mount. So yeah fun Uh What else do we have john you have a cool stuff found from michael? um, yeah Uh, so michael reminds us that mac pa has an uninstall feature as part of their clean my mac tool Which is available in set up or separately Interesting, you know That makes sense because we were talking about uninstallers in a recent episode and clean my mac didn't come up Even though clean my mac comes up for lots of other things Uh, I always forget that it has an uninstaller. Of course it does. It's there to clean my mac How could it not have you used the uninstaller in there john? Um, no, I use a app cleaner. Okay. Okay Which uh, also has a smart right. Hey look what you put in the trash feature Yeah, no that's super handy hazel does that for me and and I think clean my mac will also do that When you enable their uninstaller to sort of watch what you're doing And that to me that's mandatory for you know for this because it's great when you throw something in the trash It's like hey, you want to throw away all the support files and sometimes you do and sometimes you don't But nice to have somebody looking over your shoulder if I recall the other thing I like about uh clean my mac is that it has like an enhanced trash feature in that It will not only empty your trash, but it will look at Other trashes which you may not know this well, I'm sure you do dave, but If you're listening you may not know that there's not only one trash. There's lots of trashes all over the place And clean my mac knows about them like photos trash and mail trash and things like that right, right? Yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, I don't think mail trash, but um, but yeah photos has a separate trash um Yeah, several Apple apps have their own kind of private trash, which you may not Yeah, necessarily know about yeah, and they certainly aren't emptied when you empty the finder's trash. So yeah Yeah, good stuff. I like it. Um We are we are past our Self-imposed limit, but I did want to share one other thing. We were talking about email but also we have been talking about the Go the goings away of free plans with google's apps for domains So I wanted to share that I have been looking at this I still don't think it's time for any of us to make any changes Because google was asking people for feedback about this up until april 1st I don't think it goes into effect that the the pricing change doesn't go into effect until june or july So we have some time But you know, it's good to do some research and know what our options could be But I think we're going to have an option from google Uh, that will be that will split the difference between free and their you know more Cost prohibitive for like families plan because they're looking to see like are you using this for your family domain? Because if you are maybe we shouldn't charge you as much Right is is sort of the implication I get from there the you know the way they're asking and pilot Pete found that Form to fill out at google But you just you know you go find the email that you got from google that says You know this is going to be going away and and then there's click click through to more information And there's a little form there you can fill out This is like if you're using this for your family domain as I think they know they don't necessarily want to send everybody to iCloud right and so Uh, however In the interest of having options the I found two things I found a website called forward mx.io and another one called forward email and these are both Places where you can forward your email to something else right? So the idea would be you have your mail come into your domain Uh, kind of like what cloud flare is doing Which is another option if you manage your domain with cloud flare you can for free forward email addresses You know cloud flare will will act as your mail receiver and then you can you know redirect And so that's what these do too this forward mx and uh and forward email dot net forward email dot net It has a free plan That gives you unlimited custom domain names 50 mega attachment limits and will allow for things like send mail as with gmail and outlook like we were talking about here So that sounds like a great place to go and it is open source So you can look and see what they are you know doing or not doing with your stuff forward mx dot i o has Uh, it is not free, but they do have like a 60 a year domain plan that lets you do it with up to 25 domains with unlimited forward emails unlimited team members smtp access to send emails which is huge And up to 10 more so 11 total smtp users like that's a pretty if we have to move to something 60 bucks a year is way cheaper Then you know what we would be paying for with you know actually buying mailboxes at google Because we have mailboxes. In fact, we can get free mailboxes from google They're just gmail accounts And so that would be a way to go is you know route your custom domain that way But my guess is that google is going to find a way Much like apple has with iCloud mail to add custom domains to gmail That's different from the full-blown, you know google apps for domains. So Watch this space. We will not only be following it For you, but also very much for us because we We have to solve this problem too. So if you find anything about this Well, what do you do feedback at mackeykev.com because that's the uh That's that's the funnel if if you will that's where it all comes into and and that's what we do So I don't know remember the good old days when you had to create a dot forward file Actually, I still have some of those on our Well, like I had to so a dot forward file So the answer is yes Dot forward file is what you put in your home directory on a unix machine So you could do this on mac os that you're probably not getting mail to your home account on on mac os But you put you create a file called dot forward and in that you just list an email address And any mail that comes into you will be forwarded to whatever's in your dot forward file And yeah, I had to do that like with our Like the root account on our our server that we have at you know servers that we have at servant or lease web now That hosts like all the backbeat stuff and everything. So yeah Speaking of adam and I had a call last night Going through some some basically the final sort of punch list and scheduling. So hopefully by Our first week of march We'll have mac geek up on its own in its own place and then and then the evolution begins So i'm excited about that really good stuff Anymore anything else to add mr. Braun? No, all right cool We uh We appreciate you for listening simply that if you'd like to Show that you're a listener go to mac geek up comm slash merch and pick up a mac geek up t-shirt. I'm bringing uh At least one of them with me to mexico to show it off while we're there Uh So you can do it too I love seeing all your pictures you you folks have been emailing us pictures with you with your shirts and and all that stuff It's great. So thank you for that. 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