 The Mac Observers' Mac Geek Gap, episode 897 for Monday, October 25th, 2021. And welcome to the Mac Observers' Mac Geek Gap, the show where you send in your questions. Sure. Easy for me to say. Your tips, your cool stuff found. We take them all. We receive them. We try to answer them or address them. And then we string them all together into an agenda so that we can share them here with the goal being that we each learn each of us. Me, John, you, everybody that listens, everybody that gets to listen, learns at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode include there are four sponsors. It is we are in Q4, which means we generally will have a few more sponsors or a heavier sponsor load than normal. We generally limit things to four sponsors in episode. And that's what we have for this episode. I'm curious though, and you folks can let us know. I try to put the sponsors together. If we have three or less, I do them in one block. 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So if you want to skip over anything, you know, a segment that's about a device you don't own or a sponsor that you already know about or isn't relevant to you, feel free to use chapters. They're available in pretty much every podcast player. But let us know feedback at macgeekab.com. We'd love to hear from you. Here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in fearful Connecticut, trying to get caffeinated. This is John Front. Yeah, I don't know if I've had caffeine today. I have this. I guess I have. I don't know if it's caffeine or like theobromine or something. There's this tea that I have. I can't remember the name of it. It's got like mushrooms like lion's mane and reishi mushrooms and and some sort of chocolate base to it or something. So it probably has some theobromine or something, but it doesn't make me a really jittery, which is good. Me and caffeine, you know, we have a delicate relationship. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Shall we shall we dive in? How are you today, Mr. Braun? Dive in. Yeah. All right. We will we will dive. We will start with the quick tips because I love starting with quick tips and listener Todd shares his quick tip with us. He says, how cool is iOS 15? I just had my iPhone's camera focused on the address of a return envelope. I tapped the recognize text button, selected it, copied it and pasted it into MS word on my Mac. Didn't even need to take the picture. Yeah. I love that. That's like a confluence of all of the latest Apple text or Apple technology. That's what you get for trying to paste the Lincoln at the same time that I'm talking. But yeah, right? Like that's really cool. You know, you scan with your iPhone, paste onto your Mac because it's on the clipboard. The clipboard is shared between the two devices automatically as long as they're both on the same network and signed into the same iCloud account. I believe that's what has to be in place for that to happen. And then the clipboard is just magically shared between the two, which is amazing. So yeah, I use, I don't know, I know that I haven't used all of those features in one string together, but I like, I like that. Yeah. Yeah. So I don't know, what do you think, Mr. Braun? Yeah, I've noticed that too, where all of a sudden it's like, oh, there's, you know, this little icon saying, Hey, would you like me to read your text? Yeah, I dig it. Yeah. It's cool. That's good. Paul friends in the chat room is asking if the T that I mentioned is called Holy Coco. I think it's called Holy Cacao is what it's called. So I'll put a link to that in the show notes. If anybody's interested, I found it on Amazon initially, but then it, I don't know, I didn't, I couldn't find it there the last time I had to like go buy it from the manufacturer or something. But anyway, yeah, but yes, good catch. Good catch. All right, where the heck are we? What are we doing here? We're doing a show, right? Let's do a show, shall we? I heard. All right, cool. Thankfully, we have some things prepared. David says I was playing around in reminders and found that I can group lists of reminders on the left panel on my iPhone by dragging one on top of another. I can also create smart lists based on tags and other criteria. I had no idea that you could do this in reminders. Like that's very, very cool. Yeah, thank you, David. I man, like that's the quickest of all quick tips. But I if you're somebody that uses reminders, that's going to be that that could be a game changer. I like it. Cool. Do you use iCloud reminders, John? No. No, okay. Do you use any kind of task list or to do list or anything? I got a whiteboard in my kitchen. Yeah. Yeah, okay, sure. Yeah, I use. I've always used busy Cal and so I use busy Cal's reminders and that as of a couple of iterations ago stopped syncing with what iCloud reminders shows. It still syncs with iCloud. It just doesn't show for iCloud reminders. Now, I can use iCloud reminders inside busy Cal. So it's certainly functional with that. But if you use the separate busy Cal reminders, you get a lot more features, including the ability to sync a URL across inside reminders. And that is something I just it's so much a part of my workflow that I'll have like a little thing that says go check this once a week, you know, go make sure that like all the ad spots have been processed the right way, whatever, right? You know, and it's like, okay, great. And I go to a link and it shows me the page. And so having that URL in the reminder is handy and at least based on the most recent release notes I looked at when I made the decision whether or not I wanted to standardize on Apple reminders. That was not an option to sync across. I was like, yep, no, thanks. But I do have one Apple reminders list so that that synced to everything, including all my busy Cal stuff, so that I can say, you know, Siri remind me to do so and and it will appear on that list and then I can then I can process it through, right? You know, so I try, I try. All right, you want to take us to Bruce? Yeah. All right. So Bruce, Bruce says, hi guys. Hello. From last week's episode where you talked about this, the phenomenon whereby you open the app store window only to have it not offer you updates, how upsetting, that you know our pending command R in the app store will reload page or as I like to think of it refresh and almost always shows what is really current and pending. And yes, I verified this personally and I don't know if you did, but when you did a command R in the app store, did more things show up than showed up when you launched it? So first of all, why is that the case? Like why? Why when we go to app store and updates, does it not do its own refresh? Right? So there's a question I have there and I'll leave it rhetorical, though it really isn't rhetorical. So if you're listening and you're the one responsible for that at Apple, you know what you've done and you know what you need to do. This also reminds us that the app store is really just a glorified web browser, a very specific glorified web browser, right? Because that's what's happening there. I need to test this more because I have been suffering, I think all of us suffer from this. Like the app store going to the updates window does not show you everything all the time. In fact, it is more often than not that there are things it is not showing me and Mac Updater does. And that's where this came up in the last, not the last episode, but last week's episode. And I you know, I've quit the app store to fix this and relaunch and it still doesn't show up. You know, the only way I find these updates is by letting Mac Updater take me directly to the page for the app. And then I see the little update icon. And of course, I click it. But I think I've tried Command R with this before and it has not shown me everything. But I'm going to go in with beginner's mind here. And the next time that I see Mac Updater telling me I've got a bunch of things that app store updates says I don't, I'm going to try the Command R, obviously. And I will report back. So I have not seen it do it yet, but there's hope. But it's still stupid. Like why do we have to do that? He's in the whole point. How long is it going to wait to show us those updates? I'll tell you the answer. It's going to wait a very long time, if ever, because I've left things there to see like how long does it wait to show up? And days have gone by and they're still like the updates pending, but it's not listed in the updates updates. Yeah, I'm with you. I mean, I'm looking on this machine. So I'm not a big Mac Updater user. Okay. But right now I'm looking and it says I have 73 updates. Okay. Well, it'll it'll list which ones are app store versus not right in Mac Updater, because you'll see, first of all, you have to in Mac Updater, you have to show all apps because you can have it hide Mac App Store apps, which I don't recommend because otherwise you won't know because the app store is certainly not going to tell you. And then in the up once you're showing all apps in the update column, you'll see open app store. And that's the thing that will link you to the app store. That's how you know that those updates are there. So otherwise it'll just say update app or manual update. And those are things that are outside of the app store that it either can update for you or it simply cannot and and you know, you have to sort of update it on your own. But but yeah, I'm a big fan of Mac Updater. It's one of my favorite little little apps. So listener Todd has a follow on to that. In addition, of course, to telling us that we could use command R in the Mac App Store, like Bruce did, he says you can also do that in system preferences software update to force that to check for updates. Now this I think is going to be super handy. You know, on those days when you launch, you know, there's the new version of whatever, you know, macOS that you're waiting for and it's not there. Instead of, you know, jumping through all the hoops to get it to go through checking for updates, you you, here's the trick, you cannot have the search box selected, which seems to be the default behavior. If you go into system preferences, software updates, that your focus is on the search box. If that's your focus, command R will not check for updates. You have to click out of that and then hit command R and it will it will do the search for up your checking for updates, which I think is a huge tip. So thanks for thanks for that, Todd and to Bruce. So fun stuff. I like it. I like it. This is where we learn. I'm already at five things, which I like. All right. And then, you know, the perfect quick tip opportunity came up the other day. I was sitting on the couch with Lisa and she was like, Oh, you know, our son texted us a little while ago and I'm like, Oh, what time did he text us? She's like, I can't see because I replied to him. So the time, you know, isn't there. And I said, aha, on your phone, if you swipe like hold and I'll say pull to the left. It's not a swipe to the left, but it's, you know, hold on messages and pull to the left. It will move the messages to the left and the timestamps for every message will be displayed there. So we were able to see that he had texted us like 45 minutes before and was like, Oh, we missed that. Do not disturb because it was like, I don't know. It was like midnight or something on, I don't know whatever night it was. And I, I have my, actually it's not do not disturb. I have my sleep focus kick in. I think I have it kick in at 12 30 a.m. But it, it has a 45 minute ramp up period or something. So it was, it was after that. So I, I didn't get the notification. Maybe I need to tweak these things. But anyway, yeah, I am finding focus to be quite valuable. So, you know, I remember over the summer when we were talking about, uh, I was 15 and you asked me about the focus and I said, No, it's too confusing. I was so wrong. It is not too confusing. It's awesome. I love it. In fact, focus may well be the reason that I put Monterey on this machine in the studio much sooner than I normally would have because to have a podcasting focus. So focus sinks amongst all your iOS 15 iPad, iOS 15 and Mac OS Monterey devices, right? Which is amazing. So if I put one device into a focus mode, all of them are your watch as well. So, uh, I did that. That may be the thing. It's a dicey move because with audio devices, you know, I don't know. It's delicate balance up here, folks. But yeah, all right. Um, so we have, we have stuff to talk about with the Apple event, uh, some follow ups to the Apple event. We have some questions to think answer. We have some cool stuff found. What I would love to do next is, uh, we'll share our first two sponsors, as we mentioned, and then, and then we'll talk about this Apple event stuff. And then we'll, we'll do some questions for you if, uh, if that works for you, my friend, Mr. Braun. Indeed. All right. First up here is other world computing and the Envoy pro S X. I've got one of these drives, man. You know, OWC, they obviously they know what they're doing over there, right? And they just keep doing it better and better and better. So the Envoy pro S X is an extremely rugged, hence the X portable SSD. 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And you folks really help us with that because something that may or may not be applicable to us at, you know, wherever we are in our lives or our level of nerddom or whatever it is, works perfectly for you folks. And so Chris starts us off here. He says, I just listened to last Sunday's Mac Ekeb and I wanted to give some feedback about my custom domain. I am on the verge of being a power user, but I'm not quite there. He says, I love the term prosumer because that's really close to my reality. I've been sitting on a few domains. Hover makes it so darned easy to register, including a site that I bought over 11 years ago for the wedding site that we used for a posterist to post information and then photos after the fact that site is my name and my wife's name.com. And I've just kept renewing it thinking it would be useful for something at some point. I know many of us are in this boat where we have registered domains and then said, Hey, I know I'll use it in the future. He says, I never wanted to pay an additional five to 10 bucks a month for email using that domain. So I was excited when Apple announced this feature using icod plus since I'm an Apple one premier subscriber. I set up my email during the beta when it went live. And once my wife got her new iPhone 13, we set up her new email address as well. I have domains purchased for all of my kids. So I think I'll set up custom emails for them eventually. But since they're all still in K through 12 school, they mostly use their school issued email for logins and educational sites. I love having a new email that is easier to say easier to spell. And it ensures that I only address if I even if I eventually switch away from the Apple ecosystem, which is true, right? Like, you know, your custom domain goes with you wherever you are. So yeah, this is I like this. And it actually makes me think, you know, I have I bought domains for my kids a long time ago, too. And I'm wondering if I should map them to iCloud domains. If I was smart when I bought those domains, I would have mapped them to Google apps for domains at the time because it was free for any domain back in the day. Now that is no longer the case. But I don't think I did that for them. I guess they should check. Maybe I did. I don't think I did. I don't think I was that smart. But but mapping them to iCloud, I mean, we pay for iCloud. So yeah, yeah, I like it. It's good. It's good. Thank you for that. It's it's a good point. And as you pointed out, I think, in our last episode, when we were chit chatting, I have not done this. Though I should have. Well, the thing is actually so, you know, I, I still have an email with my ISP. I've done everything that I can to migrate away from that and mostly pointed at my iCloud account because I'm going to abandon them someday because we have fiber here now and I am a ditch. Sure. I mean, ditch my ISP though, I'm pretty happy with them. A lot of people shake their fists at them. Optimum. I don't know why I've never had a problem with them. But but, you know, there's there's a new game in town. People people probably it sounds like your your experience with Optimum is probably akin to mine with Xfinity slash Comcast, where I had great service from them over the years, never had any problem with them, except their billing practices, you know, just kept going up and all that stuff. So that and that's what everybody seems to love to complain about with Comcast, unless you have some technical issue. And then of course, obviously, that's a, you know, that's a different thing. But but yeah, I was in the same boat as you. Yeah. But yeah, I remember you and I actually, you know, we were having a connectivity issues. And and I was actually pretty impressed and that I called them and I'm like, yeah, my, you know, my my cable levels suck. Yeah. Yeah. Looking at the dox's screen. And they were like, yep, you're right. And they came out and they sent a guy and he went, you know, up on the pole. And yeah, he was like, yep, there's something wrong. Well, we'll fix it. We'll fix it. Yeah, I know. Yeah, they take care of it for you. Yeah, it when I moved to fiber this year to consolidated fiber, you know, I got my obviously we got everything set up and, you know, things were rolling and I was like, um, what else do I get with this? You know, because I'm paying 70 bucks a month for gigabit, which is super cheap, right? Like, you know, compared to what I paid for Comcast. And and I called up support or I messaged support, whatever it was. And I'm like, do I get an email address? And and they're like, no, no, we I mean, you could we'll give you one if you want. It's it's included. But most we found most customers weren't using them. So we didn't bother setting up for people by default. Like, that's interesting. Yeah. Because most people are either using like a like Gmail or or a custom domain or something like that. So do you not are you not the owner of johnfbron.com? No. Oh, that's too bad because somebody owns it. Um, you know, as I can tell, I think I think yeah. Oh, no, no, no, no. No, nobody owns it. All right. So we should we should get that registered for you. So yeah, yeah, go go go quick quick quick. Now, how do you, um, now I'm curious with the fiber, how do you check your levels as most people probably know know, at least with a cable modem, uh, there's no level checking fiber. Yeah. Yeah. With a cable, with a cable modem, you can check your your doxus levels or your levels with the doxus 192.168.100.1. But no, no, there's no levels to check it. You know, I mean, maybe there are, but I have no, I have no access to that. They they can do it from there. But I mean, it's, you know, it's a fiber string from from there, whatever you call the head end, but you do have a box similar, you know, to doxus. I mean, is there an IP address you can go to to see what's happening or no, no, no, no. Okay. I just I log in via PPP. Oh, E is how that's currently done. Um, but I, you know, there's, there's the box into which the fiber comes, you know, the fiber, it, it, it terminates ish on the outside of my house or my office. I actually haven't put it, had them put it on the office here. So the fiber comes in, it, there's a box on the outside and then there's a cable from that box that goes through the wall to another box on the inside. And that box for me anyway, on the inside is the one that obviously has a fiber cable plugged into it, as I said, and an ethernet port and then of course power. And it's a 10 gig ethernet port on the, on the, I think that's the ONT for me, the, the, the outside network terminal, but mine is inside. But that sits fixed to the wall of my office because that fiber cable, you don't want to move, you know, because if you crimp it, like, you know, then you no longer have a signal because it's fiber. So yeah, that just sits there and, and away it goes. So yeah. And then, and then obviously ethernet, they gave me a router, which I talked about this on the show, they gave me a router to use and this and I logged into it and I realized they were doing PPPOE and it was like, okay, great, I'm going to try that with my router and see if it works. They, the guy gave me the password. I don't know like how, maybe I was able to get it out of the router, you know, you can click the show, the password, hide or show the password button or whatever. So maybe I did that and figured out the login information and put that into mine. And I mean, if we're talking now, it's working. So yep, it's been, it's been rock solid. I kept the Comcast for, I don't know, a month or two after I got the fiber, just because, you know, I need, I rely on my internet here. And, and it was fine. I didn't put it into failover mode because I, I wanted to know when it failed, you know, and it, it never failed. There was, it never failed completely. There was one day where the entirety of like this area, might have been the whole state or more, was like the fiber was connected, but it was like super high latency and slow speeds. And I contacted support and they're like, yes, we are aware we're having a problem. I'm like, cool, okay, great. And so I think I did, that was still in my, my dual days. So I switched over to Comcast for the day just to not have to deal with it. And, and then once my neighbors started posting to Facebook, like, hey, everything's working again. It's like, cool, I'll switch to heck, but it was once. So, yeah. And I mean, you know, like, like you've experienced that happens with all manner of ISPs at time to time. So yeah, it's fun. It is good. Shall we moving on? Moving on, moving on. All right, cool. But yeah, we got to get you that domain. That would be good. Well, then, I mean, by the domain, attach it to your iCloud account and Bob's your uncle. That's, I think that's what they say. I think that's how the phrase works. If that's the first time I've ever used Bob's your uncle. So you heard it here first. I'm not the first person to use it. Obviously, boy, howdy people have used it before me. But that's the first time I've used it. All right. Listen to Dave in the same vein. I know I can find Dave here. Where is he? Oh, that's why I can't find him. Great. In the same vein, we were talking in the last episode, the very most recent episode about Apple's new Siri voice music plan. And you were the one that pointed out, John, I couldn't make sense of why they would offer it, but you were the one that pointed out that wait, you know, maybe this is for the people that have a home lot and just want to yell at it. And, you know, I'm looking at it as to how well the way I use Apple music, you know, I'm I'm I use a screen and I build playlists and I couldn't imagine, you know, whittling my usage down and you pointed it out like, well, maybe it's for people that have nothing and want to go up like, ah, yes. And and listener Dave says, I think I am the perfect target demographic for the Siri voice plan. I've canceled my Apple music plan previously and then resubscribed and was considering canceling again, as I really don't listen to that much music. I'm a very heavy podcast listener and rarely find myself wanting to listen to music as I always have podcasts I want to catch up on. However, I've kept my Apple music subscription as I do like to listen to a specific song on occasion or simply have some background music play on my home pod, many in the barn while performing performing barn tasks. This new voice plan is almost the exact use case I have for Apple music and it will be keeping me as a subscriber instead of losing me. This will inspire me to save $5 a month. But as I was going to cancel, I was going to actually save $10 a month. If they didn't offer this, he says, wait, I think I just got caught. But oh, well, no, Apple, Apple figured out who you are. That's right, man. Yeah, it's nice. It's nice to be heard, right? So and I mean that pun intended, right? Because Siri voice plan heard. So yeah, especially when performing barn tasks barn tasks, I don't even know what barn tasks are. Maybe you do. We used to have a barn at our house that we owned in Texas. We had we were on a little over three acres, and it was sectioned off for the front like three quarters of an acre was just for the house. It was a rectangular plot. And then the back pasture was for we had we had a little barn there and then we had horses. So so yeah, yeah, I remember that you're a yeah, Lisa's a horse person. Lisa. Yes, she has not written. We have not owned a horse in quite some time. We instead, we owned children. But but you know, but yes, she very much so. And when when he's when I was reading his thing about barn tasks, I was reminded right after we moved in, the people that had previously owned the house from which we bought it had not had any livestock at all out in the pasture. So it was a little overgrown and the barn was, you know, sort of needed to be cleaned out. There were some old hay bales in there that probably molded and stuff. So we're, you know, it was like, OK, you got to clean it up just like when you buy a house, you know, things, things happen, right? It's fine. And she was out there and we she was inside the barn. It was a very small little like shed is probably a better word for it was a three sided thing where the horses could get a little bit of shelter. But it was also more a place just to store some stuff. And she was in the back there, you know, probably, you know, using a pitchfork or whatever to, you know, throw some hay out or whatever. And she heard this sound, the telltale rattle. And she looked in between herself and the exit was a rattlesnake. And they stared at each other for a little while. And then the rattlesnake went on its way and Lisa went on her way and it was all good. And then then we learned a hard lesson, John. And this is definitely a tangent here as if we weren't already on one that same very night we had been invited by our new neighbors to an ice cream social. They had made some ice cream in their, you know, whatever. They had a thing and they made ice cream and it was like, cool. So we all get together and we're chit chatting and getting to know each other or whatever. And, you know, there were we were in Austin, but we were while we were in Buda, which is just outside of Austin, about 20 minutes outside of Austin, so not very far. And, you know, but we were we were Yankees, right? And so and this was definitely, you know, ranch country, farm country out there, especially at the time, I think it's grown a little bit since then. But she told this story and they stopped. And one of them was like, but you killed the rattlesnake, right? And she's like, Oh, no, no, no, no, no, I stayed far away from that rattlesnake and let it go. And they were furious with us, all of them. I've never in my life felt shunned like I was that that is the last time those people spoke to us. Like we stayed there for another five or 10 minutes or whatever. And but like they pretended like we weren't there because they were pissed that we had not killed this rattlesnake that's clearly wandering around through effectively what is a shared field of ours. I mean, we know where the property lines are, but the rattlesnakes don't care, right? And so they were furious that we had not killed this thing. And that was it. I've never talked to those people since then. We lived there for another two and a half years or whatever before we wanted to move them back up to New England. And yeah, they they just had no interest in us. I mean, I'm sure I'm sure if we had a problem or something, you know, some sort of emergency they would have obviously, you know, helped us out or whatever, but they just had no interest in who we were. I mean, come on, man. I mean, the rattlesnakes just trying to make a living, you know, I guess all of us. Yeah, I guess. All right. Should we do more of this tech stuff here, John? Sure. Brad on YouTube posted a comment and a question on our YouTube thing. So go subscribe to us at youtube.com slash Mackie cap podcast because we're doing a lot of fun stuff over there. But, you know, we live stream these these shows and Brad commented on our coverage of the Apple event. He says, if you probably found out by now, fast charge via USBC port is not available. And there is no fast charge capable cables anyway, outside of the USBC to MagSafe 3 cable that comes with the with the new Mac pros. And so I dug into this because I thought during the show we were getting some feedback from all of you at live.mackiecap.com that that was not entirely the case. And so I did some digging and I found an article at the verge that talks through all this. It also talks about how Apple's 140 watt charger is Apple's first GAN charger, their first Gallium nitride charger. But I've distilled it down. And I think I've got this right after sort of reading through all this and sifting through it all. The 67 watt power adapter included with the base model 14 inch, so the eight core 14 inch will not fast charge anything. Okay, so that let's get that out of the way. But then the larger one, the 90, I think there's a 97 and then obviously the 140 will fast charge with a couple of caveats on the 16 inch MacBook Pro. Any model of 16 inch can only be fast charged with the USBC to MagSafe 3 cable. So you have to fast charge over the MagSafe 3 port. You still can charge it over the Thunderbolt USB 4 USB C ports, but not the fast charge that Apple talked to us about. However, the other asterisk is that the 14 inch MacBook Pro can be fast charged with MagSafe or Thunderbolt slash USB C ports as long as it's not the 67 watt power adapter. So put that in your hopper and smoke it. That's kind of annoying. Yeah. Yeah. So I though the MacBook Pro that I ordered is the 14 inch 10 core model. M1 Pro not M1 Pro Max or not M1 Max. Sorry. I didn't mean to say Pro Max. But the and so that one comes with the 97, whatever power adapter and that should fast charge on whatever. But you know, these are I'm curious to now. Now I have another question. See, I don't have all the answers. We never will have all the answers. My question is, is there something special about Apple's power adapters? Like are they using USB power delivery 3.1 or whatever? Is there a different standard that allows it to have this fast charge requested of it? And would a third party adapter work with this? And if so, what spec does that third party adapter have? These are the questions we will answer for you in a future show. But I think there's something about like, I think that's that power delivery 3.1 or something. But we need to dig into that. So we'll get there. But yeah, thank you for the comment, Brad. It's good stuff. Craziness, John. Crazy, crazy. Yeah. I don't know. All right. One more follow up from any thoughts on that before we before we move on to no, Scott. Okay. So one more follow up from the Apple event. Scott says, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Faster M1 chips ice faster M1 notebooks. Okay, I understand. But some of us like desktop machines, big machines with bigger displays. Sure, Apple has an M one base 24 inch iMac. But what about the Apple Silicon 27 inch or larger iMac? I have a 27 inch 2014 where USB port stopped working. I don't know why. But whenever I connect to USB port doesn't get power. I'm saved by the fact that I have a Synology, et cetera, et cetera. But I would love to get a 27 inch Apple Silicon Mac and it seems like it's time. Uh, he says, uh, I don't want a capable Intel iMac for Apple to pull Rosetta out from under me in two to three years. I went down that road. I want Apple Silicon for my next computer. Now Apple gives me laptops. I'm not into laptops. I bought an M one MacBook Pro as an iPad Pro replacement. But I also want something bigger. I want that big screen desktop. Is anyone else disappointed like me? Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think I certainly said as much during the episode that we did like that 27 inch. That's I want that here in front of me right right now in the studio or larger 30 inch would be fine. I'm not going to be picky. Uh, and I think Apple will get there. I think there's two reasons that we haven't seen them yet. One is that more Mac users buy laptops than buy desktops. Uh, and right. And so there is this real push, especially, I mean, there's a, there's a desire from the user base, but there's all this, also this push from Apple to be like, we are the pro laptop company, you know, we, they want to send that message. And obviously they're sending it like it's great. Uh, at the other reason, and so laptops make sense to prioritize. The other reason is that there's a chip shortage. So I think, right, right. And I think that's got to have factored in here. So my gut feeling is that obviously we have what we have. Apple has announced these laptops. I think they're going to get through the wave of orders for these laptops. And then we will see, uh, an iMac, whatever, 27 inch plus announced with the same M one pro and M one max chip options that we have, you know, essentially some version of that with, uh, you know, with the current MacBook pros. And honestly, I don't think there will be an event for that. I think that's going to be announced on some random Tuesday with a press release. Uh, and hopefully before the end of the year. Now that's a lot of predicting for me, for someone who rarely comes on the show and predicts. So, you know, take that with a grain of salt, but that's my gut. And there might be some wishful thinking in there too, but you know, that's okay. Yeah, perhaps. Yeah. Yeah. So for the most part, I think Apple uses TSMC to make their processors. Are they using them to make the SOCs to the system on the chips for their for the M for the Apple Silicon. Look into that. Yeah. Yeah. So, yeah. But now you're right. Yeah. The chip shortage. I think that plays a big role here right now. This is that. So, yeah. All right. You and I speculated. Yeah. I mean, the thing is, you know, they have one in the lab. Of course. Oh, of course. Yeah. Right. And I don't even think they would deny that. They're not going to say it, but of course, right? They're always going to be working on that kind of thing. But what still cracks me up though, like, you know, the last video that we saw, you know, when, you know, they dropped in on Craig in the lab. Yeah. It's not a real lab. Like I saw something in the background. There were like, you know, these blinking lights on a panel and stuff. And I'm like, what exactly is that for? Hmm. That's fair. And I don't think it was for anything except to look impressive. Like, oh, look, they got blinking lights. 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Again, that's Upstart.com slash MGG and our thanks to Upstart for sponsoring this episode. All right, John, let's do some questions here. Well, Bruce found something interesting, didn't he? Yes, he did. So not so much a question, but an observation. So Bruce says, Hi guys. Hello. In one of the recent episode, there was some discussion about the future of scripting in macOS. Let's see. A few minutes ago, I opened pages 11.2 pages being Apple's screen word processing. Word processing thing. Free. And on a personal note, actually, I find Apple's apps to do word processing and spreadsheet and stuff like that. Pretty good. And that I don't really use Office. I haven't used Office in years. Anyways, but he opened pages 11.2 and he was greeted with a dialogue box highlighting some of the major feature changes. I clicked on complete features list link and it brought me to a webpage that went into more detail about pages 11.2 for the Mac. As I scanned through the document, I spotted the following entry and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And one of the entries, surprisingly, Dave, was use Apple script to change a document password or open password protected documents. Ooh, QD applause. So as you can see, they were implementing additional Apple script functionality in the current major version of pages. So I don't think they will be deprecating Apple script any time in the foreseeable future. Of course, I could be wrong. I've wronged many times in the past. Yeah, you know, same wrong sometimes. And I would agree with him. As a developer, Dave, though, so my reflection on this was it's not a wise move to totally disable a scripting language, especially one that people have been using for decades, at least in the case of Apple script. I agree. I just, you know, this is it feels like the first mention of Apple script in any sort of forward looking communication in a while. But I could be misreading things. And I could just be missing things too. So yeah, my read on this is that if anything built deprecated, they'll say, okay, no more Apple script from this point forward, but we're not going to break it. Yeah. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. For the future, though, I think they've indicated as much that shortcuts is probably the way they're going to be going with all future things. Yeah. And I mean, I understand that shortcuts is way more accessible to more people in terms of being able to use it and just like the barriers to entry with shortcuts are super low when you compare it to Apple script, right? I feel like shortcuts is delivering on what Automator could have done. Not that Automator was was failing, but it, you know, there was no Automator for iOS and it never really got the attention that it deserved, I think. And so shortcuts really is that, right? Cause you're just dragging things in and building in blocks as opposed to with Apple script quite literally writing code, you know, so although the flexibility of Apple script is still really amazing. So, you know, there is, there is that. So yeah. Oh, that's great to hear. That's good. I'm stoked. Yeah. Did they really make it clear in their recent presentations? Because so now you have, I mean, of course they have Xcode, right? Of course. And Swift and all that. And then you have Automator, which is more for users. Yeah. Less so now. And then their shortcuts. Automator feels like it's being deprecated. I know they like, just because of shortcuts, right? Like they, the two serve similar purposes in similar ways. And I know Sal would probably yell at me if he heard me say this and he does hear us through this. So I'll probably get yelled at and that's fine. Because I know I'm wrong, but, but it, you know, if we zoom way, way, way out, right? You know, if we go to like Shatner Heights, then maybe we could, we could agree on that, maybe. But so I see shortcuts serving that purpose. But, but yeah, AppleScript yet is a different thing. So yeah. Shatner Heights. Shatner Heights. Yeah. He was in, he was in space. Captain Kirk got to go to space. This is freaking amaze. Like it warms the cockles of my heart. I love it. That's like Captain Kirk went to space. You can hate on Jeff Bezos all you want. And a lot of it's deserved, but he put Captain Kirk into space. So I'm just saying. It's funny though, took this long. I mean, he's been virtually in space for decades. Correct. Yeah. It is surprising that it took this long. You're right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. Yeah. I think it's pretty cool. Hey, sort of as I probably should have included this in our section on follow-ups from different episodes about Apple tech and how people use it. Because again, eyes wide open enlightenment moment. Ben writes, and he says back in, in episode 895, you were mentioning that cool stuff found about iBroadcast. And he says you referred to it as a less expensive alternative to subscribing to Apple music and storing your music in Apple's cloud. However, the solution you quoted iBroadcast, if you pay for it costs almost 50 bucks a year. That's true. It is for three bucks, three ninety nine a month or something like that. If you pay for it and you only have to pay if you want to stream or download better than 128K. Otherwise, it is truly free. So but he's right that if you pay for it, it's 50 bucks. He says instead, don't forget Apple still offers iTunes match for 25 bucks a year that provides this capability separate from all of the other features of Apple music. So you get your, you know, I, they really should call it iTunes match with iCloud music library or maybe iCloud music library with iTunes match. But they just call it I call it iTunes match, I think. But but he's totally right. And here's the thing. If you don't need to stream other people's music. And I'm saying this the wrong way. If you only want to stream music that you own and have in your iTunes library, you can pay 25 bucks a year for iTunes match. And that will stream your iCloud music library to your home pod. So if you have a music library that suits you and you don't care to be streaming, you know, other things that you don't own, then instead of paying even just five bucks a month for the Siri, you know, voice plan, you can pay 25 bucks a year, sync your library to iCloud and play it on your home pod. So this is he's right. 25 bucks a year is a good deal for syncing your library to the cloud because it will match it with potentially better quality tracks in the cloud. So, you know, of course, there have been problems with it matching to the wrong tracks. Be that as it may. So yeah, thank you, Ben. Good stuff. Yeah. So that might be a good option for you, John. If you, you know, if you don't care to listen to anything you haven't already bought, right, then iTunes match to a home pod mini could be magic. Could be, right? You know. Yeah, I've always found Apple's music offerings kind of confusing. Do you use iTunes for like or music on your phone? Uh, not really. Okay. Okay. Well, I mean, and I asked this question out of curiosity, not in any judgment. I mean, I listen to music all the time. How often do you listen to music? Are you just not someone who listens to music regularly? I mean, I have some stuff. Most of it is legacy older stuff that I rip from my DVDs or CDs. Sure. I don't know if you know what those are, but of course, that makes sense. And I have a store to my NAS and I use a DLNP is it? DLNA. DLNA. Okay. And I use that to stream stuff to my various devices. Got it. Like even, you know, it's kind of cool. Like even my TV, Dave, I have an LG TV. It shows my Synology as a source of entertainment and I'm like, wow, that's pretty smart. Yeah. That's cool. Well, very cool. Because it's using that protocol. Right. Right. Yeah. It's a standard media streaming protocol. Yeah. It's kind of like Plex Lite, I would call DLNA, but also, right, to your point, Plex Open Source, right? You know, so yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It'll stream video. It'll stream audio. It doesn't do a lot of the smarts of sort of cataloging your library. Right. Right. But it's, it's there. Yeah. That's cool. Okay. So yeah, if that's working for you. Yeah. Cool. And then if it's on your Synology, you could, if you wanted to listen to that music on your phone on the go, you could use audio DS. Oh, shoot. What's the app called? Oh man, how am I screwing this up? I'm definitely, I'm going to, I'm going to tell you, because this is important. I mean, it's not, you know, as we do the show. DS Audio, is that the name of the app? I don't know why this, my brain is failing me. Oh, from Synology? Yeah. I think I'm going to have to. Yeah. The app is DS Audio. And so you put that on your phone, and then you can connect that to your disk station remotely. It'll, you know, it'll work fine. And anywhere you are on the planet, you can stream, you can download that stuff to your phone, you can listen in your car. Yeah, man. Yeah, DS Audio is great. Yeah, it is. DS Audio. I actually have it on my phone. See? DS Audio would like to use Bluetooth. Yeah, because if it wants to stream to your speakers or whatever. Sure. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Play with that later today. Yeah. All right. We'll put a link to that in the show notes. I don't know why I didn't think that DS Audio was the right app, but it's the right app. Yeah. Cool. All right. Where are we here? Let's, yeah, let's answer Kenny's question. Sure. This is actually, this is an interesting one, John. I don't know that we're going to have an answer for this, but I have some ideas. He says, I take five mile walks or runs around my neighborhood on a daily basis. I live in a moderately dense population suburb, but certainly not a highly congested urban environment. I had Beats Pro earphones, which I used to listen to mostly podcasts on my outdoor walks and runs. I started having a problem with brief audio dropouts, which would last from one to say five or six seconds. Thinking maybe my Beats had seen better days. I bought a new pair of Beats Studio Buds to replace them. Then sure enough, similar dropouts. I should point out that the dropouts never occurred at home with either pair of headphones. I called Apple support. They suggested it might be the iPhone attempting to connect to Wi-Fi networks in the homes I was passing by. That made sense. So I started shutting off the Wi-Fi on my phone while I walked outside. That was no problem as my pocketcast app downloads podcast overnight. So I had no need to stream. It seemed to help a bit, I think, but I was still getting dropouts, albeit less frequently maybe. I also seem to notice that the dropouts happen at the same points along my path frequently, but not always. Do you think maybe my iPhone is trying to connect with Bluetooth devices in the homes along my route or perhaps with passing cars? If that's the case, I guess I'm sunk because obviously shutting off the Bluetooth on the phone is a non-starter. Maybe you've heard of similar problems from other listeners or experienced it yourself. In any event, it's annoying. And I'd appreciate your sharing any experiences advice that you might have. Yeah, man, we want to solve this for you because we want any dropouts you hear when listening to Mac Geekyeb to be our fault, not the fault of your environment. And we strive not to have any of those either, but, you know, things happen. So these are bizarre circumstances, John. And I find it like the fact that it happens in the same locations has me has me cogitating, John. And, you know, I'm wondering if this is Wi-Fi causing the interference. I know he's turned off Wi-Fi on his phone, but his neighbors houses who he walks by have not turned off Wi-Fi, right? And since both Bluetooth and Wi-Fi operate in the 2.4 gigahertz range and can certainly compete with each other, maybe that's it or maybe like his neighbor has set up like a secret microwave antenna and is broadcasting government secrets, right, to some satellite somewhere. I mean, anything that's operating at 2.4 could theoretically get in the way. So maybe one of your neighbors got a new like super hooptie mesh system that is targeting their front yard, you know, that you're walking past, and that could cause this. I mean, it would need to be a lot, but it could be. I don't know. What you could do. All right. So here's a suggestion for Kenny, is maybe get a spectra monitor, if you will, like ice stumbler or something. In the area where you have this happen, set up, I don't think there's anything really great on iOS to do this. So you may want to do this on your Mac. But yeah, something like ice stumbler in this area where you have weird things happen, and just see what is in the neighborhood. I would suspect that there's problem. I mean, 2.4 is loaded with all sorts of things like you, I think you pointed out microwave ovens and all sorts of things. I mean, it's really crowded. So that's that's going to be my guess. Yeah, okay. So there's just too much stuff in a certain area that you're going through where it interrupts the stream. It shouldn't, but it does, but it does. Right. Exactly. Exactly. So there is one, exactly one Wi-Fi scanner available for the iPhone, and it is called airport utility. Yes. But there's a trick. You have to go into settings, airport utility. At the bottom of that page, there is a Wi-Fi scanner slider. And so you have to turn that on. And then when you go launch airport utility, you will see in the upper right, a Wi-Fi scan button. And if you tap that, you can say scan. And, and it will start scanning for Wi-Fi networks. And it's going to start showing you all night. Yeah. So I think that's the key there. And so you can see RSSI, which is the signal strength of that. And the closer to zero it is. So it's listed as a negative number. It's listed in negative DBM. The closer to zero, that number is the stronger the signal. So take a look. And I believe, I'm looking at mine here, I believe it is sorting by, yeah, it's constantly resorting every second and probably chewing my battery. But it's constantly resorting every second by the most powerful signal at the top. So I would definitely like leave Wi-Fi on on your phone, Kenny. And when you get to a spot where you're experiencing those dropouts, whip out airport utility and turn on that scan and see what shows up at the top. And then at least you'll know, I don't, I mean, you know, so like mine, I'm here in my office, I have lots of Wi-Fi around me. And negative 54, negative 52 DBM is what I'm seeing as the sort of peak of it at sorting to the top at any given point in time. I don't have any Bluetooth problems here in the office or the house when I use Bluetooth earbuds or anything like that. So, you know, I'd be curious to see, and I have a lot of Wi-Fi devices here, like let's be clear about this, but you also kind of want to look and not don't concern yourself with the the five gigahertz devices. So can we see on the scan when things are? Yeah. So anything that's channel 11 or lower is 2.4 gigahertz and anything that is, you know, in the the forties or hundreds is five gigahertz. Don't worry about the five gigahertz stuff. That's not getting in your way. It's the lower, the lower channel numbers one through 11 that are going to be competing with your Bluetooth. But again, this only shows Wi-Fi devices. It doesn't show Bluetooth devices. It doesn't show microwaves, you know. It just shows things that advertise as Wi-Fi access points. So. And there's nothing you can do about it. I mean, you could pick an old school and use wired earphones or headphones. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right. That's the other answer to that. I mean, that kind of sucks for, you know, given the world we live in, that kind of sucks. But, you know, it happens. So yeah. All right. We're in geeky stuff. Let's stay in geeky stuff, John. Let's revisit this whole touch ID with Sudu at the terminal thing, because we got some, we got a comment about that from, actually, we've got a couple of comments about that, but I'll let you take Neil here. Okay. Neil says gentlemen. I don't know who he's talking to. I don't know. I think I went to the wrong address, man. On the last episode of Mackie Gab, you talked about setting up touch ID authorization for Sudu commands in the terminal and discussed editing crontab for this purpose. As I know, you know. Okay. The cron system is used for executing time schedule tasks and includes the cron daemon, cron d, and it's configured via text files called crontabs, which exists on a system-wide and per user basis. Cron has nothing to do with user authentication or authorization, however. The system that controls this is Plugable Authentication Modules. I don't know that. Or PAM, which is also a spray. PAM is configured via text files, which on macOS live in slash act slash PAM dot d. And the one that controls Sudu's authorization is called etc PAM dot d Sudu. There's plenty of online documentation to learn the ins and outs of configuring PAM, but to enable touch ID authorization for Sudu commands, add to this file as the first following. Auth sufficient PAM underscore tid dot SO. And when you issue a Sudu command from the terminal, you'll be prompted to authenticate via touch ID. Okay. He's right. He's right. The reason that I think it was Alisa in the in episode 894 that suggested we use Sudu or we use crontab to do it is because that file etc PAM dot d slash Sudu is potentially overwritten during software updates because Apple's not expecting us to muck with that file. And so Cron was being used to on upon each reboot, see if that line was in the file and if not at it. So it was a script that was running, you know, and we were using, she was using Cron to automate it to check to see if that needed to be there. And if it did, it would go put it in. So it was, that was sort of a backup. Neil is absolutely right. And if you want to mess with this on your own, that is a way to do it. And it's a simple way to do it. However, we've heard more on this. Listener Steven wrote in and wrote a forum post for us for us, which I'll link to where he said, he said, you know, this proposed method, he says it was discussed. I looked it over and the proposed proposed method is in his opinion extremely dangerous because it overwrites Etsy PAMD Sudu with something that is not guaranteed to be correct in future Mac OS versions. If Apple makes a change, you could potentially make it impossible to Sudu by any means. And he's not wrong. I think the chances of it are rare, but they're not out of the realm of possibility. Instead, he says it's better to use something not as cool. This solution is as follows. And he recommends writing a shell script that does this and scans for it and then does what Neil says and just adds it to that line. And then you can, you can run that shell script from the Cron tab so that it runs on each reboot. And it's a very simple thing that he's put together here, especially given the instructions that he has provided. So I will leave those instructions there and just link to them because he did a great job with it. And it's just, yeah, it's great. So, so there is that, but it effectively, it does exactly what Neil is saying. This just automates that part of it. On top of that, listener Dan wrote in reacting to the same topic. And he said, when I heard the tip from L, sorry, I said it was Lisa, it was L, about using Touch ID to authorize Sudu, I immediately checked if I could use my Apple Watch to authenticate as I don't have a Touch ID keyboard. It turns out I can using an open source PAM module as noted on this acrobat.com, aka bat.com. And we'll put that link in the show notes too. And, and they have instructions for doing it. Dan says their instructions were not entirely complete for him. And so he's going to post some more detailed instructions in that same forum thread. So it'll all be there. But, but yeah, this makes sense now. So we have this, what did Neil call it, personal authentication modules, right? And so there's many ways to authenticate yourself. Obviously, we have Touch ID as one of them. We have Apple Watch as another. I'm surprised Apple Watch, we need to load a third party module, an open source module to do that. Because I can authenticate with my Apple Watch to do like software updates and things like that, which is effectively the same thing. So I wonder if if the third party module is needed, if there isn't already an Apple module there somewhere. But, but, you know, we'll find out. But yeah, this is, I love this. This is the geeky stuff I live for, folks. We all live for it. It's how it works here. Mac Geekab Central. I don't know. Is that what we have? Mac Geekab Central? I don't know. Yeah, fun. All right. Well, that brings us to the end. We don't have, we don't have any time for any more cool stuff found, but there's been lots of cool stuff found. And you know what that means is it means that we have cool stuff found to talk about next week. But it also means that this cool stuff that I have sitting right next to me here that I want to use for show and tell, I need to leave here for another week. And I can't start using it because I want to show it to all of you, but that's just going to be how it is. So thanks for hanging out with us. Thanks for listening, folks. It's good stuff. Yeah, I don't know. You got anything to add, Mr. Braun? Not at the moment. Okay. All right. Well, there's stuff in the pipeline. There's stuff, there's always stuff in the pipeline. That is, it's been fantastic. Seriously. Like you folks put stuff in the pipeline for us. We put stuff in our pipelines, too, obviously, because we all like to contribute here. But, but you folks contribute as much as, if not more than, than John and I do. And it's amazing. So thank you from the bottom of our hearts for that. It's awesome. Yeah. All right. Well, that's what we got. Make sure to go check us out on YouTube. As I said, Mackie Keb.com slash YouTube. Oh, sorry. Yeah. You know what? Mackie Keb.com slash YouTube. I will make that link work just like John's going to go register as JohnF Braun.com domain. So there you go. We have our, we have our tech tips or our tech homework, I should say, for after the episode is over. And before it gets published, because not that any of you would steal this domain out from underneath Mr. JohnF Braun, but, you know, because, because we're not like that. We don't do that to each other here. The Mackie Keb family is cool about things like that. But, you know, somebody might stumble across this that's not yet a part of the family. And if they're not fully, you know, engaged, they might, they might make a misstep. We don't want that to happen. I actually had a Google. At one point I had, I think JohnF Braun at Google.com. Sure. Dude, you would not believe how much. I would. I got there. I have Dave Hamilton at gmail.com. And the thing is, I was getting stuff. So there's a John F. Braun who's an educator. So I would get like emails like, Oh, my homework's going to be laid or can I delay it? And I'm like, Yeah, yeah, sure. Whatever. Sure. That sounds great. Yep. Yeah, I am. Apparently there's a realtor out there in the world called John F. Braun. So I would get, you know, statements or, you know, like quotes for buying a house and stuff. And I'm like, Yeah, sure. Okay. Yeah, let's do it. Let's do it. Yep. I'm in. No, I get, I get banking stuff sent to Dave Hamilton's all around the world. It's wonderful. So my Dave Hamilton, you're welcome to email it if you like. Dave Hamilton at gmail.com. It will get to me, but the first thing it does is triggers an auto response to you saying, you didn't reach the Dave Hamilton you were looking for. Now in this case, it would be wrong if you were doing that. And then of course, there was the whole TSA fiasco, but we won't talk about that now. That's different. That's right. Yeah. That's right. I evidently share. Apparently there's a bad guy in the world named Dave Hamilton. A formerly bad guy, because he's a former Irish terrorist. And so I was on because I shared a name with him, but not a middle initial and not a birthday pre TSA. I would always get the four S's on my boarding passes. So I have one of those TSA, the much coveted TSA redress numbers just for me and me alone. All right. Yeah. Go check out our sponsors. Of course, you can learn all about our sponsors at Mackie cap.com slash sponsors. That's where everything is going to be listed. And then of course our sponsors from this episode, other world computing with their envoy pro S X at max sales.com quip, where you can get your first refill for free on this smart toothbrush at get quip.com slash MGG upstart.com slash MGG, where you can get a personal loan and find out all about that. And of course, box of awesome.com where code MGG gets 20% off your first box. Fun stuff. All right, John. Well, you got us into this mess. I'll help us out. While we're out there doing our tech tips and I call them tech tips. They're our tech to dues is what they are. Our tech homework. We need to make sure that we are careful with each letter that we type because we want to make sure that we don't get caught.