 It is time for Matt Geekab and listener Paul brings us our quick tip of the week with he tells us he says I used to just power down everything with my Apple TV when it was acting funny and the remote wouldn't pair But recently that stopped working and I learned that I can restart my Apple TV or Siri Remote which I didn't know before and you do it by pressing the TV button and the volume down button for five Seconds and then the remote will restart and that Resinx everything for Paul. I didn't even know this was possible and that alone is a quick tip And then we actually know how to do it TV button and the down button volume down button for five seconds More tips like this plus your questions answered today on Matt Geekab 958 for Monday December 5th 2022 Spokes and welcome to Matt Geekab the show where we take your tips your questions You're cool stuff out the things you send into us at feedback at Matt Geekab calm We string them together into an agenda Loosely so that as we go through it. 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Hey came in the room banged on the keyboard and Nothing I'll do it every time John No, it's a Logitech solar keyboard that uses this proprietary Little connector, but yeah Just just rolled over so I wonder if it's the batteries in the keyboard Well it has solar panels on it. So actually I put it I mean the thing is it's never Anytime I checked the the levels on it, they have you know a little widget it says 100% because you know sunlight does kind of come into this room sure Well, I put it in direct sunlight Downstairs, so maybe maybe the batteries dead. I don't know. Well, I also because I have I guess I don't use a Logitech keyboard anymore, but I did for you know 15 or more years and I found that occasionally not not often but it happened through the the tenure with a couple of different Logitech keyboards that were similar to yours that use the dongle that you know, it's a it's a it's its own Wireless technology so it's it's not Bluetooth. It's certainly not Wi-Fi But you know, it's I don't think it's it's not RF, but it's whatever it's whatever it is That those would get out of sync and I would have to repair them occasionally There's a button on the dongle a button on the keyboard But when I press the button on the keyboard I would see lights flash on the keyboard that would tell me that the batteries were good because I never had the solar one I always had the one that I had to replace the batteries So oftentimes they became unpaired when the batteries were out for too long and it like forgot I don't know whatever it was. So maybe there's hope is what I'm saying John Yeah, it could it could be the batteries are low So yeah find out after the show if not, I'll go to staples and I'm sure they have a Mac keyboard there Yeah, yeah, I I downstairs. I am using the Matias One of the mechanical keyboards, I'll pull it up here because it's what's it? It's the tactile pro keyboard for the Mac. I can't I couldn't possibly use that for podcasting because clicky way to clicky. So yes, please bear that in mind John when you're buying a new keyboard that That you that you need something that is silent here in the studio. I use one of Apple's keyboards I guess the Mac mini which is what you have doesn't come with a keyboard it the box is too small. So But I you know, I I know plenty of podcasters that actually have two keyboards at their at their computer one that You know one like the Apple one or or just something silent that they use when they're doing shows And then the other one that they use because they like how it feels. So So maybe it's time to buy two keyboards John And you know, there you go. So Fun stuff. Hopefully it's an easy Easy solution for you. Yeah, yeah And hopefully that's all it is Have you did you check that like your USB hub or whatever you have that plugged into is is Functioning that like it that it is the keyboard and and like you're getting lights on the the little transmitter thing or whatever No All right, well, you know, I'm just thinking my trackball works. So Okay, yeah Or maybe maybe yeah, maybe I'll no There's a button on the keyboard that will show a smiley face or a frowny face when you press it Yeah, and it shows nothing Okay. All right. Okay. Oh, yeah, I see what you're saying. Yeah. Yeah, okay So so there's definitely something going on with the keyboard. Yeah, okay. All right. Well, I'm eager to hear Both how it works out and what you wind up getting so All right we promised last week that we would Make sure we got through most of the backlog of cool stuff found that we have here and While the Matthias tactile pro keyboard was not On that list. It certainly is cool stuff found. So I'm happy that we started there Ben brings us the next piece of cool stuff found It says in episode 954 Pete mentioned how Google photos was filling up his Google his Google storage space and Dave commented about having experience the same if y'all would prefer Google didn't have access to your photos Or you just don't want them taking up space there There's a way to easily delete them all which Google on their own makes extremely difficult as I think you and I have both Found since episode Yeah, Ben found a script a couple of years ago and Has he says he's helped a handful of his clients accomplish this mass deletion The underlying issue occurs at generally after one installs Google photos on your iPhone or iPad and lets it upload That makes sense. He says the script works great and is thoroughly described by its author Brujeshawar And I know I mispronounced that and I apologize for that But you can go and take a look at this script and the description of it at At his website, so you can get through it all. I have not done this yet. I want a full disclosure I I I fully plan You have and you haven't I haven't I haven't how's that for dichotomy Everything except press enter on the last step. So I want the reason I wanted to say that is The link that's in the show notes will take you to his site and it is meticulously and perfectly described each step Read exactly what it says and do what it says and it will come up exactly Right, there's none of this, you know, then you click this and you're like, where the heck is that? I never saw it. It's it's all there. It's really well documented So I I did not push enter to get rid of all of them because I wanted to make sure I have a backup of my photos library Sure before I completely, you know, get rid of every photo of my life for the last 25 years Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I I Yes, this is why I haven't run it yet. Well, that's one of the reasons I haven't run it But but I did want to say the documentation or the I should say the instructions are very meticulous very clear Great and it will work. There's no well. I assume it'll work when you hit enter at the end Yeah, of course, of course everything else was good. So I'm assuming that's cool the next csf comes from Well listener matt but also software developer matt matt is from tuna belly software and we talked about his tg pro Which is the fan monitor and control app recently After listening to the show matt realized there's something else he makes for free that we might really like and it is endurance Which is a cpu stress test app If you've ever wanted to test how long your battery would last at full tilt or Maybe what it takes to kick your fans in and and where that happens and how that works You can do this in a controlled setting with this endurance app, which will just crank up your cpu's and he offers it for free It's available in the mac app store. So thanks for sharing that with us matt That's I can see that coming in handy john As we as we try to test some things and there's I know there's been times over the years for you And I've been like, yeah, well this happens when my computer speeds up But uh, yeah, like I can't always replicate it now now we can Good, yeah Cool Want to take us to scott mr. Braun you you and the leaf blower behind you. Yeah Yeah, today's leaf blowing day nice I gotta break line too In episode 9 57 you mentioned quitting safari when it's been idle for x hours using marco armence quitter app I'm sure that does an admirable job if that's what you need for keyboard Meister users and I know dave is a fan I have a time macro setup that quits all apps except those that I've added to the exception list every night at a specific time This gives me the same clean desktop every morning when I return to my computer while allowing mail the one app on my Exception list to keep running so that spam sieve another great app and quick tip can continue filtering my mail throughout the night I like to focus on as few apps as possible unless Become more expert in them and adding quitter seems superfluous to me Thanks to keyboard maestro You can actually program keyboard maestro to trigger a macro if the mac has been idle for x minutes Although it doesn't get to the granular level of applications being idle Which might solve some users needs too quitter is probably useful for a lot of people I'd like to do more with less so in this case keyboard maestro does the job I'm okay. So this is interesting to me Uh Because I and look there are many features probably most if I'm if I'm thinking about it Features of keyboard maestro that I don't not only do I not use I don't even know they're there However There's there's one specific thing that I didn't hear in that description. It might well be there's there in keyboard maestro But what quitter does is it monitors when I last used a specific app? So while his script in keyboard maestro sort of in a in a In a very uh less granular way Accomplishes this goal of having Quit the apps overnight. That's great Uh, what I like about quitter is it doesn't just monitor how When my mac has been asleep it monitors when I have not used a specific app So I could be doing all kinds of things on my mac very engaged But if there's an app that I haven't used and I've told quitter to Quit that app after 30 minutes where I haven't touched that app it will And that's where I really like the quitter now again keyboard maestro might do this and I just don't know So I just I just wanted to offer that distinction because if keyboard maestro does it Then I'm kind of with scott that running one less thing. That's that's always better. So There's a way to find out I know but now during the show like right now Well, no, no, I don't mean that At the risk of free advertising Mac sparky.com slash field guides. He does a keyboard maestro field guide which Um, I his field guides are good for what it's worth. I agree Our users folks. So max arkie.com slash field guides He does a keyboard maestro field guide and if if that doesn't learn you how to use keyboard maestro, you're unteachable And I'm it's I might be I try not to be unteachable, but it's possible. I know I am someday All right. Yeah, okay, cool. Yeah, and I agree with you and and and there's no concerns with with free advertising here I mean, literally everything we just mentioned is is effectively free advertising like that's We mentioned things because they're good and we use them or you use them And you've convinced us that we should share them with with the world Fair enough. Yeah Speaking of things that are good that I've never heard of before in our chat at uh live dot mac keek up dot com hog molly Mention in reference to the the endurance app that that matt sent in hog molly mentions that the terminal command Yes, yes will also max out a single core of the processor So theoretically you could go run, you know, eight of them and eight separate terminal windows I didn't choose to run. Yes on my computer here because uh, you know, I'm I'm doing a show and Yeah, might not be a good idea Uh You and and it is you type yes And and then you can just hit enter or you can say yes and then Put in and it is it is very clear that you can put in a word after yes, but it must be an expletive So bear that in mind But then the description says the yes utility outputs the expletive or by default the letter y forever And I guess it does it as fast as it possibly can which means it's taking up its own cpu core to do so So interesting. Thank you hog molly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah I never I never knew about the yes command Yeah How do you stop it? I would say no. Yeah control c that's that's the quick tip right control c would stop a terminal command from running usually Yeah, thank you for Thank you for bringing that up. That's not is there a no command Yeah, the the control c to stop a terminal command is Not obvious unless you know it and then then it becomes the epitome of the Quick tip which is the thing that we do want to you know one or many of us will do all the time But if you don't know it then it seems like magic to the people that that catch you doing it. So yeah All right, but we aren't in quick tips yet because we still have lots of cool stuff found to go through including One from abe manu who says uh recently in one of your shows you were discussing writing to nfc tags from an iphone and He recommends an app called placebo with two eyes plac i i b o of course all of these things are linked from the show Notes at mackeycap.com, but uh Placebo would be the the coolest his cool stuff found suggestion But john you said you you you tried messing with this and had a little had a little issue with it. Yeah um When it started up it was asking for like an encryption key or something like that. It was just like Huh Yeah, it does say all nfc tags are automatically encrypted with user provided encryption key Huh, yeah, so that kind of threw me. Yeah. Yeah All right. Yeah, I got one. It's just called nfc. I'm looking at my phone here. Okay And that one just lets you read and write from the start. So got it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah All right. Well, we will link both of those from the show notes as well Sweet Thanks abe manu. I appreciate it. It's always good to have these conversations john You want to take us to elliott? Uh, yes John's working with a much smaller screen than usual To this week. So bouncing between yeah, well, he's looking at that. Let me ask that. So, uh, nfc's probably Best best used with like shortcuts and that sort of thing, right? Is it is that the most common use for him? Yeah, yeah, um get things to trigger Um, yeah, I Yes, that's that's that's one way I've used them. How about you john? Uh, the program that I mentioned I don't see if that can be found. I can't see right now. Um It actually has templates for a lot of different things like a url a business card Ah stuff like that. You can also use it to trigger things. I guess Yeah, it it yeah, it basically right it it it feeds a a thing to your phone So the url is a good. I like that that use case. Yeah for shortcuts pete you're not I mean you program the nfc But not with the shortcut more. It's that you program the shortcut to trigger when it encounters that nfc tag. Yeah, okay I just it's just something I haven't fiddled with and I know I can get some nfc tag on amazon and then write them and Yeah, it's just I haven't fiddled with it yet. I know it's something I could have some real fun with if I Yeah, man, this program has the following templates business card web link wi-fi shortcut location text telephone number sms and email so man cool Yeah, pete. I've got I bought a bag of nfc tags from amazon a number of years ago And I've used many of them and I still have a bag of nfc tags that I bought from amazon years ago So they're so multiplying their day. I think so they're like rabbits. They're technological rabbits. I think that's what they are There's a show title I think you know, I thought it might be requiem for a keyboard, but um, I don't I don't know technological rabbits That is not those are not two words. I ever expected to say together, but they think they are nfc tags or technological rabbits Uh, and and uh, so I I'm happy to share some with you if you don't mind your home being a breeding ground for these things Now john was supposed to be looking something up and I brought us down a rabbit hole and found technological rabbits Technological rabbits down the rabbit hole. I mean how much more perfect is that? Yeah I have this vision of an episode image that is like a steampunk rabbit So, um, I don't know. I don't know. There was a book I don't oh man. I'm sorry about this. Uh, there was a book Years ago like like decades ago when I was a wee lad That and I can't remember the name of it Um at the moment, I know I've researched it since then But that the book was like a coffee table book and it just had pictures different pictures of rabbits But the entirety of the book was a treasure map To a rabbit like a gold encrusted gem encrusted rabbit that was worth some You know ridiculous amount of money it came with a prize or something And there was one of them and they sold countless copies of these books to people in the I'm gonna say the 70s. Maybe the early 80s, but probably not. It's more like the 70s And it was hidden somewhere around the world But if you deciphered all the clues in this book, you would then be able to find the rabbit and eventually I think somebody did Uh, I have no idea what the book title was. It was like one word I want to say enchantment, but it's not it's not but I'm sure I could look it up in the great big book of everything Somebody in discord might remember. Yeah. Yeah, but in the meantime, john Maybe you can dig us out of this rabbit hole At least with elliott's guide mac elliott's Yeah, anyway, john save me. All right, elliot says mac menu bar at mac menu bar.com is a curated directory of more than 700 Mac menu bar apps browsable by categories Such as audio battery weather clipboard managers cleaning apps note taking apps window management, etc You can also quickly check the latest editions Which I did for you My humble opinion nerds should start by checking the system tools category Okay cool Yeah, and I I looked at the latest one and um So here's a few that I found Um vitals And what vitals does is it shows you A little window with all your running processes, but it shows a historical um Uh ticker of how much cpu each one uses so that's kind of neat. Whoa That's amazing Yeah, being able to see which apps use oh man Oh All right. Yeah, so it's a there it is. Thanks monitor Yeah, right Interesting. Did you find any other good ones? This is awesome. Um Here's one called radar. I liked it and what that will do is Show you various statistics um And they have templates so for example Um, I just set it up with two of the ones that they show So one shows my twitter follower account and the other shows the apple stock price But you can put other numbers up there and I think you can also set alerts. So um, uh, Certain things happen. Yeah So that's kind of neat and then the uh, the last one Is called app police And what app police does is it also shows you? um What processes are running but it lets you throttle Select processes So kind of like, um Oh app tamer, right? Yeah similar. Yeah, huh Huh, and these are all free. So oh no kidding Wow Wow That's really cool. Wow Like oh nice. We do some steroids Yeah, I mean you could you'll fill up your menu bar on then some then then you're like If ever there was a quick tip to help sell bartender for the mac Uh, this is it right because bartender if you're not using bartender on your mac I highly recommend checking it out because what bartender does is it lets you control How many things and which of those how many things are appearing in your max menu bar at any point in time? Uh, and you can have multiple menu bars to bars. Yeah Yeah, do you I I don't use the multiple bars thing. I have You know my main bar and then my everything bar. Do you use the multiple bars thing? Pete? Uh, I'm probably about to with this new cool stuff Yeah fair. I haven't as yet, but I can I can almost assure you I will be and uh, And I will mention gee dave, where could you find bartender? Set up maybe Oh, that's right bartender is in set up. I was going to say mac bartender.com So if you don't have set up go to mac bartender.com, but yeah, it's it's all you're right. It's also in set up. Yep. Yeah Those guys mean they correct the code just saying I think so Yeah, they um, they certainly have convinced talk about free advertising, right? They've they've certainly figured out how to get us to talk about their product all the time Um, yeah In the in the prices, you know, I'm not a fan. I like to buy a program Instead of a subscription thing. I don't like a subscription model because I don't want you in my wallet all the time Yeah, you know my choice, but That's one of the subscriptions. I'm happy to pay the price for it's a yeah Yeah, yeah fair. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Uh, the next cool stuff found comes from my friend and co-host of business brain Shanah Jean who told told and taught me about a website called barely b a r l y dot a i and what this does is it Summarizes it's it's a it's an engine that you point a website at it. It works in chrome. It's a chrome extension And you point it at a website or a block of text or something And then it will summarize that and rewrite it for you in different ways Yeah, it's it's a it's a very cool thing and and worth playing with they've got a little video on the website to To you know to walk you through some of the demo use cases, but it's just worth going and playing with so Yeah, so I leave you to that and enjoy but it's free. Hey, you know So we try to balance the cool stuff found most of the time with stuff that's free and and then the other stuff so Good. Yeah, moving on up. Yeah, all right kids writing your papers, you know, help write Yeah, let a computer write your papers for you. It's the future kids You know, I mean like I know that in schools right now when you have an a i write your stuff for you You and they find out you probably would fail And we all I think would agree that that is Uh the correct way to do things would either of you disagree No, I mean it needs to be your work. Okay seems to me that barely helps you More clearly express your idea I could be wrong. No, I your your I I mean your opinion is your opinion. It's not wrong or right It's just it it is and it doesn't surprise me that all three of us sort of are in the same mindset on this But I will share an anecdotal story from my own history In high school in 10th grade I had I think it was 10th grade when we had to write our first term papers I had An apple to see at home. I'm very happy to have this apple to see at home and I they you know the process this was to learn how to write a paper So there was a process to it And the rough draft was probably more important than the final product right because this We had to write a rough draft and then we would go through an editing process Both individually with the teacher and then also with our groups in the class And then we would you know Present a finalized product and and the grade was sort of on the whole project Great like no problem fine I uh, so I went home and I I wrote my term paper And of course I wrote it on my apple to see because I had it and I knew how to type and And it was relatively new for us. This was really our first computer We had a timic Sinclair before that but you know in terms of I don't know Sinclair had its had its new had its utility but So I did it and I printed out my my work and I brought it in And the teacher was like I can't accept this and I said, uh, what what do you what do you mean? Now like well, you're This isn't a rough draft. You know you've printed this And I'm like, uh, just you wait go ahead and read it like I'm pretty sure you're gonna disagree with yourself after Yeah, it's pretty rough like I don't think I'm that good. You know And uh, she's like well, yeah, but you didn't hand write it like the final product has to be typed But the the rough draft everybody else hand wrote it. I'm like that's fine. It doesn't bother me Whatever they chose to do I'm like I did this and she's like well you did this on a computer, right? And I said, yeah, she said well, this is like cheating because everybody else in the class Wrote it out by hand and then is going to have to after we do the edits It's gonna then have to go and type the whole thing, you know, essentially writing it a second time on a different medium and I'm like Well, I mean that's on them like yeah All I have to do is go in and do the edits and then reprint like obviously And that is what every single person that's listening to this show would do today. But back then What's that? It was the future then it was no she failed me For the project and I went straight to my guidance counselor and I was like Like this and I even told her I'm like this is the future and it's not like some 100 year future I'm like within five years This is how this class is going to be taught and the opposite will be the exception rather than the rule And my guidance counselor looked at the teacher and she's like he's a hundred percent right This is you did not put in the requirements that people had to hand write their rough draft This is not a penmanship class This is an english class and he is getting full benefit Arguably more than full benefit of this because he's able to focus on the english part of it and not The pedantic handwriting and rewriting of this thing over and over again And the teacher was pissed pissed But so yeah, it's two and a half more years with her Yeah, yeah, exactly right But I I share this anecdote because right now we all think that using an ai to write our papers Is cheating and someone thought that using a computer to write my paper Was cheating and literally failed me until she was forced not to So who knows what the future holds? I I certainly don't yeah I did then though I was darn certain what the future held in that moment and it and I was right But it was it was already there. It wasn't the future. It was it was the present It just needed everybody to catch up so Anyway, let's thank you thank you for coming to my TED talk Yeah It does sound like I had a bad teacher Brian and Roe who said that in the live dot mac He kept yeah, she wasn't a bad teacher She was a teacher who had been doing this for decades had been set in her ways had lost Most of her neuroplasticity to adapt to new technology and new things She was change resistant folks And uh, I was happy to help her with that Look at my gift to her time is a teacher to retire because right when you become a teacher You want to do it because you want to help kids to learn and to explore new ways of expanding their horizons and how learning how to think and and When the teacher gets to the no, you're going to do it this way and That's the only way to do it Right here. Here's what to think not how to think Yeah, it's time to be done. It's time to be done. I mean, I I think yes I think that's true in a lot of professions like if you If you find yourself unwilling to learn a new thing and after you learn it Then deciding whether it's good or bad Like that's totally relevant and and the you know years decades of experience that you bring to that decision Is hugely valuable But you need to be informed to make a decision right making a decision of I I am resisting change That's very different than look. I've done it this way I've I've done it this other way and I've I've tried this new thing And now no, I I think we learn better by doing you know by by proceeding this way that like there's value to that I think yeah, there's a guy on one of my shows recently said it's what you learn after you know it all that counts Like yeah, he says she pretty profound that you know once you're an expert in your field Now it's time to be quiet and listen to other people around you and you're actually going to learn other things Even though you know it all you don't really I'm typing this into the show notes only because I don't want to lose that phrase That is I it's what you learn after you know it all that counts. I like it. That's great Yeah Yeah, there's a I mean in the in and I am I am not a practicing buddhist nor a practicing nor do I Nor do you play one on tv? No, I don't but I do really like this concept in in zen of beginner's mind and always starting everything with that childlike wonder of what can I what you know I I there's so little that I know What can I learn from this and and how do I approach it as a beginner? It's very difficult to do because our brains are our engineered Or are built I don't know whatever our brains work such that we are always seeking shortcuts And we need that we have to find shortcuts We have to be able to ignore Lots of things in order to get through the day Right and and so we have to be efficient about stuff and our brains are extremely good at that And so to maintain beginner's mind is is not easy like it's that is an intentional thing Once you're you know beyond the age of about eight. I think you know like up until then it's super easy. So Anyway Thank you for coming to our TED talk now. Yeah Okay, all right Julian saves us from this Man, that was going to be a quick cool stuff found too with the the app copy paste which of course is a Clipboard manager or maybe you don't know that But it adds a functionality that they are calling trigger clip and trigger clip Is a shortcuts manager kind of like a text expander or apples keyboard shortcuts thing So a snippets manager Is now added inside copy paste. So if you are using copy paste as your clipboard manager And if you're not using a clipboard manager, please reference the discussion We just had about learning and and learning something before you dismiss it because I think Everyone that I've introduced to a clipboard manager has Adopted it immediately. It is life changing But if you're using copy paste as your clipboard manager, then make sure to check out trigger clip If you don't yet have a clipboard manager Maybe check out copy paste because maybe you can consolidate some functionality there I consolidate my functionality into keyboard maestro. That's my clipboard manager. But if you don't have one Please take that as your quick tip for the day your most important one It's it's amazing. It's amazing Yeah, moving on still Okay listener mark Shares with us a fantastic youtube channel Called space recs For Synology stuff this guy does so much About Synologies, it's kind of like marius hosting right like the two of them together Are putting out so much Synology content teaching us so much about the nuances of using our various Synology devices That uh, it's a good place. I've I uh, I am now subscribed to space recs But I I certainly had stumbled into space recs many times searching for how do I do this with my Synology and there was space recs to So, you know And say that say that again, p you come out Look at that. Uh, yeah Because you know, I'm always struggling to learn new stuff with the Synology Absolutely. Yeah, you mentioned Marius hosting and I'm gonna circle back on that because it was a few shows back We talked about it and he talked about he has a An IP denialist for people trying to maliciously attack your Yeah, Synology disk station. Yeah, I I bought it. It was it's a donation type thing But I bought it and I went I developed a thousand over 40 years by people Remember we talked about shutting down if people try to log in too many times it automatically dies them and I do it forever Yep, so over four years I got about a thousand IP addresses permanently banned from trying to log into my disk station And I went to Marius and got his list and now i'm over 8,000 IP addresses not allowed to log into my disk station So did I did I tell you I had a conversation with Marius? Uh about that well about a lot of things but that list came up And the way he develops it is he subscribes to a separate internet service provider connection Has a separate disk station that sits on that connection with nothing else and it's a honeypot Yeah, it's wide open And there's no way that any it is it is completely air gapped from the rest of his network Uh, meaning it's not plugged in, you know, he has to log into that separately But they there's no way it can get to anything else And he just invites the world in and anybody that shows up there shows up on his list because Yeah, because because there's no one legitimate that would ever try to access that device So it really is a fantastic resource that uh that he does. Yeah, it's great. It's great um Speaking of Synology I have something that's not Synology to talk about I I mentioned we've talked here on the show about how Synology's product roadmap does not have devices with Hardware transcoding engines in the most of the time that's a GPU Baked into the cpu is the sort of how the the the most inexpensive way to do that There are other ways to do it. I've learned one of you taught me that it doesn't have to be a GPU There are other things that are truly just hardware transcoding engines that can be built into cpus But regardless of all of that Synology's roadmap does not have hardware transcoding as part of it. In fact, the last time they released A distation that had the ability to do it was in 2020 with their uh 15 20 plus the 9 20 plus I think there was there were others but but those are the certainly the two popular ones and uh It makes a huge difference having that hardware transcoding engine if you're running like a plex server or a media server really a video media server It doesn't so much matter with audio And so i've been looking at other nas options for media serving and i Got a qnap tvsh 474 i'll link to all of this and started playing with that as a plex server I linked it to my same plex library Uh, most of you who are sharing my plex library with me have been moved over to using that Instead of the Synology, but my initial tests It was interesting Um, the the my so I compared it to my 15 20 plus which has the the celeron j4 125 cpu It's got four threads with four cores and the intel uhd graphics 600 The qnap the h474 has a pentium gold g7400 The most important part is that it has intel uhd graphics 710 So we're going from intel uhd graphics 600 to intel uhd graphics 710. So it's a slight bump up, right? I downloaded to my ipad two movies The save movie twice from my qnap In the time that it took to download one from the Synology because it's transcoding From the the you know full 4k down to 720p as i'm downloading it to my To my ipad because that's what i do for i for travel. So not it's twice as fast So that's great, but the Synology does it because it's got that transcoding engine It can on the fly transcode a 4k movie down to 720 just fine sort of I after I set it up. I did this test like okay. This is great. There is a future here now. I will say I don't like the qnap Q like operating system nearly as much as I like the Synology operating system There's a lot of things missing. They don't have an analog for Synology office So that whole google office thing where you can You know with google you can go to google docs and google sheets and collaborate Synology office lets you do that, but you manage the server. So it's not stored on google It's stored on yours, but it's the same webinar. It's kind same kind of web interface We use it here for our scheduling spreadsheet. It works great There is nothing like that on qnap so so and and there are a few other things but that to me That's the big one that's missing from qnap, but qnap is very focused on this stuff. In fact the the qnap has A pcie slot in it So that you So that you can sorry that that I was distracted by the I thought the police were coming to get me Thank you for muting john The qnap has a pcie slot in it so that You can put in your own gpu and transcode even faster, right? Uh, so it like it really is built for this as one of its flagship purposes and and the product manager there uses his qnap as You know a plex server or a media server of some kind So it like it doesn't surprise me that they see the the reason for this but where it got interesting was my daughter's living in italy and Was watching something from our plex server over there and she's like, you know I hate to bother you with this because it's not urgent And I know this is a busy time of year for you. I'm like, yeah, what's up, you know go Uh, like you kind of get priority kiddo and and she said uh Every time we start to watch a thing like half the time It It just like buffers a lot it starts and stops But we're pretty sure it's not our connection because we can watch netflix. No problem. I'm like, all right. Well Good news. I have an easy way to test this and I moved her and her boyfriend from watching on that You know the Synology plex media library to the qnap plex media library same thing and she's like, all right, let me test it 20 minutes later. I get a text. She's like 100 fine. So there's something about how the qnap is optimized for plex and transcoding that seems at least From what I can tell in my anecdotally limited tests to be even more efficient for this kind of thing Who knows maybe there's something else going on with my Synology that's like blocking network access, but I don't think so um So yeah, it was fascinating to see that uh Yeah, the qnap so how much did that just cost me, Dave? I don't know Pete you can you can get the the h 474, which is what I have Is is like 1,300 bucks But I I've I've I've looked out I I've prepared for this question. Pete the qnap ts 453d Has that same cellar on j4 125? It is 500 bucks. So Like I yeah, I think like and it's a currently Sold model. It's not like you're getting like like for the Synology the ds 15 20 plus, you know You've got to dig into the the the archives and find somebody that has it and Extra stock or whatever because it's not sold anymore. It's not current. This is a current thing So I've got both of them already are linked in the show notes for you all Good Yeah, yeah, sweet Sweet. Yeah. 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That's masterclass.com slash mg g Terms apply and our thanks to masterclass for sponsoring this episode All right john, let's do some questions. Shall we uh bruce has This might be a geek challenge, but you know, we'll see it could be. Yeah, I kind of solved it. So anyways um Bruce says I have a client who would like to be able to be logged into multiple iCloud accounts for messages But apple's messages app only allows for a single account in any given time Do you know if any other messaging clients out there that will pick up i messages? Or perhaps a different solution altogether? Oh Um, so yes, you're right. Um one option could be to try a third party messaging client Have you found one that works with i message? Uh, no, I went I went through a couple on this list. So I found this really nice list over at i more Called best messaging apps for mac Okay, um, but I tried a few of them and I don't think anything Any of them support apples messages But you may want to consider uh, you know using a different protocol like jabber or AOL or something like that. I would I would say signal or telegram these days are Or what's app really and I I'll put what's app at the top of my list What's app would be the first one that I would jump to because it's just so ubiquitous It won't be in in most of the world not it's not so much here in the u.s But everywhere else that's the platform unless unless you in china in which case we chat is the ubiquitous platform. So yeah, um Another thought though. I think it's major overkill would be to run a mac os virtual machine and have that instance login to the other i cloud account I mean you can have you can just have another Uh user account on your mac that's logged in to messages on the other account. I mean it you're right the the vm might be It allows you to really truly see both at the same time as opposed to have the switching accounts, but yeah, all right Yeah, okay, but then I did a bit bit more digging And I found something over at github called i message web client And they explicitly say in the description of the project Be signed into two or more i message accounts at once on one ios and or mac device um So I tried that I had to update my um of So you have to you have to pull it from uh from github and then compile it yourself Okay um Yeah, I tried that I had to update my xcode. I had to update the command line tools and then finally it compiled But then the next step when I tried to activate it So I had to install like npm and then some other things that I didn't have on my machine Um, but when I tried to start it it failed saying it couldn't find sequel light Oh, that's weird because sequel light should be there by default on your mac. So, huh All right And what what was this called? I just don't see a link for it in our uh, no, let me uh, yeah I message web client. Okay. All right Huh, and it's it's like 10 years old too, right? Um, yeah, the the source is like Yeah, like eight years old All right, there used to be something called I'm looking here air message at air message.org Which is i message for android and for the web I don't know how current it is. I'm literally learning about it right now but Uh, use i message on any computer with air message. My concern is well, I don't know I'm gonna visit air messages on a mac computer to download You can sign in with google. I don't know. Maybe that's the answer. I don't know I don't know Yeah Interesting. Yeah I yeah, I can see this being valuable for sure huh I will go ahead Pete I was gonna say the and those are all gonna be encrypted right because there's that silly commercial out there about Yeah, we use carrier pigeons to train your mail and and all your text messages aren't encrypted. I'm trying to think Maybe on To me android systems or something but i'm just always encrypted right text SMS is is not encrypted isn't it clear and that's true on your iphone or or any platform I believe but but i message is not sms i message also Yeah, it's correct. It is end to end encrypted. Yeah, so that was gonna be my comment about using Some some third party hosted Engine to do this and it seems like air message might be that I don't know enough about it But just be aware that you might be giving Someone else the ability to decrypt your i messages on your behalf So just be aware of that as you're heading down this path. But um, yeah, it's interesting I don't think the only time you're worried about that anyways if you're transmitting passwords or Account numbers and that kind of thing. But you know, yeah, yeah I want to meet for lunch. Who cares I I am eager to see the world move away from sms and move to whatsapp and I I know What the the sort of ripple effects implications are of saying that because it's you know, it's not a public thing It's it's you know, it's privately owned. Sure. It's privately owned. Yeah, but um I mean whatsapp is end-to-end encrypted whatsapp is cross platform So and and it is you know, you can create it's it's like i message for everyone in in in that in a sense Because you can you get all the benefits of of like a modern messaging protocol and like sms where you know If you're trying to send especially movie files, but even sometimes images They just get like compressed and and you know, depending on the phones that are involved things get weird with with sms and mms And whatsapp is just a it's a you know, it's a it's a modern protocol So, uh, yeah, I do you use what do you find that you use whatsapp a lot p? Uh, I I do in fact I was going to state that uh, what's app quickly? Back when I first started flying international, uh, skype was the way that you talked back to home without having to dial in 32 digits on a sprint card and and all that kind of stuff. So you could call home the escape Once whatsapp came out it quickly replaced skype in the international pilot community to talk to your families Talk to your friends from anywhere in the world to all over the world. Yeah, it just it just worked Right, it just works. Oh, yeah any time I travel out of the country Like if I have to sync up with an airbnb owner, you know in in europe or mexico or whatever Or I have to you know Like contact even contacting like restaurants for reservations And certainly taxis and all of those things. It's oh, yeah, just use whatsapp. They're like, you have whatsapp, right? Like, yeah, I'm good, you know, and it's it's it is the way So I if you are someone who has not installed whatsapp on your phone I recommend like get yourself over that hurdle now When when the stakes are low and you're at home and you're not like In a desperate need to communicate with someone and then that way when that moment happens, you're already set So that's my advice. So i'm sure somebody has a reason not to use whatsapp. Um, I can't I can't think of one Well, it's uh, uh, is it owned by facebook or microsoft? I forget. It's I'm pretty sure it's facebook Right. Yeah. Yeah, so that's why that right. No, there's like, yeah those reasons But yeah, political reasons not to use it. Yeah, yeah, exactly um And I respect that but also the rest of the world uses it so You know Factor that into your decision making Uh, I'm trying to think of where we should go here um Ed asks a question that I will answer very quickly here Because it keeps coming up on the show He says i'm currently using fubo as my tv provider And I use the channels dvr app to record shows so that I can skip commercials I also have a lifetime membership of using plex the channels dvr can record from my fubo stream Because it has the ability to connect using tv anywhere or tv everywhere. I guess that's what it is TV everywhere is this awesome thing folks that it is the thing that allows you to log in to like abc.com Using your cable subscription or your fubo subscription or your youtube tv subscription and then watch shows there, right? The channels dvr app leverages That engine which is I think publicly mandated uh for all of these people to to sort of use and uh It the channel cvr leverages that to just record content on your behalf You can have it on your like synology or your q-nap You put it on your your your nas and you're good to go He continues he says I haven't been able to find how to get a tv everywhere connection to my streams For plex. Do you know if that's possible? So that it is possible I will put a link in the The show notes at macgeekup.com Um Where people have figured out how to link channels and plex and use channels as a plex tuner so that plex can see tv everywhere But there is no direct map from plex to tv everywhere and I've never headed down this path because it's a major Undertaking and it looks like it's one of those things that's never going to be stable You're always going to have to be playing some version of cat and mouse However, I just point my plex server at the channels dvr folder as yet another media library And so everything that channels records appears in plex and then I can watch it in plex or Anybody my daughter could watch it in plex from anywhere in the world And for people who travel channels is great because like youtube tv and fubo are Limited by where your location is when you're watching Whereas channels is limited by the location of the device that's doing the recording And you can stream via channels too like it's got and it will take advantage of hardware transcoding But where i'm really going with all of this folks is that on saturday So the december 10th We are doing a cord cutting hangout At 4 p.m. Eastern time We're going to start it in our discord group and the reason we're going to start it in our discord group is because If I post the zoom link publicly It becomes a fecal matter show a third tornado Yeah, we don't want a third tornado again So we are going to to limit it to i mean it's free to join our discord But it's also not just publicly publishing The zoom link and that's going to be better for all of us So come to our discord channel We will have the zoom link in there for you and uh, and then we'll just hang out for about an hour I don't really have much more than an hour to do this that day. I've got uh, actually a hockey game with my son to go to But uh, but but you folks I you know potentially we can if it if it looks like it needs to go longer We can either schedule another one or we can figure it out, but Come with us and bring this is these hangouts are Many to many conversations you can participate as much as you want in fact I would we we would love it if you participated because We're all doing our own version of cord cutting You know anyone if you have a subscription to netflix To me that brings you into the cord cutting conversation. You may not have like actually cut the cord you may still have Coax connection to your cable company. You know technically I've cut the cord But I'm using foobo tv which is sort of like ish Because it does sort of the same thing in the end Uh join us saturday September september, please don't join us in what you can join us in september. It's got a long way away. We'll be late You'll be late, right saturday december 10th at 4 p.m. Eastern Uh, we'll hang out for an hour if if if you're so inclined, you know Bring a an adult beverage if you like bring a tasty beverage of any kind whatever you want to do It's it's a loose hangout. There is no agenda for this at least I don't have one But bring your thoughts bring your questions. This is what we love about these hangouts. So we'll see you there In september but also in december John you had a problem this week my friend Yeah, so um, I was going through uh our email box and I saw that you know, you were doing some testing for peed I guess Um and then but So I was on my computer and I was also um watching tv in my entertainment center So, you know, I'd watch what's happening and every now and then would look down at the computer to Take care of something And at one point, you know, I was looking up at the tv and then I looked down at the computer and All my emails were gone almost all of them They were like it was showing like five unread ones and I'm like Huh, I wonder if that's because you're doing some reconfiguration of our email Sure fair fair assumption spoiler alert. I was not Um, so I'm like, what do I do? Um, the first thing that came to mind was oh, well, let me reveal the mailbox Maybe that'll fix it. Maybe the index is Is corrupt? um That didn't do it Then I noticed on the screen On on the top of the mail screen uh This little symbol that I've never used before called filter was blue and I'm like Uh, that's not The way it usually looks And I clicked on filter and all the emails came back If you click on filter the default behavior of it is to show you only unread messages And that's exactly what it did because it thought that's what I wanted, but I didn't right so Carbogen garbage hour, right? No, that well, that's a great click on it and it did exactly what you told it to do Yeah, I'm realizing you told it I've gotten caught by that too. I do use the filter thing Uh, especially when I'm traveling and you know, I'm trying to like manage my It might triage my emails in a way that that I can sort of Keep things controlled while I'm traveling and so I have my filters set I believe I don't have mail open and I'm not going to launch it. Uh, while we're in the middle of a show, uh Just because launching mail sometimes causes hiccups, but I think I have my filters set to allow To show me unread messages and flagged messages And do you remember john where you can set that because I don't have mail open to look at this right now But but there is a place both on mac and on ios where you can set this Do either of you remember i'm looking now under Thank you configuration, you know command. Yeah, I want to say Yeah, I I always hunt for it. What we'll we'll share it, uh in in Hopefully maybe somebody in discord will share it or we'll share it in the next show. I I um I want to I want to get to a couple of quick tips here. So So we'll we'll we'll circle back to that but it is possible to configure this and and we'll We'll get there either this show or certainly the next one So gives you a reason to listen next week. Hey, you want to uh, you want to share ben's quick tip for us here I do yeah, uh ben writes to us, uh, you've talked about the ability to see the password of the current wi-fi network in ios 16 But did you know you can also reveal the password of any known network? Even when not connected It was just posted on uh nine to five mac and in wi-fi settings you tap edit and authenticate With your face ID your thumb print or whatever it is you use to authenticate Then you tap the little i in the circle next to any network for more info and it'll reveal the password And also it'll allow you to control settings Previously only available while connected to that network So for instance, I run three networks in the house one in 2.4 gigahertz range And so I can go to that even though i'm not connected to it click that little i And it comes up. Oh, here's the password that you're using for that network and here's here's how you can configure it That was pretty cool. I remember when they first talked about hey, you'll now be able to see passwords So the network you're connected to yeah, right. Why haven't we been able to do that for 10 years? Dude just asking Yeah, no, I uh You know my my favorite story one of my favorite stories about this to tell us when I had to figure out the password for a network I had the ipad that that was logged in but there was no sharing of it There was none of that stuff So I had to log my iCloud account into that ipad turn on iCloud keychain let it sync And then I could see it on my mac tricky Right that but that was the I'm like I know like this device knows it I like I'm this information wants to be free. Yeah, exactly So I set it free Yeah, so thanks ben for that tip. That's that's great being able to look at other networks and find out what you've got for Password there. Absolutely. John you want to take us to mark here? See how many of these quick marks we can get through as an apple watch quick tip You can double click on the stem to quickly switch back and forth between previously used apps I did not know that and It does it um I just did sorry I interrupted It's cool, huh Yeah, I don't know what I don't know why you'd want to do that Well, no, I could I could see that but then my concern is so how far back does it go as far as previously run apps I think it just switches as I'm seeing it It switches between the current app and and and the one before it and it flip-flops between those two But to answer your your I think rhetorical question, john Where I would use it is if I'm let's say I go for a hike in the woods something I do very often Uh, I often every time I hike I will turn on the exercise thing, you know, so that my watch tracks my my my quote-unquote workout, right? and Oftentimes, especially if I'm hiking somewhere that I don't know the trails I'll also be running all trails in the background But I like to have all trails in the foreground because it shows me the map of the trail on my watch But Exercise on my watch when it goes to sleep Decides to take priority So if all I have to do is double tap the stem double click the stem to bring up all trails man, that's way easier than the The disaster that I have gone through here to four So this is this is great. And if you don't use all trails and you do some hiking Man, I can't recommend it highly enough. So yep Cool Yeah Yeah, all right fun stuff. I actually found doing that. I found a the on the ultra You've got the action button on the other side of that watch Yep One of the things you can program it to do and you can do one thing at a time and I've I've decided This is the best for me flashlight now I don't have to turn the screen on and Swipe up and hit the light and change the color. I can just hit that action button. It turns my flashlight on So the middle of the night one button on comes the light So I don't trip over step on the Legos as it were. Oh, yeah Yeah, that's a painful lesson. There's no Legos in my house right now, but I'll find one anyway That's probably been there 20 years. Yeah, or the dog leaves. It's like chewed up and really like Sharp toy in the middle of the floor. Yeah. Yeah. Yep. Yep that kind of that kind of Furiation is not something I need in my life. I don't know that that's a word But the infuriation I guess is probably the right word. Yeah. Yeah, you're from going back to sleep anytime. So sure does While we're on the watch thing Tony shares a quick tip here and he says, um I can't remember if this was mentioned before but Because shortcuts can now be an apple watch complication You can effectively have many more functions a click and perhaps a scroll away On your watch Very interesting. I like this using your why yeah watch to trigger a shortcut But john you said you had some trouble with this um I had I only have like one shortcut um Got my watch and I tried to activate it and and nothing happened. So I probably have to write Another shortcut first got it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, okay Yes, right that okay that makes sense. Yeah, so it would need to be one that makes sense to trigger that way. All right Uh, we got time to let's let's finish with these apple watch quick tips. Shall we p Yeah, so uh after one of the shows pc units reached us uh to us on the discord channel said on the latest mgg Y'all originally mentioned that watch os low power mode and described it as digital only everything else is off And that's no longer true the watch Latest os uh has a low power mode similar to other devices And I said I'd follow up on it and then forgot to but it's actually quite easy Swipe up from the bottom or press and hold the bottom either way get to the control center Then I've always just looked at it and said hey there. I've got 55 left on my watch Well, guess what if you tap that it comes up with the option to go into the low power mode And if you do that it'll save battery life by turning off always on display Limiting the sensors as well as the cellular and wi-fi connections of your apple watch notifications may be delayed emergency Alerts may not arrive And this will turn off features such as background heart rate measurements heart rate notifications blood oxygen measurements Etc etc and then you can turn it on for a given amount of time or you can turn it on altogether That sort of thing. So I was uh unaware that the low power mode was anything but that digital Uh Nightstand mode only. Yeah, right, right. Yeah And I think I put the link in there to the support dot apple dot com article that talks all about it Um In the show notes. So after after this show goes live, you'll be able to get it to mgg.fm slash 958 He'll be right there in the show notes. There you go. Perfect Fun stuff. All right. Well, that gets us that gets us through here I like it. This has been an interesting episode. Yeah, some fun detours Let me do that quick Okay, okay. Pete's got one one quick tip left go apple store military discount google apple store military It's going to take you to a link the link is in the show notes there also But essentially id.me india delta dot me Where you're going to have to go and sign up you'll need your dd 214 Or you which is your discharge papers or your id or something along those lines to prove you're in the military And then once you do that the link in there actually takes you to the apple store with the military Each each id.me store affiliation has their own Website and id.me will take you there and you can go then log on And get your 10% discount, but you won't get it on apple.com if you just go there you have to specifically tell it Hey I'm military take me to that part of the store and it'll get you there so 10% it's nice starts talking about real money It does yeah Go ahead. John and another store. So they have a couple of other ones as well. There's an education store. So if you search for apple education store And similarly, I guess you got to prove That you're a student. I guess they do that if you have a dot etu email address Um, and they also have a thing back when I did the corporate thing They have something called an employee purchase program Where you can also get a discount Cool good stuff check with your uh, yeah check with your Benefits people. Yeah. Yeah a part of a purchase program. Sweet I uh, I thank you for that. Thanks everybody. Pete. I I don't say this often because I know it embarrasses you but I I will say it. Um, so thank you for sharing that tip. But also thank you for your service, Pete. You uh Thank you It was uh, it was hard at the time, but boy looking back at it. It's given me a lifetime of opportunity. It's It's true That's true. No, I know you feel like you've you've gotten more out of it than then maybe I don't want to put words in your mouth Yeah, no, you're absolutely right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean some some people obviously do the ultimate sacrifice and put more into it Then they get out of it, but I have I have definitely been the beneficiary more than the Yeah, more than the donor. I've been the dony rather than the donor Yeah, and I I I I I know that and I that's that's why I why I know Why I don't make a big deal out of it all the time, but We did miss it. I I did miss it the day that we recorded which happens to be Veterans Day So I I wanted to come back to that. So thank you man. Yeah Thank you all for listening. This has been uh, it's been a fun episode I hope I hope you got your five things and then some out of it If you did let us know you can join our discord at mackey cub com slash discord You can let us know at feedback at mackey cub com If you didn't Let us know if you did let us know if you have something to share let us know We want to hear from you. It's it's part of what it is. What makes the show go around it is Feedback at mackey cub com. Whoa. 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Do you have any advice for people who might find themselves? Want to prevent something like that from happening in the future? My advice is get another keyboard so you don't get caught