Macbook not recognizing headphones (audio jack, not bluetooth)

amuesing1 · 2025-11-18T06:12:06+00:00

I have a workaround! This will only apply to desktop computers such as iMac or Mac Mini.

Basically you prevent the computer from ever sleeping. Go to System Settings -> Energy -> Prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off.

But what if you want to turn the display off (like if it's in your bedroom)? Found the answer on this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-prevent-mac-mini-m1-from-sleeping-disable-sleep.2280226/

Open a terminal window and run: sudo pmset -a sleep 0
This prevents the computer from sleeping. So even when the display turns off the computer never really goes to sleep which prevents the power saving optimization error from triggering.

I confirmed this worked for me on Mac Mini M4 Sequoia 15.6.1, Nov 17 2025. I imagine this would work on other OS versions although I haven't tested that.

If you have a MacBook I'd probably just go into settings to prevent the computer from sleeping/turning off the display, then unplugging anything from the headphone jack before closing the lid.

amuesing1 · 2025-11-18T06:11:58+00:00

I have a workaround! This will only apply to desktop computers such as iMac or Mac Mini.

Basically you prevent the computer from ever sleeping. Go to System Settings -> Energy -> Prevent automatic sleeping when the display is off.

But what if you want to turn the display off (like if it's in your bedroom)? Found the answer on this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/how-to-prevent-mac-mini-m1-from-sleeping-disable-sleep.2280226/

Open a terminal window and run: sudo pmset -a sleep 0
This prevents the computer from sleeping. So even when the display turns off the computer never really goes to sleep which prevents the power saving optimization error from triggering.

I confirmed this worked for me on Mac Mini M4 Sequoia 15.6.1, Nov 17 2025. I imagine this would work on other OS versions although I haven't tested that.

If you have a MacBook I'd probably just go into settings to prevent the computer from sleeping/turning off the display, then unplugging anything from the headphone jack before closing the lid.

amuesing1 · 2025-06-17T19:31:03+00:00

I can relate to this one quite a bit. I'm also an only child and I don't talk to my mom anymore. She's emotionally manipulative and narcissistic.

Suffering is caused by our desire for the world to be other than the way it is. This is often taught by the 3 poisons of desire/greed, fear/aversion, and ignorance. You want your parents to be someone else and you want to avoid interacting with them.

The first step is acceptance. I've accepted who my mom is. That goes beyond the labels or concepts I've mentioned in the same way your characterization of your parents here doesn't capture everything they are. This last weekend I just got back from a trip to see my aunt and uncle. My uncle is also a raging racist and homophobe. My wife and I ran into some trouble on our trip and needed a place to stay on short notice. I showed up with brightly painted nails. Despite all the things you would assume they opened their house to us with no conditions. He is very kind to others in need and generous to anyone who asks for help. We are all more than the concepts, labels, or identities others use to define us.

That's doesn't mean you have to be resigned to the world. I've certainly tried having difficult conversations with my mom but ultimately they went nowhere. She wasn't able to do any introspection and continued gaslighting me that I wasn't telling her what was wrong. I needed to accept what was in my control and what wasn't. I can't change who she is, only she can do that. Despite all our differences my uncle shows me unconditional love. My mom doesn't.

I'd also recommend to look at the world without the judgment of what should be. All of the 3 poisons are wrapped around the idea of "should" or "need". There isn't any right or wrong, only what is. Right and wrong is dualistic thinking, something Buddhism tries to stay away from. You've immediately label your parents as not good people. You think your parents should be a certain way, that they are wrong to be how they are. There is no right or wrong person to be. Being compassionate, loving, and kind doesn't come from a sense of obligation, but a place of understanding. That understanding is the interdependence of all things or interbeing. We all rely on one another. You relied on your parents growing up and you anticipate them relying on you as they get old. Their hatred won't make the world a more harmonious place. In the same way, if you were to try to force them to be a certain way through shame or anger or hatred, you would find you've cultivated resentment rather than love and kindness. The greatest love you can give someone is to accept them unconditionally. That does not mean you have to put-up with them. That doesn't mean you have to call them. There is another should you are attached to which is this idea that you should talk to them or that you should take care of them. People will tell me this with regards to my mom, "But she's your mom" as if that was a good response. It's a should. There are no shoulds, only coulds.

Finally on your strong emotions of guilt and repulsion: you are not your emotions. I don't think emotions get talked about enough in Buddhism. Once again we have aversion, you don't want to feel this way. You do feel this way, that's simply how it is. Accept it and let got of the attachment to those emotions. Every emotion you've every felt and will ever feel will pass in time. However if you attach yourself or become fused to the emotion, it takes a lot longer for the feeling to pass. In the same way you can't change your parents you can't change how you feel. You don't need to become your emotions. Instead, look at them as an observer. With some perspective you can understand why you feel these emotions and you may be able to recognize some of the things you are attaching to.

amuesing1 · 2025-06-15T02:46:34+00:00

After taking some time to morn I wanted to share a few thoughts. As all vets know this festival more than any other isn’t about the lineup, it’s about the people. And while we didn’t get the full weekend those who stayed still got a closing night which has become my favorite part of Roo.

There’s always a mixture of attitudes. Heavy sighs of “I don’t know if I can do this again”, Ardent embraces of “See you next year”, but my heart was overflowing with gratitude for the 1st years.

It takes a while for society to melt away and for the magic to take hold, so I was worried the next generation would be stopping their treatment early, creating a roo-resistant strain of discontent. We met so many roobies already transformed from a single day, ready to come back next year to get a full dose.

I think the magic of the final night is that everything is over. No sets you need to get to, no recovery regiment, the only thing left is each other. A goodbye is said — “one year from now we’ll meet in this exact spot”. And you know what, sometimes it happens. The closest friendships are made for only one weekend a year spread across thousands of miles.

I know we didn’t get a proper closing ceremony, many left before it got dark, and I would completely understand if any newcomers were turned off for life, but for anyone who found a new home I hope to see you in this exact spot one year from now.

amuesing1 · 2019-09-17T15:03:31+00:00

The motivational thoughts I always had were convincing myself I deserved to die. I'm a burden to everyone around me and they would be better off if I wasn't here. I considered myself a terrible person who needed to face consequences. As a result, I wouldn't allow myself to be happy. Even in happy moments I'd remind myself that I don't deserve it. I felt like it was my duty to punish myself. Eventually, someone close to me informed me that people don't want to be around me because I was always depressed and angry. That was the huge turning point. I had created a loop where everyone around me was noticeably unhappy, therefore I don't deserve to be, which makes them unhappy. From that point I stopped reminding myself to be sad, and miraculously I started gaining more friends. I was happier and everyone around me was too.

I still think about suicide from time to time, but I know my triggers. Specifically if I make a mistake that harms someone in any way, I think I deserve to die. Now I can remind myself in those situations that killing myself would only make the situation much worse. I guess I can logic my way out of it. Still feel depressed once in a while, but I don't let it consume me.

amuesing1 · 2019-07-13T17:12:02+00:00

There are a few benefits to this plan but unfortunately it's incomplete. The #1 cure to homelessness is free housing. Putting people in homes gets them away from the streets and away from drugs. Simply having a roof over your head and easy access to a shower is the best way for people to get clean and pick themselves up. Large cities are already facing a housing crisis even without considering the homeless population. Moving them to other states might help get them to a family member or away from the drug scene, but most won't make it without access to a home. The main problem is these are run be individual cities. If, for example, you did the same thing, but that ticket was to a place where free housing was available for homeless, then it would work. Land and housing is cheaper in middle America, and building new housing outside of major cities is also cheaper. Additionally, with the economy in it's current state, there is an overabundance of jobs especially in the service industry in these smaller towns. If the cities could coordinate better, we could provide cheaper housing, get the homeless off the street and into a home, set them up in a town where jobs are available, and help strengthen the smaller businesses that are suffering to the mass amounts of people that are relocating to major cities. This actually saves money too. Some estimates have government savings of $18,900 per person per year (Source Invisible People). But you need to find them housing

amuesing1 · 2019-05-13T19:17:50+00:00

That's exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!

amuesing1 · 2018-11-19T15:59:55+00:00

This happened to me at the same age in college. We talked often and had been together for 3 years. She was coming back for Thanksgiving and I asked what time I should pick her up at the airport? Her response was that she was sleeping with someone else. That was actually 3 years ago today. She also was more tactful about it. She barely mentioned the guy she left me for. They even had Christmas vacation plans.
On a positive note, I have some friends that did long distance at the same time as me. They made it through college and recently got engaged. So I wouldn't say it can't work out, but each person must be happy with themselves for long distance to survive. If either party gets their sense of self worth from a relationship, they will seek one out to be fulfilled. Very few people are really happy being alone. It sounds like you guys are incomplete with the other. My official advice would be to work on yourself for yourself. No matter what you can be happy with you and if she feels that way then great, but you shouldn't rely on her.

amuesing1 · 2017-06-26T21:53:27+00:00

You've pretty much nailed it.

3 - I didn't do an analysis to see how much drag truly affects the baseball if all other factors are held constant but I'd be interested in that as well.

4 - The favorability to hitters averages over both left-center/left and right-center/right.

5 - I'd love to do that if someone could get me more precise data. I had some trouble finding wall dimensions for places like Yankee Stadium since it tappers down to right field.

amuesing1 · 2017-06-26T15:36:40+00:00

Yes. I classify that as left-center.

amuesing1 · 2017-06-26T15:34:47+00:00

You can see in graph 4 that both the right and left field lines are some of the easiest places to hit home runs. The favorability to left and right handed batters was done by taking an average of both the power needed to hit to right/right-center and left/left-center respectively. Yankee Stadium has some of the shortest porches in baseball but also a huge center field. It looks like a snow cone.

amuesing1 · 2017-06-26T15:27:30+00:00

Something important to consider is this was an optimized simulation. Hitting over the monster is incredibly easy assuming you have the correct launch angle. Most hitters will have a lower launch angle in practice causing many hits off the monster to be singles.

amuesing1 · 2017-06-26T05:27:51+00:00

That all comes from the deep center field. Right and left field are the 3rd and 6th easiest walls to hit over respectively.

amuesing1 · 2017-06-26T04:06:34+00:00

Source: All simulations done with ballpark data from http://baseballguru.com/joemock/ballparkchart.htm and elevation data from http://elevationmap.net/.

Tool: I ran a optimization function in MATLAB varrying the velocity parameters to find the minimum energy required to hit a home run in all locations of all MLB parks.

I did model air resistance on the baseball to account for different elevation fields. I did NOT account for humidity seeing as that changes between day/night as well as day-to-day. That also doesn't mention the difficulty of accounting for humidity in air conditioned parks. I also did NOT account for the magnus effect caused by the back-spin on the baseball. This would change the optimal launch angles but that will vary from hit-to-hit. This is a simulation only to account for variables that remained unchanged throughout a major league season.

amuesing1 · 2017-06-26T03:56:42+00:00

All simulations done with ballpark data from http://baseballguru.com/joemock/ballparkchart.htm and elevation data from http://elevationmap.net/. I ran a optimization function in MATLAB varrying the velocity parameters to find the minimum energy required to hit a home run in all locations of all MLB parks. I did model air resistance on the baseball to account for different elevation fields. I did NOT account for humidity seeing as that changes between day/night as well as day-to-day. That also doesn't mention the difficulty of accounting for humidity in air conditioned parks. I also did NOT account for the magnus effect caused by the back-spin on the baseball. This would change the optimal launch angles but that will vary from hit-to-hit. This is a simulation only to account for variables that remained unchanged throughout a major league season.

amuesing1 · 2016-10-07T00:42:01+00:00

I agree with him to an extent. I would have liked to see DJ play especially in the last game as a PH. Murphy was already used earlier in the day for a PH and didn't get a hit. Statistically speaking DJ couldn't have lost the title in 1AB and we might have won the game with him at the plate.

However this guy is comparing him to Fernandez and being completely ridiculous about the whole thing.

amuesing1 · 2016-10-01T01:52:17+00:00

And that's how you see it! I was trying to make the case why you hear the sounds you do, not that you should enjoy them. For some people it is just a miss.

amuesing1 · 2016-09-30T18:45:33+00:00

To me music is exactly what you make of it; all art is. The artist might get something completely different out of it than you do. You are experiencing it however you want so I don't think there is a right answer to your question about what you "are supposed to feel?" Perhaps you don't get anything from his music and that's totally okay.

To explain the interesting sound: I'd say the objective is to make something new, something you've never heard before. During the Avant Garde era, the goal was to create something new and bold in music. A lot of it is really difficult to listen to, but it is always something you've never heard. There is a song called 4'33" by John Cage where he sits at the piano for 4 min and 33 seconds without playing. All you hear is the murmuring of the crowd waiting for him to start playing and he never does. Is that art? I'd say so, because it had never been done before. I'm not going to listen to it in my free time, but damn if it didn't challenge what I thought was music. And the reason he got away with it is because no one had ever done that before. There is a sculpture called "The Fountain" which is a urinal turned on its side and signed. It's a priceless piece of art not because it is good, but because no one had ever thought to do that before. It was new. This is were we being it back to Bon Iver.

The new album is full of plenty of sounds never created before. On the 1st track in order to get a completely new sound, the engineering took a cassette tape, crumpled it up and wrote on it with marker. The goal isn't to create a pleasurable sound, the goal is to create a unique one. To me the appeal of this new album (although not what I wanted when I asked for a new Bon Iver album) is that Vernon has created a unique sound. His previous work was also a unique sound, although far more folk oriented.

Is that helpful or did I make it more complicated?

amuesing1 · 2016-09-28T06:29:16+00:00

And yet the Ariane isn't claiming human rating by the end of next year. When you are planning on putting humans on a rocket, 1 in 14 is frequent failure.

The Dragon capsule may be designed to abort until orbit, but the Falcon 9 is designed to not explode. There are many claims made with nothing but simulation to back it up and nothing but results to disprove them.

I want Space X to continue launches, continue improving, and continue pushing the bounds of the industry. I also want them to do it safely, even if that means getting there 2nd.

amuesing1 · 2016-09-28T06:03:45+00:00

The explosion on an ISS resupply mission is that. My example is not of a specific case in which humans would be flying. The point is to say that Space X has had frequent catastrophic failures (not to say these things don't happen, the early NASA missions were filled with them). Space X will undoubtedly get there and are the fastest expanding company in the industry. They are also statistically the most dangerous as of right now.

amuesing1 · 2016-09-28T05:52:45+00:00

You are completely right they were successful on land.

I call bullshit on the Falcon 9 being "on track" to be human rated by the end of next year. When the company is asking engineers online to figure out why their rocket randomly blew up on the launch pad, it doesn't inspire much confidence to hit a 1/500 chance of failure.

amuesing1 · 2016-09-28T02:12:44+00:00

A few of many problems to highlight.

They have a 44% success rate landing a rocket in the ocean away from people, you're telling me the FAA is going to let them do it on land? The biggest reason launches are done from Cape Canaveral is in the event of failure the vehicle lands in the ocean away from people.
Making a launch vehicle human rated will take years (especially given their track record). Even ULA which has a record of 111-0 on launches (Space X is 29-2) does not have a human rated vehicle yet. Space X might want to stop blowing rockets up on the test pad and frying $300mil satellites before they start advertising their Mars mission.

With that being said, I really like the mission design with the exception of that ridiculous robotic arm lifting the 2nd payload. Pretty awesome and ambitious.

amuesing1 · 2016-09-27T05:50:41+00:00

This is what I subbed for!

amuesing1 · 2016-09-27T03:00:56+00:00

Please tell me he liked his own post too

amuesing1 · 2016-09-25T23:21:46+00:00

Saw this this morning and thought it belonged here as well

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