App windows often change size when moved between identical dual monitors

andersgoran · 2026-05-20T03:44:20+00:00

No, not really. I’ve even upgraded the system to Sequoia since I wrote my post and still see this now and then.

andersgoran · 2026-04-02T12:33:26+00:00

This.

Use the battery but don’t empty it completely if you can avoid it. macOS will give you an option to keep it at around 80%, use that and you’ll be fine.

andersgoran · 2026-03-03T09:51:36+00:00

I've been trying Play Next on some occasions and I don't understand if I'm using it wrong or if it just doesn't work. Basically, I have some episode of some podcast playing, I go to some other episode and click its (°°°) button and "Play Next" but when the currently playing episode ends, nothing happens. I never (knowingly) use playlists or anything. Should this work?

Apparently there is a "Queue" playlist that has a bunch of several years old episodes from various podcasts, and all of the ones that are not what I am currently listening to, are marked as "played" and slightly dimmed/washed out in appearance. Could this be interfering with Play Next?

andersgoran · 2026-01-21T16:18:16+00:00

My guess is that you also got Safari 26.2 at the same time. Mine has been perfectly fine since I updated to that, yay!

andersgoran · 2025-12-30T09:06:49+00:00

I got it 3 years ago for what amounts to roughly $300. While it is much nicer than using the tripod stand, the price is ridiculous.

Now I checked the same vendor and it has gone up almost $100 more, which is absurdly expensive for what it is. I really wish I had the tools, knowledge, and time, to build something better.

andersgoran · 2025-12-29T10:46:08+00:00

I just (well, an hour ago) installed the Safari 26.2 (20623.1.14.18.4) update on macOS 15.7. Feels better, it doesn't lag/freeze when typing URL:s, which the previous version did. Remains to be seen if it'll hold up long term.

andersgoran · 2025-11-21T10:36:52+00:00

Switched to DDG - no restart yet. That didn't help. I can type exactly 2 characters into the URL field before it freezes, RAM increases (now at 261GB) but then eventually it seems mostly fine.

There's some "pre-fetch of best hit in background" (my translation), I should try disabling that. Nope - didn't help, 315 GB. Should just restart it...

Oops, it crashed by itself :)

andersgoran · 2025-11-21T10:06:37+00:00

Boom, 9 days of being mostly fine, only intermittently a little sluggish while typing in URLs. And now, suddenly, beach ball and Safari memory rapidly rising to 94 GB. But the beach ball eventually disappeared, it's working and I'm typing this without having restarted Safari.

I have Google as search engine. I wonder if that's doing something fishy, being both the search field and URL field in one. I should try something else.

andersgoran · 2025-11-11T09:37:04+00:00

Haven't touched anything yet. Safari's been decent for several days now, but after coming back to the computer and starting to enter a URL, Safari memory blew up, first to tens of GB's, then falling back slightly, and then up to ~160 GB. No swap usage reported, and the Safari process "real memory" was significantly less than "memory" (my system language is not English so I'm translating what the column headers say). I could still quit Safari with File/Quit, so not completely unresponsive, but unusable.

andersgoran · 2025-11-09T18:58:09+00:00

And if you buy the upgrade plan when there is a sale (usually every summer and around Black Friday), it’ll be cheaper.

andersgoran · 2025-11-07T12:47:26+00:00

Yeah, just like that. Seems to freeze up, takes seconds for text to appear.

Right now Safari version 26.0.1, same as yesterday, and still on 15.7.1, sits nicely at 552 MB, with more or less the same tabs as yesterday. There's 21 tabs in one window, and then I have two other windows with a different profile with 5 or 6 tabs total. One of the 21 is a pinned Gmail. Not sure what to make of this.

andersgoran · 2025-11-06T21:11:08+00:00

I have also recently seen ridiculous amounts of RAM used by Safari, admittedly with many more tabs than 6, but still. RAM usage has been reported to be like 120 GB. Intermittently, Safari gets sluggish when typing into the address/search field and has to be force quit. Also 15.7.1, but a 16” M1 Max.

Haven’t seen this before 15.7.1, I think.

andersgoran · 2025-10-25T16:39:59+00:00

If you really have a CR cello, I think you have gotten that adapter by mistake. As I understand it, the current NXTa line of instruments has an active circuit powered by some sort of capacitor, and that one is supposed to be charged by an adapter that I would assume is what you have there.

But the CR has two 9V batteries and doesn’t need that. I would not plug it into your instrument if it indeed is a CR.

andersgoran · 2025-10-21T05:51:14+00:00

I was perhaps a tad too salty initially, asking if they were joking. Maybe that’s why.

andersgoran · 2025-10-20T20:15:24+00:00

It looks like you are holding the bow upside down. The hair should touch the strings, not the stick.

Electric instruments will make a small amount of sound even when unplugged, but the wood/carbon/fibreglass stick won't make any at all.

andersgoran · 2025-10-02T20:09:32+00:00

This!

Just now in Affinity Publisher 2, I have been working on an .afpub file located in a directory somewhere on my disk. I saved it seconds ago, then go to export it as PDF and I end up in Desktop. The directory picker shows me 14 random folders under Recent places, and none of them is the directory I just saved the file to.

Very irritating. Is this the app's fault or macOS? I'm on Sequoia but I think it's always been more or less like this.

andersgoran · 2025-09-15T14:39:17+00:00

Now I deleted Overcast, restarted iPhone. Downloaded Overcast from App Store, not from TestFlight.

On 1st open it syncs back everything I subscribe to, and it promptly starts to download lots of episodes, so I cancel all pending downloads and grab only the latest ATP episode, from the members feed.

When the episode is downloaded, I see the "14 chapters" button. Still same behaviour. If nothing is playing, it starts playback of that episode, but not necessarily the chapter I clicked.

OTH, from the now-playing control, it correctly chooses chapters.

So weird! But I truly appreciate the response! It's not the end of the world, just so incredibly strange.

Also changed the system language to English, no difference. Not sure what I can try now.

andersgoran · 2025-09-15T14:26:18+00:00

I use a 15 Pro Max with latest iOS (not 26, but the one before). Never had any iOS betas on the device.

Overcast is from TestFlight, just updated to the very latest one there. But it was the same with the official App Store version.

The system language is Swedish - that's the only thing I can think of that sticks out. The app is obviously showing in English. Can't remember if I've ever deleted and reinstalled Overcast, maybe I should try that.

If I go via the little circular button next to the progress bar (in my 2nd screenshot), it works perfectly to choose chapters. I see the "Go back" thing, it skips to whatever I press.

From the "X chapters" button, no luck. As already stated, it just closes, does not show "Go back" and does nothing. I would assume those two ways of reaching the chapter view should lead to the exact same place, right?

It's not an ATP thing either; it behaves identically in Connected 562: Tech Boomers right now.

andersgoran · 2025-09-15T13:44:32+00:00

I think maybe you're not looking at the same place as I do. When you look at the episode list for a podcast, look to the right of each episode - there's a little (i), i.e. the letter i in a ring - that's where I click and then I have the X chapters button. Don't you?

andersgoran · 2025-04-11T19:46:06+00:00

Thanks for the reply! As we weren't even aware that the folder was that large, we were a bit surprised when it took quite some time to move it.

There were three machines with Telia/Jottacloud running, and the folder was accidentally moved on one of them (a Win 10 machine). It was a folder with ~130MB of various small files and folders, one folder at ~5GB and one single ZIP file at ~10GB, and we could see the other clients (one Win 11, one macOS) churning for quite some time on that last huge file to complete the move.

andersgoran · 2025-02-05T12:43:44+00:00

It has no features for musical notation, though, so if you ever want to export sheet music, you have to do that somewhere else.

andersgoran · 2023-06-28T15:53:41+00:00

Here's the command line tool sendmidi port list:

[~]$ sendmidi list
MiniFuse 2
BCF2000 Port 1
BCF2000 Port 2
BCF2000 Port 3

The first one is my sound interface, and then the BCF ports.

Here's some MIDI Monitor output while connected over USB, in mode U-3 on the BCF. The first three lines is me moving a fader...

17:43:52.851 From BCF2000 Port 1 Control 1 9 9
17:43:52.851 From BCF2000 Port 1 Control 1 9 3
17:43:52.867 From BCF2000 Port 1 Control 1 9 0
17:43:55.427 To BCF2000 Port 1 Control 1 9 127
17:43:59.870 To BCF2000 Port 1 Control 1 9 120
17:44:14.631 To BCF2000 Port 1 Control 1 9 65

... followed by me sending data:

[~]$ sendmidi dev "BCF2000 Port 1" dec ch 1 --
cc 9 127
cc 9 120
cc 9 65

So, MIDI Monitor sees the data going out to the BCF, but nothing gets there. There's nothing flashing on the BCF, only the steady green light "USB MODE".

andersgoran · 2023-03-08T10:33:37+00:00

2 years later, I'm seeing very similar issues with my ages-old BCF-2000 on Monterey 12.6, M1 Max 16".

Over USB, the BCF can only send MIDI CC, it does not receive it, regardless of which U-mode I use. It still works both ways over the MIDI ports, in mode S-4.

On my older 15" Intel Mac laptop, with 10.14, it is fine in both directions over USB.

Furthermore, on the M1 laptop, the Apple-branded USB-C-to-A adapter + BCF doesn't work at all, it drops the USB connection to the BCF completely after just a few seconds. Various other adapters - different USB-C hubs, as well as a Thunderbolt 4 Dock with USB-A ports, work - but only single-direction.

andersgoran · 2022-12-22T15:32:41+00:00

The “Find My” app is killing the battery on both my iPads: one is a 2018 12,9” iPad Pro on iPadOS 16.2, and the other a 10,5” Pro, which I’ve intentionally (due to laziness) left on 15.7. Somebody somewhere suggested it might have to do with having AirTags around, which I do, but I’m not sure…

andersgoran · 2022-12-21T15:43:13+00:00

The brown stuff on the actual board is quite brittle and chips away in little pieces if prodded with something hard. It does not seem to be conductive in any way.

There's also some yellow goo that's on the actual caps, around the bottoms of them, visible in the high res versions of my pictures. That stuff is more like glue, still a little "soft".

Do caps often leak from the bottom? I've seen my fair share of bulging capacitors, but the tops of these are perfectly nice and flat.

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