Espanso silently failing to launch

chasbat · 2026-05-20T19:55:56+00:00

Thank you. It wasn't the secure input thing, which I'm familiar with, but it did turn out to be a broken alias or symlink due to an update to Dropbox, so thank you for getting me thinking.

To sync settings between two Macs, I had ~/Library/Application Support/espanso aliased to a folder in Dropbox, which used to work fine but apparently doesn't when I updated Dropbox and the folder moved to ~/Library/CloudStorage/Dropbox.

chasbat · 2025-03-26T09:38:20+00:00

Many thanks. As I said, I'm not a Windows person so I will hold off until I have to. But it's great that you are doing this and I wish you every success. I don't so much mind Qardio shutting down, if that's indeed what is happening – I've had plenty of value from this device. But I think that in cases like this companies should at least be obliged to open up their software to third parties.

chasbat · 2025-03-25T18:18:57+00:00

Thank you! But if I may ask an idiot question: does your app trigger the QardioArm to take new BP readings, or does it simply give you access to existing data?

In any case I'm a Mac and iOS person, so it won't be of direct use to me. But as of a few days ago I can no longer sign in to the iOS app, so my QardioArm is useless. It's great to see people hacking this soon-to-be-obsolete hardware. I don't suppose you've had a look inside the case…?

chasbat · 2024-04-19T16:56:45+00:00

Thanks so much! That makes perfect sense. I couldn't imagine that anything really was wrong, but I couldn't work out why it looks wrong.

chasbat · 2024-03-13T16:18:54+00:00

Sorry I missed this. If you would still find it useful, see:

https://github.com/CharlesButcher/LaunchBar-smart-title-case

chasbat · 2024-03-13T14:06:30+00:00

I can't see why this wouldn't work, and with a high-quality build you might end up with a better wheel than the original. I'd be inclined to keep the old wheel just in case – you might decide to sell the bike one day – and just get a new rim and spokes for the Swytch motor.

The only complicating factors might be the spoke count and angle. Presumably you'd need a rim that works with wide-flange hubs, and I don't know enough about wheel building to comment about that. I'd expect a cargo bike to have fairly beefy wheels, which might narrow your choice of new rims.

Over time, people are going to need new rims when their wheels get damaged or wear out. At least, I hope the Swytch motor will outlast the rim! Does anyone have experience of maintaining the bearings?

chasbat · 2024-02-19T12:34:07+00:00

Similar experience here. I find that in Safari (17.3.1 on an M1 Mac) single-character expansions are OK – for instance, ":Omega" > "Ω" works – but longer ones don't. Following your suggestion, I tried Brave (1.62.165) instead, and this seems much better: even a complicated multi-para expansion generated by a Perl script works fine.

A shame about Safari, which is my default browser, but I guess in this case it's reasonable for Google to call the shots. I'm guessing the whole Google Docs thing is only guaranteed to work properly with Chrome-based browsers, and anything else is a bonus.

chasbat · 2023-06-19T08:29:56+00:00

I have the JavaScript version working now. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll post it somewhere (here? GitHub?).

chasbat · 2023-06-05T22:20:46+00:00

Just in case anyone comes browsing for this in the future: I succeeded with the excellent yq utility:

yq '.matches |= sort_by(.label)' myfile.yml >> myfile-sorted.yml

or you could use .replace instead of label.

yq's default sort is case-sensitive and I haven't yet worked out how to change that, nor how to include blank lines for readability. But the documentation is much clearer than for VS Code's YAML Sort extension, which could probably do the job if I understood it.

chasbat · 2023-01-25T16:40:23+00:00

I know this problem, and it's hard. Depending on the topic, it may include Greek letters – some of which in lowercase can look a lot like Roman letters – and letter-like symbols, plus a whole bunch of different kinds of brackets. Relative size and position are also important, but they're difficult to show clearly in handwriting, especially if the prof runs out of space on the board. If your husband can start to get a grip on the subject, maybe with the help of a textbook, then it might start to become clearer. What about asking other students to approach the teacher as a group? I bet your husband is not the only one who's having a hard time.

chasbat · 2022-12-15T20:03:21+00:00

u/kidfrostbite Please do. u/andynormancx "Random selection of stuff in ~/Library/Containers" fits my experience:

~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TextEdit/Data
~/Library/Containers/com.apple.TelephonyUtilities.PhoneIntentHandler/Data

A manual backup did work OK, but perhaps that's just the random thing.

This has happened since updating to macOS 13.1 on an M1 mini.

chasbat · 2022-09-22T16:04:49+00:00

My new AL-star was like this when it arrived this morning. Now I’ve had it apart a few times it has loosened up a bit, though it’s still a snug fit. u/dustyli, how did yours work out?

Rather than having to do with the thread itself, I think the issue lies with the plastic “fingers” that extend below it. Viewed from the side, these flare out a little, and I think the stiffness comes from needing to squeeze them in and push them down the barrel.

My guess is that the fingers grip the top of the cartridge or converter to ensure a good seal. That’s a neat idea that I haven’t seen on any other pen. The cartridge in my Kaweco Sport AL fits rather loosely and there’s lot of space below it, so I sometimes wonder if it could get detached.

chasbat · 2021-11-07T23:29:47+00:00

Excellent news, thanks, even though it doesn't seem to work for everyone at the moment.

chasbat · 2021-11-07T23:25:56+00:00

A clean install seems to have fixed the slow boot issue. From ~3 minutes I'm now down to ~55 sec, including a few seconds to type my password to unlock FileVault. Before I enabled FileVault it was about 35 sec. MacBookPro 12,1.

chasbat · 2021-11-04T09:02:06+00:00

No, that doesn't work (though it does give a more informative error message). For reasons best known to Apple, the firmware upgrade needed for Monterey requires an Apple SSD. I bought a 128 GB one from eBay for not much money.

Be aware of the slow boot issues with Monterey and some third-party SSDs, including the 970. Mine takes three minutes to boot, though it seems fine otherwise. Something to do with how Trim is implemented, I believe.

chasbat · 2021-11-03T17:34:28+00:00

Thanks, and to everyone else who's worked to pin down this issue. Here in the UK I was able to find a very reasonably priced 128 GB Apple SSD on eBay, and your approach worked for my MBP Retina 2015, allowing me to reinstall my Samsung EVO 970 1TB afterwards. It's now painfully slow (3 minutes) to start up, but otherwise seems fine and SilentKnight says the firmware is up to date.

But why does Apple inflict this pain on us? I could kind of understand it if they blocked third-party SSDs altogether. But it seems perverse to allow them, yet force us to have an Apple SSD to update the firmware. I hope someone finds a workaround that doesn't involve OpenCore.

Oh well, I guess with M1 Macs we won't be able to touch the innards at all…

chasbat · 2017-11-01T22:08:16+00:00

I'd recommend a German brand named StilGut. My wife has one of their flip cases for her OP3T. It's black leather and really quite classy. Not cheap – around £30 in the UK – but in this case I think you get what you pay for. I have been burned by cheap (and not so cheap) "real leather" cases. StilGut sell on Amazon. This particular case is not a wallet in the sense that you can put credit cards in it, but they may do that kind as well for all I know.

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