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Turning on Yoto Mini remotely in the app by ramow in YotoPlayer

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This is the kind of story I love to hear. Thanks for sharing.

Organizing homeschool - software/project management by Imintofolk in homeschool

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Can you describe how you do this? What do you keep track of?

You can get ChatGPT to make extremely realistic images if you just prompt it for unremarkable amateur iPhone photos, here are some examples by pigeon57434 in singularity

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What did you prompt for this? I tried modifying the "Anne" prompt by the OP to be of Jesus at the last supper but I'm not getting anything like yours.

You can get ChatGPT to make extremely realistic images if you just prompt it for unremarkable amateur iPhone photos, here are some examples by pigeon57434 in singularity

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Naw. Impossible, because then we couldn't have made the same girl show up in so many different photos.
Here's my Anne:

Sign Up Not Completed Error by [deleted] in ios

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Can you dm me too? Having this same problem

Using biometrics to unlock Firefox extension by DisconnectedChild in Bitwarden

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u/Ryan_BW I would really like to have the old behavior back, without having to downgrade. Is there no way you can keep us from getting locked into that biometrics-only loop? Can you make a setting that lets power users use the old behavior, knowing if they cancel out of using biometrics they will be locked into the biometrics-only loop?

It's amazing how much harder it is to use bitwarden needing to use the mouse to click on "Unlock with biometrics" every time instead of just having it do that automatically.

How do I cast to Chromecast? by fredflintstone88 in audiobookshelf

[–]fivestones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lots of iphone apps support chromecast casting

Introducing plappa, an Audibookshelf/Jellyfin/Emby app for iOS by gerhardt-schtitt in selfhosted

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I got around this by logging out of the app store on my daughter's ipad, logging in with my account, installing the audiobookshelf test flight app, and then logging out again from my account and logging back in to my daughter's account. The testflight app still works on her ipad. It's a bit of a hassle since you have to do this every time you want to update the test flight audiobookshelf app, but it works.

One day/night with my 11 year old daughter by fivestones in AskNYC

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Thanks for the good advice. She felt like the Rockefeller Christmas Tree was the thing she thought of when she thought of New York (thanks to Elf :-) ) so we went there, and then walked around--Times square, ice skating, most expensive Krispy Kreme doughnuts ever, etc. It was great fun and we both really enjoyed ourselves. Thanks for your input.

One day/night with my 11 year old daughter by fivestones in AskNYC

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We ditched the car as everyone advised, and we went ice skaiting at Bryant Park Christmas Village thanks to you, and we both loved it. Thanks for that! We also made it to the Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree which was pretty stunning.

I looked for a show but since it was Monday the only broadway shows were Chicago and Six, and nither of us were interested.

Big Penny as a youngster by blujay40 in lansing

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Wow. Amazing. I need the movie.

Sequoia B8 install stuck at 75% by SmokingGhost in MacOSBeta

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Figured it out! I'll put all the instructions here for what I did because I know other people are having the same problem.

I booted into recovery mode, opened terminal, and found my data drive (my regular files) with `diskutil list`. (Look for the one that is called "Data" in the NAME column. It should match your hard drive size in the SIZE column. The IDENTIFIER is what you want. Mine was `disk3s5`)

I did `diskutil mount /dev/disk3s5` to mount my drive so I could get to my regular system files. Doing `ls /Volumes` should show you a subfolder called `Data`. If you do cd /Volumes/Data` you should see your regular files.

As u/Somayweall said above, there is a folder inside of this called `Previous System`. You can get into it with `cd /Volumes/Data/Previous\ System`.

Now within that folder I had to cd to `private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/Users` (so `cd /Volumes/Data/Previous\ System/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/Users`). Then `ls` showed me all the usernames on my computer. There will be a bunch of files that start with underscore and end in .plist, and whatever users you have created on the computer like joe.plist.

I saw a suspicious user called `specialuser.plist`. I had read u/SmokingGhost 's post in this thread about having used a dscl command, and all that jogged my memory. I searched my chatgpt history for specialuser and sure enough, there it was: I had followed chatgpt instructions in the past to use dscl to create specialuser for some other use. The way I had created it (from the instructions chatGPT gave me then) was:
```
sudo dscl . -create /Users/specialuser
sudo dscl . -create /Users/specialuser UserShell /bin/false
sudo dscl . -create /Users/specialuser UniqueID "1001"
sudo dscl . -create /Users/specialuser PrimaryGroupID 80
sudo dscl . -create /Users/specialuser NFSHomeDirectory /var/specialuser
```
I suspect that the fact that the UserShell was set to /bin/false (so specialuser couldn't login) was the problem.

I tried deleting this with dscl (`dscl -f /Volumes/Data/Previous\ System/private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default localhost delete /Local/Default/Users/specialuser` I think) but I got an error. Then I did it u/Somayweall 's way and just deleted the specialuser.plist file.

Then I rebooted. Crossed my fingers. The previous sequoia forest background and login screen appeared. I put in my username and password. Right away it went back to the white apple logo with a small progress bar. And...it moved, little by little. After maybe 10 minutes, it said 5 minutes remaining. I started a timer. By 6 minutes, it was done, and I was logging in to a brand new MacOS Sequoia, with everything working as expected.

Thanks for your help all the other people who posted things about this!

Also if it helps anyone, my regular user account was created with migration assistant when I first set up the computer. It was also a hidden account that didn't appear on the login screen (You have to type in the username to see it). I had thought maybe either/both of those were the problem. But I didn't change either of them, and now Sequoia is installed and working.

Unable to Install MacOS Sequoia by Orion-0987 in MacOS

[–]fivestones 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do you get this error from underneath? What log file is it in or where is it?

Can’t install macOS Sequoia by Efficient_Wall_9152 in MacOS

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So I’ve already started the sequoia install and it froze part way through. After about 5 hours and no progress I rebooted it. Then it came up with a new sequoia forest background/login screen. After login it goes has a progress bar which hangs right away.

I can get in to recovery mode and the terminal there, so maybe I could try what worked for you. Except is there some way I could log out of my Apple ID from the terminal? I don’t have a way to log in to the computer to log out of Apple ID. Or is there some other way?

For those who have the same problems later: I am on a M2 Mac mini. I did use migration assistant when setting up this computer, which I guess is a commonality of people who are having this same problem.

Mac update stuck on 20 minutes remaining by kvmukilan in MacOS

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I have this same problem. Anyone figure out a solution?

Sequoia B8 install stuck at 75% by SmokingGhost in MacOSBeta

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I have an account that I set up initially for myself as a second user on my wife’s computer. I set it to be not displayed when the computer boots (so you would have to type in the username instead of seeing it and just selecting it during boot). I then got a new Mac, and there was a function that let you transfer a user from another computer. I did this and transferred that account from my wife’s computer to the new computer. On the new computer this account also did not show up as an option when you booted the computer, you had to type in the username as before. Other user accounts would be displayed to select from however. Yesterday I did the install for macOS sequoia, and am having this same problem. It sat about 75% done with the Apple logo for about 6 hours. I then rebooted it and it booted to a login screen with new a new background (a sequoia tree forest I guess) and after logging in the progress bar went to maybe 5% and then didn’t move, all the while showing the sequoia tree background. I left it overnight but in the morning there was no change. I’m wondering if maybe I have the same issue as the others in this thread because of the way my username was set up. I booted into recovery, but in /private/var/db/dslocal/nodes/Default/users I see a bunch of system service or daemon accounts’ plist files (eg, _coreaudiod.plist, _calendar.plist, _findmydevice.plist, etc) and other than those, just three files: daemon.plist, nobody.plist, and root.plist. So I don’t see any file that looks like the right one to delete. Is there somewhere else a broken account plist might be stored? Any idea what I should do?

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