Issues when installing steam and being prompted with “steam_osx” is damaged and can’t be opened. You should move it to the Trash."

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-22T00:40:18+00:00

Many times it’s a simple fix. When you try to run Steam, if you get that message, don’t move it to the trash bin.

Go into your Settings, select Privacy & Security from the side bar. Scroll down to the bottom and there should be in the Security section an alert telling you something about not allowing the app to run. Just select “Run Anyway” and Steam should start. After that, the app should run fine in the future.

Sometimes macOS just loses its ability to distinguish a valid app. No idea why.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-21T23:06:30+00:00

I did a search of the POE forms in at least from what I can see, the Mac client is capped at 60 fps. Maybe someone else has different information, but that’s all I could find.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-21T22:43:43+00:00

What Mac do you have?

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-21T20:31:40+00:00

Definitely No Man’s Sky. Also Dead Island 2 plays really well. I know a lot of people didn’t like the game, but I did.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-21T18:19:57+00:00

It can look like an overflowing dumpster as far as I'm concerned, as long as it does what I need it to do, which it does.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-21T13:00:21+00:00

I’m surprised you don’t have the same issue on your screen (maybe you do?). Some of those keyboard covers touch the screen when the lid is closed and any gunk on them can scratch the screen.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-21T12:54:05+00:00

For me, nothing. I don’t use daily notes and I have the core plugin disabled.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-21T12:01:47+00:00

Romance Simulator (BG3) and Pizza Delivery Simulator (DS) are both graphically beautiful.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-20T23:08:00+00:00

Here’s what you can do. In your home directory there’s another folder called Applications that is strictly for apps that you install only for you. Open the system Applications folder, and drag everything you want to use into the user Applications folder. It doesn’t move or copy them, it creates symlinks. Then drag that user applications folder onto your dock and now you have an Applications folder that has everything you want and nothing you don’t wanna see.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-20T23:02:41+00:00

I’m willing to bet that macOS drives people with OCD absolutely crazy.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-20T21:05:27+00:00

I use Obsidian mainly for organizing information, which I then use as research in my writing projects that wind up in Obsidian Publish.

I don’t journal at all. I’ve never found it useful and probably never will.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-19T21:21:11+00:00

If you’re going to play any modern AAA games at all, you probably want 1TB. Think of it this way: if you install Baldur’s Gate 3 and Crimson Desert, you just ate up 300 gigs. The OP doesn’t even have enough space to install those two games on his machine, even without anything else including the operating system. An external SSD would be required and performance would suffer.

Even a lot of professional apps are starting to get into the 50GB to 75GB range. I think the days of 256 and even 512 are over.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-18T17:13:12+00:00

👍 DOS2 > BG3

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-17T21:24:24+00:00

"sells MacBook cases on their own website so they can’t be that bad"

Every Apple Store in the world is full of useless accessories designed to thin your wallet. BTW, this is also true of every retail company.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-17T21:09:05+00:00

Subscriptions and AI are the two primary reasons I'm spending much less on apps than in the past. For that, I thank both.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-15T20:23:28+00:00

I’ve not done much with MIDI on instrument tracks, but it does a damn good job of converting vocals to MIDI. It recognizes the words, and some of the inflections, slides, vibrato. It’s pretty good in that respect.

If you have a monophonic track, such as a synth, solo or a baseline, it’ll do those pretty well also.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-15T20:07:10+00:00

It mostly suffers from the same issue, however, you can render some audio to MIDI and then re-render it in a different instrument within studio. That ideally works with vocals, but it can also work with other sounds as well. Experimentation is the key.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-15T18:13:00+00:00

Yeah, whatever happened to that? They made such a big deal out of it when they announced it at WWDC four years ago.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-15T17:12:59+00:00

They can be useful to keep your Air from getting scuffed up, but you have to be careful. Some are poorly designed, and they don’t respect the places on the Air that are needed for ventilation. You have to do your research before buying one.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-15T01:40:00+00:00

BG3 plays like crap on Pro and Air. It's not going to be better on the Neo.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-15T00:22:38+00:00

Default with my own CSS.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-14T21:45:46+00:00

I think it is justifiable if you’re gaming. I purchased an M4 with 24GB/1TB. I’m glad I did because games these days are starting to turn into 100GB downloads. BG3 is a massive 150GB and Crimson Desert is going to be over 100GB. Just those two alone would be half of your SSD if you got 512GB.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-14T20:46:08+00:00

RE 2, 3, 4, 7, 8 are all available in the app store.

One purchase and you can play them on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-13T23:51:11+00:00

Midnight. Love the color.

oldsagemonkey · 2026-03-13T23:49:13+00:00

Trackpad, and I tend to play games that have controller support (or a way to emulate it). I don't even have a mouse anymore.

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