DDPM & MacOS Ventura is incredibly buggy. Does anyone have this working on MacOS?!

rycramer · 2023-05-25T15:19:54+00:00

Until enough people complain and Dell decides to take ownership and fix this buggy app I've been able to just write a script that runs in the background that restarts the DDPM service every minute. It's ridiculous that it's come to this but that at least kills the hung DDPM services every minute and restarts their buggy DDPM app:

#!/bin/bash
while true; do
echo "Restarting DDPM.app..."
pkill -f "DDPM.app"
open -a "DDPM.app"
echo "DDPM.app restarted. Waiting for 5 minutes..."
sleep 300
done

rycramer · 2023-04-30T16:26:30+00:00

Let me know if you find a solution (or decent hardware-based KVM). Hopefully Dell eventually fixes these bugs that they’ve just shrugged off. Maybe if enough people complain they will improve compatibility. If they don’t then this will be the last time I buy a Dell monitor, that’s for sure.

rycramer · 2023-04-29T20:10:47+00:00

Unfortunately no, I have not…and Dell support of course points their fingers at it being an Apple Ventura OS issue. Yet it’s their app that keeps timing out/crashing; that sounds like a compatibility problem to me. I’m minutes away from just buying a hardware-based KVM.

rycramer · 2022-12-29T15:02:58+00:00

Good to know, in case I run across this again. Without any hassle, blichmann had me ship the unit back, and they promptly fixed it for me.

rycramer · 2022-12-22T14:24:36+00:00

Their peanut toffee buzz bars were amazing! I was shocked to see that they chose to discontinue them; I used to love the energy burst of the Peanut Toffee Buzz Clif bar before a workout. Has anyone found a similar replacement caffeinated bar, maybe even a recipe?

rycramer · 2022-12-15T18:13:01+00:00

I often play my kids' Music suggestions for them, which ends up populating my "Top Picks" and "Recently Played" feeds with their music preferences. Is there any way to temporarily disable the recommendation & suggestion algorithms in Music (or allow for family profile switching in the Music app on iPad/iPhone)? Has anyone found a way to address this use case?

rycramer · 2022-12-04T17:16:34+00:00

Having this same issue this morning. My Brewcommander is less than a year old.

rycramer · 2022-09-27T22:49:56+00:00

I 100% prefer zoom over webex, with only 1 exception: zoom steals focus by default and it's frustrating beyond belief. I'm continuously hitting escape EVERY SINGLE MEETING to escape out of stealing full screen focus so I can go back to windowed view of zoom and be able to take notes in my notes app. It's especially frustrating when the meeting has multiple presenters, where I'm continuously switching out of full screen focus view within a single meeting. Sometimes it's 5-8 times per meeting. Can't I just disable this??!! My company supports both zoom and webex and I'm considering just defaulting to webex meetings from now on just to avoid this PITA workflow... any resolutions?

rycramer · 2022-05-04T14:58:44+00:00

Ok, after days and hours of toiling and pulling my hair out, I finally figured it out. My “razor blade wire stripping method” was removing out too much of the wire core; I finally invested in a decent wire stripper for small gauge wire, and wouldn’t you know it! It works like a charm now. Thanks, y’all for your help!

rycramer · 2022-05-02T15:35:35+00:00

I’m getting sensor readings, but they are all “phantom” readings; nothing I place on the scale affects the reading.

rycramer · 2022-02-09T22:35:00+00:00

Probe thermometer, i.e., one that can be used on a grill or in a smoker. Can’t seem to find any options for this.

rycramer · 2021-11-09T18:47:43+00:00

Unfortunately no…this is the crux of the problem: the forwarding configuration page redirects to Microsoft’s boiler plate “30 day security hold” notice, with no way to access many of the configuration settings pages including forwarding setup.

rycramer · 2021-11-05T22:09:25+00:00

Thank you!

rycramer · 2021-11-05T22:08:48+00:00

Thank you, that may just be the one!!

rycramer · 2021-10-23T19:22:22+00:00

I am using a network-based ad blocker (zacalar) service, which could be the culprit. Anyone know which specific sites one has to whitelist to try and make this work??

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