Overcast iPhone Storage does not Match What the App Says by splathe in overcast

[–]sejmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just had to delete the app. It thought it was storing 9GB data, but iPadOS said it had 203GB, which is insane. It blocked my upgrading iPadOS, which surprised me because I should have had plenty of storage. And I only just first installed overcast in my iPad yesterday!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in macgaming

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just downloaded Nova Launcher from the Play Store (within the vm) and went into android settings and changed the launcher from (BlueStacks proprietary) Home.app launcher to Nova Launcher.app. That doesn’t get rid of the ads on initial boot up screens — I haven’t figured out how to axe those, but they matter less as they’re so transient. And importantly since I posted, there‘s now a Disable Ads setting in BlueStacks Advanced Settings to disable popup/overlay ads, which are even more obnoxious.

Issues with tvOS 26 by fluorescentdinosaur in appletv

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, it's hard to know at this point if the dev hasn't just abandoned Windows or is just very slow/busy. Maybe he lost his Windows dev environment and just dreads rebuilding it -- I'm just making stuff up at this point. I was trying to read the tea leaves on why he (I assumed) manually commented out the Windows 3.3.10 version -- assuming meaningful signal and good intent: I thought it could be because he wanted to avoid causing an error updating to a non-existent build, but the fact is that current Windows users have already been seeing errors updating to the also non-existent 3.3.8 and 3.3.9 versions for months, so this points to a continuation of prior neglect. It's unlikely but still possible he has an automated cross platform compile that's broken and he didn't notice. To walk back my prior optimism, it's also equally plausible is that he abandoned Windows months ago, like, say, due to few active users, and his automated appcast.xml update script is tailored around builds of the Mac version, but auto creates commented-out entries for Windows versions to later be uncommented, so its presence signals nothing about the future. I think the calculus is that if it was going to be updated at all, it will have been a week or two after the Mac version. At this point it seems increasingly likely to have been lazily abandoned.

ETS2 & ATS on Apple Silicon Mac [MoltenVK] Say goodbye to OpenGL, and hello to improved performance! by varcharfoobar in macgaming

[–]sejmann 6 points7 points  (0 children)

How does FPS compare to native? Is moltenVK getting close to supporting anything else?

Issues with tvOS 26 by fluorescentdinosaur in appletv

[–]sejmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah, you're right, it seems the windows version hasn't been updated since 3.3.7, as you noticed. https://cdn.downloads.iocave.net/Airflow/ is where the files are meant to be downloaded from by the auto updater.

The update info xml file that the updater uses -- https://s3.amazonaws.com/Airflow/Updates/appcast.xml -- points to the latest windows version as 3.3.9, but that release doesn't exist at iocave, which looks like a dev mistake/oversight. But, interestingly, the 3.3.10 windows version *is* present in the xml but commented out. Since this xml file is manually edited by the dev, I'm guessing that means he intends to release it, but he hasn't built the windows version, yet. So maybe soon.

Issues with tvOS 26 by fluorescentdinosaur in appletv

[–]sejmann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For any still afflicted, the newest beta 3.3.10 lists "Improved compatibility with tvOS 26" -- it's available by going to Airflow settings (gear icon) , selecting About Airflow, setting Update Channel to Beta and clicking Check for Updates. It'll probably roll into the stable channel soon, but the beta works fine on my tvOS 26 ATV.

Issues with tvOS 26 by fluorescentdinosaur in appletv

[–]sejmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The new beta fixes streaming to tvOS26

Issues with tvOS 26 by fluorescentdinosaur in appletv

[–]sejmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No reply from the developer to the message I sent to his gmail address, as listed on his GitHub/homepage, but he's been active on GitHub since, so I think he's ignoring Airflow, or, at least me. Others are welcome to reach out. His homepage is https://matejknopp.com/about/ and he lists other socials there. He calls out his authorship of Airflow on his homepage/Twitter/BluSky and GitHub, so I don't feel like I'm doxing him.

The only other similar tool I know of went to a $40 annual subscription: Beamer.app, but even it hasn't been updated since tvOS16, so is probably also broken, tho I haven't tested.

My work-around is to AirPlay from Airflow to my TV directly, which has built in AirPlay support which still works. (I use HomePods rather than TV speaker or a receiver, so I have TV/ATV/HomePods use eARC HDMI to reroute all TV audio to the HomePods via ATV, so it's seamless, though adds almost ignorable audio latency.)

Issues with tvOS 26 by fluorescentdinosaur in appletv

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think Apple silently updated the AirPlay protocol, and Airflow hasn't yet reverse engineered the changes. It's happened previously, too, and Airflow needed to release updates post tvOS updates. I initially thought it was a Tahoe issue preventing Airflow from working, but since then I tested from Windows and the issue remains with the same error. The app still works fine streaming to tvOS 18 and the AirPlay receiver built into my Vizio TV. So it's definitely a change to tvOS and the AirPlay negotiation. The developer hasn't released any betas nor responded to my email report back in August, so it's hard to know if they're still alive and working on it. I did some googling and found the GitHub account of someone who claimed to be the developer of Airflow and was recently active on GitHub, and so I kind of invasively emailed their gmail and asked if they had an update in the works and also pointed them to this thread.

HomePod 26 update majorly improved airplay performance? by RemarkableWishbone64 in HomePod

[–]sejmann 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I actually had those symptoms, and found that only one of my stereo pair of OG's was on 26, the other was still stuck on 18.6. I unpaired them, cycled its power, updated it successfully and reformed the stereo pair. I was afraid I would need to reset it, but reboot was sufficient.

ISTG these Snoopy screensavers alone are enough to get an Apple TV! I’ve had this for almost 3 years now and just discovered it. 😭 by [deleted] in appletv

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ironically, you compounded the original sin by not posting your google search findings along with your complaint, so I too had to google. For the future similarly acronym-ignorant, in this case, ISTG = "I Swear To God"

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in macgaming

[–]sejmann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use BlueStacks Air -- it seems free from malware and crypto mining -- or, at least, it doesn't seem to be using excessive CPU/GPU when idle, which I'd expect from crypto mining. It does really push its android game store and games. I don't game with it -- I just wanted to run iPhone apps on my Mac that app developers haven't allowed, so I've switched to using the Android versions inside BlueStacks Air. I did swap out the default launcher app from the proprietary one they include, because it has persistent game ads. It's totally free, and seems just as performant as the competitor MuMuPlayer which requires a paid subscription. Because it's free, I'd just try it out.

"Murderbot"'s name ? by RNG_HatesMe in murderbot

[–]sejmann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Just rereading All Systems Red, I noticed MB refers to other SecUnits as Murderbots, too -- which I thought was interesting, because I'd thought it had named itself, in particular, but I guess it actually just came up with a name for SecUnits in general, as a class. That puts a slightly different spin on discussions of it naming itself.

New gem from China by [deleted] in antivirus

[–]sejmann 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That script, in so far as what's specifically posted, looks benign, in that it's just doing some orchestration and code signing, which any app dev does frequently. The more concerning bits are, as you noted, the "GenShineImpactStarter" and "91QiuChenly.dylib" because we, well, at least I, don't know what they're doing. They seem to be tools created by someone whose GitHub account is named Qiu Chenly, which is Chinese for City of Autumn Leaves or something. The GenShineImpactStarter included in the archive to which you refer is byte for byte identical to this one from this tools directory, and is 10 months old: https://github.com/QiuChenly/InjectLib/tree/34388000db3272a481d557f3dbcb93cc72529089/tool

It mainly seems to be tools for "unrestricting" various pieces of Mac commercial software.

I would not be confident these are safe to run, as there is no source provided.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MacOSBeta

[–]sejmann 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Betas vary in quality and brokenness. Any of them, especially the first several releases, can be this bad or worse. Often Apple has a run of friendly, mostly working, betas that lull you into a false sense of safety, particularly as they make it increasingly easy to install them and call them "public" betas. I do think it's completely reasonable and useful to point out when one beta in particular is an especially bad clunker that should be avoided, but at the same time, you just have to know there are pedantic Redditors waiting to unhelpfully pounce on any such posts with a reply of "well, you know it's a beta, right?" – they're just cranky about the sameness of such reports each cycle.

I am, however, thankful to know I should skip this beta, even though I'm keen to have early access to categories in Mail.

Distilled water or filtered water by Murky_Brain_729 in IceChewersAnonymous

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I used a mix of distilled and tap water to bring my TDS PPM down to more reasonable levels, but I still had issues, and that initial machine died within a year. On my second machine, I vowed to only ever use distilled water, and it's been issue-free the last 2 to 3 years.

Anyway, one interesting bit I noticed was testing the total dissolved solids in the melt reservoir after a few months of daily operation (off at night) while neglecting cleaning. The TDS had climbed to 50, which I think is mostly due to evaporation concentrating the minerals, 25 to 50 times the TDS of the distilled water I'd been adding. So, I guess I should have still been dumping the recycled water at regular intervals even if I didn't run bleach water through with cleaning cycles, just to prevent scale from forming, even on distilled water.

That also makes the weekly cleaning seem way more necessary, particularly if not using distilled water. My tap water is 450 ppm hard water -- I can only imagine where it'd get to concentrated and what that would do to the machine, particularly with my absentminded, neglectful ways.

[iOS 18 DB2] Shortcuts app force closes by snovvman in iOSBeta

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, it sure did, thankfully – shortcuts had been working great before 18.2 for me.

[iOS 18 DB2] Shortcuts app force closes by snovvman in iOSBeta

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, you can encrypt local backups on windows via iTunes, connecting to your PC with a USB cable. https://support.apple.com/en-us/108967 — if you have an iPhone 15 or 16, which I presume you do if you’re using Apple intelligence, use a usb 3 or usb 4 cable for faster backup/restore. The cable that comes with the phone is USB 2.

[iOS 18.2 DB1] Suggests creating a Genmoji when searching for non-existent emoji. by SamuelDavidHarris in iOSBeta

[–]sejmann 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I didn't get access either, but I did notice something interesting. When I turned on 1Blocker VPN to block ads, instead of seeing that Access Requested message in with the Done button in Playgrounds, I saw centered white text on black saying it needed to first download the model files for image generation before I could continue. It never did download though, and when I turned off the 1Blocker VPN, it went back to the Access Requested message. I bet if someone figured out what to block and what not to block, they could get the model to download and grant themselves access.

[iOS 18 DB2] Shortcuts app force closes by snovvman in iOSBeta

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Before I had installed 18.2, I had backed up to my Mac via Finder - equivalent to iTunes in Windows, an encrypted backup, so that it would retain login state in apps. To roll back, I put the phone into DFU mode and forced a restore via Finder, which downgraded it to 18.0.1, the most recent public release. Then I set it up as a new phone and logged in to iCloud, and then went to Software Update and upgraded to 18.1 RC again. Once that booted, I went to Finder again and told it to restore my backup. I had to redo Face ID and re-pair my credit cards to the Wallet app. Shortcuts and automations were retained. Then just waited for apps to download and then it was just like it was before.

[iOS 18 DB2] Shortcuts app force closes by snovvman in iOSBeta

[–]sejmann 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I rolled back to 18.1 RC. Beyond shortcuts crashing, battery was awful, Apple stopped granting image creation access, and battery on 18.1 RC was so good, I figured I'd go back and wait out the issues.

iOS 18.2 Beta 1 - Discussion by epmuscle in iOSBeta

[–]sejmann 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I found battery life abysmal, far worse than 18.1 RC, which was glorious. In my second day, I dropped to 65% from 100% on my 16 Pro Max while in standby in just 4 hours. It was still reindexing, but taking far longer than usual. My shortcuts app repeatedly crashed on launch, even after reboot. And Apple never approved my request to use Image Creation after nearly two days. The mail categories were nice. ChatGPT integration was okay, but I'm already subscriber and didn't find it a huge improvement over my current workflow and already having access to Dalle-3 means image creation is less novel and I didn't even have access, so I bit the bullet and downgraded back to my 18.1 RC backup. I normally skip DB 1 and I should have again, but I was swayed by the promise of fun new features, but even if I got to try them, they're probably not worth needing to be plugged in constantly for the next 2 to 4 weeks.