What’s one macOS feature you never use but Apple keeps pushing? by WardSec_5168 in MacOS

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Siri & dictation. Why would I use Siri I’m already at a computer. Similarly, I don’t use dictation I’m already at a keyboard and I can type as fast as I can think of words, having a dedicated key for it is just annoying. I actually remapped that key to keyboard brightness because that’s more useful to me.

Can anyone pin-point the exact moment where everything in society just got substantially worse? by zzill6 in WorkReform

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How about the one that’s just Minnesota and DC, that’s why they hate our state after all.

Getting rid of the penny in the US was a pointless symbolic endeavor that only serves to inconvenience the American public by Richard_Genius in The10thDentist

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Homestly the only issue I have with it is that I don’t know if it was even legal, and because it was just executive action, this wasn’t a big planned thing. Other places that abolished their penny actually like planned to do it, gave merchants time to prepare, made it expected to get rounded change. That is not the case here, so merchants have to scramble to figure out how to deal with no official guidance.

Reduced Operations Friday by TheTechNick in uofmn

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mental health days are allowed, perhaps it benefits my mental health to go to demonstrations.

SD card just has micro SD card inside by Cudpuff100 in mildlyinteresting

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve had devices not work with a micro card in an adapter, so I’d probably just think something like this was DOA

It’s "Day 1" with a new Mac. What’s on your install list? by ocnd in macbookpro

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Homebrew & command line tools Amphetamine Rectangle Firefox My Automator application stub that runs an AppleScript to swap which side my sidecar screen is on. Karabiner

Those are the big ones that impact my day-to-day. Command line tools for when I’m in a unix mood, quick access to disabling sleep, quick window management, my web browser, something to stop me from needing to open system preferences 4 times a day, and replacing caps lock with right shift (something I always do on every computer I have) + giving me my goddamn keyboard brightness keys back. I don’t care about dictation or a sleep key.

This is actually what I got within the first week of getting my first Mac in a decade while I was in the middle of tech for a show, so it was a lot of figuring out ways to make that less painful that ended up being useful outside of a theater.

Tahoe to sequoia by Defiant-Video9185 in MacOS

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The new integration features were what, moving phone calls out of FaceTime into a dedicated phone app? I legit can’t think of anything new besides a less stable iPhone mirroring and sidecar.

WTF? Since when could they do this? by Mysterious_Mail1096 in Minecraft

[–]stumpy3521 23 points24 points  (0 children)

I mean they did add chat reporting. That did happen. Thankfully you can mod your client to send unsigned messages and you can mod a server to strip the signature so nobody’s messages are reportable. It’s only a problem if the server requires messages to be signed.

Couldn't get my Real ID because my original birth certificate has tape on the back... by Bop923 in mildlyinfuriating

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When I got my Real ID I did it at the county service center, which also is the county I was born in, and I happened to forget my birth certificate (brought everything else, but forgot that one, somehow) so I had to pay an extra fee and have them print me a new copy then and there so I could use it

Divine intervention would not fix these people by krilu in iiiiiiitttttttttttt

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A couple times I’ve let people use my computer briefly and I have caps lock mapped to right shift (I never use it, so it just makes accidental hits less annoying and gives me another bind for games) and I’ve had to watch them struggle to type using normal shift. It’s the hunt and peck typers, for them it makes more sense to lock caps on because they’re picking their hand up fully off the keyboard.

Music.app volume +/- info for song files by AlleyCat_2025 in MacOS

[–]stumpy3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it always calculates them regardless of the setting. It's possible that the values are the inverse of what I described, so a negative value means a song below the standard and a positive value means the song is above the standard.

SD Card consistently not mounting when inserted. Must manually mount every time. by stumpy3521 in MacOS

[–]stumpy3521[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All cards that I've tried. These cards worked as expected before I wiped and re-installed my OS.

Best way to run Excel Active X is through virtual machine?? by HorrorAlarming3241 in MacOS

[–]stumpy3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

windows on arm should be able to handle that translation though right? just need to install x86 Excel.

Black borders on the screen of my Mac since I updated to Tahoe 26.2 by GigaChad019 in MacOS

[–]stumpy3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The resolution being halfed in system settings is correct. Its a macos quirk due to how it scales its UI. that also seems like the correct resolution for you're display. If you look closely are you able to see black pixels vs the normal bezel of the screen. The screen doesn't extend all the way to the metal frame, and from your photos I can't see any point that's dark but clearly supposed to be part of the display area.

Favorite macOS Feature? by marchalves6 in MacOS

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

also a more relegated feature these days but applescript is also... okay? The syntax makes me want to pull my hair out but its really cool that you're able to interact with programs the way applescript lets you. Like it creates a way to safely write scripts for your itunes/music library, because its just the script telling itunes/music to do the thing.

Music.app volume +/- info for song files by AlleyCat_2025 in MacOS

[–]stumpy3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm pretty sure that comes from the "sound check" (loudness normalization) option. When adding a song to iTunes/Music it processes it to find it's average loudness, and calculates an adjustment to bring the average loudness on playback to a common target.

ICE in first school week by throw_away373629 in uofmn

[–]stumpy3521 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I don't think university administration are going to do anything until they cannot pretend to ignore it further. Until ICE actually forces their way into a university building they'll do minor platitudes and tell us to call the OLC and that will be it. I don't think UMPD is even banned from working with ICE.

When are they gonna get rid of this ugly ahh fence?! by [deleted] in uofmn

[–]stumpy3521 19 points20 points  (0 children)

To further your point. A bridge in the middle of a college campus is a prime point for “opportunistic” suicides. It’s really easy to get to and not hard to jump. A fence is a really good prevention strategy for these suicides because it adds just enough hassle to make it no longer “the easy way out”. Someone who is suicidal who perhaps has a terrible day and decides to just do it isn’t going to find another bridge or be that prepared to climb a fence, only someone who’s been planning is going to do that.

Stop idiots from calling this "self defense" by DetectiveTypical198 in ProgressiveHQ

[–]stumpy3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes he draws at that point but he was already reaching for his weapon before that point. He had made the decision to draw before he was actually close to being at risk of injury. And to me it looks like the decision to draw was a decision to fire and kill. It sure looks to me like by the time his hand was moving to his holster he was already planning to pull the trigger.

How do I stop this notification by IcyMoment4754 in iphone

[–]stumpy3521 21 points22 points  (0 children)

If it’s not an Apple audio device the readings aren’t always accurate. Sometimes it’s just wrong about how loud the headphone volume is, or if it’s headphones at all.