I used to search for a video file using spotlight and it would return several results and when it was a file I accessed more than a couple of times it'd be the top result. I'd see an icon of the application used to play the media type and the name of the file.

Nowadays, with the same keyword, I frequently can't find the file I successfully found before but also, even when it does find it, it doesn't display it anywhere near the top results, it's down in a section called 'photos from apps' which presents a grid of options, rather than a list, all of which represented by the VLC icon as it's my default media player but with NO filename. I have found it before because usually it's the one preselected, although not always. It's super frustrating not being able to actually see what's found. I think this is probably supposed to display photos as photographs or maybe videos using thumbnails, to make it easier finding an image compared to filenames given the name of the section 'photos from a

This used to be an option, now it isn't. I found command line solutions which would be fine, but they're all for scheduling sleep for set times, I want set durations.

When this feature first came out I immediately disabled it because I noticed you couldn't stretch windows across two screens. I thought I might try putting up with it, but at the time I found it made it damn near impossible to use Avid Media Composer effectively.

It's been disabled in all the years since and I've never thought about it since until just recently where now twice in one month I've come across situations where something only works if it's enabled. One is for disabling the behaviour where fullscreening a video makes a second monitor turn black and now with Sequoia, the ability to use the native window tiling they just introduced.

I've always used magnet and then later rectangle to achieve the same and will probably just revert but I thought I'd try and give the native option a shot. I checked to see if that stupid shit with not being able to span windows has been fixed in the intervening period but it hasn't. Does anyone know if you can make it work with separate spaces

These are handy tools for bypassing soft paywalls, especially when Bypass Paywalls Clean fails you.

• Apple Support: Hide distractions when browsing webpages in Safari on Mac
• uBlock Wiki: Element Zapper

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/19003650

vt-enc is a bash script that simplifies the process of encoding videos with FFmpeg using Apple's VideoToolbox framework on macOS. It provides an easy-to-use command-line interface for encoding videos with various options, including codec selection, quality settings, and scaling.

I've got a pretty old macbook pro, I would assume it's intel. I'd installed refind and debian on it then just left it for a while. No damage that I know of, but I did move houses. Now, I plug it in and the power cord shows green, and the battery indicator shows blinking fully bars. I have tried all the keyboard things to reset, but no luck. Is this thing fucked, or are there any possible solutions? Thanks for the help guys!

re:AMP is a fast, flexible, high-fidelity music player for macOS X, fully written in Swift.

https://re-amp.ru/

This concept envisioned a computer that would expand with the needs of the user, through the use of modular components

https://512pixels.net/2024/03/apple-jonathan-modular-concept/

I've noticed in recent years that more and more apps only offer "small, medium, large" font size settings. My problem is simple. I am visually impaired and need VERY large fonts.

I need my font size set like this:

https://share.icloud.com/photos/08bSDwyyJZm2X4g1f9iZ6mreA

But instead, with more and more apps like Ivory for example, the biggest I can get is this:

https://share.icloud.com/photos/00eUunqHWyZkEWCuFpHlPmVEA

I suspect that the culprit may be Swift UI, but I have no evidence for this.

Does anyone understand the reasoning behind this trend, and is there any possible fix for end users other than begging application developers to have pity? :)

Thanks!

I ran Mac for years but never actually considered using Page or Numbers. A long time ago I gave up on MS Office and switched to Libre Office which was... fine-ish. I also use Google Docs but wouldn't want to give up a local desktop office suite altogether.

Having just bought a new MBP I opened one of my old MS Word documents forgetting I'd not installed LibreOffice yet and of course it opened in Pages. I figured maybe I should give it a go instead of knee-jerk rejecting it. My first issue is that almost anything I ever work on will be something that was almost certainly made with Microsoft Word and it's very annoying to me that in Pages, I can't just cmd+s save a Word document as I edit it, having instead to save a .pages version for safety and periodically 'exporting' a .docx and overwriting the previous export to update it in order to maintain the document's compatibility with anyone else using it in Word.

I also tried recreating my invoice document that I first made many years ago

I upgraded to Ventura recently after using High Sierra for a very long time. I'm noticing a few things here and there I don't like so much and want to change. Text edit seems to have been messed with in a mostly unwelcome way. I was able to fix the thing where instead of opening a document when you open the app, it instead opens a file prompt, however now I also want to close a document without saving (or even by saving for that matter), and avoid using the mouse. I definitely used to be able to quit without saving using keyboard only, can't remember about saving although that would also be good.

At the moment, in text edit, if you cmd+Q or cmd+w to quit the app or close a document, you're prompted to save it or delete it, which is good, but pressing tab to go through available options on the save prompt to select the 'delete' option is seemingly no longer possible. For some reason, the newly integrated combo box for choosing a tag for the save file seems to stop the tab selection p

This was more difficult to find and more confusing than I anticipated. I have a new MBP M2 Max. I want to replace my current desktop PC with it.

I use 3 monitors, 2xHD monitors that only have HDMI ports on them, and 1 old 2560x1600 DVI monitor. I want to buy a dock so I can easily plug the laptop in to as few things as possible, ideally even only plugging it in to one thing if possible. I have found USB-C to to DVI-dual link connectors online and I know one can buy USB-C to HDMI adaptors (I'm unclear if I can get TB4 to HDMI adaptors). I also use one of the old apple USB keyboards that had a USB 1.0 hub on it for connecting a mouse which I would definitely want connected via a dock in conjunction with the monitors and also speakers connected via 3.5mm jack. I want a dock specifically so that as soon as I plug the laptop in, it functions just like using a desktop and I'm not needing to hook each of these things up individually every time I'd be operating the laptop in a closed configu

Has anyone been trying out GPTK for gaming on their Mac? I have a M2 Max and have been considering setting it up to game while traveling. Would love to hear your experiences

I recently got back into the Apple ecosystem and am curious on everyone’s favorite applications they use!

Direct links:

• https://sindresorhus.com/day-progress
• https://apps.apple.com/app/id6450280202

PS: I'm not the author just found it cool.

• What's your use cases for the computer?
• Do you have any interesting peripherals?
• What are some of your favorite Mac apps?
• Are there currently any gripes with your setup? If you could change one thing about your Mac, what would it be?