The Mac Observers, Mac Geekgab, Episode 894 for Monday, October 11th, 2021. And welcome to the Mac Observers, Mac Geekgab, the show where you send in your questions, your tips, your cool stuff found. We take them, we add our own stuff in because, you know, we like this stuff too. We're all geeks here, we're trying to be geeks, learning to be geeks, learning to be better geeks. We mash all the stuff into an agenda so that on our path learning to be geeks or learning to be better geeks, we can each learn at least five new things every single time we get together. Sponsors for this episode include BB Edit, your favorite. ZockDoc.com slash MGG where you can sign up for free, find a great doctor and instantly book an appointment, and napjitsu.com slash MGG.  So we will talk more about all of that shortly here. But for now here in Durham, New Hampshire, I'm Dave Hamilton. And here in Triple Connecticut, this is John F. Braun. How you doing today, Mr. John F. Braun? Eh. All right. Just eh. Like lately it's just been eh. We're worried about you, man. How do we eh. What do we need to do? Maybe you need power naps in your life or maybe you need something. I don't know. I don't know. Yeah, I don't usually nap. Maybe I should take a nap. I'm a big fan. Big fan of that. I have a, well, you know, I have my, um, I got to publish this somewhere. I've built a shortcut on my phone, you know, in the shortcuts app. And it's called nap time. So I just say Siri nap time and it does a few things. The first thing it does is it, uh, puts my phone in do not disturb mode, which then also puts my watch in do not disturb mode. Uh, the second thing that it does is it triggers by way of a URL endpoint on my Mac because keyboard maestro does this. If you have keyboard maestro, it'll do it. Uh, you, it will set up a, um, you can set up an endpoint so that you can ping a URL on your Mac and it triggers your keyboard maestro macro. And so I have a macro that mutes the sound on my Mac and dims the screen, although the dimming of the screen does not work, but that's okay. At least it mutes the sound so that noise is coming out of my Mac.  So we've, we've do not disturbed now the phone, the watch, and by muting it, the Mac. So we've done those things. Then it sets a 22 minute timer. Although I'm thinking about increasing this to 27. I may increase this to 27. I'm finding that I might want that extra five minutes. Uh, but it sets a 22 minute timer and then it launches the white noise app, which I have set to start making noise when I launch it. So by just saying Siri nap time, all those things happen. I can just grab my blanket and, uh, and curl up on the couch in my office and I got my 22 minute power nap. So, yeah, it's good. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know. It's crazy, but you know, why not? Something keeps me from having to do all those things. I just after when I, when I get up, I have to remember to un, I suppose I could do this with a shortcut too, but undo not disturb myself. Although I guess maybe, maybe I don't need to use do not disturb anymore. Maybe I need to use a nap time focus. Right. I mean, I don't know. Maybe maybe there's, there's an evolution to this in addition to adding the five minutes. We'll figure it out. We'll get there. Hey, um, speaking of tips, Lucas has a quick tip for us listener, Lucas. This is says I'm a few episodes behind. So maybe somebody's already mentioned this not yet, but my preferred method for capturing a webpage exactly as it displays. So the idea is you see the webpage. Now you want to capture that as a something. He says is Firefox, they have a built in screenshot function that lets you grab the visible portion or the entire page. You can either choose to copy it to the clipboard or download it as a PNG. So it's not doing as a PDF, but it is pulling it in either again, either to the clipboard or the, you know, to just save it to your download folder or whatever it is. He says the text, of course, turns into an image when you do this, but it does save you a step if you want to insert it into a presentation or send somebody an email with a screenshot or whatever. He says I customized my toolbar in Firefox to put the screenshot button in there. But there's also a keyboard command, which is command shift s. I looked through all the menus, John. There is no command shift s in the menus of Firefox. So this is just, you know, the browser grabbing this, you know, not really Mac like because you should be in the menus, but, you know, whatever. Or you can right click on a web page and choose take screenshot. And then when you're in that screenshot mode, dialogue, whatever, you can also click on an element within the page to just grab a screenshot of that. And it intelligently, like you could draw with the crosshairs if you like, but as you float over things in the page, it highlights them like it. I mean, obviously it's a web browser that understands HTML elements.  And you say, yeah. And then boom, it grabs it. But it does grab the whole page regardless of how much is visible on your screen, which is, I really like that. So thanks for that, Lucas. That's good stuff. Maybe that's Lucas driving away in the truck now, John, on your street. Could be. Could be. And of course, in Safari, in the file menu, save as is a handy option. Is that how we save as a screenshot in Safari? Well, there are two choices. There's web archive and page source. The web archive, as far as I can tell, if you double click on it, you see. Yeah, that's not a screenshot. That's like it takes, it downloads all the resources that it pulled from the web to create that page, and then you can just like, re-see that page based on a local thing. So yeah. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. And they also have, what do they have? Export as PDF. Yes. If I do a PDF. Yes. Yes. So that's what I typically do from Safari. Yeah, no. And that works, right? Like that gets the whole, that is the trick in Safari to get the whole thing, right? Is if we do that and I go to the finder, and then I go to the desktop and I look at this. Yeah. Export as PDF gets you the whole page as a PDF. So that's Safari's way of doing it. Yeah. That's the one I always forget about. So I appreciate the reminder. It's craziness, but it's good. All right. We have another quick tip. As soon as I pull all this stuff up from, oh yeah, from Steven, right? So Monterey is on the horizon, right? Like it's, we're, I would say before we see Halloween, we'll see Monterey would be the assumption here. And listener Steven says, oh, where was the tip? I got to find it here. He says, I found that in Monterey, at least in the Monterey recent beta, the reset Bluetooth module is no longer available when you option click the Bluetooth menu in Monterey, John, but listener Steven found the answer. You go to the terminal and he, and the idea is you just killed a Bluetooth demon, which is the little process that manages it all in the background. When you kill that, it relaunches that effectively resets everything, right? Because of the way it works.  And that kills off Bluetooth D. But what I did not know about, so that in and of itself is a tip, right? That's great. But I didn't know about the P kill command, John. I don't know how I missed this, but P kill lets you kill a process in Unix by name, not by process ID.  So, you know, we get to learn two things in one tip, which I like. So thanks for that, Steven. Good stuff. Pretty good, John. Have you started running Monterey yet? No. Oh, yeah. I'm just looking here on my big ser machine. I thought there was a way to do this from the Bluetooth menu with a modifier key. Yeah. I think with the option key down, I mean, that's where you've always found it in the past, is reset Bluetooth. It might not just be option, right?  So, isn't it not the option key? Maybe it's option shift. Option shift gets you reset the Bluetooth module in big ser. Ah, good. Okay. So. Yawel. All right. But evidently not so in Monterey, so. I was reading Gruber's rant, John Gruber's rant over undaring fireball about Safari 15's tabs and general interface, which he's not a big fan of, and I'll put a link in the article to it. But one thing he was complaining about was the inability to like have consistency in the user interface, which is, you know, he's right about it. Also, it's like his thing. So, not surprising that he would have these feelings. However, in Safari 15, if you wind up getting a lot of tabs compressed together and you want to close tabs without bringing them forward, if you hover over a tab with the command key down, the favorite icon, the little icon that sort of represents the webpage that that tab comes from, turns into the X to close the tab. So, sometimes if you float over it, it'll just do that anyway. And then other times you need to hold down the command key if there's too many there and it starts getting too compressed. And so that's another good way to do that. I think that happens if you have Safari Preferences General automatically collapse tab titles into icons selected that because it will start compressing them as opposed to forcing you to sort of scroll with, you know, with that. So anyway, there you go. And I have, wow, man, they're just coming to get you today. I have found that the unchecking the show color in tab bar option in that same screen, Safari Preferences General, makes life a whole lot easier when I'm using Safari. That whole, the color spills into the rest of the interface Chrome. It doesn't, I don't know, it feels too weird because then it's like, well, where does the webpage end and the web browser begin? Because the buttons, I don't know, like, yeah, I don't know. Yeah. So anyway, that's the trick, command key. Got it. Yeah, that's good. Speaking of the command key, John, listener Laura points out based on a conversation we were having in the last episode about internet recovery where I found myself in internet recovery on my 2014 retina iMac and it wanted to install like Yosemite or whatever else the machine came with. Laura points out to us that by using option command R to boot into internet recovery, that will get you the latest version, latest compatible version of Mac OS that will run on that machine. So thank you for that, too, Laura. That's a super handy tip. We like those. Yeah, more, less? More. More. All right. More from last episode. Donna shares, she said, if I heard you correctly, I think you said that you need to sell in order to get an Apple care plus prorated refund, you need to sell the device back to Apple, but that is not the case. She says I've done this before and I've simply canceled Apple care plus by contacting Apple and then received a prorated refund minus a small service fee and sold my iPhone to a private party. I've done this several times and it's fine. I just checked the Apple support document and sure enough, it confirms this. So yeah, I was incorrect last time. You do not have to trade into Apple to get a prorated refund on your Apple care. You can get that refund and then sell it to somebody else. Or I suppose not sell it to someone else.  That's great. Sure. Yeah, good. Any more thoughts on that, John? No, I like money back. Money back is good. Dave Wiscus on Twitter posted a, there's a thread out there which we'll link to about how you can create, you can upload an audiogram to your iPhone so that your headphones will go through the custom EQ as mapped out by this audiogram and you can create an audiogram using the Mimi hearing test app. So it will figure out where you have deficiencies in your hearing and then create this audiogram that tells your phone how to compensate for those deficiencies in your hearing and make things sound better for you. So there's a thread on this, but that's essentially it. So you use the hearing test app or if you've already got an audiogram somewhere else but then you go into accessibility and you can upload your audiogram there and then it just maps. So yeah, you get a settings, accessibility, audio visual, headphone accommodations, custom audio setup and then use audiogram and then upload your audiogram and you're good to go. Which is pretty amazing. Pretty cool to be able to do that stuff. So it's like an equalizer? That's exactly what it is. Yeah, it's figuring out, let's say you do the audiogram and I have a little bit of 6K loss in one of my right ear and so it would presumably, if I'm honest with the hearing test, which I highly recommend you are, otherwise you're not going to get the right data, but then it'll build a profile essentially, an EQ profile that says, okay, you're right here as a 2 dB loss at 6K and whatever else you might have in each ear, it'll do the test for each ear individually and then it saves that as a map in this standard format and then yeah, your phone, you slip that in and then it applies the opposite as the EQ so it's like, oh, if you have a 2 dB loss and you're right here at 6K, well then we'll give you a 2 dB boost and you're right here at 6K and it flattens out the sound and then things sound like the artist intended, unless the artist also has hearing loss and did not use an audiogram in which case, maybe things don't sound quite as good anymore because if the artist has, and a lot of musicians do, for obvious reasons, have a lot of high-frequency hearing loss which happens, A, as you expose yourself to loud music and B, as you age, two things that generally tend to happen to musicians. So, if you were to hear it as the artist intends, you might wind up with way more high-end than you wanted but that's okay. It's always a pleasure trying to tune monitor wedges for musicians who have lost hearing over the years. I don't recommend using monitor wedges, I recommend using in-ears so that you can keep the volume low. Of course, I know musicians who have moved to in-ears and continue to crank the volume up super loud in their ears and it's like, you know, it doesn't automatically protect you. You have to use the tool. But anyway. All right. Where are we here, Jay? It always worries me when there's someone nearby, like on public transportation, and I can hear their earphones.  If I can hear it at a distance, it's too loud. That's not necessarily true. It depends on the earphones, right? Because a lot of earphones are ported and so they are literally sending sound out the back as they're sending it in. So, it may be true. Certainly, people as humans, we all suffer. In fact, we have a cool stuff found coming up where I will prove this to you, but to all of you, but we all suffer from the louder is better phenomenon, right? You can hear the same thing, and if it's 3 dB louder the second time, you'd be like, that's amazing. That's not so much better. It's like, well, yeah, but is it any better or does it just need to be balanced? And a lot of people tend to listen too loud for their own health, but it depends on the earphones, I guess is what I'm saying. The ported ones tend to send sound to others way easier. So, yeah. All right. But before we get to cool stuff found, Bill, I had it in Quick Tips, but Bill's thing could arguably be cool stuff found because he found it and it's cool. He noticed that in iOS 15, it has an expired passes group in the wallet. He says, I prepaid for parking at the airport when I travel and I store the QR code in the Apple wallet on my phone. When I returned from a trip last Friday, I was shocked to see the pass missing in my wallet app. I had no recollection of deleting it. Fortunately, I had the same QR code in my email and I was able to get out of the parking lot. Later, I stumbled across a reference to expired passes in my wallet. Lo and behold, there was the parking pass and lots of other old concert tickets, airline boarding passes, et cetera. This is something new in iOS 15 and it auto hides passes. You can do this, you can toggle this if you go into settings, wallet and Apple Pay, hide expired passes. That seems to be on for most of us by default. He says the wallet probably treated the parking pass as expired because the date on the pass was the date that he arrived at the lot, not the date he was due to leave the lot. But I love this. It always drives me crazy when I open up my wallet after I've added a boarding pass or whatever. I open up my wallet and I find four boarding passes from the prior trip or whatever. It's like, oh yeah, I got to go delete those. Concert tickets obviously are things that also wind up getting stored in there. I like this sort of auto cleaning and even better is in the expired passes view you can go into an edit thing and select all and delete them all at once, which has been a major pain prior to this. You had to go and edit, delete each pass one by one. It wasn't that big of a deal, but this lets you just see them and be like, yeah, I want to delete everything except that one, whatever. So, thank you, Bill. Good quick tip slash cool stuff found. I like it. Yeah, I actually had one expired. What'd you have? Yeah. Anything juicy? I don't think so. I think I deleted mine when I found bills. Chase private client arts and culture card. Okay. Yeah, something from my bank. I guess I could get into a wall. I can't anymore because it expired. That's right. I think that was I could get into certain venues in Manhattan. Yeah. Arts and culture. There you go. Cool. I'll get another one. I need more art and culture. We all do life. Yeah. We missed out on a lot of that during during COVID times here. Yeah, evidently, I have six of them parking to parking passes and to boarding passes and to to concert passes. So, you know, concert tickets, I should say. So parking passes. Parking passes. Uh-huh. That's what that's what Bill had to. Yeah. I mean, anytime I use ParkWiz or whatever, it puts it in the puts it in the app. It's great. You get to the garage, hold out your phone, scan the barcode and you go when it's time to leave, do the same thing. There you go. Use it all the time. Yeah. If you're not ParkWiz is a fantastic service. I mean, it uses Apple wallet, which is nice, but even without that, the ability to to book parking, you know, in advance, you generally save a ton of money. You can find out about the lots like, you know, whether it's obviously covered or uncovered, but also is it valet or unattended? I generally, especially when I'm going to a concert dealing with a valet slows things down immensely. Usually when you're leaving, you know, the show, so I prefer to have generally prefer to have a lot where I just can just get in my car and leave. And so ParkWiz, yeah, it's great, man. And then you can reserve parking for, we went to see a show, went to see the Jonas Brothers last week, actually at Fenway Park and ParkWiz helped us find a great little lot that was just perfect. So yeah, it was good. Wow. Yeah. I still, man, you know, I use old fashioned paper and and money. Well, yeah. But that doesn't work if you need to book in advance. Right. Right. I mean, it's going to concerts, lots fill up. So yeah. No, no, no, no. It's good. Yeah. Mac Vader in the chat room at live.macgeekub.com says he still has his Cirque du Mac 11 ticket in his wallet. We use Tito for that. T-I-T-O to do those tickets. I don't have mine in my wallet anymore, Mac Vader. But actually, I don't know that I ever did. Now that you mention it, I might not have assigned myself a ticket for that event. But I, for some reason, I was searching for something about Cirque du Mac. Oh, somebody who's like creating a Wikipedia page for Mac Observer and wanted to know about Cirque du Mac. And so I looked up something and found the Tito link for CDM 11. It was like, oh, that's interesting. Maybe you CDM 10. We use them for two years. Yeah. That's right. Yeah. I snuck in. Right. Same. Yeah. I snuck in with the band. I didn't have a ticket. Yeah. There you go. Moving into cool stuff found. I have a question for all of you. So you can email your answers to feedback at MacGeekab.com if you are so inclined. We'd love to hear from you. I think I heard you right, Dave. You said feedback at MacGeekab.com. That is correct. Feedback at MacGeekab.com is where you're going to answer this question for us. What are your favorite MagSafe accessories? I mentioned last week that I was starting to see the light on the benefits of MagSafe. Obviously, car mounts. It's great if you need that sort of thing. Charging, of course. But the wallet, I'm starting to grok when and why and how and where you might use that. But I'm really curious how you are using MagSafe. So let us know at, like we said, feedback at MacGeekab.com. And then we'll include that stuff in cool stuff found. Like we're going to include the note that Lee sent us last week or two weeks ago. I think it was just last week. We were talking about, again, about some of our new favorite wall chargers. And Lee says, I have used trip lights chargers over the years and I find them to be quite good. And sure enough, he sent us a link to a page. Trip light has been, you know, they make, I always knew them as the people who make surge protectors and even battery backup like UPS units. But they also make chargers and power banks and things like that. And so we have a link to and they've got, you know, they've got some that, like, they've got a four port wall charger that does 100 watt power delivery with two USB-C, two USB-A. So, I mean, they've got, you know, things with lots of different options depending on what you need and different sizes and shapes. And so, yeah, thanks for the heads up. I never knew that they were making chargers. Yeah. Looks like they got some GAN stuff. So, yeah, that will make you happy. It makes everybody happy, man. It's lightweight. Yeah.  Um, if I had a choice between getting it and not getting it, I'd get it. Yeah, exactly.  And just, I, I like, it's good. Richie has a cool stuff found reminder. He says, I've read many reviews of the iPad Mini 6 where people are complaining that it no longer has a headphone jack. Well, for $9, Apple sells a headphone jack adapter, not too expensive. And it does the job just fine. Thanks for the reminder, Richie. You're absolutely right. It's one of those Apple things that is not overpriced. I'm sure you could probably find a less expensive USB to audio adapter on, uh, online. But, but, I mean, you got to remember that has, I'm pretty sure that has a, uh, a DAC in it, right? Words from digital, uh, to analog right in, uh, I mean, it would have to, right? Like, I mean, uh, there's not one somewhere else. So I, yeah.  If I'm wrong about that, let me know, but I'm pretty sure that it would have to have a DAC in it. I am pretty sure. I think my iPhone 8 came with a lightning to three and a half inch. That makes sense. A Napdo thing. Which had a DAC in it at the time. Which, yeah, I'm speculating it. It also has a tiny little DAC in there. No, that, that one, I'm pretty, I'm, we went through that one, like that, the, the lightning to, to, uh, say headphone definitely has a DAC in it. I remember seeing a tear apart on it or something. So yeah, cool. Um, more on that or, uh, time to go to Andrew here. No, no, we're good. Okay. Andrew says, uh, he, he, well, he, he wound up getting the new road, uh, NT mini USB microphone. And he sent us some audio samples from the microphone. One for, he sent us some audio samples. One was him reading text into the microphone. Two was his, uh, reading the same text into his MacBook microphone. And if I play these at the same volume, you might like the latter better than the former. But if I crank the volume, you'll find that you like the, uh, the road. You'll probably find that you like the road better. So let me, let me see if I can, let me see if I can do this here. So here's him in his MacBook microphone. And here it is on the MacBook microphone. An earthquake that hit northeast Victoria was built across New South Wales with people in parts of Sydney feeling their home shake. The 5.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Mansfield. Okay. So there's that. Now let's hear the road. I'm not touching the gain on this yet, but about halfway through, I'll boost it up to match. An earthquake that hit northeast Victoria was built across New South Wales with people in parts of Sydney feeling their home shake. The 5.9 magnitude earthquake was recorded near Mansfield around 180 kilometers. So for me, once I brought that up so that it it actually matched the volume level, uh, I like the sound of that road. It's got a nice round tone. It's, uh, it's not picking up too much room noise. The MacBook microphones, this is a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro. So it's got all all of Apple's latest, you know, noise canceling technology that they put into all the microphones. I think it started with yours, John, your 2019 Intel 16 inch MacBook Pro where they they really started like tweaking those things for you know, like like zoom calls and things like that. So you know, they both do a good job at that, but I like the round tone of that that road. So thanks for that. We'll put a link.  So and he said he was about the first recording I heard a little, I'll call it bounce Yeah, a reflection Yeah, where I didn't hear it in the second one. So agreed. Yeah, a lot like for me, that first one has some artificial high end to it. And here it is on the MacBook microphone. An earthquake that hit Northeast Victoria was felt across New South Wales. Whereas this one doesn't an earthquake that hit Northeast Victoria was felt across New South Wales. You know, there's just not quite as much of that sort of artificial sibilance on the from the road. So yeah, thanks for sending those in, Andrew. It was a good a good little exercise to go through Yeah, keeps it fun. How we have all kinds of stuff. In fact, we have more cool stuff found to share, but specifically answering our you answering our questions about what keyboards you like to use. So I'm eager to do that. The next thing that I'm eager to do if we're all set here, John is I want to talk about our our sponsors for the day. 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That's where you want to go because that's where you're going to get discounted upgrade pricing for existing BBEdit customers. You get that 30 day trial and you get to check it all out again. Barebones.com store. Our thanks to BBEdit for sponsoring this episode. All right. It's keyboard time. Jeremy starts us out. We had asked a couple of episodes ago what your favorite third party or generally keyboard's word could be Apple it couldn't be something else someone else and you delivered. So Jeremy starts us off with the DOS keyboard mechanical keyboards. He says I love the clicky real keys on this so much so that I bought the Windows version for my desk at work if I ever go back there. And they have all kinds of options there. If you go to DOSDAS keyboard.com but they at least the ones he sent us here have the most of them I think use the Cherry MX switches which are known especially in the gaming community is like killer switches that will just last and last and last. I think they also use some Gamazulu switches which is not a switch brand I've heard of but the Cherry MX those for sure. It's good stuff. Yeah. All right. Thanks for that recommendation. They seem to they started about I think you started about 120 bucks and go up from there. So yeah. Very cool. They even have some max specific ones which is really always nice to see because it's nice to have like the right keys and it's a command when you know you're hitting command so that's good. The DOS keyboard what do you got next John? DOS keyboard. Nice. DOS keyboard. Well Scott has some things for us talking about keyboards. I have the Logitech MX keys and MX Ergo MX keys keyboard and MX Ergo being a trackball I originally purchased them because it allows me to instantly change which computer they worked on by hitting a key or moving the mouse between screens. Oh that's like that's like going to be magic. Yeah. It's like what Apple is doing. Right. Yeah. Kind of right. Yeah. Yeah. It is also nice that I like the feel of the keyboard and looking at it so here's some of the nice features about it so I see here. So it's backlit that's nice and yeah as mentioned there's a feature that lets you between machines almost effortless. Effortless easy for you to say. It also looks like they're the scissor keys not the clicky keys right the full travel or whatever they are this is more like the Apple current Apple keyboards with the scissor keys so which is you know different but also quite nice and probably much quieter than the clicky ones so yeah. Very cool very cool. He had go ahead. And then the Urgo the track ball this is the style I personally am not crazy about in that the ball I found when trying track balls that so I have the Kensington the track ball the ball in this is I'm pretty sure the same size as a pool ball. Oh I see okay yeah they have this class where it's a little smaller and I found it doesn't quite get the inertia that I like to feel in the ball but but he likes it so thought we passed that along and there's also the one that I have and let me post the link to it oddly enough if you try to so I have the Logitech solar keyboard so the nice thing about that is you know it charges it the keyboard that he mentioned charges via usb-c okay okay yep good so so it's not solar but that's cool and it says it'll run like 10 hours on a charge okay yeah I got it sure but Logitech says that your solar keyboard the K750 is no longer available yeah but I'm looking at a page on on Amazon and it is okay so they've got some overstock or whatever alright well yeah if you want one of those get it quick because it doesn't look like it's gonna last looks like it's been EOL'd which is not surprising I mean you know it's a keyboard Logitech does this all the time so yep cool yeah listener John so yeah replace the link that I put in the show notes with the Amazon link you found just so that we've got we've got a place to send people where they can actually get it the how do you well before I talk about listener John how do you like do you I assume you use this keyboard indoors mostly do you ever have problems with it being charged like because the solar's not getting enough light to I have never seen it go below 100% battery okay that's good news then oh that's nice well my keyboard's near a window so it's always getting a charge not at night but yes yeah but even now if I hit the so there's actually a special button on the keyboard where you press it and it brings up like their keyboard assistant and yep looking at it 100% and I'm getting now 25 Lux okay of light power I guess that's like a measure of light intensity okay all right that's nice cool cool listener John also sings the praises of that Logitech MX keys keyboard and he said he said something about it he says I love this thing the backlit keys and that wonderful key feedback are just a few things that I love the most about it highly recommend you check it out and it turns out that listener Jeff in the chat room says I too love MX keys so seems like this is a popular keyboard to go with that's a lot of recommendations for one keyboard all right good stuff anything more on that John before we move on moving on all right and then listener Tim brings us to an open source keyboard he says you should check out the launch keyboard by system 7 6 it's a mechanical keyboard made in Denver Colorado the hardware and software open source and the keyboard works with Mac OS Linux and Windows it's at system 76.com and of course we put a link in the show notes for you system 76 makes a lot of cool hardware along with their own Ubuntu based Linux distribution wow very cool okay I like this oh yeah all right cool very good very good I'd never heard of this system 76 before John yeah interesting it's a keyboard doesn't look like it has numeric keypad so they've got their it's got a split space bar that's interesting I wonder why you would want that oh because you can change the function of one of them right interesting interesting interesting I like it no conversation about keyboards for the Mac would be complete I think without at least a brief mention of the keyboards that Matthias has been making for years especially their tactile pro keyboard that was the first one that sort of emulated well not emulated but it gave us the functionality and feel that we liked from Apple's old battleship keyboard and you know with the movement with the clicky keys and all that stuff so tactile pro that's been around for a while but they have lots of them now they've got an Ergo pro keyboard they have a Dvorak layout keyboard that's pretty cool right I like this stuff it's good it's good it's good it's good it's good I don't know any thoughts on that John before we before we keep moving on here on the keyboard front we got a tip and a question so we will go to both of those the tip it's actually two tips it comes from listener L and she says I have a touch ID keyboard on my Mac mini of course it's Apple's keyboard but what she says is pretty cool finger one is set for my primary account finger two is set to my clean admin account finger three is for my partner's account and that means that once the accounts are logged in a finger press which is accounts and I can authorize admin actions on any of the accounts with touch ID this is really interesting so if you have even just two accounts logged in if you make your user account not an admin account but then you also log in your clean admin account when it's time to authenticate you just use your admin account finger and authenticates that one and you're good to go this see I like this this is a cool way of doing things yeah in addition I've added touch ID to Etsy slash Pam slash sudo so that I can sudo issue a sudo command and then use touch ID to authorize so when you're in the terminal and like the command we talked about before whatever that was to kill the bluetooth thing in Monterey it's sudo space P kill slash bluetooth D and that's because the P kill command needs to be running as root in order to kill bluetooth D so you need to put sudo sudo in front of it super user do at least that's how I think of it maybe it's not super user do but anyway when you're in the terminal and you type that it asks you for your password well it turns out there's a way according to L to add touch ID to the approved authentication methods for the terminal and you do it via this long command where you're essentially adding slash etc slash Pam dot D slash oh wait it was it's a it's a whole thing sorry Pam dot D slash sudo yeah to the to the the roots cron tab so anyway the command it's not worth walking through here because none of us will ever remember it thankfully we have copy and paste in our in our court and so it is one line that you add to the cron tab on on root which you would edit by typing sudo space cron tab dash E and then and then you just add this line and it adds the touch ID as a an approved authentication method for sudo and you're good to go it's pretty good I like this this these are the geeky things that I love learning I feel like I'm way past my five things John so this is good and I think we can obviously you know this was about doing it on the external keyboard on a Mac mini yeah they like the tip too but the I see no reason why this wouldn't work on laptops that have touch ID so I'm definitely going to do this on my on my you know my MacBook Air so I always have to remember what like what kind of laptop I'm running I don't know I keep forgetting well they're all the same like in terms of CPUs now like it's an M1 laptop doesn't you know can either get the one with the fan or one without that's how I look at it alright more on that or is it time to try and answer Bill's question about his keyboard yeah okay Bill asks he says where are we here I gotta find him he says I'm typing this email on a bluetooth Apple magic keyboard that is really starting to drive me crazy when typing the key any key often sticks in a virtual way I don't feel any physical stickiness but sometimes the keyboard runs away and puts lots of empty spaces like literally he just it was in there in his email backspaces can be as bad so it'll start deleting things other times a key acts like I'm holding it down and shows me the option of selecting the accented character alright so something he says keyboard worked for years and for about four years but now it's not so it sounds like the keyboard is or the Mac is acting like the key is being held down either the spacebar or you know whatever if you hold down I guess that's true right if you hold down like you know the I key or whatever you get the I yeah you get the little option in the corner of the screen where it says you know you can choose the I with all the other options so this one John you know it seems like Bluetooth interference to me because it's happening to every key on the keyboard intermittently but frequently enough you know this is where again you know it's if I were there what would I do next that's how I always approach these questions like we don't necessarily just know the answers as we know what to try next and the thing I try next is looking around to see if you added or got a USB 3 hard drive or anything else that would interfere with 2.4 gigahertz connections but USB 3 hard drives are the regular culprits for Bluetooth because they're all sort of close by each other and simply try moving that hard drive you know keep it behind your computer as opposed to like in front of your computer between the keyboard and the thing like I definitely have this problem down on my computer in the office if I'm not careful about like where I place certain things so that would be the first thing I look for is what do you have that would be interfering if and I forget which model keyboard this is but if it's one of those where you can plug it in via lightning to charge it but also plug it in via lightning just to use it try that for a day that would rule out whether there's a physical problem with the keyboard because if it is well you'd also get it when connected wired over lightning so that would be another sort of way to test it if we were if we were there so I don't know can also ask yourself well first turn off the microwave right yeah that's a source of interference the other thing I'm thinking is have you gotten any new Wi-Fi toys lately because a lot of them talk on 2.4 some talk on 5 but just ask yourself if you've what has changed in your environment it could be a new device is upsetting your keyboard yeah for sure yeah yeah cool you got anything else on that or is it time to move on now unfortunately I've never run into any to me it's just a theory I've never run into 2.4 gigahertz interference but interesting definitely do you have any USB 3 hard drives connected to your Mac sometimes there you go my backup my external or clone drives yeah the enclosure is a USB 3 yes USB 3 oh okay yeah yeah because that I mean that's generally the thing I have one that's connected all the time and it's where I store my photos and my music and you know things so it's constantly in use and like I said if I'm not careful about where I have that placed it can cause me a world of hurt so yeah and the cable that I have is is like a heavy duty shielded cable that's another thing to think about running into interference issues is the cable is the cable part of that I thought it was the circuitry of the interface not the like the transmission of it but I could be wrong about this but I didn't think the cable mattered here other than the length of it which gives you the ability to set the drive further away but whenever I've solved these problems it's using a longer cable or the existing cable but you know to move the drive itself further away I don't yeah my experiential knowledge would say it has nothing to do with the cable is not emitting this interference it's the interface in the enclosure but it's possible you've got an enclosure that's better shielded for whatever reason then shielded well not better shielded but well shielded well enough for your environment cool alright let's go to listener Tom here who has a question about Monterey says I have an older Mac of 5K Retina mid 2015 and it continues to serve all my needs I would like to move from Big Sur to Monterey which requires an iMac late 2015 or newer I'm looking for your guidance experience direction on moving to a non-apple supported version of macOS on my current iMac I'm concerned about things like point updates application support new capability limitations performance etc I don't want to get caught are there any reputable online sources that I could use to install the unapproved versions of Monterey on my unsupported mac this is I do expect to purchase the first large screen iMac version that has an arm based you know M series chip whatever that's going to be called when it becomes available hopefully not too much longer of a wait so I've never had I've been tempted to head down the path of installing unsupported or you know the latest macOS on an unsupported older Mac that I have right and I've looked into it and there are online sources with plenty of information and you know help and all that stuff but all of the things you mentioned Tom the you know point updates breaking things applications not running right because they're expecting libraries to work that don't because your Mac doesn't have the hardware to support them you know any new other new capability limitations all literally all of the things you mentioned including performance are the reasons that I've always stopped in my tracks it's like yeah you can often do it I don't know that I've seen anybody doing it for Monterey yet but I also haven't looked so it's possible they're out figuring out how to how to make this work but you know Apple doesn't generally choose to make a Mac on support make an operating system unsupported on a given Mac arbitrarily usually there is a specific reason you know like when when there were all those machines whose graphic cards didn't support metal and then when the operating system required metal that was the day that you couldn't run the new operating system on you know on those Macs and those Macs were still plenty fast but they just didn't have hardware that metal supported and you know Apple was moving forward and needed to be able to leverage all those technologies and so they did but those are generally the reasons why your machines not supported anymore it's it's it I've rarely seen it where I would say well that feels like a money grab right it's never really felt that way it's been more of a technology limitation and and so I think if even if you can make it work you're going to wind up with a you know me I like living on the bleeding edge but that just felt like more headache than I wanted to inherit sort of just to run a computer yeah Mac Vader in the chat room John says I've done it on my 2008 Mac Pro but it also means you can't run all the programs because of graphics cards for one thing yeah so I don't know you've never messed with that have you John I haven't heard you mention it over the years no I'm with you in that there's probably a good reason yeah you'll find that reason real fast too I think if you do it like I mean if you want to I mean you could run a virtual machine not for a newer OS I don't think that would work because it doesn't have the hardware on which to virtualize it right I don't think so I could be wrong about that too yeah Mac Vader talks about it more as a fun project than a you know then then something to just rely on like it's going to work full-time for you so but there are people that do it and people that live that way so if I were you I would hold off I mean you know like me here in the studio there are some things about Monterey actually that tempt me to upgrade the studio sooner than I normally would but generally speaking this machine here in the studio runs that whatever the the latest I put it on the latest OS sometime in May which means it's been out for six months and it's usually because there's you know I'm waiting for hardware drivers for you know the audio interfaces I use or you know whatever and and so um it doesn't really hurt usually to to wait especially just a few months and if that's what we think and I agree with you in thinking this that that's what it's going to take to get the new you know 27 inch 32 inch whatever large screen M1 or large screen Apple silicon based iMac to come out then I would just wait and that I mean I say that as advice for you Tom and I also say it as advice for me because I think I'm going to wind up heading down that same path and upgrading to Monterey when that comes out and putting that machine here in the studio so we shall see we shall see although the studio machine will happily run Monterey it's a 2019 iMac so it's going to be fine but I like the idea of running a machine here in the podcast studio without a fan so well I mean it's just a pain in the neck having to run turbo boost switcher to like keep it under wraps it's like there's an engineering issue with the way Apple has dealt with Intel and core audio and it causes anytime you're doing anything with audio on the Mac especially input with audio it it causes the CPU to go into turbo boost mode even though you're it's not that you're pegging the CPU I mean you know I think I think your CPU at this point is probably what 20% maybe you know but if you didn't run turbo boost switcher we'd be here and your fans running because the CPU would be running at turbo boost and that is what causes it to heat up so I don't know not happy the way it's always works but anyway it's fine yeah because mine is I mean mine's sitting at yeah 20% or something like that 80% yeah 20% yeah you have turbo boost which are running like I do right in order to keep the fans yeah it's crazy so it's not doesn't need it don't know why it does it yeah I gotta say I'm not crazy about the whole turbo boost thing it's like just give me give me the gigahertz man right well I I mean I think it's the power savings part of it right I mean I on laptops especially but also on desktops like there's no reason to use power if you don't need it I just don't understand why you would crank it up when when you don't need the cp like it's there's no strain on the CPU I don't know that there's I'm sure this decision was not made arbitrarily I'm sure that somebody said well and it's probably because audio requires you know real-time timing because it's audio and we have to hear it in order otherwise it sounds wrong and so maybe it was well we don't want the CPU fluctuating so let's get the speed up there and then we can just rely on it that way whereas I I'm just I'm truly speculating right but that seems like a possible conversation that might have happened in engineering right you know like yeah we want to just we want to have we want to be able to predict where the CPU is going to be so let's crank it all the way up and then of course the fan runs which kind of sucks for audio recording so yep we should keep going here though because we have we have a little bit of time Mark asks a question that I think we have a quick answer to mark says how can I stop excel from auto correcting text that looks like a time so if I type in like you know 12 colon 3 4 it automatically converts it into you know 1900-01-05 you know 12 colon 3 4 colon 00 am he says I'm an audio engineer who's trying to use excel for logging information during a session but every time I put that in it changes it and adds a date and all that if the time wasn't below 24 it changes it to a 12 hour clock adding am or p.m. and it's frustrating so I've run into this particularly this general issue on all kinds of spreadsheets not just excel and what it is excel trying to be smart and interpret what you're putting in so that it can format it the way you want and the way I do it and this may not make marks life any easier but is you know I use what I call I don't know what excel calls it but what I call a text formula John where I put in equals quotes 12 colon 3 4 quote and that way I'm telling by putting equals it says to excel this is a formula evaluate this formula and then by putting things in quotes it says here's a thing that I want you to display don't mess with it and so it doesn't whether there's a way to mark a column as not to be messed with like only treat this as a string I've tried and failed in the past but it doesn't mean it's impossible it just means I haven't failed enough to succeed so you know an answer for that John I don't have excel but yes when I've run into a productivity app being too smart for its own good I typically find that changing the formatting of the cell will work so I think that overrides the smartness so if you I light a column and say you know this is an integer or something it or text it won't change it on you try that that would be I feel like that's the path that path sounds logical to me as you explain it so I I feel like I might have tried that in the past and failed but I may not have done it right so yeah but that makes good sense to me hopefully that would be a better solution than mine yeah but man I haven't run a spreadsheet in years you'd think I would know how to solve this problem because I'm in a spreadsheet probably you know 15 times a day for a variety of things but I still just brute force it with equals quotes and I'm not seeing anybody in the chat room chiming in with a quick answer so maybe there isn't one but who knows maybe there is so all right moving on you want to take us to Todd I feel like we got time for at least Todd maybe another I think we do so Todd has some goodies here all right all right so you you mentioned a decomposable air tag case I figure I passed along three air tag accessories that I found to be noteworthy cool the heart shell mount for air tags by moment this is a flat covering for air tags with an adhesive backing to let you mount your air tag as you please I use this to place an air tag in my vehicle behind my rear view mirror just like I have done yeah that's cool yeah I find doing that but putting it on the mirror really increases the range rather than having it like in your little junk drawer or whatever is in the console that's cool I don't notice it but it is in a location where I can still receive signals from passing iPhones car theft is an ongoing issue in my neighborhood and this gives me a slight piece of mine doubly so with new iOS 15 improvements to find mine yeah cool second up tag vault key chain this minimal case contains your air tag in hard plastic I've placed it on my keys and find it more appealing and rugged than the dangly leather cases that are out there okay oh that's really nice yeah okay I like this and then the last one for our furry friends or at least they hope they're furry you might have like a uh oh a jolo exquently I know I'm mispronouncing that but that is a hairless dog we looked at them down when we lived down in Texas or you might have a Sphinx cat right so but it's tag vault pet this attaches your air tag flush against any pet collar it is minimal and out of the way no dangly attachments to get caught on things I know they say don't rely on an air tag to track your pet but again it will give me some peace of mind whenever I get mine also bonus points if you train your dog to come when you make the air tag play his sound that I like that's a really good idea that I think you could do probably yeah if only you could change oh it'd be neat I'm sure now there's probably not a way to do it it'd be cool if you could change the sound file in the air tag oh right if you were a developer you could probably do it um maybe I mean you'd have to well you'd have to know the access to yeah you have to know what commands are available yeah I mean it's clearly an embedded device I'm not sure what the processor is in there yeah yeah yeah I'm not sure what the processor is that's pretty good no I don't know if I fix it his torn apart I fix it air tag tear down I'm sure they've torn one apart right yeah let's see processor no what are they telling us about it they don't know they do know we see the batteries we see the things that's tiny in there wow yeah yeah there's a little it's a round a round board I don't know that it makes it painfully obvious let's see it's got the Apple U1 ultra wideband transceiver Nordic semiconductor NR52832 bluetooth low energy SoC with an NFC controller ah okay SoC system on a chip yes I'm guessing that's the processor and everything else or lots else right so yeah I'll put a link to their tear down here but yeah that's interesting I fix it air tag tear down yeah that's good cool I love this stuff it's because we're geeks it's how it goes alright do we have more oh do we have more on Todd or did that get us through it cool thanks Todd yeah all right Allison we were talking about the fixing Apple watch battery drain and Allison wrote in and she said I gave the advice of resetting my contacts thinking a try but my series 6 had started dying in the early evening hours when I used to go to bed with maybe 20% left the reset of contacts didn't fix my problem but I accidentally did fix it I got a new iPhone 13 Pro and after setting it up from an iCloud backup I decided to do something more fun with it I did a nuke and pave instead of my phone looking like my old phone the same sorry old wallpaper cluttered with tons of apps I made it look like new yeah I did this last year as I think I mentioned recently it's good to do every few years on the phone it can be a bit of a pain as my wife will tell you right now that she's going through still remembering or still being reminded of settings she needs to tweak to get it just right but it is good to do every now and then Allison continues what I didn't realize was that I meant I also set myself up for a pave of my nuke and pave of my Apple Watch the result has been fantastic my series 6 now ends the day with closer to 30% battery left and that's after doing 90 minutes of exercise with the workouts app each day it was pretty easy to redo the Apple Watch from scratch and it caused me to experiment with some settings I'd forgotten existed yeah absolutely yeah nuke and pave is a good thing oh what's going on gosh this is this is Siri why was she reading this to me nice I love it ok well you got to hear Siri echo me so that's fun while you're hearing somebody gun in their motor outside of your house what do you think that is John I don't know motorcycle probably it's motorcycle weather yeah that's true and they typically have loud exhausts they do yeah I think you should turn your desk around I've had this idea for a while because your microphone is aimed at your window right I mean it's aimed past you know past you at your window so all the sound coming in your window is just being shoved straight down your mic if you turned your desk around where your desk was like halfway in the room where you were looking out your window and you know you had your back to the wall I think A you'd get better lighting in there and B we'd probably hear less of the road noise so just mix it up a little bit yeah well you could do that too that's off the extreme but you know sometimes that's fun while we're on the subject of the Apple Watch I'll squeeze one more thing in here before we have to move on our way and that is from Ben who writes he says in your California streaming follow-up Dave encouraged John to consider an Apple Watch series 5 or newer don't forget about the Apple Watch SE it's a great alternative if you don't need all the features of the series 6 and incredibly similar to the series 5 with a much better price especially you know new versus refurb so we are recording this on Friday morning the 8th it comes out on the 11th before the Apple Watch series 7 began but comparing the SE to the 5 and 6 compared to the the 5 and 6 the SE is not always on so if you like the idea of the screen being always visible then the SE is not for you but otherwise great option it also doesn't have ECG functionality so if that's something you care about again the 6 adds to the difference that the series 5 doesn't have which would be the blood oxygen sensor and a different chip you know a different wireless chip but also just the different you know guts to it so yeah it's it Apple has a an Apple Watch Compare screen and now today it's updated with the series 7 it was not earlier this week so you get to see what your differences are between the default screen compares the 7 to the SE to the 3 which would be a great place to look but you can also go to compare all models and then see the 7 and the 6 and the SE and the 5 and all the way down to the series 1 so yeah it's good sweet thanks for the reminder Ben I always I do always forget about the SE and that is a great little watch so yeah I think that's what we got for today unless you have anything else Mr Mr. Braun we could cover the next thing next week we'll cover the next thing next week good okay so we got to come back so I guess we're doing this again one last time one last time one last time until we do it again again one more time again always one more time alright thanks for listening folks thanks for hanging out with us thanks for sending in all your questions and your tips and your cool stuff found even if we don't get to them in the show we really do try to get to everything every week we don't always succeed but we often succeed we do prioritize those things that you premium listeners send in to premium at macgeekab.com so 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Hey Traders! This is Tosh. I go by T. Bradley90 in the Mind Besting Club chat. A general reminder for those who do not know, MIC is having a one-year anniversary event where Bow is going to be trading live in front of our members. It's coming up August 17th. Mark your calendars. As an added benefit for our members, the event is 100% entirely free for annual and lifetime members. While lifetime on top of that, get extra coaching before the event and guaranteed front-row seating. While most charged for these events, we show our support by making it free again for annual and lifetime members. If you are interested in signing up and attending this event, then DMT Bradley90 in MIC Slack chat and or email myself at Tosh at MyInvestingClub.com. Now today we have a very special video for you guys. One of our head moderators, Austin, who goes by Aloha trader in MIC chat, did a trade recap on NBY. He talks about the term trigger shy and anticipation. While this is just a preview of the full-length video, if you want to watch the full-length video or any of our exclusive content, then become an exclusive MIC member. Hey everybody, Austin here. I'm going to do another trade recap today, but before I do, I want to say not licensed or registered. I'm not a financial advisor and none of this should be taken as investment advice, even if it sounds like it. Okay. So today was the anticipated day on NBY. I was able to avoid it all day yesterday, but today I was really looking forward to trading it, and I goofed it up. I want to go over how I goofed it up, why I goofed it up, things I should have been taken into consideration, which I didn't. Anyway, you ought to be the whole story. So this move starts, and my trade today starts from yesterday. And yesterday, I was able to avoid this short all day, and mostly because I shouldn't give myself too much credit. I typically I don't typically join these until they get above two. I don't really like the short stuff that's under $2, but hey, we did get over two. And this, but I didn't really like the way this was trading it. By the time it got up here, it was a halter. You know, this stock was halting every, seems like every five, 10 minutes, right? It was one of those. The last time I saw one of those, it was on either, I think it was like a BGI or a DE or a DELT, right? EGI or DELT, those are both halting stocks where they just halt every, you know, every time it has a limit up halt every like 15 minutes or 10 minutes, it seems, right? And you can kind of see with all the stops that the stock was doing, right? All these halts. And so this makes it very tough to trade, makes it very unattractive to trade. Because in the end of like, you know, you're always worried about getting stuck in a halt like this one, right? This one just halt down, halt down, halt down. But then you just get caught in these halts ups and no one really wants to trade it. And then so I kind of did what I said. I saw this kind of fail here, like we're approaching red to green and this is a nice bounce. So I'm like, I'll put, I'll put on some starters here and I, some starters. And my idea was to, before we get to the final one, my idea was to short, kind of risking this 420, 425, but short around four. So I was going, I was willing to go a little bit below four, a little bit at four and a little bit over four. And I'm going to stop out at like 425. And all of this is just a starter, right? This is pre-market. I'm trading it smaller. All of this together counts as like a third of a position. I'm really trying to go slow because I, you know, I, I'm, I'm giving it the respect it deserves. And look, it totally just rips up. And I'm, I'm totally happy taking it off right at the stop.  And so it goes up all the way up kind of to the levels that I was talking about 450 and then like five was next. And, but this isn't what I had in mind. I had a question about this. Well, it went to 450 like you said on the watch list. Like, why didn't you short it there? Well, Hey traders, this is Tosh. I go by T Bradley 90 into my investing club chat. Just wanted to reach out and say, if you have any questions about MIC, joining MIC, maybe you're a member already, you have three ways to contact myself personally and through MIC. You can hit our social media. You can hit me through PMS and chat, or you can contact us through my email at Tosh at my investing club.com. That's TOSH at my investing club.com. I will get back to you in a timely manner. And I'm saying this because I'm here to help and I don't want anybody to be afraid to reach out and ask any question that they have. We are here for you guys. All right, see you guys.