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Suffice to say I had to change my MAC address every week to fight their shitty system.
Wait until you find out you can change which directory screenshots save to. I have a dedicated "screenshots" directory in my home directory. And then a stack in the Dock for it similar to the one for the Downloads folder.
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This is a holy war topic. Some people, myself included, prefer how Windows render fonts. Others prefer MacOS. From what I recall the last time this came up on HN, MacOS tries to render true to the font as if in a professional work flow that ends with a physical product. Windows aims for on screen legibility as it's primary goal. Also remember that most Windows machines have a much lower DPI screen that what comes wit…
That's a hard pill to swallow when my ability to read anything is so strained by trying to focus letters. I mean if I was just able to read the words better I'd not be complaining, that's what I want to do lol. I'm on 1440p here and microsoft sells devices with higher resolutions so I don't know how much legs this argument has to keep going on. I mean this is what I see in windows system preferences promising to make…
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Serial Experiments Lain (1998) used PlainTalk for its title cards. You can still recreate the title card voices in macOS. say -v Whisper "Weird: Layer zero one"
That doesn't seem to work on the latest Catalina ("Voice Whisper not found.") – do I need to install them separately?
Whisper can definitely be installed on Catalina still. It's a 34 MB download.
I found these after years, although it's been years since I found it. Preview is pretty good for merging PDFs, deleting pages from PDFs, and adding annotations. Whenever I have to do these things on a windows machine, I struggle to find software to do it. Most importantly, preview can add your signature via trackpad, or by holding up your signature to a webcam.
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⌘-Shift-5 to disable that floating screen shot thing... I love you. That thing is _so slow_ and distracting I always worry my screen shot didn't actually save until that slow window popped up on some random screen.
I used to hate the screenshot preview, but then discovered I could drag it into applications and websites, or into the trash if it was a mistake.
I only recently discovered the Youtube channel 'MacMost':
https://www.youtube.com/user/macmostvideo
As a long-time macOS user, I am astounded at the things I'm currently learning from this guy, they're not just 'cool' things, they're seriously productivity-boosting things! They're small but sometimes impactful.
This is the best tip I can give anyone here.
While this isn't a generic feature, I want to say that everyone should try embracing the non-keyboard nature of macOS (as it always has been done), not just complaining that some of the elements are not reachable in the keyboard.[0] Try using the mouse, trackpad (which is top-quality), and the Touch Bar (which I guess will be the most controversial?). Especially drag-n-drop. I'm not sure if it's already mentioned, bu…
An excellent example I discovered only the other day: in Finder, press spacebar to speed up drag-and-drop spring-loading. (It finally makes spring-loading USEFUL!)
Everything explained and shown here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1izlhicjvQ&t=67
E.g. move file into a folder in another Finder tab, now made quick via this action.
macOS has a very good built-in text-to-speech engine with real voices that sound good (i.e. not annoying to read). It's part of the Accessibility > Speech menu in Settings. I wrote up a little info doc for how to enable keyboard shortcut for it so you can use with any text you can select: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mApa60zJA8rgEm6T6GF0yIem... Use cases: - read blog posts and news articles while doing dishes…
I haven't tested it much yet but the 'Samantha' voice actually seems listenable and intelligible for long periods.
You can add blank spaces on the dock using: defaults write http://com.apple.dock persistent-apps -array-add '{tile-data={}; tile-type="spacer-tile";}' Very useful for organizing icons.
It has been so very long since I’ve used the Dock that it always comes as a surprise when it comes up in macOS UX discussion as I forget that it exists. Can someone explain how it is useful to their workflow?