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Post by bombcar »

fragmede wrote: post #205
hu3 wrote: post #198

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How so? I can close Chrome and any PWA application independently. None of them have to be kept open. Even for notifications, if I allow. And I just found out I can even cast the entire window to my TV, which is cool https://i.imgur.com/efF1moy.png

Total aside, but if you have a Mac laptop and an AppleTV, you can easily mirror or extend your desktop to that apple tv over wifi.

And Zoom can pretend to be an AirPlay destination so you can share your phone screen on a zoom call via your desktop. M

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Post by raunakchhatwal »

miniBill wrote: post #265
bshacklett wrote: post #240

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My issue with Nix is that you are forced to install packages in a global location. Why is it that every package manager assumes I’m an administrator on my machine? Even if I am, how does it make sense to take over a global directory as a single user?

Nix does not require you to be an administrator to install a package though!

I think he may be referring to installing Nix itself, which does require root even if the intention isn't to install anything system-wide. I did once think about modifying the nix installer to let me set an arbitrary nix store because I wanted nix packages in a docker container I was debugging, but never really got around to it. Let me know if you know of somebody else who tried this.

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Post by nytesky »

jweir wrote: post #287
felixfbecker wrote: post #225

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Can Keychain store anything that's not passwords yet? I like using 1Passwords for all sorts of stuff like SSN, drivers license, passport details, membership details, SSH keys etc

Yes, you can create a "New Secure Note Item"

Is this in Passwords or the Notes app?

I tried Notes app with the Lock but it requires another password while I want it all under the FaceID/iCloud password like the settings-passwords

Is there a secure note option in passwords - mine all require username web url and password.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by nytesky »

jweir wrote: post #287
felixfbecker wrote: post #225

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Can Keychain store anything that's not passwords yet? I like using 1Passwords for all sorts of stuff like SSN, drivers license, passport details, membership details, SSH keys etc

Yes, you can create a "New Secure Note Item"

Oh that’s only on MacOs not iOS, right?

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Post by georgespencer »

saaspirant wrote: post #235
runjake wrote: post #228

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Context? Homebrew is working fine on Sonoma here. I do not get that or a similar message.

He is talking about MAC OS 11 Big Sur

macOS or MacOS but never MAC OS or MACOS. MAC is an acronym for Media Access Control (as in: MAC address), Mac (or mac) is an abbreviation of Macintosh.

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Post by lxgr »

vaughan wrote: post #292
auggierose wrote: post #145

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I wish they did something so deleting files from the bin wouldn't take millenia on my iMac Pro. Yes, it's an old computer, but shouldn't that be a solved problem?

Meanwhile Windows still struggles with getting files to the bin.

Are you referring to the "exclusive advisory locks by default" policy it carried over from MS-DOS? If so, yes, I do feel like that's the worst architectural decision of Windows.

Ultimately, it's what makes software updates as hard as they are there: Just being able to do an "apt-get update" with applications open without anything exploding was a true revelation the first time I used a Unix.

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Post by smcleod »

KerrAvon wrote: post #260
pupppet wrote: post #211

Every time a new MacOS version is announced the 1Password staff must be all sitting around praying Apple doesn't add any more bells and whistles to Keychain.

I doubt they care about Mac customers. If they did, they would have avoided ruining the app's UI so that customers don't have a good reason to jump ship at the first opportunity.

Yeah 1Password 8 is really bad compared to 7, ignoring how awful electron is for a password manage it doesn't even have basic feature parity like finding and removing duplicates, completely hiding vaults etc

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Post by dgacmu »

oxonia wrote: post #208
n8henrie wrote: post #197

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https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-macos The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I've really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn't replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it's getting closer every day.

Yes, the Homebrew message does seem unnecessarily hostile. Not everyone can afford to buy a brand new computer every year.

This seems a little exaggerated?

Macos 12 will run on most Macs from 2015 and later.

8 year old hardware isn't Earth shattering, but it's also not a "hostile" period of time for a non-commercial open source project to support. And it's certainly not "new hardware every year".

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

robbiep wrote: post #304
kylehotchkiss wrote: post #229

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In Safari, keychain and 1password certainly are fighting harder for my attention than they have in the past. I want to use a workflow where passkeys live in iCloud and normal login pairs live in 1Password. 1Password's passkeys implementation is a nice way to keep keychain from being the only player in the game but I like how much faster they work stored inside of the OS better.

Am I right in that keychain only really works in safari? Or are there recent changes?

Apple made a chrome plugin to allow usage of iCloud Keychain passkeys in Chrome but not sure how well it works: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/icloud-passwords/p...

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Post by supertron »

ianlevesque wrote: post #241
pupppet wrote: post #211

Every time a new MacOS version is announced the 1Password staff must be all sitting around praying Apple doesn't add any more bells and whistles to Keychain.

They started with a huge advantage and squandered it with a buggy cloud subscription model and an electron downgrade. Their fate is their own at this point.

Agreed, sadly 1Password's biggest threat is themselves at this point, not Keychain.
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