Rob Griffiths

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Many Tricks dude. Founder of macosxhints.com. Ex of Macworld and Apple, though that one was a lifetime ago.
Bloghttps://robservatory.com
Workhttps://manytricks.com

In hindsight, this seems incredibly obvious…if you’re trying to find some new TV series to watch that match your viewing interests, feed your "here’s what I watch" list to an AI and ask for its recommendations.

I sent my watch list to Claude, and got back a list of 20+ series it recommended that matched my shows’ themes. I’d heard of many, but some I had not. That includes Dark, which I’m watching now—I had Claude rank its recommendations, and Dark came out on top, so I started there.

The beauty having kittens AND Legos is that you will always have something to (re)build.

(A game of chase took a bad turn and wiped out the Cobra.)

PSA: If you live in the States, Costco is clearing out prior-gen 11" M4 iPad Pros in various configurations. We upgraded from M2 Airs to M4 Pros with nanotexture glass at roughly half the cost of the same thing in an M5 iPad Pro. The textured glass is a real difference maker; more so than I was expecting (there are only two nano glass models left).

https://www.costco.com/s?keyword=11%22%20m4%20ipad%20pro

Not cheap, but WAY cheaper than the M5 versions! ($2300 vs $1200 for the 11" 2TB nano cellular, for instance).

@hoserama99 Yep, that’s why we wrote it. It’s weird, you think it’s audio so you get instant feedback, but so many of us like the visual indicator.

We released Hudlum 1.1 today, an update to our "in the right spot" volume changing indicator for macOS Tahoe. If you’re a fan of the old-school segmented volume change indicator, well, this update’s for you!

https://manytricks.com/hudlum/

"Delivery—your kittens have arrived! Where do you want them?"

'Oh, just pile them anywhere'

"You got it!"

If The West Wing was made for today’s streaming world, it would have to run for over 19 *years* to get through its 154 episodes. A "season" isn’t 8 to 10 shows unless you can tell a whole story in that number of shows. If, instead, you end at eight just as the tension is ramping up and major things are happening, that’s not a season.

I’m looking at you, The Diplomat. Season three ended at what would have been a midpoint for any "normal" show. #irked

Apple makes it tough to run unsigned apps—and enabling such apps the Apple way involves multiple clicks in dialogs and System Settings (or a trip to Terminal). I got tired of this, so I wrote a simple @KeyboardMaestro macro that wipes the quarantine flag (which the OS sets to mark apps as dangerous).

Now in Finder, I select an app bundle, press Control-Option-Q, and the quarantine flag is removed. So much simpler.

https://forum.keyboardmaestro.com/t/macro-easily-clear-the-quarantine-flag-on-an-app/51083

Warning: Trust your app sources before proceeding :).

Can anyone tell me how to actually delete these photos from my phone? They show in Photos as Already Imported, but they show every single time, even if I check the "Delete items after import" box. Do I really need to scan through the thousands of photos on my phone and delete them, one by one as I find them?

They cover years and years of photos, seemingly randomly. Very annoying.

@slyborg @mikematter I haven’t actually rebooted yet, so not sure. But another comment indicates the fact that this works at all is a bug in 15.7.3