May 22, 20215 yr 29 minutes ago, blessingx said: Any chance you can just change to an Office alternative? Is there really an alternative?
May 22, 20215 yr The problem with office is that it is a gigantic amalgamation of features. Most office users use, say 15-20% of the total features. The problem is that the 20% I use and the 20% you use aren’t the same. As far as I can tell the only way to make sure the mobile app has all the features each office user needs is to use the full desktop level apps. Edited May 22, 20215 yr by TMoney
May 22, 20215 yr 7 hours ago, TMoney said: Picked up the new hotness today. Holy moly this thing is big coming off the 2018 11”. The keyboard case was expensive but it feels great. HDR on the new screen is stunning. Nearly LG-OLED-like blacks and eye-searing brightness. All that is missing is Apple letting us run full desktop-Mac apps on this thing! I'm jealous, but for me having just bought the 2018 11" cousin to what you cast aside, it's a nice step up from any ipad I've used previously and for once, actually impresses with it's ability to function rather than simply waste time.
May 22, 20215 yr @TMoney: Your battlestation photo is disturbingly lacking in headphones and a slick amplifier 😁 But I’m with you on this. I’ve been low-key trying to replace my Mac laptop with my iPad (and I don’t have one of the new ones, just an OG Pro from 2015) and an external keyboard. It’s close. I personally could probably jump ship if an upcoming version of iPadOS has (1) a Unix shell and (2) background processes. It seems like something Apple could bless us with. I’d also love external storage slots, but they’re not strictly necessary.
May 22, 20215 yr 4 hours ago, TMoney said: Having a monitor, mouse, keyboard, DAC, ethernet, and power all connected via a single cable to a thunderbolt dock feels like the fucking future. I've had that setup, with a Thinkpad, for 3 years.
May 24, 20215 yr https://www.macworld.com/article/229528/lgs-5k-monitor-doesnt-work-near-wi-fi-routers.html
June 7, 20215 yr Meanwhile WWDC ... https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22465927/apple-wwdc-keynote-2021-live-blog-updates-news Edited June 7, 20215 yr by Grahame
June 7, 20215 yr AirPlay to Mac is a pretty cool feature. Leave the Mac plugged in to a DAC and cast music to it from the phone/tablet. I like it. Lots of cool little features like that today. Nothing really mind-blowing, but some decent quality of life stuff. Getting rid of tracking pixels on emails is long overdue. Et tu, Google/GMail?
June 8, 20215 yr What knavery is this? I don’t know if this sounds better or worse, but it does sound different. Reminds me of listening to a binaural recording.
June 8, 20215 yr Now Apple just needs to add a way to let the Music app take exclusive control of a DAC and switch bitrates as needed. Edited June 8, 20215 yr by TMoney
June 8, 20215 yr Verge take https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/7/22523228/apple-music-lossless-spatial-audio-dolby-atmos-features Apples FAQ https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT212183 Don't forget your Apple TV Edited June 8, 20215 yr by Grahame
June 9, 20215 yr Fake Spatial Audio https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/08/ios-15-and-macos-monterey-simulate-spatial-audio-for-non-dolby-content-with-new-spatialize-stereo-option/
June 9, 20215 yr Audirvana switches bit rate without necessarily taking exclusive control of a DAC. Is there any advantage to exclusive control? I find it annoying — you can’t just pause music playback to l, e.g. watch a video in-browser, you have to fully stop and lose your place in a track or playlist. Oh, and Apple’s jukebox software still not switching rates automatically is just silly. C’mon.
June 9, 20215 yr Author https://www.macstories.net/news/eddy-cue-on-why-spatial-audio-is-a-game-changer/The view from Apple HQ.
June 9, 20215 yr Exclusive is mostly to not get beeped and booped at as emails and chats roll in. I'm mixed on spatial audio. With the APM and HD800 the stereo tracks sound correct, natch. Atmos spatial sounds like a good binaural filter at best, and a bad one at worst. Is that a game changer? I dunno.
June 9, 20215 yr There's always the macOS sidebar Do Not Disturb is a quick way to get temporarily get rid of notifications.
June 9, 20215 yr " APPLE MUSIC’S SPATIAL AUDIO IS SOMETIMES AMAZING BUT MOSTLY INCONSISTENT At launch, it’s a very hit or miss experience " https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/9/22525028/apple-music-spatial-audio-dolby-atmos-hands-on
June 9, 20215 yr For anyone who knows, is there any reason not to leave the Audio Midi Setup app set to 24-96 if the DAC can handle it even when playing lower bit-rate/sample rate content?
June 10, 20215 yr In my understanding, setting a higher sample rate will cause the OS to digitally upsample or downsample the source material to match. I don’t know if it’s audible from an ABX test perspective, but it mucks with the signal. I suspect it doesn’t matter for upsamples of multiples of the original (like 44kHz to 88kHz or 48 to 96), but interpolation (44 to 96) might introduce artifacts. (I might be wrong about this.) A higher output bit depth than the source material should be fine: the extra bits will be set to 0, and that’s that. No information added, removed, or changed.
June 11, 20215 yr AMS (audio midi studio) switches sample rates up and down to match the audio. It doesn't have the ability to upsample or anything that complicated. It's just a Utility for setting preferences for audio devices. Set your devices format to the max it can handle and AMS will switch the output to the appropriate settings. I believe Core Audio can up/downsample file outputs.
June 17, 20215 yr The 15-second Dolby Atmos bug https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/16/15-second-bug-dolby-atmos-spatial-audio-apple-music/
June 21, 20215 yr These settings were in earlier links, but just in case… “Enjoy” Apple Music Spatial Audio on third-party headphones https://9to5mac.com/2021/06/21/spatial-audio-apple-music-headphones/
June 21, 20215 yr Meanwhile ... https://www.theregister.com/2021/06/21/wifi_ssid_flaw/ "Hope no one's created guest networks called '%Free %Coffee at %Starbucks'"
June 23, 20215 yr For dinosaur technicians like me – I just found out that macOS stopped supporting reading of HFS-formatted disks after macOS Mojave. Apparently Mac OS X 10.6 was the last OS that supported writing HFS-formatted optical disks. Fortunately, I still have some old installs that will let me finish this long-delayed archiving project (old CDs/DVDs/Zip disks/floppy disks). Edited June 23, 20215 yr by HiWire
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