Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Isn’t there a “view all in finder” option as in other OS X search places?

Ok, I can now turn on the Rocket Espresso machine with my voice. WINNER!
It still takes 35 minutes to warm-up though. LOSER

Holding cmd while a result is highlighted will show the path at the bottom. Return while still holding cmd will open the enclosing folder. Not sure there's anything more than that, however.

This is already helping a lot, thank you very much!

Isn’t there a “view all in finder” option as in other OS X search places?

Yes, actually there is (when scrolling all the way down) yet what this gives me sometimes is quite a bit cluttered / confusing..

It took me a while to get it, but now I quite like the all-results-panel. I like how its dividing it up based on file format

It might be the SSD is dying? If you still want to use the laptop, can you boot from an external drive?

I was assuming that it might be that. Booting off an external drive would be an option but I believe it might be too slow as long it's not an SSD. Also didn't plan on spending more money on it for a new SSD.

Booting off an external drive won't be the best option, but it might work. You could try it with a USB stick if you have one big enough to put the OS on. USB3 isn't that slow, and flash drives are incredibly cheap these days.

IFTTT > turn on 45 minutes before the time you set an alarm every time you set an alarm > profit

Do I upgrade to an iPhone XR (£33pcm) or shell out a bit more for a 12 (£44pcm)? Sounds like more than I want to pay but considering how essential they are these days that extra £11 is peanuts really

I’d go 12. You can prob use it for 3-4 years. The XR is great though. Had one since launch and it still feels and works great. But for £11 I’d upgrade.

499 vs 799 for outright (64gb) handset

So maybe consider contract length but resale will be higher for the 12, so I would just go for that (its what Im doing)

Just moved into the world of usb-c and found that the orange double ended (both usb-c) cable from a new La Cie Rugged hard drive is almost impossible to plug into my new iPad Air. The black cable with usb-a on one end goes in no problem.
I thought things like this were well standardized, especially with an established company like La Cie.

Anyone else with this problem?

Isn't LaCie all fluff? Of all the hard drives I've had only 2 have failed, both LaCie.

^ There's some solid market research for ya!

Well there you go, I should have asked here first!
I wonder if I can return it on the fit basis...

My experience aside, could it be a photography thing though? That the cables sit a bit firmer? I've got some Tether Tools cables and they seem to sit much firmer compared to cheaper cables

Firmer set is one thing, but I thought the orange cable was going to destroy my ipad before going in. At first I thought it was a different standard!

Command + click opens the file's parent folder. I agree that the lack of right-click options is baffling.

Is there a way to download the Catalina installer on a M1 MacBook? My 2012 Air freezes right after booting into the OS so I can't do it on it.

No chance.

Catalina is built on x86 so Apple block it on their servers.

Have you tried safe boot mode?

Or looked into recovery options?

This is a bit of a bodge, but it looks like it works: How to download macOS Catalina installer without Mac App Store

Yup, but sadly neither helped. I can't even boot up to safe mode.

Thanks, will look into it!