Everything Apple (the Mac heads thread)

Can the iPhone 14 handle dual eSIM and physical sim active at the same time or is it like the 11 I had with two sims active at the same time at most.

Edit - It can store up to 8 eSIM but only two SIM cards can be active at once

Please can someone explain to a tech-luddite the simplest way for me to watch a .mkv film on my Mac?

https://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Download that. Press play.

^ this

Appreciated, thank you.

Any solution to the number pad pop-up on LFGSS yet?

I tried to reproduce this on every real device and all the virtual ones in XCode, but I cannot.

Still certainly happening. This in Safari…

https://youtube.com/shorts/VplE9VmJaN8

^Exactly this on every single page load.

It’s disappeared for me, up to date iPhone

Never experienced it on my old phone or the new one which I got last week.

Trying a bit of remote working from an iPad mini and it's all good.. except this keyboard which is infuriating!

Is the Apple Magic keyboard decent for travel and more importantly, nice to use? Or are alternatives like the logictech MX mini better? I generally get around on a bike, small and light are preferable (but I went too far with this logi!).

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I leave a keychron k3 ultra-slim at work because the desk keyboards often don't work properly.

Obviously I don't take it back and forth, but I could and for you it would be the right balance imo.

It used to be my main keyboard, so other than the number pad there is no compromise. It supports windows and iOS and ships with mac keys.

https://www.keychron.com/collections/keychron-iso-jis-keyboard-collection/products/keychron-k2-wireless-mechanical-keyboard-uk-iso-layout

Oooo thanks, probably should have asked in the mech keyboard thread!

I really rate apples keyboards, esp with the finger print sensor added. Just retired a cheap logitech I had to use for a work pc and finally replaced it with a mac, such a difference. But yeah, it's very individual

I really rate apples keyboards, esp with the finger print sensor added.

They're really nice, also really expensive, and it sucks they don't do a small black / space grey one 💁

check, check and check

Got some bigger drives for my nas, which is set up as raid 10, wondering what the best way to get them into the system, should I just hit swap them one at a time, or would it be better to copy/back up what’s on the nas, take out drives, replace with clean ones and then copy back from back up? Or is there another way I’m missing?

1 at a time I'd have thought.

Make /model of the Nas?

Logitech do their MX Keys in a mini format.

Not quite the same as an Apple keyboard, and doesn’t have a finger print sensor, but the bigger version’s done me well for a couple of years.

Qnap ts-451+, it’s a 4 bay one

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.reddit.com/r/qnap/comments/8cz711/ts451_replace_all_drives_with_larger_ones/&ved=2ahUKEwiOwoXp3_L-AhXObsAKHde_DFkQjjh6BAgqEAE&usg=AOvVaw3jF0464d6xobDZBgrs-B4Q

Bit of a megalink, sorry. Change 1 drive at a time, let the RAID rebuild and then increase the storage size

Amazon have offers on Apple keyboards today. Might be of use to someone.

iCloud Drive for photos

Did you resolve this? I have no help (I use Dropbox for photos) but sounds like the sort of thing I would do so curious about the outcome.

I think it did largely what you might expect - not delete a whole bunch of photos 😅

Was a very slow process though.