Re: Usb stick with screen reader for tails overlay network. Linux, mac and windows machines physical. Usb stick into usb device on the computer and the tails and gnome os linux and tails are running i

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Yes. Tails and Tor merged recently so this is basically an all-purpose 
anonymity browser and it's great to see it includes the Orca screen reader. 
However, bear in mind that as far as Macs are concerned, this one will only 
boot on Intel Macs, so not contemporary Apple Silicon Macs. The best you can do 
on Apple Silicon is a throwaway virtual machine.

Have fun.

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Re: My decision whether to get the 16 or the 16 Pro

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I mean, my true loves are Macs and macOS, too (are we not all on this list?), 
but Apple seems determined to work on iPhones and iOS to the exclusion of Macs. 
I only buy a phone when I’m sure it will meaningfully improve my life; 
hopefully Apple Intelligence will soon become more affordable, just like the 
rest of the line.

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Re: AirPods 4 vs AirPods 3: Should You Upgrade?, 9 to 5 Mac

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Ditto, AirPods Pro 2 for me too. They're still current, too; only the software 
is changing, including the new hearing features when they come out, and already 
including the "headphone accommodations" features that let you enhance 
transparency mode. I'd just go Pro, honestly, and do away with the non-pro 
versions (either edition).

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Re: Passwords and Passkeys

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Yes, that's exactly correct, just tell Strongbox to use the Dropbox integration 
to directly connect to your Dropbox account, whilst your Windows KeePass 
operates on the file created in your Dropbox folder. You've got it.

And don't worry about the server: as long as you have backups of your databases 
(which Strongbox can be made to keep locally, if you really have no other 
options) you should be fine; after all, Dropbox wouldn't be in business if they 
lost people's data. And the database itself is encrypted with your master 
secret so it can't be read or tampered with by Dropbox, at least in theory.

Have fun and good luck. Take your time, perhaps set this all up as a test 
environment, starting with the Strongbox apps and then moving on to KeePass, 
which is definitely hairier once you get plug-ins involved if you need browser 
integration and so on. And again, if it's all too much, maybe just consider 
moving on to BitWarden, which is much cheaper and gives you what you came to 
1Password for, with only the tiniest loss of functionality.

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Re: Passwords and Passkeys

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I can’t speak to your skill level but there’s no doubt that Strongbox has many 
knobs for you to twiddle with. I like options, and although it’s certainly 
quite approachable (especially with the excellent documentation in hand), I 
think it’s fair to say that you’ll be investing time into your setup, at least 
initially, particularly with regard to syncing. Crucially, you have to arrange 
it such that your iOS device can always access the storage you’ll use for your 
databases, and that KeePass on Windows will read and write the same databases. 
KeePass just treats the database files as any other file on your disk, so much 
as with any other app that accesses network storage, you just need to make sure 
it’s available when you need it. Strongbox, being a mobile app, is very 
resilient to being offline, maintaining local cached copies of files and 
seamlessly synchronising changes, but if you want to see those changes 
synchronise in near real-time, you will want to make sure the network and 
server are available whenever you need them to get changes from one device to 
the other. Strongbox will try to cover for failures, but ultimately this is 
your responsibility.

And speaking of syncing, Strongbox natively supports Dropbox, Google Drive, 
OneDrive, and any SFTP or WebDAV server, in addition to its own Internet and 
local network syncing between Strongbox apps. If you only use Windows with 
Strongbox and you want the simplest possible setup, you’d go with one of the 
public clouds on the list, installing the corresponding app on Windows and just 
using the file in the local syncing directory in KeePass; a bit more work, and 
you can use your own server with SFTP (very common on any device with SSH 
enabled) or WebDAV (some NAS devices). If you run a server and want to reach it 
from the Internet, you arrange it so that this is possible from outside your 
LAN: you set up the (probably dynamic) DNS so it resolves the hostname to your 
public IP address, you forward the necessary ports to your server, and so on. 
Or, as I do, you use a VPN to reach into your network, which is easier in some 
ways because once it’s set up you access your entire network using the same 
internal addresses irrespective of whether you’re home or not, but it does mean 
you need to route your internal home addresses to a VPN server that you either 
run yourself or have someone else host, which adds some complexity but does 
mean you have much more secure access because you don’t need to open holes in 
your firewall for specific servers and can reach your whole network.

So yes, possible, but the point is that you get to assume responsibilities that 
just using 1Password or even BitWarden frees you from by virtue of being 
completely hosted. No shame if you’d rather not, but I do think the payoff is 
well worth it.

Glad you find my comments interesting!

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Re: Spotlight Replacement

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Andrew, yes, FAF will search the container directories of cloud storage 
services that are normally located on your boot disk. There is an advanced 
option (hidden by default) that will let you choose to search on whether an 
item is “dataless” (i.e. downloaded) or not, but the default will include them 
which means you should at least be able to search on file names and metadata in 
your cloud drives.

E.T., glad you like it! It’s really nice and I purchased recently when he added 
support for searching network drives by executing the search on the remote 
device itself, currently in beta but soon to be released as a Pro feature. 
Spotlight is still necessary for searching certain types of content, 
particularly the text of PDFs, but FAF has never let me down where Spotlight 
often misses something or its indexes haven’t caught up yet.

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Re: Passwords and Passkeys

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For password manager, I use Strongbox on both macOS and iOS. These use the 
KeePass format (KDBX), for which there exist tools and libraries for all 
platforms. I don’t know what an Android user would use, but on Windows you’d 
use KeePass (the original .net app, with plug-ins as desired).

Why leave 1Password? Subscription, Electron apps everywhere, and the loss of 
data sovereignty. I respect their choice to go off down the path of pleasing 
enterprise, and to be sure it’s still all pretty accessible, but really, I 
can’t in good conscience pay a subscription for managing and accessing data 
that’s mine. The reason you use a password manager is simply to liberate your 
passwords from the proprietary control of a single vendor. Even BitWarden, 
another client-server password manager with a web extension for autofill, can 
be self-hosted, using the excellent VaultWarden server. But nothing compares 
with a genuinely native solution, and Strongbox supports Apple’s native 
platform APIs for both the UI and autofill in Safari beautifully. And, even 
though Strongbox now supports their own proprietary sync service, I already had 
a setup for remotely reaching my NAS over sftp, for simple syncing, which is 
arguably the hardest part about using KeePass-based options, especially on iOS. 
So it was goodbye to 1Password. I can recommend it to the geek who wants it all 
and isn’t afraid to make a few little sacrifices in convenience.

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Re: Accessible Mesh Routers

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I manage with Netgear's products by just using the web interface rather than 
the mobile app, which only provides a limited set of exclusive functions that I 
simply don't care about (parental control, Armour security, remote access, 
etc). If you don't care about any of that nonsense, using the web interface is 
fine and in fact a great deal more privacy-respecting.

Apple's platforms support DNS over HTTPS and TLS, yes, but you have to use 
configuration profiles to enable them; there's no support in the UI. Do some 
googling for sites that will generate the profiles you need, or use Apple 
Configurator to build one yourself.

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Re: Spotlight Replacement

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Really depends on how much functionality you're rooting for. If you just want 
to find files, then the excellent and highly versatile Find Any File is 
brilliant, especially if you want to search across the network based on file 
names and other metadata. But if you want all-in-one launchers that have the 
ability to quickly find items including files, then Alfred or LaunchBar would 
be what you're looking for.

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Re: Passwords and Passkeys

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Bear in mind that 1Password (which I am also happy to report having escaped, 
albeit to another password manager) will not export your passkeys. You will 
have to find the passkeys you do have (not in itself impossible, but still 
annoyingly tedious when I last did it), log in to each site with the passkey 
you have, add a new one, and this time save it in Apple's keychain. Be sure to 
have your settings set such that passkeys are offered for saving, and possibly 
automatic upgrading for new sites. It's all in Settings, somewhere under 
Passwords. Good luck.

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Re: View iPhone in Finder

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USB or Wi-Fi connection?

You are, of course, looking in the Finder sidebar? You have configured Finder 
Sidebar preferences to include iOS devices?

Try rebooting both Mac and iPhone. Sometimes that shakes out some gremlin or 
other that's keeping sync from working.

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Re: AppleVis.

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Damn.

But of course it's entirely right that a volunteer-run site should give its 
first priority to those volunteers. They owe us nothing and, indeed, all good 
things must come to an end, eventually. Particularly in a much more turbulent 
climate.

But it's such a shame. The site was competently run, technically. And the 
public visibility undoubtedly helped in a way that perhaps a mailing list 
couldn't.

I'd be devestated to see the whole thing go up in smoke, turn to dust. I hope 
the content is somehow archived as a testament to the community. While I love 
mailing lists and archiving them is easy, they don't have quite the same 
outreach; hopefully, some sort of sequel is imagined, perhaps a hybrid of both 
forum and list, which gives the users of both something to be happy about. 
Groups.io isn't too bad, but something self-hosted would be better. Maybe 
Discourse, or something like it.

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Re: VMware Fusion/Player

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Fusion is a paid product, but you can use Player for free if that meets your 
needs. It doesn't do certain things like snapshots IIRC, but you can run a 
Windows VM.

Concerning the configuration, I'd customise the VM for the first time 
immediately after creating it, before even starting it. Then you can make sure 
you have everything correct, including disk drive and boot order. Windows won't 
need to be reconfigured after setup, just install the VMWare Tools.

Cheers,
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Re: VMware Fusion/Player

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Thanks for the report. I wonder why Narrator is now broken during setup? Do you 
suppose it applies to physical installs as well? Anyone know, tried it?

Anyway, I too am now running the beta and can confirm that it works for my 
Linux VM, in which I now have Braille through BRLTTY and, at least, PC Speaker 
support. Thank goodness. It was getting rather tortured, just using Terminal. 
But I’ve learned my lesson from this little episode, and that is that we must 
be prepared to jump out of an aeroplane at 30,000 feet, when times get 
desperate. Or something—I’m still working out what my options are, but keeping 
this BootCamp Windows partition seems prudent, as does getting to grips with 
UTM as a backup. I’d been meaning to renew this VM, anyway—it’s way out of date 
now.

Cheers,
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Re: VMware Fusion/Player

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This bug affected both Intel and Apple Silicon Macs in the same way. Fusion 
does indeed work on Apple Silicon, when not affected by this bug. The latest 
Sonoma has fixed it; when I upgrade to the next minor point release, I'll see 
if the fix is in there, but if not then it's the next major point release that 
will have it, hopefully not too long.

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Re: VMware Fusion/Player

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The link was the one in my earlier email; here it is again:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/VMs-shut-down-immediately-after-start-in-Fusion-Player-13-5-on/td-p/2992545

The really great news is that Apple have (surprise, surprise) just now updated 
Sonoma beta and, pending confirmation from another tester, fixed  the issue. 
Will miracles never cease?

I have the 13.5.0 disk image if you have a licence to run that. I dunno if 
earlier versions work, but 13.5 is definitely recommended for Sonoma. Let me 
know if you need this, I'll MailDrop it to you.

Cheers,
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Re: VMware Fusion/Player

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I don't hold out much hope to be honest, but I'll let you know if the beta 
fixes it, otherwise I'm looking at more time booted into Windows and using UTM 
for Linux. Meanwhile, if you're affected and you care, pester Apple 
Accessibility about it—it may not be their product, but it's certainly their 
bug, and VMWare have confirmed it.

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Re: VMware Fusion/Player

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So there’s activity on the VMWare Communities thread discussing this:
https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-Fusion-Discussions/VMs-shut-down-immediately-after-start-in-Fusion-Player-13-5-on/td-p/2992545

I have yet to try the latest Sonoma beta to see if this is fixed, as suggested. 
Anyone else tried it yet? I probably will eventually, if not.

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Re: VMware Fusion/Player

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UTM is a graphical frontend to qemu. It's accessible, absolutely, once you have 
a feel for it—certainly more than Parallels which needs you to use VOCR just to 
get set up. Definitely give it a try and see if it meets your needs. The Spice 
guest tools (or qemu agent on other platforms) go into your guest VMs to have 
functionality that VMware Tools gives. Getting Windows initially set up is a 
wee bit tricky because no network, but that's easily overcome. I'm not sure how 
you'd find that but it's really no big deal, you open a command prompt and type 
a command, the machine reboots, and you go through setup without signing in to 
Microsoft. I've also never tried importing an existing VM, so I can't tell you 
how well that will go.

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Re: Thinking of Switching to Windows

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Yeah, I guess. System-wide spell check? Built-in dictionary? Oh hang on, Apple 
have sabotaged that for VoiceOver users now too, haven't they?

I do think the app scene is somewhat better on Mac though. RSS readers and 
podcatchers, file transfer, sync and backup utilities, etc. together with a 
much nicer general model of accessibility and system-wide conveniences like 
scripting and automation.

But sure. Ultimately, Windows is pragmatic and practical, it works, and you 
don't need macOS the same way you need Windows. I think they're complementary, 
but you can survive less well without Windows than with macOS, I think it's 
fair to say, even if you stretch Windows to an occasional boot of your VM every 
once in a blue moon. Also, iOS provides many of the apps that are typically 
found on the Mac, though not all of course, and not with the same features. You 
can edit audio on an iPhone, but the experience is better on a Mac or PC.

I'll hang on to my 2020 iMac for as long as it lives and certainly for as long 
as it has AppleCare, just so I can have the option of using Windows. And yes, 
that includes Windows 11, either in a VM or bootcamped with the stupid 
restrictions patched out. But my heart goes out to those who are torn between 
two operating systems, so to speak, as a result of Apple Silicon. I can 
appreciate this pain because I am definitely buying an Apple Silicon MacBook 
Pro in the near future, precisely so I can have it all, albeit with the 
compromises of using the Mac as a host platform. We pray for competition and 
general-purpose ARM or Risc V hardware in future. Also for an operating system 
that's truly both accessible and respectful of your privacy, of course, because 
that doesn't exist yet.

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Re: My review after spending two weeks with the Activator braille display

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Thank you for an excellent review, Donnah.

I guess unsurprisingly, the part that interests me most is thecombination of 
iPhone and Activator, since that's clearly the dominant use case, but the 
assembly sounds rather brittle and then the issue of newer USB-C iphones. I 
won't be buying any time soon, but I'd be interested to see how this develops.

Some of the other stuff is rather less inspiring though. Windows is at fault 
for the USB issues, though presumably that will get fixed, however the 
requirement to use Windows to update firmware just makes me sad. Again, I hope 
there's a fix, in some not-too-distant future. The interface sounds rather 
primitive though, which strikes me as a bit of a red flag seeing as how it's 
supposed to improve on the iPhone for editing tasks. All the technology in the 
world can't help if it's not efficient to use for that, and since the whole 
point is to marry that efficiency with your existing phone's functionality, 
rather than replacing it, they probably need to improve their software 
considerably for me to consider switching away from a Focus or any display with 
stored Braille input capability. Again, I'll be interested to see how others 
find it after they've done some more work on their software.

Thanks again for your review. It was very informative.

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Re: Restore Previous Music Database

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The database is a single bundle. Just find the one with the newest timestamp in 
the name, copy it in position in your Music folder, then hold Option down as 
you launch Music from the dock (that is, press Option-Enter with Music 
selected) and choose the file you just copied. This should update the system's 
understanding of your library's contents. If you are asked to restart you may 
have to disconnect all iOS devices and turn off Home Sharing first, because 
those components use the same database and won't know you've replaced it until 
you explicitly selected it. This is one of the more regretable changes that 
have occurred due to the iTunes split.

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Re: Thinking of Switching to Windows

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For myself, macOS means lots of different things to me, when it isn't broken, 
but especially Spatterlight, for text adventures AKA Interactive Fiction, and a 
UNIX environment underneath. Of course nothing says I won't ever go back to 
Windoze, but I think Marc has it right—use both platforms to get the best. It 
shouldn't be necessary, and I appreciate that in an age of Apple Silicon it's 
often an impossible choice to make, but if you can, maintain access to both. 
Windows is many things but it certainly isn't a dreamland, either.

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Re: Shutting off series annoying back to back request feature

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But the problem of back-to-back requests isn't really that Siri doesn't go 
away. It's that having made your request, you can't really review the output 
because while Siri is listening VoiceOver refuses to talk. And if you dismiss 
Siri by asking it to sod off—an absurd requirement, in any event—then it will 
take your results with it as it goes.

So thanks but no thanks Apple for an incredibly stupid feature that can only 
really be of any benefit if you are doing the simplest possible things given 
the dysfunction of Siri generally and its extremely limited capacity for 
understanding requests in particular. That always-on misfeature and changing 
the default trigger to "Siri" instead of "Hey Siri" really do speak to an 
unbelievable hubris on the part of some manager somewhere. G.

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Re: VMware Fusion/Player

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I can’t find a source for the news that Broadcom fired accessibility team 
employees from VMware, although of course they did fire many employees, 
generally.

Anyway, I was rather annoyed to find that my Christmas wouldn’t go to plan 
because of the latest issues with Sonoma and Fusion. Something of a blow to we 
blind Mac-using folk, I think, and not one with a very good workaround. Keep 
piling on the pressure, as usual. Apple, in fact, rather than VMware, seem to 
be the culprit here, because of changes Apple made in AppKit, which breaks 
Fusion due to a safety check imposed on setuid binaries. They’re working on it 
though, apparently.

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Nuts 'n' Bolts Remote Access with Screen Sharing, Blackhole, SonoBus, VPN | AppleVis

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I posted this on AppleVis and thought you’d benefit as well. A bit more techie 
than is ideal but I hope someone here will still find it useful. It’s 
absolutely transformative for me.

https://www.applevis.com/forum/macos-mac-apps/nuts-n-bolts-remote-access-screen-sharing-blackhole-sonobus-vpn
 


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Re: Apple Silicon vs Intel x86 for Voiceover users on Mac

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It is indeed very impressive, but still, I await the new high-end Silicon-based 
desktop Macs. If the current trajectory is any indication, they should be 
incomparable.

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iMac 2019 27-inch 2 TB SSD, 8 GB RAM, 3.6 GHz 8-core I9 For Sale in the UK @£2700

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I have for sale in the UK an iMac 27-inch, early 2019 with:
- 8-core I9 3.6 GHz
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- 2 TB SSD
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I am asking £2700 for this configuration.

Notable distinctions: this is the last Intel iMac but one, and which does not 
contain the T2 security chip, and which is the last to run macOS 10.14 Mojave 
or a vanilla Windows installation directly on hardware. The T2 brought some 
benefits, but it made running other operating systems more difficult (virtual 
machines are always fine). If you need clarification, please let me know. You 
must decide whether this is important.

I can supply the machine with 128 GB of RAM preinstalled. If that is what you 
want, I’ll charge £300 extra, making the total £3000.

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Re: Apple Silicon vs Intel x86 for Voiceover users on Mac

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OK, I misunderstood you that you needed Windows. I mostly agree in that case; I 
also use Terminal and Linux VMs a lot and rarely need Windows. Even so, I think 
not having it at all would be a problem; there are just some things you need 
Windows for, including, yes, Office apps, but also running software only on 
Windows, like said firmware updater utility. Your situation may differ.

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Re: Monitors for Mac mini

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Of course, a Mac Mini is desktop hardware. Although I’ve found the latest M1 
Mini doesn’t require a dummy HDMI adaptor anymore (and, in fact, connecting one 
actually slows it down) there’s no getting away from the thermal limitations of 
a notebook, especially when it’s closed.

Laptops are for travel. (A bit like “Diamonds are Forever”, but different.) You 
can turn a laptop into a desktop, with effort, but it’s still constrained by 
size. The setup cost of a laptop may be lower, and that’s useful for travel, 
but the size is still too large for the performance if you intend on connecting 
a desktop setup (monitor, speakers, keyboard) to it. And, of course, Minis are 
very excellent for monitor-free, keyboard-free uses. Laptops contain batteries, 
but are arguably still too large for certain truly mobile uses (like sitting 
down with them on a lap, in certain cases) and iPads are often preferable. But 
the battery, again, reduces setup costs in certain places and for certain 
times, especially with the M1, and that’s useful for travel, again, especially 
with unpredictable power availability.

If you need a desktop, get a Mini. If you need the monitor included, get an 
iMac, but think twice about doing that unless there’s a good reason—you can 
find monitors cheaply nowadays. You already need decent headphones or speakers, 
whatever you use. Keyboards and trackpads can be wireless. You can use mains 
power at your desktop location.

In my opinion, you should only ever consider a laptop if setup cost is a 
primary factor, i.e. the balance of financial outlay and convenience means that 
having one machine that can move with you is more worthwhile. But, honestly, I 
find that that’s rarely the case. Getting the machines you need and deploying 
them where you need them will, I think, prove much more effective in the long 
run, and you don’t need to compromise on typing experience, screen size (or 
presence), sound quality, or performance.

Cheers,
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Re: Apple Silicon vs Intel x86 for Voiceover users on Mac

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I just reinstalled a Windows VM to run a firmware update utility for the Focus 
5 display. Says it all, really. I did not even bother entering a product key, 
password, or account. It was the shortest-lived Windows VM imaginable.

I agree that your situation is deeply grim, but much as it pains me to say it, 
I think you have to keep your options as wide open as possible. If you can, get 
a modern Intel MBP before they disappear. Until such time as x86_64 Windows can 
be made to run on Apple Silicon, that would appear to be your best shot for 
now. macOS and VoiceOver is a tool in the toolbox, but sometimes it’s not 
enough.

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Re: Can the Mac OCR an image file?

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Abbyy FineReader was replaced by FineReader PDF, but I’ve not yet bought that 
to discover its accessibility. Of course, though not using the same 
intelligence present in macOS, it is very good at turning documents into 
formatted text and is made for the purpose. You’ll probably want to use a 
flatbed scanner. It’s not like using the accessible Windows solutions, and it 
isn’t compatible with the FS Pearl camera, but it’s accessible enough to use 
and easy to automate and script as well.

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Re: Major problem with Monterey installer if you use vo.

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Yup, this has been the case for a while now, at least Big Sur. Connect or make 
available a trackpad or mouse in pairing mode, and the blocker will disappear. 
You can then proceed without.

It’s a bloody nuisance, but fortunately I have a trackpad on hand. A new buyer 
of my Mac Mini didn’t, though, and it was a nuisance for him.

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Re: Apple Silicon vs Intel x86 for Voiceover users on Mac

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My experience of iOS apps on Apple Silicon is that while it works in principle, 
you probably will find that it’s more trouble than it’s worth in practice. It 
does depend on several factors, but especially apps that have web views in them 
are surprisingly difficult to manage. Catalyst (what modern Mac system apps are 
made of) is better (again, depending on the app and developer) but not, IMO, to 
an enduring degree.

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Re: Apple Silicon vs Intel x86 for Voiceover users on Mac

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Sorry, I don’t know what you mean by “running Mac on Windows”.

You can already virtualise (that is, create a virtual environment for) and 
dual-boot (that is, reboot and then start as though on a PC) Windows. Macs make 
very fine Windows machines either way, providing you understand the limitations 
of the hardware and driver support. Modern Windows is very power-efficient and 
if you configure it correctly it can run every bit as nicely as macOS, although 
on notebooks with discrete GPUs Apple has always prejudiced the integrated GPU 
(there are workarounds, if you know where to look).

I mostly run Apple stock apps on my Macs, but the bulk of it is in Linux VMs or 
Terminal. Any consideration to move exclusively to Apple Silicon would mean, 
for me, deciding which platform was the lesser evil for essentially day-to-day 
apps; I would simply have to have (and carry about) multiple machines, 
otherwise. Right now my iMac does the work, and runs both platforms well, but I 
don’t boot Windows very often at all and it might simply be time to leave 
Windows behind altogether when travelling. Alternatively, of course, I purchase 
a cheap Apple Silicon notebook for the few (and, I’ll be honest, generally less 
important) things macOS does well, and begin the painful transition back to 
Windows full-time. I’m not sure which, yet. Given that my VMs are Linux, and 
Windows now has WSL for Linux command-line software, it’s actually not an easy 
call to make any more—I think the reason I’m stuck to macOS is mostly 
familiarity and the overall experience, but it clearly also has limitations 
that would be amplified by Apple Silicon and not having Windows around as 
rescue, however infrequently that actually happens.

I don’t know the accessibility status of Windows 365, but I don’t really fancy 
renting my computer in the cloud. My beef with Windows as a platform isn’t such 
that I’d avoid it at all costs, but realistically I’d have to use it on a day 
to day basis and the cloud isn’t good value for that.

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Re: Apple Silicon vs Intel x86 for Voiceover users on Mac

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It’s absolutely right that Apple Silicon is the future and if you’re buying 
now, and want to have maximum future and feature support, that’s the way to go. 
I would not dismiss Intel Macs out of hand—they can do one thing Apple Silicon 
can’t, namely, run Microsoft Windows. They are available now and will be 
supported, and if you don’t plan for the future, they’re still a viable choice. 
FWIW, the only features I could use, but do without, and that are only 
available on Apple Silicon, are Touch ID unlock via a remote keyboard and the 
Siri voices with intelligence-enhanced emphasis. However, that is today’s 
macOS; assuming I am not tempted to simply switch platform to continue using my 
Intel Mac, it might be a dead end for future features I desire later in 
upcoming macOS versions.

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Re: Apple Silicon vs Intel x86 for Voiceover users on Mac

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I don’t think there’s any meaningful difference, personally, certainly no more 
than would normally be expected for machines of similar benchmarks on either 
platform. So, for instance, my 2019 iMac is more powerful than my 2020 M1 Mac 
Mini, and it feels just the same. JMO.

I can’t wait to see Linux running on the M1 Mini. At last, a super-powered 
small-form-factor Linux server!

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Re: iOS 15 Books Navigation Problems

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I’m sure there are people at Apple Accessibility who care, but I don’t think 
it’s a coincidence that in general accessibility feature announcements are 
coordinated with OS releases which generate PR headlines for Apple. In the end, 
Apple are a business, accessibility was something they initially did to comply 
with the law, and Steve Jobs is no longer at the helm to proxy the user 
interest in relatively quality software. Yes, by all means keep reporting 
issues to Apple, but do keep your options open for other platforms and tools. 
I’d never leave iOS in the current climate, but Apple Silicon represents an 
interesting dichotomy because it cuts off access to Windows on Macs, so it 
might be that iOS takes the place of macOS for commodity applications, 
especially now that Windows includes a Linux subsystem that’s arguably one of 
macOS’s strong draws for people who need UNIX. Or maybe macOS should simply be 
rarified to the few tasks it now does especially well, perhaps on a 
discretely-sized small notebook. It’s even possible that running x86_64 Windows 
will be possible on a fast enough Silicon Mac. The point is, the era of the 
accessibility toolbox is sadly back and we have to collect them as we now do 
dongles. :(

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Re: iOS 15 Books Navigation Problems

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The RC came out, so I took the plunge. Sorry to say that the problems are still 
there.

If you use Books and run into this bug, however infrequently, please let Apple 
know so they’ll be more inclined to fix for the next point-version. I don’t 
know about you, but I’m foolish enough to live by iBooks.

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Apple Watch Series 7: any input on the swipe keyboard?

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Subject says it all, really. Anyone have a Series 7 Apple Watch and wish to 
comment on the delights of the new slide-to-type keyboard as it relates to 
VoiceOver? Would you call it a killer feature that’s worth the upgrade?

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Re: iOS 15 Books Navigation Problems

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Thanks for the suggestion but, alas, it didn't work at all. In fact, curiously, 
the problems occurred in exactly the same places, accounting for font size. 
It's very, very bizarre.

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Re: iOS 15 Books Navigation Problems

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Thanks. I’m using the 15.0.2 stable release, but I’ve sent in a feedback on it 
anyway. Here’s to hoping the fix is due in an upcoming release. I’m reluctant 
to move onto the betas again right now while I’m standardising my clean 
installs on 15 stable, but once the release notes are in for the next release, 
I’ll upgrade.

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iOS 15 Books Navigation Problems

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Hi all.

Anyone having trouble with the Books app on iOS 15 and VoiceOver? Specifically, 
navigation is inconsistent, pages appear to be blank, links are all that can be 
focussed, and other such discomforts that, for all practical purposes, make the 
thing unusable? I’m getting this whatever font, size, scrolling view or theme 
I’m in, and with a number of books, in different spots on different devices, so 
I think it’s a bug, but I’d appreciate some confirmation. DRM strikes 
again—with no alternative, it’s frustrating!

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Re: accessible torrent client?

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Perhaps a year or so. It has this inaccessible nagware banner but once you hit 
enter a couple of times you should just be in a multi-window app. Try checking 
out the menu bar and preferences.

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Re: accessible torrent client?

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Last I tried it, Transmission was more or less accessible.  It's a native app.

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Re: email addresses

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It’s DMARC. What you’re seeing there is Google Groups (and other mailing list 
managers) rewriting the From: header so it is the list address, so that 
recipients of the mailing list traffic which check DMARC policy for the From: 
address don’t subsequently bounce the message and get themselves unsubscribed 
from the mailing list. It just so happens that iCloud has a DMARC policy of 
quarantine which means put it in the spam box, and Google Groups compensates 
accordingly; other mailing list managers only react to a reject policy (hard 
fail). DMARC is an utter disgrace but it’s here to stay, so you’d best get used 
to this state of affairs.

To find the legitimate sender address on Google Groups: it’s in the 
“X-original-from:” header, so open a message, go to View, then Message, then 
Raw Source. Enter the raw message itself, then VO-F and enter “x-original-from” 
and you should find the original sender name and email, which you can then copy.

On Mailman 2.1.16 or better, you can “reply all”, then extract the name and 
address from the CC field, as Mailman helpfully drops the sender’s address in 
there if the list is configured for replies to go to the list (otherwise it’s 
in Reply-To: and hitting “Reply” just works as usual). This I think is the 
least worst option that doesn’t involve intermediate forwarding addresses, 
which is the path LISTSERV(R) chose to go down, though almost nobody uses that 
software nowadays.

You can thank the spammers. Also thank the militants who provided a cure worse 
than the disease. They have a cure for the cure, too, called “Authenticated 
Relay Chain” which will, if implemented, simply further entrench the dominance 
of a few key players, by allowing known mailing list distributors to sign off 
the mail without impacting the original From: header. G.

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For Sale in the UK: Mac Mini, M1, 2020 (16 GB RAM, 2 TB SSD) @ £1200

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I have a barely-used 2020 M1 Mac Mini with 16 GB RAM and 2 TB SSD for sale in 
the UK. It’s going for £1200 including postage, which is a £500 saving over the 
current sales price from Apple. Included: Mac Mini 2020 M1, UK power adaptor. 
I’ll ship it to you with the latest stable operating system installed and ready 
to set up, just as though it were fresh from Apple.

If you (or somebody you know) are interested, write directly to 
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Re: How to restore a personal mail folder from Time Machine backup?

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Mail stores all its stuff in ~/Library/Mail (the folder Mail in the folder 
Library in your home directory under Users on your startup device). Have a good 
ferret around in there. Apple explicitly documents manipulation of local 
mailboxes in the Finder, so it cannot be so bad—albeit that finding the mailbox 
itself can be a bit tedious since it’s heavily nested. But you’ll find it, 
eventually. If your Time Machine backup is local, then begin your journey by 
opening the backups.backupdb folder on that backup volume, and descend into the 
computer folder, and then backup folder for a given snapshot date, and then 
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Mac's Appeal to New Switchers?

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I notice a steady stream of new VO-using Mac switchers, and I was just 
wondering what brought them all to the fold in recent times. Is it all about 
Apple Silicon, or are there other developments out there in the Windows world 
that are driving this? Something else, perhaps?

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Re: Would love to hear from anyone who owns an M1 MBA

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FWIW, I intend to hang on to my M1 Mini. Although I just  unfortunately missed 
out on the option of 10-gigabit Ethernet, which would have made it the ideal 
server, I really can't fault the performance; the hard part is just setting the 
wee bugger up again. I do run Windows on my iMac, but I chiefly virtualise 
Linux, so I don't see further going down the Apple Silicon path to be a 
problem. On the other hand, it effectively creates a chasm between Intel and 
ARM, so I fully expect my next Apple machine to be a notebook rather than a 
desktop; my 2019 iMac would then be replaced by whatever the next Windows 
platform hardware is, maybe more Intel or AMD. We'll see how this all plays 
out, but I'm not sorry to be swimming in the pool.

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Re: experience with N1 MacBook Air

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Of course I understand all the (perceived?) wisdom of starting from scratch, I 
just don't accept that it shouldn't be possible to migrate, now that bootable 
clones are essentially off the table. Whatever you may have thought of them as 
a means of moving from one machine to another,  they were a valuable way to get 
your workflow up and running quickly, and that use case now has to be properly 
supported by the migration tool.

Oh, well. Brave new world, eh?

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Re: experience with N1 MacBook Air

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Commiserations to you, Donna. I was wondering what had become of your migration 
problem. I am having the same problem, and I reject utterly the idea that it 
should not work—it is, after all, a supported method for migration! I shall be 
working on an alternative strategy to clone my data volume from an upgraded 
Intel Big Sur installation onto my M1 Mac Mini, to see if that works any 
better. I suspect not, and it will probably mean setting it all up from 
scratch, which given I will end up turning it into a server anyway, probably 
makes sense. But it is very, very, very, very, very annoying and I think you're 
quite right to take care of the problem in the simplest and most affordable 
manner. If you can use another computer or Recovery OS to restore, that's 
probably a good idea, but at this stage I think you've done more than enough 
already.

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Re: Any Experiences with the MB Air m1?

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VMWare say they won't support ARM64 Windows for licencing reasons at the moment 
(silly policy IMO, but there we are), but also I don't know what the screen 
reader situation is on ARM64 Windows at the moment either. If you want to run 
Windows and macOS on the same box, you continue to need an Intel Mac.

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FaceTime Audio Speech Pass-Through

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Hi,

I seem to remember that a recent iOS update allows us to send our VoiceOver 
speech across a FaceTime call. I can’t for the life of me remember how it’s 
done, even though I’m almost sure I found the option once.

Anyone here know how it’s done?

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Re: Night hawk app on the I Phone.

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Well, I wouldn’t say usable, but the Nighthawk app is just about useful, for 
the basics. With mine in AP mode, that’s not much. The web interface is 
suitably stodgy and accessible, though it doesn’t always expose the same info 
as the app (e.g. Wi-Fi link rates for each client). There are many, many 
unlabelled buttons, and Screen Recognition may be the only thing between 
knowing the states of various controls. Badger Netgear, if you can, about 
accessibility issues.

Apple were wrong to discontinue AirPort. Of this I am certain.

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Re: Older iOS Devices Disenfranchised by VO in iOS 14

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Well, to be fair I have found screen recognition to be especially helpful in 
one specific app, the GlocalMe app, which was only partially accessible 
beforehand, though really only to the extent of making a single element 
containing multiple elements accessible so that they can now be independently 
accessed without having to turn off VO and guess where you think the elements 
are to tap before restarting VO to discover if it worked or not, a stupidly 
frustrating process made necessary in the first place by a pointless update to 
the UI that broke what was a mediocre but usable app, but which was not 
actually impossible to workaround, just annoying. But, you’re right that it’s 
really, really shaky, and the real trick lies in having recognition only when 
you absolutely need it, and turning it off the rest of the time, which happily 
is easy to do in the rotor. Of course, anywhere my GlocalMe goes, I'll have my 
iPhone, so this example is moot. I'll be interested to see if any other apps 
benefit--games with text-based content, for example. The cynic in me thinks 
that these features mostly serve as an excuse for Apple not to use its curation 
powers in the App Store to offer proper accessibility ratings and testing, 
which is of course the real fix.

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Older iOS Devices Disenfranchised by VO in iOS 14

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I did not test iOS 14 this time, and have just now bitten the bullet and 
upgraded my iPod Touch 5th gen, which is just over a year old, to iOS 14.0.1 
release. I now see that, as reported, this device loses out on the neat new VO 
recognition features (but not, curiously, the sound recognition tech for the 
hearing-impaired).

What else have older devices lost, compared to newer ones, in VO? I cannot 
pretend to be pleased about this, but at least my iPhone 11 Pro Max is fine.

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Fusion 12 Released

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In the event that the news hasn’t reached you yet, perhaps via the Fusion 
update process, VMware Fusion 12 is released (and Workstation 16). If you buy 
an upgrade to either for the princely sum of $99, you can access both on 3 
personal machines. Also, there’s a free Player tier, for those whose needs are 
less pro.

Go to your local online VMware store to purchase yours today. If you check for 
updates, you should be directed there.

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Re: podcasts on a Mac

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To download all podcasts, make sure you’re in the Podcasts view in iTunes 
(Mojave or earlier, or Windows). In the sidebar, if visible (if not, make it 
so), make sure Podcasts is selected (you can hide it again, after doing this). 
Press Library, to get the library view. In the View Options (View menu), you 
want the classic list layout. Under “Show”, pick Feed. Now in the list, you can 
contiguously select as many articles as you want, collapsing any disclosure 
triangle that represents a Podcast to navigate faster, or selecting whole 
podcasts to select every enclosed episode. On the Podcast menu, choose Download.

You’ll rue your upgrade. The Podcasts app has one decisive virtue over iTunes: 
it syncs better with iOS. That’s it. In every other important respect, it’s 
bloody awful. For instance, data is stored in a sandbox, where you can’t get to 
it. And mass operations, like the one I just described, aren’t possible. iTunes 
may be many things, but the great split was a triumph of clueless tech 
journalists shouting just a little too loudly, IMNSHO. A real innovation of 
iTunes would have meant splitting up the technical functions—remote control, 
network services, library services, renderer—and not a simple iOSification of 
the apps by simply having an app for each media type. But that’s for another 
rant … 

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Re: Some issues with my IMac 2020 if someone can give me some help please.

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If you open Preferences in Mail, go to the toolbar and press Accounts, make 
sure your iCloud account is selected in the table, then make sure you’re on the 
Account Information tab, look for the field called Email Address, you should 
have a pop-up button which if you press it, enumerates all your active 
addresses. You can compare that to the list on iOS, in Settings, Apple ID, 
iCloud, Mail (last item on screen), Allow Sending From. You should have all 
valid and active addresses selected.

And because this is contemporary Apple software, try a restart. You never know; 
it could just be a glitch.

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Re: Vm fusion question?

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I often find that you can give Windows VMs focus if you just turn VO off 
temporarily and hit Tab enough times. Once your keyboard is grabbed, you can 
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Re: Looking for FTP app for Mac

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Cyberduck is excellent and works well. Free to download, but you can “Purchase” 
it from the Mac App Store to support the developer and get seamless automatic 
updates. Mountain Duck, a companion app, supports Cyberduck’s file transfer 
engine from Finder without using kernel extensions (albeit with limitations) in 
the fashion of other cloud storage apps.

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Nisus Writer

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Hi guys,

What's the consensus on Nisus Writer? If I needed a step up from TextEdit—and I 
admit that I'm not really clear on why I would—then would Nisus Writer Pro be a 
worthwhile investment?

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Re: article on Firefox accessibility on the mac

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Yep. I’d love to see Thunderbird get the same work. It probably won’t be as 
“native” as Mail.app but it has more functionality, and plugins. Great choice 
on Windows.

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Re: Endding the RE: article on Firefox accessibility on the mac

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Guys, please don’t leave. If you leave, you just surrender a useful resource to 
some behaviourally challenged individuals and it’s a dead loss to everyone else.

The right thing to do is:

1. Contact the mods and/or owner.

2. Filter your email. Mail.app will do it on macOS; iOS has a block feature for 
recognised senders and a mute thread feature to stop the notifications; iCloud 
and other providers will let you set up rules. You don’t need to help those 
who’ve decided to surrender to their communitarian instincts.

3. Join other lists in case the signal/noise ratio on this list doesn’t return.

4. If you have the time, educate the poor darlings. Most of them are simply 
insulated, not actively malicious or bad people. Their regressive ideologies 
are the product of an easy and culturally homogeneous lifestyle, and their 
conspiratorial hatred is only being encouraged and exploited by some very nasty 
individuals for their own material ends. The key point is that tolerance and 
forgiveness of others is not incompatible with a sense of place and happiness; 
their hearts are, in all likelihood, big enough for everybody, even those who 
are in some insubstantial way different from themselves. Needless to say, do 
that off-list.

5. Try very hard not to reply reflexively or emotionally. It’ll just add to the 
noise and the heat, and more people will feel the need to leave.

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Re: article on Firefox accessibility on the mac

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macOS Braille support is already generally poor, but it is very noticeable in 
Safari where scrolling/panning behaviour is completely broken.

Alternatives are Chromium-based browsers, but those aren't immune from ceisures 
either; use a Windows screen reader for the smoothest experience across the 
board, sorry to say. You can avoid it for a long time by employing content 
blockers to strip out much of the crud before it even loads in Safari, but it 
means work for you when you need full access to a site so I don't recommend it 
to "novice" users. But it hardly changes the reality that you'll have a Windows 
VM on standby, or access to a Windows system, for some unavoidable web and 
other tasks. This has always struck me as disappointing given iOS doesn't seem 
to have quite the same nonsense going on and it seems to have got worse in 
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Re: article on Firefox accessibility on the mac

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I think it was always the lack of a portable API for toolkit vendors to 
program. I’m sorry that Apple never did that; it’s clearly been an impediment 
not otherwise necessary to overcome on other platforms. It’s not always 
possible to subclass or overload, so you need to handle accessibility events 
directly and that means you have to talk to the Objective-C runtime and hence 
carry a lot of very specific code to implement accessibility properly. Not 
impossible but much more work so it doesn’t happen as often, or at all, 
compared to other more portable binary-compatible interfaces that’ll get 
implemented in portable programming languages.

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Re: Vmware tools for linux.

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If your distro packages it, install open-vm-tools. These are VMWare’s guest 
tools ported to particular distributions. VMware encourages this.

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Re: Why the Mac's migration to Apple Silicon is bigger than ARM | Appleinsider

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I don’t take AppleInsider very seriously. I mean, they’re shameless apologists, 
which makes it very hard to tell how much is Apple worship and how much 
informed opinion. Much more important: they’ve censored some of my more sweary 
comments in the past, and there’s just no forgiving that. ;-)

To be honest, I think the ARM (oops, sorry, can’t use that word, I mean “Apple 
Silicon”) transition is much more about business than it is about technology. 
Intel chips are high margin, and Apple goes after margin like a corporate 
lawyer goes after fees. Right now, you can boot unsigned operating systems, so 
you can theoretically run apps in perpetuity for any given operating system 
version, even if it is not signed by Apple. But for how long? Remember, Apple 
now has complete control over the stack, so you no longer have the choice of 
just leaving macOS. This gives them enormous leverage in future, if they ever 
choose to stop people running unsigned operating systems or apps. It doesn’t 
really bear thinking about. More important, though: the "Apple Silicon” Macs 
pave the way for a complete transition to iOS, by removing all but the most 
trivial of impediments for iOS app developers of being able to build and deploy 
those apps, without any thought given to Mac user experience. It does not fill 
me with good cheer, especially if the present-day “Catalyst” apps are any guide 
to what that would feel like. Yes, people will laugh now, but I predict a 
future in which the iPad Pro can dual-boot between iOS and macOS—the latter of 
which will uniquely support Cocoa/AppKit, for those “few specialised apps” that 
Mac users need. B ...

To the present quandary of Apple Silicon vs Intel and BootCamp, in my mind the 
future is a stark choice between running iPhone apps, and running multiple 
operating systems that includes Microsoft Windows. I can already run iPhone 
apps, on my iPhone. Windows is, unfortunately, a big part of the case for the 
Mac, even though I run it very, very rarely. Hence, it seems to me that if I am 
to have the best of all possible worlds, the right thing for me to do is to lap 
up the last of the Intel Macs, when they become available. They have a future 
for as long as Apple supports them with macOS, and thereafter, running Windows 
or Linux. BootCamp is _not available_ on Apple Silicon, and the Linux virtual 
machine being demonstrated was an ARMv8 Debian installation. Unless Microsoft 
announces OEM partnership with Apple to run Windows on Macs either directly or 
in a VM, there will be no Windows, and even if there were, it would not contain 
the same ecosystem of applications that we all know and love, without a 
terrible performance cost. Face it, Apple Silicon and Windows are just not 
likely.

I’ve been on the fence for the last 4-5 years about moving back to Windows on a 
full-time basis. It doesn’t happen, only because Apple hardware is insurance 
against losing access to macOS while still having access to Windows when it’s 
needed. When that no longer becomes a possibility, the balance of imperatives, 
especially the accessibility imperative, may favour Windows full-time. I don’t 
look forward to it; i think macOS, and especially AppKit apps, provide, when 
available, a simply superior experience to Windows. But when the option is no 
longer available, it no longer becomes a concern. When you purchase new 
hardware, you’ll have to choose which is more important. Who can honestly say 
that the accessibility provided by Windows, and especially in professional 
environments, is not? And who can honestly doubt that much of what makes 
Windows appealing is a consequence of Apple’s neglect of macOS as a platform in 
matters, especially, of accessibility?

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> One of the glories of homebrew apps on Mac hardware is that you can
> still send output to your various media devices.

Sorry Janina, what does this mean? Which media devices?

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Re: downloading with Safari on a Mac

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You can still get the old Downloads window back, if you want it badly enough. 
But it’s a fiddly thing: you have to drag and drop the Downloads button out of 
the toolbar, and doing that with VO is still surprisingly hard because you’ll 
usually activate it in the process. It’s easier just to press the button (or 
Command-Option-L), find the table, interact with that, then find and interact 
with the download of interest, and there’s your progress metre and transfer 
stats. I should go into Safari preferences and change the “Remove downloads” 
option to “Upon successful download” so your list will clean itself up 
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Re: Apple podcast app alternative

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I’d use Downcast because it has a Mac app, but it has (had?) a distressing 
habit of destroying its synchronisation state database on a fairly regular 
basis. How are things nowadays with that app. Are there really any other 
choices for users of both iOS and macOS, besides Apple Podcasts and iTunes? 
Must I really consent to simply giving up hope of using a desktop podcasts app?

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Re: The Mac startup chime is making a return in macOS Big Sur

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Weird, I can barely hear mine, although to be fair it is elevated on my desk 
and behind an iMac. I have set the PC speaker to its loudest volume by raising 
it as far as it will go with nothing connected to the headphone socket and in 
Sound preferences. But it’s really not all that loud, at least for me, and my 
2012 Mac Mini (now silent and running Linux) was certainly distinct enough to 
be heard, although with some effort. Both my Minis are servers so it’s not a 
big deal, but it’s certainly nice to have them chime at boot.

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Re: The Mac startup chime is making a return in macOS Big Sur

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Ditto (Mac Mini 2018). Too damned quiet.

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Re: New for voiceover and iOS 14 and Mac operating system big sur

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Still no accessibility ratings or reviews in the App Store, of course. Privacy, 
sure. But not accessibility.

We can hope that these changes make more apps accessible, but I can’t help 
thinking that the other guys are starting to make Apple’s commitment to 
accessibility look just a little bit tawdry of late.

There are no accessibility changes mentioned for the Mac.

I will, of course, be hopping onto the train as soon as I can. As I spend most 
of my time in either macOS or Linux, I am hoping that I could survive the 
“Silicon” transition. On the other feeler, it seems inevitable that Windows 
users, of which let’s be honest many of us are actually professional working 
folk with real work to do, are going to get bitten.

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Re: iOS 13 Continuous Read Borked—Is It Just Me?

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Thanks, great idea. Unfortunately the setting is already set to speak. Also 
it’s only happening during continuous read; normally it’s behaving exactly as 
it should. Is it working in continuous read for you also?

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iOS 13 Continuous Read Borked—Is It Just Me?

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Hi crowd.

It's driving me bonkers. Whenever I do a read all in any web content, VO fails 
to announce links, even as it patiently points out headings, when I really need 
it to be the other way around, as it once used to be, not that long ago I am 
sure. I could reliably listen to articles; now I have to go back and review for 
links I may have missed.

Is it really just me, or is there something I failed to do since some iOS 13 
update or other borked it?

Your help appreciated. And yes I know I've been absent for a while; needless to 
say it's just time pressure, but I still receive list traffic.

Cheers,
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Re: OT: Airport extreme as extension to existing network

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Unfortunately, the answer is, “I’m sorry Andrew, I’m afraid I can’t do that.”

The problem is that the AirPort Express supports the STA (station) proxy mode, 
wherein each Ethernet and Wi-Fi device connected to the extension is proxied to 
your existing network as a Wi-Fi station itself. This is how most “repeater” 
products still work. It’s particularly awesome when you’ve got an Ethernet-only 
device and want it talking to your wireless network.

The Time Capsule and Extreme never had this functionality. Instead, you use WDS 
(Wireless Distribution System) if you want a wireless backbone. That requires 
support from both sides of the bridge, but worse, it impairs performance for 
anybody connected to the extender, by exactly half for every traversal through 
a bridge.

If you can get your Netgear to use WDS, that’s the way. Otherwise you’ll have 
to use an Ethernet backbone or purchase a different extender. Sorry about that. 
 Ethernet is always preferable, of course, but it’s not always practical.

The way that you get to the setup mode of the Extreme is to reset it. When you 
join the network either on macOS or in iOS, you’ll get a special 
AirPort-specific setup regime.

I will miss my AirPort product when it finally dies. But I think I’ll be moving 
to Netgear’s Nighthawk for a simple base station arrangement in the traditional 
style. The Time Capsule is rendered obsolete as soon as the internal hard disk 
dies, and that’s already happened to me once. Time to move on, I fancy, and 
remember the good times.

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Re: How do I share an EPUB file in books with someone?

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OK, well the situation has improved slightly, in that I now have single items 
being copied from the list view in Books into a list in Finder using 
drag-and-drop. But still no joy with multi-select.

The difference: use the Catalina version of Books, instead of the Mojave one. 
Apparently there are differences sufficient to make this work.

Given that Windows users have *no* way to export Books out of iOS but iCloud 
Drive, and then only to other copies of Books for iOS, I really ought to be 
happier about this situation. But strangely, I’m not … 

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Re: installing backwards Os x

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Apple has a disk image with the packaged Yosemite installer available from here:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210717

You could download that—of course, this means you’ll need a good Internet 
connection—and then build your external boot media from the app thus installed.

Yosemite was a half-decent release, after a fairly rocky start, but out of 
curiosity, why? I mean, I only kept it for as long as I did because Apple broke 
El Capitan, Sierra and High Sierra in succession.  I updated simply because I 
had to, and because Apple had introduced enough new functionality to justify 
it.  You’ll never escape the bugs, whatever you do.  IMO, but you might as well 
just use the latest and adapt.

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Re: How do I share an EPUB file in books with someone?

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Hi Tim,

I usually tried using the leftmost column, which is usually empty. However I 
have also tried (and just tried again) with the title, author and category 
columns. Those appear sometimes to work like edit boxes, in that they are 
announced as such once the mouse is clicked and held with VO-Cmd-Shift-Space.  
None of them worked, unfortunately.

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Re: How do I share an EPUB file in books with someone?

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Hi Tim,

Thanks so much for trying, but I’m afraid it’s just no go for me.  I’ve tried 
everything now, I’m sure.  I even checked the size and positioning of the 
windows and ensured Books and Finder each had a half to themselves.  But 
whatever I do, I just can’t make Books transfer books—even one book—in list 
view.  It works fine in the grid view, but not in the list view.

If I have any better luck, or inspiration, or anything, I’ll be sure to let the 
list know.  But for now it’s just back to the half-hearted approach of backing 
up internal folders.  If you have further suggestions, I’m eager to hear.

Cheers,
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Re: Can't Access My Network Drive From Windows On VMWare Fusion

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Hi Pete,

Yes, I did find it, but for some strange reason not in the same thread.  I’ve 
been a bit late to certain email lists and I think I’ve ended up replying to 
threads that have long since been dealt with; yours must have been one of those.

I’m glad it works through your local NAT connection with the IP address method, 
certainly that is a legitimate way to do it.  However what I meant by discovery 
was appearance in the usual network browser in Explorer, which would let you 
specify the credentials to log in as as well if they were incorrect.  I’m glad, 
though, that you have it worked out.  Of course don’t forget, there’s always 
local sharing with VMWare tools, which works through a special virtual bus 
protocol.  It’s not always the best option, but it’s very convenient.

Cheers,
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Re: How do I share an EPUB file in books with someone?

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Hi Tim,

Well, I tried and tried, but tragically I just can’t make it work in list view. 
I really hope there’s something obvious I’m missing here.

What part of the table row should I click and hold down on? Is the Finder for 
you in any particular mode? Anything else in particular I’m not getting? It is 
working fine, a book at a time, in the other views.

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Re: Can't Access My Network Drive From Windows On VMWare Fusion

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Hi Pete,

Your Windows VM won’t discover your NAS while sharing a connection with your 
Mac. You should put the network adaptor inside the VM (go to the settings) into 
bridge mode with the network adaptor that your Mac is using to connect to your 
network. Once you’ve done that, your Windows VM will behave like any other 
physical Windows box on your network.

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Re: Itunes match or not?

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There’s one other reason you’d want iTunes Match instead of or in addition to 
Apple Music that I’ve not yet seen mentioned: DRM. If you use Apple Music 
exclusively, you always get DRM, whether or not you uploaded your content. This 
is problematic if you routinely rely on syncing to other devices or playing in 
other players or libraries over the network. I no longer use Apple Music, but I 
think Match is good enough for that reason alone. You get the same content 
matching, but no DRM, and the convenience of being able to have an infinite 
library on any device, wherever it is. Of course, if your library can fit onto 
your device, the case for Match disappears, as is currently my case. Also 
notable: Match upgrades your content to 256 Kbps AAC; it also *downgrades* 
lossless quality to that format. You should not rely on Match or Music as a 
backup, just as a convenience. Finally, don’t forget Home Sharing, the feature 
that’ll let you stream content from your Mac or PC to your iOS devices and 
other Macs, including your music library at any quality. Unfortunately, it only 
allows streaming to iOS; you can’t download to your device this way. You still 
need Match if you want that—an absurd limitation, but there it is. The only way 
to get music onto your iOS device without Match or an Apple Music subscription 
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Re: Malware Bytes

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Aha, thanks! I have a license to this from my bank, but could not use it; now 
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Re: How do I share an EPUB file in books with someone?

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Thanks for that, Tim. I gave it another shot, this time using the mouse up/down 
keys, and I managed to make it work. The missing link, for me, is that the book 
had to be dragged in the grid view; it didn’t work on list view. It did not 
appear to matter what mode Finder was in—it worked fine in both list and column 
views.

But, although I have it working for one book, I cannot make it work for all 
books. If I select all before starting, then although *something* seems to be 
happening, it’s clearly not going anywhere: there’s no disk activity but the 
Books app remains frozen and unquittable for a time, and then unfreezes and 
quits, with nothing having happened. So, although I’m pleased to have made 
progress, it doesn’t help me to export all my books.

If anyone gets closer to solving this, I’d simply *love* to hear about it.

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Re: How do I share an EPUB file in books with someone?

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The correct way is to drag the books from the Books app to a Finder window.  
Only, in keeping with Apple’s commitment to accessibility, there’s no keyboard 
shortcut to do that and I’ve never made it work with VoiceOver commands.  Good 
to know that others are feeling my pain, though—there’s no other way to back up 
books from the Books app (except by messing about in the sandbox for the apps, 
which is hardly seemly, and in any case does not give you compressed ePub files 
but uncompressed, randomly-named directories).

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Re: Mark on Latest Commercial Release of iOS 13 Using iPhone 8 Plus

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The biggest reason I am still disinclined to upgrade my 8 Plus right now is the 
scrolling behaviour.  This is just very, very annoying and broken, and it 
appears to be a known issue, but some screens especially those in Settings 
cannot be swiped through consistently because of the appearance of what VO 
calls “Scroll Bars”.  Although you can work around this using scroll gestures 
and screen exploration, it seriously undermines the experience to the point I 
decided against the upgrade of my primary phone, and wiped my iPod Touch 
completely until such time as Apple fixes it or at least until the problem is 
less annoying.

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Re: New router or not?

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It depends how you’ll use your AirPorts.

You can turn them into bridges, which means they extend a wireless network 
using Ethernet or wireless. To be honest though, this is mesh network 
territory, and unless you have a particularly ingrained fetish for speed and 
will use Ethernet exclusively as I do, then anything else is preferable, even 
using your power lines for  networking such as HomePlug adaptors.  I have had 
no experience with any particular vendors' mesh products.

Extreme, Time Capsule, and Express do offer network services. Time Capsule, of 
course, can expose a networked disk; this is still useful, if slow. Both 
Extreme and Time Capsule will expose a disk over USB 2.0 through the included 
port, though even more slowly. AirPort Express, of course, can be used for 
AirPlay. All of the devices can share a printer to the network, except that 
most printers nowadays are already networked. The devices are all capable of 
joining your network as a wireless client for these purposes, or you can bridge 
it using Ethernet, and simply turn the Wi-Fi off, just as you would any other 
peripheral.

Finally the Express has a very unique feature: it can join a wireless network, 
in client mode as before, and can then proxy Ethernet devices onto it by 
emulating wireless stations on their behalf. In this way it becomes a kind of 
portable Ethernet jack, for those stations that don't have wireless, like my 
very old BrailleNote Apex that can't reach the 5 GHz band. But naturally this 
is a very unusual need, and there are already extender products on the market 
that do a very similar thing without the added expense and with modern AC Wi-Fi 
or power line networking.

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Re: Using My iPad, More and More

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Split Screen lets you run multiple iPad apps together, side by side. You’ll 
know if you’re using it. You can dismiss a split screen pane when it’s active, 
and you have to activate the feature whenever you need it. So unless you’re 
intentionally using split screen, it’s not being used. If you want to disable 
it completely, you can in General settings. However this is different from 
multi-pane applications, like Settings and mail, which drive me nuts. iPads 
have bigger screens so the form factor of apps is different. I’m afraid iPad 
apps are always multi-pane and there’s no way to turn it off, but I’d love to 
be wrong about that.

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Re: Using My iPad, More and More

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You can turn off multiple pane iPad apps? So you can make Mail and Settings 
look like the ones on the iPhone? Or do you just mean not using split screen, 
which yes, is optional?

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Re: New router or not?

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I still use a Time Capsule, but in bridged mode for exclusive use as a wireless 
access point, with my own Linux box as router doing PPPoE to a VDSL modem. This 
overcomes the chief limitation of the device, which is translation speed beyond 
about 300 MB/s. My bandwidth does not yet exceed 80 down 20 up yet, though, so 
this is not needed for simple Ethernet connections and if I had cable I would 
still be using TC exclusively.  Wireless coverage in my flat isn’t the issue: 
the TC works great even at 5 GHz and in fact disabling the 2.4 GHz band 
actually makes things better where I am, in London, where the 2.4 GHz band is 
completely and totally choked.

My biggest gripe with current consumer stuff is it’s all pretty dire in terms 
of flexibility and security.  Running your own box overcomes that but it’s not 
for the faint of heart.  However, even I will eventually need a new access 
point, and in that case I will probably just go with the Netgear Nighthawk.  My 
only gripe about that is it doesn’t let you use multiple VLANs when it is in 
bridge mode, so you can’t run your own custom guest network or hotspot, which 
is something I’ve always wanted to do but probably never will, LOL.

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Re: Using My iPad, More and More

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It seems to me that if iPhone got keyboard shortcuts then many of the supposed 
advantages of the iPad would disappear. I had avoided iPad specifically because 
of the split-screen app layouts that I do not like very much, but perhaps this 
is just another inevitable that I have to face.

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Re: New iPod touch announced

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Well I’ll agree they’re bloody expensive (£399 here). But if I have to get an 
iPhone I’d rather it be plus-sized. Data connectivity is not critical to me, 
but remember, it represents an extra burden (radio you may not be using, and 
the need for a SIM card). If Apple could just make a slightly smaller iPad Mini 
…

Ironically, I just looked at the current iPad Mini and it fits the bill almost 
exactly, except the size.  Also, it has the E-SIM—so it works, even without a 
SIM card, and gets you extra flexibility when you’re out and about.

Apple is just trolling me now.  I’ll do what I can with this iPod (arriving two 
days time), and I’ll find a nice drawer for it if it ends up nothing more than 
an iOS testing device.  Either way it’ll be useful.  Maybe if I spent some 
money on a new bedside shelf?

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Re: https://www.macrumors.com/2019/05/31/goodbye-itunes/

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Agreed; seems much more likely that this will be Apple’s opportunity to move us 
all into the streaming world. Never say never, I suppose, but at best iTunes 
will be in the Utilities folder or something. I can’t imagine them trying to 
keep any aspect of the local library management stuff, ripping, syncing, and 
all that, around for longer than is absolutely necessary for Apple to carry out 
its master plan to get iOS and Macs supping from the same streams. Maybe 
they’ll keep iTunes Match or something, but even then, seeing as how that’s 
part of Apple Music …

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Re: New iPod touch announced

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I reluctantly bought it. I hope I don’t get buyer’s remorse, even though I’m 
almost sure I will. My problem is that my current iPod is an iPhone 6S Plus, a 
great device at the right size and with Touch ID, but with inadequate storage.  
An iPod Touch is a clear upgrade—or it would be, if not for the loss of Touch 
ID and the smaller size.  But at least it’s grabable, fits on my bedside shelf 
(unlike an iPad Mini), and you don’t need a SIM to activate the bloody thing 
every time.  Plus of course it’s a general-purpose device in a way that the 
iPad or iPhone isn’t, can be used tethered as well as on Wi-Fi, and runs iPhone 
applications I like and in the right format.

Let’s face it, Apple is only keeping the iPod alive for the benefit of existing 
buyers here.  They don’t like it because it stands in the way of their quest 
for world domination through their indispensable iOS devices, like iPhones and 
iPads, for which they don’t want competition from a combination of an iPod with 
some other device.  The Touch is for the kids, and ageing pack rats like 
myself.  And us, of course.

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