Jared W. Smith https://jaredwsmith.com/ en Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:12:14 -0500 How to get around “Apple ID settings update” issues with Contact Key Verification https://jaredwsmith.com/2023/12/11/how-to-get.html Mon, 11 Dec 2023 20:12:14 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2023/12/11/how-to-get.html <p>If you are stuck on a “needs Apple ID settings update” error on a device while trying to enable Contact Key verification in iOS 17.2, disable iMessage on the affected device(s), enroll, and re-enable it.</p> Eight ain't enough https://jaredwsmith.com/2023/11/11/eight-aint-enough.html Sat, 11 Nov 2023 16:42:08 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2023/11/11/eight-aint-enough.html <p>Nobody asked, but I do have a small contribution to the <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2023/11/08/8gb-ram-m3-macbook-pro-like-16-gb-pc/">8GB RAM on MacBook Pro in the year of our lord 2023</a> discourse. (Coherence not 100% guaranteed.)</p> <p>My first Apple silicon machine was a Mac mini M1 with 8GB of unified memory. I was quite pleased with its performance (and probably still would be!) especially compared to the 2015 MBP it replaced. However, I definitely ran into bottlenecks with my &ldquo;pro&rdquo; workflows with that little memory available. And when I hit those bottlenecks, it <em>hurt</em>: the system would become unresponsive, with beachballing and even the cursor becoming rather jumpy. It got to the point where I&rsquo;d have to shut down Docker in order to run OBS, for instance&hellip;and I just grew weary of that limitation pretty quickly. (I&rsquo;d at least feel like I could hit them, though, without feeling like the computer was about to launch into outer space, unlike the Intel machine!)</p> <p>I traded it in for a Mac mini M2 Pro with 32 GB RAM when that model was introduced earlier this year, and I&rsquo;ve not hit a hiccup since. I&rsquo;ve been comfortable editing relatively complex GIS files, Docker containers, OBS&hellip;you name it, it runs it, and it runs it well. The Pro chip probably helps, but I know everything can fit because it&rsquo;s got plenty of memory to work with.</p> <p>I think there are a surprising amount of things that folks who get a base M3 with 8GB of RAM can do. I don&rsquo;t totally poo-poo the notion that Apple Silicon can more efficiently manage memory, either &ndash; that M1 could certainly do quite a bit more multitasking more responsively than the Intel equivalent with the same RAM. And, of course, there&rsquo;s the disclaimer that my workflow is generally out of the ordinary. But I still think that &ldquo;Pro&rdquo; means more than a base level of memory. Apple Silicon is pretty cool, but it can&rsquo;t defy the foundational principles of computer science, either.</p> When dnf means "does not function" in CentOS Stream thanks to large signature headers https://jaredwsmith.com/2023/10/28/when-dnf-means.html Sat, 28 Oct 2023 11:18:57 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2023/10/28/when-dnf-means.html <p>There&rsquo;s a <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1993242">bug in rpm</a> on Red Hat Enterprise Linux as well as some versions of CentOS Stream that can stop packages from installing. (Convenient, right?) You&rsquo;ll see messages such as <code>signature hdr data BAD</code> when trying to upgrade packages via <code>dnf</code>.</p> <p>This is how I ended up solving it:</p> <ul> <li>I&rsquo;d try to upgrade <code>rpm</code> in place via <code>dnf</code> using <code>dnf upgrade rpm</code>. This would fail, but it would cache the packages.</li> <li>Note the path to the cached packages. On my system, it was <code>/var/cache/dnf/baseos-9a27fc7471a8d219/packages/</code>, but yours may vary.</li> <li>Use <code>rpm</code> to force install the <code>rpm</code> and <code>rpm-libs</code> packages: <ul> <li><code>rpm -i --force /var/cache/dnf/baseos-9a27fc7471a8d219/packages/rpm-4.14.3-26.el8.x86_64.rpm</code></li> <li><code>rpm -i --force /var/cache/dnf/baseos-9a27fc7471a8d219/packages/rpm-libs-4.14.3-26.el8.x86_64.rpm</code></li> </ul> </li> <li>Then, try your <code>dnf install</code> or <code>dnf upgrade</code> procedure again, and it should be fine.</li> </ul> https://jaredwsmith.com/2023/01/01/my-cocorahs-station.html Sun, 01 Jan 2023 12:26:15 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2023/01/01/my-cocorahs-station.html <p>My CoCoRaHS station recorded 61.37” of rain this past year, good for sixth wettest in Charleston County as well as in the NWS CHS CWFA. #chswx #climatology</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2023/01/01/000005.html Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:05 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2023/01/01/000005.html <p>&lsquo;23.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/12/22/never-pgen-before.html Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:40:13 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/12/22/never-pgen-before.html <p>Never PGEN before coffee. #awips</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/12/22/respectable-elevated-instability.html Thu, 22 Dec 2022 08:24:35 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/12/22/respectable-elevated-instability.html <p>Respectable elevated instability this morning from the 12z sounding from CHS supportive of some supercellular behavior if things really wanted to get feisty. Low pressure moving north of the area will move any severe threat with it, though. #chswx #fediwx</p> <img style="display:block; margin-left:auto; margin-right:auto;" src="https://jaredwsmith.com/uploads/2022/d8bc637e7d.png" alt="AWIPS II perspective primarily focused on the 12z sounding from KCHS." title="Screenshot from 2022-12-22 08-13-36.png" border="0" width="2560" height="1380" /> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/12/19/trying-external-display.html Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:24:19 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/12/19/trying-external-display.html <p>Trying external display mode on my iPad Pro (M1). It’s interesting…though probably more of a novelty than anything else. Early days for windowing on the iPad, that’s for sure.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/12/17/its-above-so.html Sat, 17 Dec 2022 12:18:44 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/12/17/its-above-so.html <p>It’s above 60°, so the ice cream truck is making the rounds.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/12/14/very-shallow-wedge.html Wed, 14 Dec 2022 22:05:24 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/12/14/very-shallow-wedge.html <p>Very shallow wedge inversion on the way to being eroded on the 00z sounding from KCHS this evening. Looks like the warm front is starting to move ashore now; temperatures have risen a degree or two in the last hour.</p> <img src="uploads/2022/89d0220a0b.png" width="600" height="379" alt=""> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/12/07/giving-marsedit-a.html Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:51:50 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/12/07/giving-marsedit-a.html <p>Giving MarsEdit 5 a whirl from the new micropost screen.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/11/18/i-rescued-my.html Fri, 18 Nov 2022 14:19:08 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/11/18/i-rescued-my.html <p>I rescued my Tumblr account and unearthed this gem. A very young Charlie Brown, think he&rsquo;s about a year and a half here.</p> <img src="uploads/2022/e201c74e78.jpg" width="600" height="448" alt=""> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/10/30/so-the-elon.html Sun, 30 Oct 2022 09:09:36 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/10/30/so-the-elon.html <p>So the Elon thing on the bird app seems to be going well. 😬</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/10/29/the-first-production.html Sat, 29 Oct 2022 17:49:47 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/10/29/the-first-production.html <p>The first production commit to chswx.com in almost two years is a CSS fix for headers running into images. Look, it&rsquo;s something. More to come.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/10/29/fediverse-offers-some.html Sat, 29 Oct 2022 10:01:43 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/10/29/fediverse-offers-some.html <p>Fediverse offers some interesting possibilities for syndicating <a href="https://micro.blog/chswx">@chswx</a> content, such as alerts. I could theoretically set up my own server and then put certain classes of alerts into their own channels along with a catch-all. 🤔</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/10/27/platforms-come-and.html Thu, 27 Oct 2022 21:28:39 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/10/27/platforms-come-and.html <p>Platforms come and go, but standards are (mostly) forever.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/10/24/im-surprised-apple.html Mon, 24 Oct 2022 21:33:45 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/10/24/im-surprised-apple.html <p>I’m surprised Apple didn’t delay Stage Manager until spring. My only guess is that they felt they had to get it in peoples’ hands and iterate from there. <a href="https://www.macstories.net/stories/stage-manager-ipados-16-1-review/">Vittici was pretty pointed</a>, but constructive, in his criticisms.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/10/22/tidying-things-up.html Sat, 22 Oct 2022 11:13:10 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/10/22/tidying-things-up.html <p>Tidying things up over here on the ol' micro-dot-blog. <a href="https://twitter.com/cbouzy/status/1583436603837796353?s=20&t=oabqxYB6eckAgeEJcGLToA">Can&rsquo;t imagine why</a>.</p> Betas 4 this week? https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/07/24/betas-this-week.html Sun, 24 Jul 2022 21:50:25 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/07/24/betas-this-week.html <p>Should hopefully see Beta 4 of all of the new Apple OS releases this week. Beta 3 hasn’t really been that bad. Some app crashes and restarts here and there on the phone, but overall, nothing too out of the ordinary in a beta cycle. iPad has been in good shape, with the occasional app crash and a few bugs in Stage Manager, but again, it’s been pretty solid all things considered. (Ventura has been really good so far, too, though it could still use some performance tuning and tweaks to Stage Manager.)</p> <p>Thinking beta 4 is probably going to be one of the last times we see big changes in spots before turning focus to polish in August. If Apple is going to make feature cuts for 16.0, we’ll probably see that in the next 2-3 weeks.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2022/07/16/went-with-the.html Sat, 16 Jul 2022 17:08:52 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2022/07/16/went-with-the.html <p>Went with the MacBook Pro 14” with the M1 Pro over the M2 Air. For the money I would have spent on the configuration I wanted for the Air, I’d be out several ports and a card reader, not to mention the brilliant ProMotion refresh rate. What a difference from my 2015 13” MBP!</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2021/10/19/the-overlapping-notification.html Tue, 19 Oct 2021 11:51:40 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2021/10/19/the-overlapping-notification.html <p>The <a href="https://jaredwsmith.com/2021/10/11/i-hope-that.html">overlapping notification bug</a> was indeed fixed in iOS 15.1, and thank goodness for that. What an annoyance. I’m still surprised it made it to the final release.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2021/10/11/i-hope-that.html Mon, 11 Oct 2021 12:13:44 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2021/10/11/i-hope-that.html <p>I hope that someone fixed the notification overlap bug with Summaries in iOS 15.0.2 and just didn’t say anything. That is beyond annoying and makes one of the tentpole features of 15 very difficult to use.</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2021/09/30/theres-a-bad.html Thu, 30 Sep 2021 17:32:00 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2021/09/30/theres-a-bad.html <p>There’s a bad bug in the latest Keynote update for iPadOS (and probably iOS, too). If, on first launch, you open a presentation with font warnings, after dismissing the font warning box you’ll be presented with a totally unresponsive Keynote. You have to open a presentation with no font warnings (or start a new one) in order to get Keynote to get going, which I accomplished through the Haptic Touch context menu. Once that’s done, you are prompted with the “what’s new in Keynote” modal…which likely was the culprit for the whole thing. Ugh.</p> iPhone 13 Pro Max snap judgements https://jaredwsmith.com/2021/09/26/iphone-pro-max.html Sun, 26 Sep 2021 09:48:41 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2021/09/26/iphone-pro-max.html <p>I received my iPhone 13 Pro Max on Friday. Here’s my snap judgements so far. (Please note that my complaints are solidly rooted in first-world problem territory.)</p> <ul> <li>ProRAW makes RAW capture so, so, so much more doable on the iPhone. On the iPhone 11 Pro Max, RAW photos would often overexpose horribly when pulled into apps like Darkroom. This is no longer the case and I am very happy.</li> <li>Getting the 256 GB model may have been a mistake given how much I like ProRAW.</li> <li>Low light performance is as advertised. It’s bonkers how good it is; after reducing the light pollution in post, the <a href="https://glass.photo/jaredwsmith/1n7QIqvr2AEXYpfYxWBt6o">starfield in this photo is amazing</a>. This was a 10-second Night Mode capture right out of the stock app which I tweaked in Darkroom.</li> <li>Condensing the TrueDepth system and getting a little more screen space back is a win, but the notch has never really bothered me overall. It’ll be interesting to see how app developers take advantage of the extra space. (I see Apple has declined to do so in this initial release aside from making the time and indicators larger.)</li> <li>So far, so very good with battery life. Here’s hoping there isn’t such a sudden decline in health as I saw on my 11 Pro Max.</li> <li>The iPhone 4 vibes are very real with this phone, right down to the placement of the antenna gaps in the outer stainless steel band. Kind of uncanny. (But it certainly performs well no matter how you hold it.)</li> <li>ProMotion has spoiled me on the iPad Pro, and it is so great to finally have it on the iPhone.</li> <li>One thing I will miss from my iPhone 11 is the lack of a bottom lip on the Apple Leather case. This not only made swiping up more smooth, it also gave me a good indicator as to which way was “up” when pulling the phone from the pocket. This is not the case with the 13 (and probably wasn’t with the 12, either, but I skipped that), and already I’ve run into a few cases where I pull the phone out, try to unlock it, only to find it’s upside down.</li> <li>iOS 15 is still buggy. I sure hope that Apple fixes <a href="https://www.macrumors.com/2021/09/26/apple-to-fix-iphone-13-unlock-with-apple-watch/">the bug that breaks Apple Watch unlock</a> while wearing a mask very soon. It’s quite inconvenient.</li> <li>The <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSBeta/comments/c7tyg8/bug_notification_stacks_sometimes_overlap_each/">overlapping notifications bug</a> was annoying in the betas. In the final release, and especially on new hardware, it’s unacceptable. I hope this is getting fixed in a point release, because it is so aggravating (to the point where I might have to miss notifications because I can’t get them to display).</li> </ul> <p>All in all, the hardware is great. The software will get better over time (theoretically, anyway). Certainly a must-have upgrade on the X or older, IMO, especially since the Max and standard-size Pro have feature parity this go-around (unlike the 12 Pro and Pro Max).</p> https://jaredwsmith.com/2021/09/03/this-is-my.html Fri, 03 Sep 2021 07:24:00 -0500 http://jaredwsmith.micro.blog/2021/09/03/this-is-my.html <iframe style="width: auto" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/LhINrendaFo" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe> <p>This is my favorite thing today. (Yes, I realize it&rsquo;s early.) I&rsquo;ve loved Dan Siegel&rsquo;s music for years, and this interpretation with guitars is so, so good.</p>