Lately I've noticed AdGuard using a lot of memory and my Mac heating up, and that seemed to have been fixed by a workaround on here (changing the DNS to a non adguard one). Another issue is that Google.com in macOS Safari would stop working. It still works in my Chrome. The fix would be turning AdGuard off and back on. I know many have experienced the former issue, but has anyone else experienced the latter (the google.com failing to load one)?
Edit: I was having issues updating a YouTube channel / video description and as soon as I turned AdGuard my changes were able to be saved.

I followed all the necessary procedures to boot from a USB on my Mac. Everything seemed to be going well until I restarted. When I chose to boot from the external disk, I received a message stating that the macOS version on the selected disk needs to be reinstalled. Is it necessary for me to reinstall it? To run Tails, do I need to have a copy of my operating system on the USB stick?

Hi everyone,
I wanted to share a step-by-step guide on how I set up pCloud with WebDAV to enable cloud syncing for RetroArch on my Apple devices (iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple TV). After some trial and error, I found a method that works seamlessly, though it requires a premium subscription to pCloud for WebDAV access. Here’s how you can do it:
Why pCloud?
pCloud offers reliable WebDAV support, which is essential for cloud syncing with RetroArch. It also has dedicated apps for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS, ensuring a smooth experience across all Apple devices.
Steps to Set Up pCloud WebDAV for RetroArch:

1. Create a pCloud Account and Upgrade to Premium:
   • Sign up for a pCloud account if you don’t already have one. • Upgrade to a premium plan to enable WebDAV access.
   
2. Set Up a Folder in pCloud:
   • Log in to your pCloud account via the web or app. • Create a new folder named “RetroArch Saves” (or any name you prefer).
   
3. Configure WebDAV Manager App on iOS:
   • Download and install the WebDAV Manager app from the App Store. • Open the app and tap “Add server.” Fill in the server details as follows: • Name: pCloud RetroArch • Hostname: webdav.pcloud.com • Port: 443 (default for HTTPS) • Base Path: /RetroArch Saves (or the path to your designated folder) • Secure Connection: Ensure this is enabled • Username: Your pCloud username (email address) • Password: Your pCloud password • Save the configuration and test the connection to ensure it can access the pCloud folder.
   
4. Configure RetroArch for Cloud Sync:
   • Open RetroArch on your Apple TV (or other Apple device). • Navigate to Settings > Saving > Cloud Sync. • Toggle “Enable Cloud Sync” to ON. • Set “Destructive Cloud Sync” based on your preference (OFF for safer backups, ON for direct overwriting). • Set “Cloud Sync Backend” to WebDAV. • Enter the WebDAV details: • Cloud Storage URL: https://webdav.pcloud.com/RetroArch Saves • Username: Your pCloud username (email address) • Password: Your pCloud password
   
5. Testing and Verification:
   • Save a game in RetroArch to create a save state. • Log in to your pCloud account and check the “RetroArch Saves” folder to verify that the save file has been uploaded.
   

Additional Tips:

• Regular Checks: Periodically check the “RetroArch Saves” folder in pCloud to ensure saves are being uploaded as expected. • Backup: Keep a local backup of your save files just in case you need to restore them. 

Conclusion:
This method allows you to securely back up your RetroArch saves to the cloud and access them across all your Apple devices. Although it requires a premium subscription to pCloud for WebDAV access, the setup is straightforward and works reliably.

I'm currently working on my little project to learn how to "customize" an awesomewm (type of graphical interface) on ArchLinux and I would like to try to make a theme for the manga, and I would like to ask you for some backgrounds, icons or some images (even without background so .png) and if you know about linux or something else give me ideas (I suck at creativity) for example, to mimize, put fullscreen and close in macOS style but with another color etc..

Hi! I have seen the latest update and I would like to understand how can I use the latest gpt4o while I share my screen.
I have to pay for gpt plus and download the MacOS app or how is it done?

I am self-hosting WordPress on Proxmox LXC via Tunrkey WordPress, and have NGINX reverse proxy with Let's Encrypt to point my domain (gg..net) towards my WordPress Proxmox LXC. The website is using the default theme and I have no other themes installed and zero plugins installed. The website is viewable from my PC, MAC, Android phone, but only iOS phone saying "Site can't be reached" with ERR_CONNECTION_CLOSED (same error in iOS Safari or iOS Chrome). I am using my domain (https) to reach my WordPress from each of those devices.
My WordPress site health only has one issue reported "Page cache is not detected but the server response time is OK" which does not seem related.
I first thought it is something to do with my NGINX setup, but I have another host (configured inside the same NGINX) pointing to another LXC (inside the same Proxmox) that uses Asp.Net web server on Apache, and my iOS deceives able to view that Asp.Net website. So, it has to do with something in WordPress, I guess.
I have updated everything from Proxmox, NGINX, WordPress, etc... to latest versions but nothing helped.
Any ideas?

If you are on a mobile phone with location-services enabled for your browser, the easiest way to check your elevation and altitude is via the website https://elevation.place
Alternatively, there are some built-in ways to check your altitude that vary depending on if you have an iPhone (iOS) or Android phone

On iOS:

1. Compass App:
   • Open the Compass app. If you don't see it, you might need to download it from the App Store.
   • The altitude is displayed at the bottom of the screen along with other information like your current location and heading.
2. Apple Maps:
   • Open Apple Maps.
   • Tap the "i" button in the lower-right corner and select "Show Elevation" (available in certain regions and on some map views).
3. Third-Party Apps:
   • My Altitude: This app uses GPS and barometer data to provide accurate altitude readings.
   • GPS Status: Another app that shows detailed GPS information, including altitude.

On Android:

1. Google Maps:
   • Open Google Maps.
   • Search for a location or use your current location.
   • Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to view details about the location. If available, the altitude will be listed.
2. Google Earth:
   • Open Google Earth.
   • Navigate to your location. The altitude is shown at the bottom of the screen along with coordinates.
3. Third-Party Apps:
   • Altimeter GPS: This app provides altitude information using GPS data.

Using a Web Browser:

For both iOS and Android, you can use online tools:

• Elevation.Place: Visit this site on your mobile browser (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Brave, etc) - it will get your altitude via your phone sensors and also display the ground-level elevation at your current location. You can use these two metrics to calculate your height above ground. Elevation will be your height above sea level.
• WhatIsMyElevation.com: Visit this site on your mobile browser. It will show your current altitude based on GPS data.

How can I calibrate my phone's altimeter for more accurate readings?

Calibrating your phone's altimeter can improve accuracy. Here are some methods for both iOS and Android:

On iOS:

1. Compass Calibration:
   • Open the Settings app.
   • Go to Privacy > Location Services > System Services.
   • Toggle on Compass Calibration.
2. Manual Calibration:
   • Use a known altitude reference point (like a topographic map or a benchmark elevation).
   • Open an altitude app that allows manual calibration (e.g., My Altitude).
   • Enter the known altitude to adjust the reading.
3. Recalibrate Barometer:
   • To recalibrate the barometer, place your phone in a location with a known altitude and let it sit for a few minutes to stabilize.

On Android:

1. Google Maps Calibration:
   • Open the Google Maps app.
   • Tap the blue dot representing your location.
   • Select Calibrate Compass and follow the on-screen instructions.
2. Manual Calibration:
   • Similar to iOS, use an app that allows for manual calibration (e.g., Altimeter GPS).
   • Enter a known altitude to adjust the reading.
3. Recalibrate Barometer:
   • Similar to iOS, place your phone at a known altitude and allow the barometer to stabilize.

What are the differences in accuracy between using GPS and barometric pressure for altitude measurement?

Both GPS and barometric pressure can be used to measure altitude, but they have different strengths and limitations:

GPS-Based Altitude:

• Accuracy: Generally accurate to within 10-20 meters.
• Dependencies: Requires a clear view of the sky to connect to multiple satellites.
• Limitations: Can be less accurate in dense urban areas, forests, or indoors due to signal obstruction.
• Use Cases: Best for outdoor activities where a clear sky view is available.

Barometric Pressure-Based Altitude:

• Accuracy: Can be very accurate, within a few meters, when calibrated correctly.
• Dependencies: Sensitive to weather changes and requires frequent calibration.
• Limitations: Atmospheric pressure changes (due to weather) can affect readings.
• Use Cases: Ideal for activities like hiking and climbing, where changes in weather are minimal or can be accounted for with regular calibration.

Hello,
I use my Android phone for many things. But I have a big problem with passwords. I use email aliases for just about everything. So the only google email I use is to login to the Android OS itself. I used different email addresses for walmart amazon spotify hulu an exercise app and many different apps. The problem is for every app I have to type in a different email and password. It is really hard on the little phone screen and some apps tend to forget the password. Is there a way where I can use a password manager that will fill in that information automatically in the apps? I have used google password manager in the past. That works on the desktop when I sign into chrome browser. I have also used LastPass and Bitwarden. Currently, on the desktop, I just have FireFox remember my passwords. What can I use to have the emails and passwords available on desktop (Linux/Windows) and my Android devices? Something like LastPass or Bitwarden would be welcome.

Hello everyone,
I would like to ask your advice on what keyboard to buy, I'm looking for it for gaming and programming, the format I have in mind can be TKL, 75% or 65%, regarding budget can be within $250 and $300 USD and with wireless connectivity.
I have seen some custom keyboards but I see in some forums that mention that the input lag they have is too high, I currently have a Razer Deathstalker v2 Pro TKL however suffered a liquid spill and does not work properly.
Something I forgot to mention is that I plan to use this keyboard on Windows and MacOS operating systems.

Hello, Idris here from indieniche. This week I want to share a summarised version of my interview with Daniel Nguyen, A Product Engineer generating $10k/month building AI apps
You can find the full case study here

Q: Hello! Who are you and what product are you working on currently?

I'm Daniel Nguyen. I'm an entrepreneur based in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. I've been building multiple products: KTool, BoltAI, PDF Pals

Q: What is your backstory and how did you come up with your idea? Do you have any partners?

I've been a product engineer for more than 12 years. Then one day, I discovered Indie Hacking and found it fascinating. I quit my cushy job to start building in public.
I decided to learn more about generative AI & OpenAI API and hopefully find a good freelance gig. I did land a couple of interesting gigs, but what is more interesting is I found a new product idea: BoltAI - a better way to use OpenAI & other AI services on macOS. I started it purely to learn more about SwiftUI development & OpenAI app development (the so-called "AI wrapper"). It's now my top revenue-generating product.
While building BoltAI, one customer asked about the ability to chat with PDF natively on Mac (another "AI wrapper" idea). I found it interesting and so I decided to build it. PDF Pals recently reached 700 paid customers (about 23% of my total revenue in 2023) And finally, I built ShotSolve as a lead magnet for BoltAI (engineering as marketing, or side project marketing). It was welcomed by many Mac users and so far, has brought 1500 visitors to BoltAI.

Q: Take us through the process of building the first version of your product MVP.

When I started, I didn’t expect BoltAI to be commercially viable. It comes from my pet peeve of switching back and forth between ChatGPT web UI and native Mac apps like Xcode or Apple Notes. Unlike VSCode, there is no Copilot for XCode and I have the habit of writing blog posts in Apple Notes so I figured I need a tool to invoke ChatGPT right within these apps. So I decided to build the MVP in a weekend. The app was ugly but I managed to ship it anyway.

Q: How did you get your first customers for your product (Free or paid users)

I tweeted about it, and posted it to multiple communities asking for feedback: IndieHacker, Reddit, WIP… It went semi-viral and early adopters started to use the app. I got valuable feedback and improved the product accordingly. Some of them converted to paid customers.

Q: Since you launched your product, What has worked to attract customers

Doubling down on what works mostly. That's social media (X/Reddit), email newsletters, and paid ads.

Q: How is your product performing currently, and what are your plans for the future? Can you share your current metrics and revenue figures?

BoltAI is doing great. I plan to support business customers better, and will kind of "pivot" into B2B. Currently, most customers of BoltAI are prosumers: freelancers, developers, or content writers. I believe it would be much better if I could sell directly to businesses.
Read the full case study here
We put several hours into this research and it covers mostly all aspects:

• How he got his ideas to build his AI apps
• How he built his first MVP
• Tools that have helped him grow his products
• Books and podcasts that have been impactful to him
• Advice for other founders starting out to build their apps

This story inspired me a lot, I love growth and building profitable businesses, so I hope you will feel the same energy from it! If you find this a lot useful , Let’s connect togetherto read more when I interview founders like this

Hello everyone,
I’ve been working on a document in Pages for years, but recently I’ve noticed that a lot of text is missing. Has anyone else experienced this issue? I’m worried about continuing to edit the document, as it contains very important information and I fear losing more content.
Is there a way to recover the missing text or prevent this from happening in the future? Should I consider using a different application for writing? It's a lot of written material, so transferring it to another application, especially on Windows or Chrome, would be a big problem. I primarily use a MacBook Air and an iMac, mostly the MacBook Air.
Any advice or recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Best regards

Today, out of the blue, I have had Automations come on for when I leave home (geofence about 4 blocks), but I was sitting at home both times. Has this happened to others?
I did not update to latest iOS (or pad or mac) because of the old photo zombie comeback bug. So it is not the update.
Automations are for turning on music when I leave, adjusting thermostat. One other might also come on to activate motion sensors. There may be a fourth for the phone that seems to be happening too. So this seems to indicate that the phone itself seems to think it is past the fence and triggers all the home automations and the one iPhone automation.
While I am here, none of these should activate and, for years, never did. It is just so strange for geofencing to apparently think I am not home. Twice in one day too. Ideas as to cause?

Hi,
So, I've got an intel macbook pro 15 inch retina just gathering dust. It's actually a decent machine even by today's standards (though OS can't be upgraded past Ventura):

• 512GB SSD
• 16G Memory
• What was once a brilliant display that sadly had something dropped on one side of the machine, so is busted and "stripey" about 1/3 of the way into the screen from the left
• AMD blah blah whatever was best at the time GPU (bonus if anyone has suggestions for software/containers to run that would specifically take advantage of this since my only other servers are SBC's with low-powered GPUs)

I'm bummed about the screen, but I figure I can just run it as a headless server and it's all good ,and I have a little portable USB C screen that otherwise works in a pinch (or the built in one is still slightly usable if i need to take a peek at things, but not for actual work), I'm a bit torn as to my best options though.
At the end of the day, I'd like to be able to run Windows, MacOS, and, primarily, Linux on it to host a lot of the amd64 architecture only projects that I cannot seem to get to run on my other baby, an Orange Pi that does most my self-hosting heavy lifting. The two main holdouts that for the life of me I can't seem to get to work on arm64 at the moment are ERPnext and Netbox (I've tried some hackery with various docker files that some people say they've gotten to work, but...well...ain't nobody got time for that lol). I also do pretty consistently run across other projects that seem interesting but are compiled only for amd64 platform.
So, back to the matter at hand. What would you guys do? Currently the machine is setup with two separate partitions initially created to run Windows and MacOS. MacOS is the only working OS on it though as I was going to just dual boot Ubuntu with MacOS and be done with it, but then I got to thinkin'...
Should I :

1. just dual boot MacOS and Ubuntu (or, actually, probably dietpi, which is great) and call it a day?
2. Attempt to install Proxmox on only the spare windows partition, then run a linux VM and windows VM on top, so that I'd be able to switch between all 3?
3. Wipe the whole thing, install Proxmox as base, then run VMs of Linux, Windows and MacOS at will? (is MacOS easy to install as a VM?)
4. Wipe the whole thing and partition in thirds and install each OS natively?

Regardless, I'm obviously going to need a fancy bootloader of some sort. It's been a long time since I've messed with them. Is GRUB still just the way to go?
If you have a minute and wouldn't mind, when answering please include a brief overview of the steps you'd take to achieve your dream setup give the constraints of the machine. I'm somewhat fluent in navigating most of this stuff, so you don't have to go into a lot of detail, just more curious about the overall approach in steps.
Thank you, in advance, for your insights.

Hey Gang, I am heavily debating a new iPad Air as its specs are twice of what my current MacBook Pro is but I use a green screen for work with OBS studio to feed my virtual webcam into chrome. Is this possible with iPad or should I stick with the Mac for a little longer?

Hello,
All of a sudden my BOSE QC45 sounds absolutely awfull if connected on my laptop. The sound quality got just terrible.
(On my iphone it works just fine)
Do you have any suggestion about how I can solve this ? 🧐
Let me know if you need more information and thanks a lot for the help !
macOS Sonoma 14.5 (23F79)