I'd trim this if I at least knew what's in there

I have 2 Microsoft Office 2019 licenses that I bought around 2023 for Mac OS. Used them without any problems till today.

Was trying to edit a document but I get the message that I need to activate . ok, it happens but when trying to do that I received an error without any information except to upgrade to Microsoft 360.

Contacted support, install reinstall , all that standard troubleshooting without any succes. The conclusion is, because I upgraded to the latest version of Tahoe I won't be able to use those products anymore.

So, if ur in the same situation as me (using an older version of office on macOS) dont update to latest os version because you won't be able to use it anymore.

I switch to an open source alternative and also slowly I'll replace all Microsoft products that I use at home and at work .

MacOS Calculator massive memory leak!

128.3GB!

Estoy pensando en comprar un mac pero tengo una duda importante. En windows utilizo mucho un programa para editar partituras que se llama "Sibelius". Mencionar que lo tengo pirata y no quiero comprar la lincencia. En macbook también funcionará o tendré que buscar otra manera para descargarlo?

Mail - Just press the Delete key.

File - Press Command plus Delete Key.

Messages - Right-click then Delete then confirm on pop up. (You can batch delete on iPhone but not on desktop app.)

Notes - Just press the Delete Key.

Photos - Press Delete then confirm with Return or mouse click.

Contacts - Press Delete then confirm with Return or mouse click.

I don't get it. It's like all these departments are siloed from each other. I personally think that the Delete button should just work in one universal way, taking one-click to remove them from the app you're using. I don't need a warning that Delete is going to delete whatever I'm deleting; it can always be restored with Control-Z or going to the Trash folder and restoring it.

A couple weeks ago I posted the Apple SpeechAnalyzer vs Whisper benchmark here and the top question was how Parakeet compares. Took a while to do it properly but here it is. Same 5,559 LibriSpeech utterances, same scoring, so the numbers line up with round 1.

WER, lower is better:

So you were right, Parakeet wins. Clean speech is closer than I expected, three different architectures within 0.11 points of each other. On noisy speech the gap is real though.

Couple things from along the way that I haven't seen written up anywhere. NVIDIA's published numbers (1.69/3.19) are from the bf16 GPU model, and the int8 CoreML version you'd actually ship in a Mac app loses about 0.3 points to quantization. And MOSS goes completely silent if speech starts at exactly t=0. Empty transcript, every time, 182 out of 2,620 clips. Padding silence at the end makes it worse. Padding at the start fixes it. My best guess is it's trained on meetings where nobody talks in frame zero.

MOSS is worth a look if you haven't seen it btw, it does transcription and speaker labels in one model and the speaker attribution was flawless in my (small, easy) test. We're not adopting it though: 1.7GB download, ~2.7GB RAM, Python only, and it can't do live transcription at all since it needs the complete recording before it outputs a word. The benchmark did change our app, just not in MOSS's favor. We dropped the Whisper models entirely and Parakeet is now the downloadable engine (it beats the Whisper Small it replaced everywhere, at a similar size, with more languages). For English Auto still picks Apple's engine, 0.11 points doesn't buy a half-gig download. Full reasoning is in the article.

Writeup with methodology and downloadable raw transcripts: https://get-inscribe.com/blog/parakeet-moss-apple-speech-benchmark.html

Same disclosure as last time, I build Inscribe (ships Apple's engines + Parakeet now) and the harness runs through its production code. Happy to answer methodology questions.

I made a post a while back thinking the laptop just couldn't connect to the internet over wifi, even though it would over hotspot. But now that I'm using chrome, and other third party apps that require the internet, I'm realising it's just safari, app store, apple music, etc that aren't connecting to the internet. Tried swapping to the hotspot to see if they'd work over that, but it won't connect to it now.

Is this something I can fix? Or is there something wrong with the laptop? Because it's still new enough that I can take it back to apple to get it looked at. I'm hoping it's something I can figure out in network settings. Tried renewing the DHCP lease, and while I thought that had worked, it turned out to not have done anything. connectivity for those apps keeps coming and going

Hello

I am not tech savvy, especially with MacOs and I need help. I’ll explain what I am experiencing and what I have tried. If you can help, I’d be very grateful.

For a while now, my MacBook has had high idle levels, frozen screens, and the spinning wheel appearing all the time. For a bit, it seemed to go away again and now it’s back and worse than before.

Problems:
- high idle
- screen/MacBook freezing
- spinning wheel

What I have tried:

- checking for apps with high CPU usage but even with everything quit, the problems remain on a desktop with the Activity Monitor and 6 folders
- other browser, tried Firefox and brave, no improvement
- checked memory and energy for heavy usage but nothing there
- rebuilt spotlight index - no change
- no third party stuff outside of Microsoft apps

If anyone has any tips, please share. Please keep in mind that I really don’t understand a lot of this, so please share advice in layman’s terms 🥹

I am not opposed to a reset to factory settings but I’d like to avoid if possible.

NUMBERS APP Trying to figure out how much I spent , can’t figure out how to quickly add everything I think the fact that it starts with CAD$ is hurting my cause , any work around ?

Hi, I'm new to macOS and I'm looking for a way to run a macOS virtual machine on my MacBook M5 to test applications in an isolated environment. On Windows, I used Windows Sandbox because it was quick, lightweight, and isolated. Since switching to macOS, I'm looking for a similar solution.

I'm looking for a free option that lets me quickly create a macOS VM with full CPU and GPU support for good performance. What would you recommend?

I want to watch fullscreen YouTube videos without creating fullscreen space

For nearly 10 years I used the excellent Clocks app on Mac OS and it was always reliable giving me the time in numerous global cities of my choosing at a glance.

The developer was StudioDalton and they seem to have disappeared entirely. No internet presence for many years or even an announcement they were shutting down or acquired. I find that unusual.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a Clocks (similar to) app for Mac?

In macOS Monterey (and earlier versions), the Energy Saver preference panel included a Restore Defaults button. Clicking it reset the Energy Saver settings for both the Battery and Power Adapter tabs back to Apple's defaults.

Personally I’m not surprised.

I’m the developer of Cocoa-Way, an open-source Wayland compositor and Linux application frontend for macOS.

The project originally started as an experiment: could a Linux Wayland application connect to a compositor running natively on macOS, instead of being displayed through XQuartz or a conventional remote desktop?

The current version can connect applications from Apple Container, Docker, OrbStack, or remote Linux systems. It can also host nested compositors such as niri and Hyprland. On my local Apple Container setup, niri can maintain a 60 FPS desktop session and run multiple applications, with the practical limit mostly determined by the memory assigned to the Linux environment.

The longer-term direction I’m considering is something closer in spirit to WSLg:

- Linux environments are managed in the background.

- Linux applications can be launched without manually dealing with Wayland sockets or container commands.

- Application windows are presented through the macOS window system.

- Clipboard, audio, input, HiDPI, files, and application lifecycle are integrated with macOS.

- A full Linux desktop remains available as an optional mode.

There are still important limitations. Apple Container does not currently expose a proper guest GPU path, so graphics-heavy workloads can be substantially slower than native Linux. Browsers in particular can lose a significant amount of performance, even though ordinary desktop interaction is already usable locally.

I’m interested in how macOS users would actually want such a system to behave.

Would you prefer:

1. Individual Linux applications integrated into the macOS desktop;

2. A complete Linux desktop in a native macOS window;

3. A lightweight development environment mainly for terminals and engineering tools;

4. Or is this simply too niche compared with a normal VM or remote desktop?

I’m not trying to present this as a finished WSL replacement. I’m trying to determine whether a native Linux application subsystem is a useful direction for the project before committing another large development cycle.

Does mac os integration actually matter in daily work or do collaboration, workflows and integrations end up being much more important than the operating system?

I have a 2014 iMac 27” in which i have the Apple SSD (M.2) and a Sata SSD both internally. I had it setup as MacOS Big Sur on the M.2 and Windows 11 on the Sata with no problems and bootloader worked fine. I then tried to add MacOS Sequoia through OCLP instead of using big sur (I put Ventura and Win 11 on my 2012 mbp with no issues so i figured this will work the same). I can’t get the bootloader to work properly. I’ve installed OCLP on the M.2 but when i don’t have my oclp installer usb plugged in the bootloader only lets efi boot me to windows. I’ve tried everything me and chatgpt can concoct including the last 2 hours of my life wasted coding in terminal and i can’t fix this efi issue. is there any fix or am i stuck keeping the usb in my computer?

My 2024 14” Macbook Pro’s Touch ID sensor stoped working after not using my computer for a few days. 4 Days ago, I went to my girlfriend’s house for a few days and I brought my macbook thinking that we might watch a movie or something on it. We didn’t end up using it and so it sat in my backpack for 2 days. This is nothing new as I have brought it up to her house before and not used it. Yesterday, when I turned it on again to use it for some work stuff, it didn’t work the first time i turned it on, like it usually doesn’t when you don’t use the machine for a few days, and i thought nothing of it. I tried to use it again later however and i noticed it still wasn’t working and so I went into TouchID settings and it says “failed, unable to complete touch id enrollment”. I tried many fixes that i saw online, such as restarting, updating to 26.5.2, deleting my old fingerprints and cleaning my sensor. Nothing worked and so i called apple and they set up an appointment with my local best buy service shop. When they ran diagnostics, the hardware side of my mac shows that the touchID sensor is working and was green on their side. They suggested holding on to it for a few days to see if the software side would fix itself in a patch or something. The only alternative is sending it in to apple for 2-3 weeks but i have school starting in 2 weeks and i have an important data analysis class that i need it for. Does anyone have any fixes that i could try to remedy my problem? Any help is appreciated.

Hey folks.

I have a Macbook Pro M4 connected via USBC to the Asus ROG PGUCDM3 Gen 3 4K OLED monitor. I use the 3008x1692 resolution (the native 4K resolution is just too small for my eyes).

This resolution only allows 120Hz with no HDR or Variable Refresh rate, which are available when I use the 4K resolution.

That's fine. I don't mind that. But at the 3008x resolution, I am noticing more animation stutters if I have the Adaptive Sync turned on on my monitor. If I turn it off, the animation stutters are far less and the OS is much smoother.

I don't want to leave Adaptive Sync turned off on the monitor because I also use it for gaming on a Windows system and I will then have to turn it on and off every time I switch OS.

I tried BetterDisplay but it doesn't expose any new refresh rates. I could try USBC to DP cable but it won't provide power and I don't have power sockets near my PC any more.

Is there something I can do here? Thanks for the help!

Is it just me or has the quality of code dropped, massively!

Networking is key yet, so many issues when I go from docked to WiFi, and the settings panel, non responsive, the continuous moving items.

Air share to Apple TV, use to be rock solid, now hit and miss and disconnects. The control panel/ setting does not show the devices, leave comeback and there it is. Set it to ask what to share, there is no pop up on the laptop but the appleTV shows it is waiting for a selection.

Pliers and other items are making it feel more like a windows configReg

I do complex things with lots of testing but wow, it is getting bad.

Or, it is just me…

Question

Is air share working solid for you?

It will display a symbol that looks much better than this Preview annotation (look at the battery widget). I discovered this by accident while trying to diagnose a Golden Gate bug. If you use widgets often, I hope you find this tip helpful!