My Little Pocket Universe
For posts related in some way to Apple products.
Update 2025/04/02: As expected, I have heard nothing back from Apple since I sent in the headset. I did not expect them to confirm anything unless they do a recall. Update 2025/02/23: I traded in the headset that I used to send them photos so it can go back to their engineers for testing. As … Read more
While it is fine most of the time for the MacBook to turn itself on when you open it, sometimes it is annoying when you do not want it to for some reason. E.g. like when you want to verify that it is actually powered off before you pack it away. There are several options … Read more
This page is going to be random notes and discoveries about my new Insta360 Pro 2 VR camera. The camera is impressive. The documentation, not so much. I will likely take sections of this stream of conscience and make them into their own pages once I have enough information. The camera runs Linux for Tegra … Read more
While trying to figure out which process on my Mac controls the sync process to the phone, I was trying to figure out how to get a list of all the system daemons and agents. It turns out that they (well most of them) are in the man pages. man has a nice whatis feature … Read more
Most people don’t use the sync function anymore, and rely on cloud streaming. And that is fine for most people. But if you are like me, and have a carefully curated library stored uncompressed and want to listen at the full quality tracks that are not available as lossless on Apple Music, then you will … Read more
If you get the error: It is easy to fix. This happened to me when I installed the MacPorts version of OpenSSH on my Mac (because work blocks the native ssh app rather than the port; we won’t get in to the silliness of that). Rather than trying to disable the MacOS ssh-agent (which apparently … Read more
I am fortunate enough to own Devialet Phantom speakers. These are crazy powerful speakers in a small size. I use a pair with my TV, which has an AppleTV and a gaming PC attached. The speakers support AirPlay 2, as well as an optical digital line in (it supports other platforms, but I don’t use … Read more
I have wanted to use the tmux integration in iTerm2 for a long time now, but whenever I would go in to iTerm2, it would change things so that the mouse wheel (trackpad scroll) would cycle through the shell history instead of scrolling back through the buffer. I cannot image any sane person would want … Read more
So you have an Apple Vision Pro, or its little cousin the Oculus Quest and you want to use the spatial movie format. This is not a new format, it has been around since 2014, but Apple is the first to start using it prominently. Sure, there is whatever they put on Disney+, or the … Read more
A default setting for the Apple Vision Pro using an external keyboard was driving me mad; the space bar and the tab key were hijacked to serve as Accessibility functions, which meant that in may places where you wanted to type, hitting the space bar would perform the “Activate” function rather than acting as a … Read more