Recently was ditched Little Snitch with Radio Silence.
Not as powerful as Little Snitch but it fulfill my needs to block chrome-google related auto updates.
I prefer TripMode over Little Snitch.
IMHO, Little Snitch is to complicated for regular user. TripMode is easy to use and more than five times cheaper.
The fact that the Unshaky App is even a THING reflects very badly on Apple. Just... wow.
The fact that the Unshaky App is even a THING reflects very badly on Apple. Just... wow.
Is there something wrong with saying that Little Snitch is a firewall program?
I noticed it's never simply described as a firewall.
Sounds like this may end up being similar to that 3rd party utility for iPhone to remove blue colors during night times, prior to sleeping. The company could only release it on jail broken phones, since there was no way to push it through the App Store. Apple ended up taking that idea and putting it into a future model of the iPhone.
I can put my AirPods in my ears, turn on Bluetooth, connect, but AirPods do NOT appear in my Preferences > Sound as a device for output. The AirPods DO APPEAR under Preferences > Bluetooth. The cheap Bluetooth knockoff AirPods connect as soon as they are turned on by pressing the button on the battery pack/volume control/mic, and then my music is played through them. They don't appear as an output device, either.I don't quite see the utility of AirBuddy, when we can use the Bluetooth icon on the menu bar.
I mean, seriously, if I can pair my new H1 chip powered AirPods second gen, with an OLD MacBook Pro from 2010 (with macOS High Sierra) through Bluetooth 2.1, you can pair easily and seamlessly any AirPods with any mac running Mojave. I don't see the need of another app, when the Bluetooth menu already gives us more information about the status and battery of each earbud.
Bookmarks are available to everyone already.Struggling to see the point of Stack
Mine do not appear as an output device even though they appear to be connected. Maybe this $5 app will do the trick.I paired AirPods 2 with my MBP without AirBuddy. What's the point for spending 5 bucks?
I’ve used Little Snitch for over 15 years now. It’s an excellent piece of software.
I'll vouch for AirBuddy. Great App.
Does the fact that anti-virus apps are a THING (that is 100% necessary) for Windows reflect badly on Microsoft?
Is there something wrong with saying that Little Snitch is a firewall program?
I noticed it's never simply described as a firewall.
Recently was ditched Little Snitch with Radio Silence.
Not as powerful as Little Snitch but it fulfill my needs to block chrome-google related auto updates.
I found it BEYOND annoying with the alerts it causes
Yes.
But not a great analogy, because Microsoft are not writing malware, but Apple are making substandard keyboards.
Unshaky basically performs what's called a 'debounce' which is a very common function in electronics that deal with key/switch inputs (because mechanical switches aren't perfect) and would definitely be part of the MacBooks keyboard firmware already. But is just not tuned well enough to prevent these double keystrokes. I'm surprised Apple didn't update that firmware to mitigate these keyboard issues themselves.
They seem so resistant to doing any kind of mid-life redesign whatsoever, even if it solves a big issue. I remember the old Plastic MacBooks, they went through 3 different model releases which all had the same problem: The palmrest cracking due to the closure magnets putting too much pressure on it (combined with a pressure strip that concentrated this force on a tiny area).
Instead of making a mid-life update, introducing a fix with one of the new model generations or even replacing the screen bezel with lighter magnets or one with a wider plastic strip, all they did was boneheadedly replacing the same palmrests over and over. Mine went through 3 of them. They're so stupid sometimes.