MGG...Jeopardy Style
Mac Geek Gab — Your Questions Answered, Tips Shared, Troubleshooting Assistance
Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson
4.8 • 977 Ratings
🗓️ 2 June 2025
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Got questions? We’ve got answers. Dig into iPhone VPN conflicts with CarPlay, backup reliability with Carbon Copy Cloner, and the surprising value of an AirTag in your car. You’ll learn about com.apple.asr snapshots, decluttering your Lock Screen, choosing the right Focus modes, and comparing Wi-Fi mesh systems like Eero, Deco, and Orbi. We even tackle the Nvidia SHIELD vs. Apple TV Plex showdown, then wrap it up with Cool Stuff Found like the BoostHero flashlight/jump starter, MailMaven, and a solar car battery. It’s everything your inner geek craves—and more.
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 1092 for Monday, June 2nd, 2025
June 2nd: National Leave Work Early Day
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MGG Monthly Giveaway – Win an eero Outdoor 7
WWDC Is Next Week. Got any Predictions? Also, show will be about 17 hours late!
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Quick Tips
00:00:01 Brad-QT-When Notifications Cease, force-quit Notification Center in Activity Monitor
00:06:29 Hans-QT-Set up your Dock for your remote desktop on the opposite side for a visual reference
00:07:40 QT-Set a default translate app in iOS 18.4 or later
00:08:48 Scott-QT-1091-Use Shortcuts and ArtCast to create custom Apple TV photo galleries
00:10:38 Brad-QT-Remove Orphaned System Extensions with systemextensionsctl
systemextensionsctl list
systemextensionsctl gc – garbage collect orphaned system extension(s)
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Don’t Get Caught
00:17:12 Michael-DGC-Your iPhone’s VPN Might Interfere with CarPlay
00:21:16 Val-DGC-An AirTag in your car might just help the police locate it if stolen!
Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!
00:23:21 Shannon-What is com.apple.asr in Snapshots?
00:28:44 Hans-How do I keep my iPhone lock screen free of notifications?
00:34:01 What Focus modes do you use?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | It's time for MacGeekab and listener Brad brings us our quick tip of the week with I recently had a couple of instances with users not getting their audio or banner notifications for their messaging apps, WebEx, Microsoft, Teams, etc. |
| 0:17.1 | On their Macs. For one case, the solution was turning off focus mode. |
| 0:22.2 | For the other case, the user was not in focus mode, and all the settings were correct, |
| 0:27.3 | both in the app settings and system settings. |
| 0:29.9 | Resetting notifications for the affected app and system settings also had no effect. |
| 0:34.9 | The solution was quitting notification center in activity monitor. |
| 0:40.0 | More tips like this, plus your questions answered today on MacGeekab 1092 for Monday, June 2nd, 2025. |
| 0:48.9 | Thank you. Greetings, folks, and welcome to Matt Geekab, the show where we send, you send in your tips, we share them. |
| 1:12.0 | You send in your cool stuff found, we share them. |
| 1:14.2 | You send in your questions, we share them and answer them. |
| 1:17.0 | Really, we put it all together so that everybody has a fantastic opportunity to learn at least five new things every single episode. |
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| 1:40.3 | And also square.com slash go slash MG, which is always with like any of the other of our other |
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| 1:55.3 | sign up we will talk more about them in a little bit too too. For now, here in Durham, New Hampshire. |
| 2:01.6 | I'm Dave Hamilton. |
| 2:04.2 | And here in South Dakota, I'm Adam Christensen. |
| 2:08.0 | And here in Vernon, Texas, it's Pilot Pete. |
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