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Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

They Find The Beer Fridge First

Mac Geek Gab — Apple Tips, Tricks, and Troubleshooting

Dave Hamilton, Pilot Pete & Adam Christianson

How To, Technology, Education, News, Tech News

4.8977 Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2023

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Summary

What is your current backup routine? Do you even need one anymore? John, Dave, and Pete talk through answers to all your questions, including this one!
Other questions answered include how to dry wet AirPods, sharing only certain Contact info, using Security Keys with Apple Devices, fixing macOS Ventura’s pesky permissions warnings, and more.
Plus, your three favorite geeks share some Cool Stuff Found including a new password manager, a solar keyboard, and AirPlay 2 receiver, and a great Quick Look extension.
Press play and you’re guaranteed to learn at least five new things. Don’t Get Caught!
Chapters/Timestamps/Stuff mentioned:

00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 969 for Monday, February 20, 2023

QT-Alexa, Turn that Light Off in 30 Minutes (Siri says no-can-do)
The MGG Discord Server is Live!
The MGG Merch Store is Live!


Quick Tips

00:03:39 Barry Porter-Happy 45th Anniversary to BBSing

DiversiDial
Phone Phreaking


00:07:41 Mark-File Sharing Broken for Some in macOS Ventura 13.2 (Solved in 13.2.1)


Your Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:08:10 James-How to Stop a Website From Loading in Safari?

System Setting > Screen Time > Content and Privacy > Content Restrictions > Access to Web Content > Limit Adult Websites > Customize…
Modify /etc/hosts on macOS Ventura
NextDNS
OpenDNS
ListenNotes


00:14:02 Roy-What Drive Should I Get for Time Machine?

Pour One Out For Drobo


00:28:22 Dan-Tip on drying wet AirPods


Sponsors

00:32:52 SPONSOR: Factor. Save time with Factor’s fresh, never-frozen meals, ready to heat and eat in just 2 minutes! Head to FactorMeals.com/MGG60 to get 60% off your first box.
00:34:43 SPONSOR: LinkedIn Jobs. Go to LinkedIn.com/MGG and post your first job for free!
00:36:15 SPONSOR: Kolide – Kolide ensures only secure devices can access your cloud apps. It’s Zero Trust tailor-made for Okta. Book a demo today. Try Kolide Today at Kolide.com/MGG


More Questions Answered and Tips Shared!

00:37:30 Donna-Sharing Select Contact Info with IOS (not macOS?)
00:40:46 Lawyer Jeff-968-Using Third Party Hardware Keys with Apple Devices
00:43:11 Gary-968-Restart Your Mac after Setting Up a Security Key

YubiKey


00:46:53 John Activated a Passkey
00:51:45 968-Dave’s Auto-Capitalization only remained disabled for 9 hours.
00:52:35 968-Use OnyX to rebuild LaunchServices,

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's time for Mac Geek Cab and our opening quick tip comes from me. I noticed this week

0:07.3

My wife went and turned on what we call our lizard lamp, which is actually the lamp that's in our

0:12.2

lizards tank and she it's normally on a timer right but it's it's a it's a it's a

0:16.8

Wi-Fi enabled lamp so it's you know linked to all of our various systems and she said

0:26.5

She turned it on because she had just fed the lizard and so it was later etc didn't matter and then she's like oh I have to set a reminder on my watch to remind me to turn off the lizard lamp later before we go to bed because now it's

0:39.6

past the schedule. And I said, wait a minute, let's try something and I told the A lady the it off in two hours. Amazing.

0:53.0

Unfortunately, Siri says that she can't do such things and you have to actually go in and like

0:59.0

build a schedule and it won't just do it ad hoc.

1:01.0

But if you got the A lady or the G lady, you can do that.

1:05.0

More tips like this plus your questions answered today

1:09.2

on Mac Geek Cab 969 for Monday, February 20th, 2023. Greetings folks and welcome to Mackeyab the show where we share tips like that

1:36.7

we take your questions we try to answer them we share cool stuff found both from

1:41.0

you and from us we put it all together into an agenda that

1:45.0

tries to make sense and maybe keep some things topically and thematically

1:49.2

organized such that it makes it easy and fun for every single one of us, including us your

1:57.1

hosts, you know me and Pete and John, every single one of us learns at least five new things every single time we get together

2:06.4

Sponsors for this episode include yeah and sometimes Pete will play that that sound when we learn something especially important.

2:14.4

Sponsors for this episode include

2:16.7

LinkedIn.com slash MGG where you can go and post your first job for free.

2:22.1

Factor Meals. com slash MGG 60 where you can go and get 60% off your

2:28.6

first box of ready to heat and eat meals you cook them in just two minutes and collide at

2:34.4

k-o-I-D-E dot com slash M-G-G device security that uses slack and some new stuff

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