5/30/2023 0 Comments Lastpass macos big sur![]() visual-studio-code, which I use as my IDE to edit the code that runs the websites I work on.signal - a desktop companion to my mobile phone messaging app.spotify because everyone needs some music now and again.calibre which manages my ebook reader, my trusty Kobo Aura One.Other apps I’ve installed (through brew, mostly) are: My theory is to try and avoid lots of apps, and to see what happens there. Last time around, I used the official Dropbox app, but this time I’m going to see whether Mountain Duck will serve as my Dropbox client. I’ve used it for many years (and donated a while back to it).įrom the same author, the paid-for mountain-duck attaches the above as drives to your OS. It’s free for most things but for $10/year it’s not going to break the bank even if you pay for it, as I do.īrew cask install cyberduck gets you a free and good file transfer program, which works with almost everything (SFTP, Dropbox, S3, Google Drive, etc). I needed to install this pretty well first, because otherwise I’d not be able to get at anything else. Bitwarden is open source and works with all the devices I use handles 2FA for me as well, and is a basically good thing. No dragging files into Applications, no running weird installation programs.īrew cask install bitwarden gets you Bitwarden, the password manager I’ve been using for the last six months or so, after a brief dalliance with 1Password. It’s very excellent.Įvery so often, if you run brew update and brew upgrade it’ll make sure that all the apps you have like this are up to date.īrew also deals with installations of MacOS apps, which they call “casks”. After installing Homebrew, you install Espanso by typing, in a terminal window… brew install espansoĮspanso allows me to do quite decent text-expansion across the entire OS, so I can just type :pn and it’ll expand into a few paragraphs about my newsletter, including a web call to grab the latest number of subscribers. That essentially requires Homebrew for installation, and I quickly realised how useful it could be. I was drawn into the world of Homebrew properly when I needed to find a decent text expander program, and happened upon Espanso. It’s a simple and easy way to install a bunch of other things and keep them updated: and as of mid-December it is fully supported on Big Sur. You can configure Chrome separately, which is fine, but unexpected. I installed a NextDNS profile for native DNS encryption and protection, but Google Chrome appears to not use this profile. ![]() The only one odd incompatibility I’ve discovered is with encrypted DNS. But everything I’ve tried appears to work without any issue. ![]() I’ve heard reports that Descript, a podcast editing tool, doesn’t work. Google’s “Backup and Sync” appears to have some display issues. I’ve not seen very much that doesn’t work. Installing from a slow USB key probably didn’t help it much. The installation took about an hour, all told. Yes, Dropbox was hacked once (in 2012, but discovered in 2016) Google Drive has never been hacked, yet, and with both you can encrypt further if you want.ĭropbox - here’s 500GB of extra space if you don’t yet use it - is much more polished than Google Drive’s consumer version, though read on about that. Running everything from a cloud drive is really the only way to go these days, and I don’t quite understand why some people are keen to retain all their work/memories on a piece of silicon that can easily break, go wrong, or be stolen. I discovered the Hugo files for my new personal website were languishing in my home folder, and also found one mysterious keypair: but those were the only things I needed to actually back up. Because of that, virtually everything I do on this machine is already backed-up. From a very basic point of view, I will replace hardware if it can’t run a supported version of the OS any more and will update as soon as it sounds safe to do so. I’m keen to run the latest builds of things, since I suspect that the security is better. This machine dates from 2016, and I suspected that after four different versions of OSX it was time to have a clearout. What could possibly go wrong?Īfter checking whether the two daily-drivers that I use were fully compatible with the new MacOS release of Big Sur, I followed some rather arcane instructions to produce a USB install key for Big Sur, wiped my hard drive, and started afresh. I take the plunge and reinstall Mac OS on day one of a new release.
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