Spoiler alert: Sometimes the Mountain Dew wins, folks, but you knew that already. That's OK, this episode is chock full of Cool Stuff Found, Quick Tips, plus your questions answered about all sorts of issues. Listen as John and Dave — your two favorite geeks — take you on this ride so you can learn at least five new things!
00:00:00 Mac Geek Gab 856 for Monday, February 8, 2021
Quick Tips
00:01:28 Don-QT-Automatically Populate Anniversaries in Calendar
00:02:52 Patrick-QT-Option-clicking for other System Preferences
00:05:50 iPhone and macOS Beta Fun
Recover Failed macOS Update with Snapshots in Recovery Mode)
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Cool Stuff Found
00:19:18 Andrew-CSF-Mac Deploy Stick)
00:20:37 David-CSF-Google Chrome iCloud Keychain Plugin)
00:22:16 CSF-HearHere for your Road Trips)
00:25:38 Ralph-CSF-Satchi 7 Port Charging Station)
Ventev Slotted Charging Station)
00:29:57 Ari-CSF-Roon Audio Server)
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Questions
00:41:13 Paul-Should I upgrade to M1?
00:48:59 Rand-Synology NAS, SSD Cache and RAID Performance
Which Synology NAS models support SSD cache?)
Synology DS620slim, DS1520+, DS920+ Compared)
00:57:51 Gary-Mountain Dew vs. iPhone
01:03:50 Bruce-855-Come Together
01:08:11 GW-iPhone Safari “Request Desktop Version”
01:11:40 Kirit-Big Sur SD Drive Mounting Issues
01:15:53 Bruce-Odd Time Machine Exclusion
/System/Library/CoreServices/backupd.bundle/Contents/Resources/StdExclusions.plist
01:21:09 Mike-Uninstalling App Cruft
01:28:58 MGG 856 Outtro
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