> Lume automates the macOS Setup Assistant via VNC and OCR, creating ready-to-use VMs without manual clicking. Tart relies on Packer plugins for automation.

This feels disingenuous. Tart has unattended setup support as well, and it's based on the same VNC + OCR technique as Lume. In fact Tart had it first, and your approach seems to be heavily inspired by it. In addition the boot command instructions you're using came from https://github.com/cirruslabs/macos-image-templates/

The only material difference is whether it's built-in or integrated via Packer.

Fair point - both use VNC for unattended setup. The difference is implementation: Tart does it via a Packer plugin (Go), we built it natively in Swift with a customizable YAML schema that's less error-prone. User-facing difference is --unattended flag vs Packer workflow.

Awesome! Thanks for posting, I've been looking for exactly this kind of project that takes end to end pristine restoration seriously.

The FAQ states you back up the originals as plain images files in YYYY/MM/DD format, which is great for integration with other tools. What about metadata? Is it in a format that lends to integration with other tools, say if you stop developing/supporting your app for some reason?

Metadata is stored in an SQLite database alongside the backed up files. The format is not documented, but should be self explanatory if you examine the schema.

Excellent, thanks!

Qt for macOS maintainer here.

We've tweaked our styles to take the new design metrics into account, and fixed or worked around issues where we've seen them. We don't integrate with NSGlassEffectView and friends yet. If you find any issues in recently released version of Qt 6.10, 6.8 or 6.5, please report them upstream, thanks!

See also https://www.qt.io/blog/qt-on-macos-26-tahoe

Ooooh, fancy :-)

Thank you for replying, glad to hear that Qt is staying on top of the game, I know it's a tough job.

I've flown twice with my new AirPods Pro 3, and both times I had this exact experience; high pitched and loud feedback. They were properly cleaned, and had a "good seal" according to the settings wizard.

Glad to see I'm not the only one at least, and hopefully this will be possible to fix as a software update, rather than having to replace the AirPods.

During the operation of engines that emit loud noises such as lawnmowers and pressure washers, I've had similar experiences. With the lawnmower, the deafening roar reached both ears the moment the blade struck a stone. Using the pressure washer, it was highly unpleasant to hear the loud abnormal noise, possibly caused by splashes or wet components touching the microphone. I believe the abnormal noise from the lawnmower could be resolved with a software update.

In which ear(s)?

In my case, both.

Personally, the left ear.

Does it matter which side of the plane you are on or how close to the wing (engines) you are? I could imagine an audio difference between left and right if you were sitting at a window near an engine.

I did sit on both sides (one flight was next to wing) - did had same issue both times.

One thing that was common- I was sitting in a window seat.

Just got back from another flight, where my seat was in the middle of airplane (3 set of rows). No issues whatsoever. One thing I’ve noticed, if I press AirPods harder, I do start hearing hissing in my ears.

Seems pretty odd that all the reports are about the left ear.

with buds, whichever connects first (usually right) is the master, and the other bud connects to that one as the slave, instead of connecting directly to the source device. probably has something to do with that

Which would hint at a software issue. When it comes to ANC, both should behave identically

This seems like a good initiative, but makes me wonder, isn't there a risk these cats will end up overeating when endless Internet-people click the feed-button?

Cats generally don't overeat like dogs do.

My cat would literally pop if he could eat as much as he wanted :(

It depends on the cat. Some will self-regulate, others will not.

The "oh lawd he comin"[0] meme is popular precisely because cat tend to over eat.

[0] https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/chonk-oh-lawd-he-comin

My entire experience with cats disagrees.

A vet once told me that male orange cats can become food-obsessed, and my entire experience with cats agrees with that. One orange male that needs to be food restricted, while every other cat I know doesn't.

I've also seen non-orange fatties. At least other tabbies have to chonk potential. It's probably more of an individual thing (but some breed might be more prone to overeating than others) just like with humans.

Another vote for Infuse. In my experience Infuse 8 handles HDR and color management correctly (1:1 with Safari or QuickTime), while IINA does not (too dark).

Infuse is good, but it does not feel so well-polished for the desktop, for example, some windows for pop-up could have been a real window, but were a pop-up that blocks the main player.

Agreed. I still use it anyway because I like icloud syncing

Awesome!! Are you planning to open source this? I’ve been working on something similar and would love to join forces!

Could you describe the tweak you did, and possibly the general setup you have with zed working with LM Studio? Do you use a custom system prompt? What context size do you use? Temperature? Thanks!

Here is how my prompt ended up! https://gist.github.com/hbradio/2f504c3fdb6f7113181b2d8c6862... I just asked an LLM to make it similar to a working Qwen prompt.

To make the LLMs able to use tools, I had to configure them in the Zed settings like this: https://gist.github.com/hbradio/fa4b456658a8d250e6ccc69ae9b3...

Also, I had to go into LM Studio and increase the max context size for each model I wanted to use in Zed. Otherwise it gives a parsing error on the response. I set it to the max allowable value.

I start LM Studio, start the LM Studio server, then go to Zeds AI config and tell it to connect to LM Studio. I put it in Agent mode, and it seems to work!

I don't know much about temperature, and I didn't use any other system prompt.

Good luck!

Does anyone have suggestions for tools similar to this/Screen Studio that works as a webcam on macOS? I'd like to share 2-3 windows, with those fancy backgrounds, and a camera overlay, in a 16:9 or 4:3 aspect ratio, without needing to change the resolution of my ultra wide monitor or move/close all other windows etc.

OBS can always get you there, but you will be doing the scene work on your own.

cam.so (opensource, free for personal, local)

I've tried the domain as well as searching DDG and Github and can't find this software. But I'm intrigued by it. Where I can find this?

I'm so sorry. It's https://cap.so/

Agreed! The CMake Xcode generator is extremely slow because not only is it running the configure tests sequentially, but it generates a new Xcode project for each of them.