* ipad air m2
* iphone 17 pro
* apple macbook air m4

Im getting tired of Microsoft and Google and that led to my increased movement towards Apple.

I just need to learn how to setup Mystic/Mac when I get a mac mini m5.


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On Fri 21-Nov-2025 5:21p, Matthew Munson@1:218/109.0 wrote:

Im getting tired of Microsoft and Google and that led to my increased movement towards Apple.

I am getting tired of them ALL. Microsft, Apple, Google, Samsung.

I should NOT have to provide an email address to use a piece of hardware PERIOD!

I just need to learn how to setup Mystic/Mac when I get a mac mini m5.

You will love the Mac Mini, it is a very powerful computer in a small package, and Apple silicon is a very capable processor. My only complaint with Apple moving away from the x86 archetecture was the loss in versatility of being able to run ANYTHING ina VM.

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I am getting tired of them ALL. Microsft, Apple, Google, Samsung.

I should NOT have to provide an email address to use a piece of hardware PERIOD!

Or don't put your eggs in one basket. I ended up divorcing myself from Microsoft Office and just only have the web based version this year and then next June i will cancel that subscription.

Right now I am trying to find a good archiver for my mac.



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Hello Matthew!

22 Nov 25 10:09, you wrote to Rug Rat:

I am getting tired of them ALL. Microsft, Apple, Google, Samsung.

I should NOT have to provide an email address to use a piece of
hardware PERIOD!

Or don't put your eggs in one basket. I ended up divorcing myself from Microsoft Office and just only have the web based version this year
and then next June i will cancel that subscription.

I find that Numbers does for my spreadsheets. Not a bit word processor user

Right now I am trying to find a good archiver for my mac.

I find the builtin ok
Sean


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Rug Rat wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

Im getting tired of Microsoft and Google and that led to my increased movement towards Apple.

I am getting tired of them ALL. Microsft, Apple, Google, Samsung.

I should NOT have to provide an email address to use a piece of
hardware PERIOD!

I was going to say to matt, talk about jumping from the frying pan into
the fire!

Tempting to get a cheap PC that doesn't support Windows 11, load NetBSD
on it and call it a day.

You will love the Mac Mini, it is a very powerful computer in a small package, and Apple silicon is a very capable processor. My only
complaint with Apple moving away from the x86 archetecture was the loss
in versatility of being able to run ANYTHING ina VM.

They are tempting, as is the whole ecosystem. I've been tempted by
iPhones - the rest of my family has them, and Apple has successfully
roped people into iMessage, Apple Pay, and FaceTime - this generation
of kids is completely Apple-centric.

I'd like to be able to send my daughter money through Apple Pay, and
use the Share Location feature in iMessage. But then, I'd be tempted to
get an Apple watch, which won't connect to my Android Phone, then why
not get a Mac Mini along with it all?

It's a slippery slope. But, it's pretty...



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You will love the Mac Mini, it is a very powerful computer in a small package, and Apple silicon is a very capable processor. My only
complaint with Apple moving away from the x86 archetecture was the loss
in versatility of being able to run ANYTHING ina VM.

This is a frustration of mine and led to me purchasing a beefed up i9 MBP in the last intel series. While annoying, at least there are ARM releases of most Linux distros and now Windows 11. Killed my ability to trst and support kegacy Windows outside of emulation vs virtualization options. Still a very happy Apple user though. :)

-toz

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On Sat 22-Nov-2025 10:09a, Matthew Munson@1:218/109.0 said to Rug Rat:

Right now I am trying to find a good archiver for my mac.

What is wrong with the built in .zip support? Just right click on the file, multiple files, or folder and select Compress.

If you are feeling adventurous you can always use .tar/gzip from the command line.

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On Sat 22-Nov-2025 12:29p, Kurt Weiske@1:218/700.0 said to Rug Rat:

It's a slippery slope. But, it's pretty...

I was an Apple user for DECADES.... Still have my Mac Mini, and still use a Macbook PRO for my daily laptop.

Went AMD about 6 years ago for my daily driver because I was bitten by the flight sim bug again, and if I am going to shell out 4k for a desktop, I am going to use it for everything.

It does make a good platform for VMs for cert study and as interim machines while I am upgrading my Windows Servers.

The only thing I am still in the process of trying to find is a good vido editing platform besides an Adobe product. They have really fallen out of favor with me since they no longer have an stadalone / non subscription based product.

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Right now I am trying to find a good archiver for my mac.

I am a large fan of Keka for macOS. While it costs money when obtained via the App Store, you can get it for free from their website via direct download.

-toz

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Right now I am trying to find a good archiver for my mac.

I am a large fan of Keka for macOS. While it costs money when obtained
via the App Store, you can get it for free from their website via direct download.

Keka for 5.99 wasnt too bad as a donation to the programmer, and archiver seemed too overpriced for what it does.

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Matthew Munson wrote to All <=-

* ipad air m2
* iphone 17 pro
* apple macbook air m4

Im getting tired of Microsoft and Google and that led to my increased movement towards Apple.

I 'made the move' back when I changed jobs to an Apple school district.
:-) never looked back...

I just need to learn how to setup Mystic/Mac when I get a mac mini m5.

Can't help you with that... :-)




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Sean Rima wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

I find that Numbers does for my spreadsheets. Not a bit word processor user

Same here... I use Numbers for basic stuff, Pages for docs (BBEdit for
text only stuff) and Keynote for presentations.



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Rug Rat wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

On Sat 22-Nov-2025 10:09a, Matthew Munson@1:218/109.0 said to Rug Rat:

Right now I am trying to find a good archiver for my mac.

What is wrong with the built in .zip support? Just right click on the file, multiple files, or folder and select Compress.

LOL - I answered Carbon Copy Cloner... I was thinking archiving data
to another piece of hardware, not zipping/unzipping. LOL



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Scott Tompkins wrote to Matthew Munson <=-

Right now I am trying to find a good archiver for my mac.

I am a large fan of Keka for macOS. While it costs money when obtained
via the App Store, you can get it for free from their website via
direct download.

I've learned there's a LOT of stuff you can 'homebrew'install...

That's easy for install, but also updates!



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Hello jimmy!

25 Nov 25 20:37, you wrote to me:

I find that Numbers does for my spreadsheets. Not a bit word
processor user

Same here... I use Numbers for basic stuff, Pages for docs (BBEdit for text only stuff) and Keynote for presentations.

I was a fan of BBedit but recently switched to textmate, which I find better

Sean


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On Tue 25-Nov-2025 8:37p, Jimmy Anderson@1:105/7.0 said to Rug Rat:

LOL - I answered Carbon Copy Cloner... I was thinking archiving data
to another piece of hardware, not zipping/unzipping. LOL

Ahhhh Yes... Gotcha..

Used to be able to do that VERY easily with Disk Utility! Have not had to do it in a LONG time so do not know if that functionality was depricated to force people to use Time Machine....

If you are in a pinch, and speed is not a factor and you are good with a CLI.. dd works well. I believe that is what I used the last time I had to duplicate a drive. In fact if memory serves me correctly. It was an emergency disk duplication for a failed WINDOWS PC at work. Sometimes having a Mac Notebook comes in handy in a Windows enviroment. Since MS does not provide such a utility for free.

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Sean Rima wrote to jimmy anderson <=-

Hello jimmy!

25 Nov 25 20:37, you wrote to me:

I find that Numbers does for my spreadsheets. Not a bit word
processor user

Same here... I use Numbers for basic stuff, Pages for docs (BBEdit for text only stuff) and Keynote for presentations.

I was a fan of BBedit but recently switched to textmate, which I find better

Cool... I think I'll stick with BBedit for now. I don't use it daily,
but it does what I need WHEN I need it. :-)



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Hello jimmy!

02 Dec 25 11:15, you wrote to me:

I find that Numbers does for my spreadsheets. Not a bit word
processor user

Same here... I use Numbers for basic stuff, Pages for docs
(BBEdit for text only stuff) and Keynote for presentations.

I was a fan of BBedit but recently switched to textmate, which I
find better

Cool... I think I'll stick with BBedit for now. I don't use it daily,
but it does what I need WHEN I need it. :-)

I thought I would never change but TextMate is excellent for editting text and the odd python script

Sean


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Sean Rima wrote to jimmy anderson <=-

Hello jimmy!

02 Dec 25 11:15, you wrote to me:

I find that Numbers does for my spreadsheets. Not a bit word
processor user

Same here... I use Numbers for basic stuff, Pages for docs
(BBEdit for text only stuff) and Keynote for presentations.

I was a fan of BBedit but recently switched to textmate, which I
find better

Cool... I think I'll stick with BBedit for now. I don't use it daily,
but it does what I need WHEN I need it. :-)

I thought I would never change but TextMate is excellent for editting
text and the odd python script

Not running it down, but I thought it was no longer being supported/updated?



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Hello jimmy!

03 Dec 25 07:57, you wrote to me:

I thought I would never change but TextMate is excellent for
editting text and the odd python script

Not running it down, but I thought it was no longer being supported/updated?

That I did not know until now. Just checked the blog, last entry was May 2020. BBedit, here I come

Sean


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Sean Rima wrote to jimmy anderson <=-

I thought I would never change but TextMate is excellent for
editting text and the odd python script

Not running it down, but I thought it was no longer being supported/updated?

That I did not know until now. Just checked the blog, last
entry was May 2020. BBedit, here I come

LOL



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Hello Jimmy!

03 Dec 25 22:18, you wrote to me:

Not running it down, but I thought it was no longer being
supported/updated?

That I did not know until now. Just checked the blog, last
entry was May 2020. BBedit, here I come

LOL

I have kept it on the Mac, as there is the odd traffic in the support mailing list. Usually when people add a script

Sean


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... Thanks for the reminder!!

I updated to the latest version of WordPress, and I have to go in and edit the formatting to not automagicly change -- to the EM-DASH _.

Nano here I come!

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Sean Rima wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

Hello Jimmy!

03 Dec 25 22:18, you wrote to me:

Not running it down, but I thought it was no longer being
supported/updated?

That I did not know until now. Just checked the blog, last
entry was May 2020. BBedit, here I come

LOL

I have kept it on the Mac, as there is the odd traffic in the support mailing list. Usually when people add a script

Understood. I'm really enjoying BBEdit -- and if we all liked the
same thing there'd be only ONE flavor of ice cream. ;-)



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Hello jimmy!

26 Dec 25 17:08, you wrote to me:

Not running it down, but I thought it was no longer being
supported/updated?

That I did not know until now. Just checked the blog, last
entry was May 2020. BBedit, here I come

LOL

I have kept it on the Mac, as there is the odd traffic in the
support mailing list. Usually when people add a script

Understood. I'm really enjoying BBEdit -- and if we all liked the
same thing there'd be only ONE flavor of ice cream. ;-)

I switched back to textmate as I prefer it. mmmm ice cream :)|

Sean


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