Apple Screensavers

Putting this here so I don’t forget.

Hacking a ScreenSaver means swapping out an existing asset for a new one.

Use this location:

/Library/Application Support/com.apple.idleassetsd/Customer/4KSDR240FPS

Use this asset:

E161929C-0819-4BC2-8359-550C081C7D54

(Scottish Castle)

Tiring

I find it really annoying that every single time I plug my iPhone into my Mac to sync my music it ask me to trust the computer. I only ever use the one computer, just stop asking me, alright? I mean, sure it isn’t that hard, is it?

Apparently it is. Fortunately, somebody appears to have figured it out: https://www.fireebok.com/resource/fix-iphone-constantly-asking-to-trust-computer-and-enter-password.html

I haven’t tried it yet because I hate resetting things on my phone and given that it’s been working fine for ages (aside from the whole trust issue) I’m slightly reticent to try the proposed solution.

I guess I’ll just have to wait and see how annoying I start to find it…

Pet Hates

So, for no real reason, I dislike using package managers on my Mac. I don’t know why, I just do. I’m fine with them on Debian or whatever but not on my Mac. That makes it really interesting when I get a new machine and have to compile everything from scratch. Just getting cURL running with SSL and SSH support ends up looking something like this:

cURL: depends on OpenSSL, libSSH2

libSSH2: depends on zlib, OpenSSH, CMake

CMake: depends on CMocka

CMocka: depends on DOxygen, graphviz

DOxygen: depends on flex, bison, libiconv, make

Still, once it’s all built and done I have a nice, shiny, new cURL command.