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[@Auby03]

These YT videos are what set Snazzy Labs out above the crowd for me years ago. Glad to see he brought back his unique skills!

[@gjermundification]

Double this.

[@DominicMuir]

Triple!

[@MarioMastr]

20:52 iina on mac is actually based on mpv. there's an option to build mpv as a library (what is called libmpv) and this is what iina uses

[@jacksonjacksonjacksonjacksonja]

9:06 - Quick tip, an even easier way to just open the current directory you're in from the command line is by using the command "open ." The "." means the current folder, and the "open" command just opens that specific folder in finder. If anyone reads this I hope that helps you! haha

[@aceae4210]

for those on windows, you can do a similar thing with "explorer .", which opens the file explorer on the folder/directory your on in the command line

[@foe936]

in the comments to say the same thing haha

[@no_name4796]

it's actually xdg-open, as in some distro, open is just an alias/softlink to xdg-open while others do not even provide that. So just use xdg-open . if open doesn't work ;-) And btw, xdg-open works for ALL files, so you can open every kind of file in the default app for that filetype

[@jacksonjacksonjacksonjacksonja]

@@no_name4796Ah, the more you know! open just opens the specified path in a Finder window, assuming you're using zsh (which mostly everyone on a Mac would be using as their shell since it's the default) so I doubt most people on Mac would run into issues - but xdg-open sounds better if you're trying to open a specific file instead of a directory!

[@new-lviv]

Going from Linux where you type dolphin . - I was trying to run finder . ! Thank you for clarifying that "think different" part of MacOS shell.

[@Practical-IT]

Useful tip... CTRL+L is the keyboard shortcut for the clear command. As a bonus, it also works on Linux and Windows (PowerShell). Save those keystrokes!

[@no_name4796]

On linux CTRL+L just moves the cursor down, without cleaning. So i actually just use clear instead

[@martinseal1987]

I thought cmd k clears it

[@jarnobot]

@@no_name4796 Ctrl+L should clear the terminal on Linux systems as well. What terminal and shell (bash, zsh, fish) do you use?

[@no_name4796]

@@jarnobot it clear the terminal. The thing is that it doesn't clean the buffer, so effectively is like it only moves the cursor up.

[@jarnobot]

@@no_name4796 I never realized that but I stand corrected. Thanks for explaining!

[@hdkv]

Homebrew can also install GUI apps (casks). And you can automate installing all of your software on new Mac just by two commands, which is awesome.

[@no_name4796]

"B-but that's so linux!" Hope someone understands the reference

[@ngsch]

The rush i get from downloading an app via terminal instead of the internet 😂😂

[@therealsimdan]

Shoot, I was ninja'd. 100% agree, that's the best thing about brew.

[@katrinabryce]

@@no_name4796 Well MacOS is basically FreeBSD under the hood. FreeBSD is Unix, and Linux is a Unix clone, so yes, they are going to be similar.

[@Xenthera]

I feel dumb for not realizing cask meant gui apps. I’ve been using brew for 6 years now.

[@calinnilie]

A great workflow I found is to save the installed packages using `brew list` and `mas list`, and then easily reinstall them if I wipe my OS or move to a new computer.

[@farhantejani]

brew has a tool for this built-in. Use `brew bundle dump` to create a Brewfile.

[@gbrown7911]

I some nerdy inspiration from Jeff Geerling and have a ansible playbook I can use to reinstall all my stuff from a net new machine.

[@cameronwagstaff2342]

“If you’re not familiar with Vim… you’re gonna need to learn Vim” Thanks, this hits even harder when you know Vim

[@grahamhealy5171]

btop has way more functionality over regular htop which you may find useful! :)

[@TheITWarrior]

I was going to recommend btop is amazing! I used to use glances which does something similar but btop is just much faster to start which is handy.

[@japanstation1]

Had not heard of btop, just installed - very nice! Thank you for sharing!

[@MarioMastr]

25:27 shoutout to the sponsorblock community for having an incredible sense of humour 😂

[@Battler624]

Whoever thought of that is great.

[@mirzaangon]

I don’t have auto skip because I like to at least give the sponsor segments a try, and yeah that was funny.

[@orimandel]

lmao I missed that (wonder why hehe)

[@adityasinghania1747]

Wait, I don't get it, what's the joke there?

[@drishalballaney]

@@adityasinghania1747 same question here

[@ze_kel]

2:37 This is incorrect. Python3 does ship with a mac today, the only issue is that to use it you have to type python3 which is non conventional and a lot of scripts\tutorials expect python3 to use "python". 3:11 Shortcut is command+K

[@Drewbydrew]

I just set an alias in my zshrc file to map “python” to “python3” and I haven’t run into any issues yet

[@diegorovaglia6945]

Yessss this is EXACTLY the kind of “obscure” macOS content that I want injected right into my veins

[@sherribooher7930]

AGREE!!!

[@alxmasterdesk3105]

hell yeaaa

[@therealsimdan]

Two more things about brew that make it awesome: 1. With brew casks you can install nearly any Mac GUI app. Google Chrome, VLC, Steam, 1 Password etc. 2. You can feed brew a list of packages and casks to install all at once. Together with the MAS utility in the video, going from a clean computer to having all of your utilities and apps installed becomes a breeze. No need to go to each app's website/App Store page and installing apps manually. Still need to sign into each app though.

[@techtipsuk]

Great point

[@Parnassic]

But known issues for mas at GitHub list signin, account, and purchase as not possible in current macOS, and for quite some time. Is there some workaround you know about? The app responded by referring to those limitations when I tried using those commands.

[@stevenmuncy491]

I hope you'll make this a regular series.

[@adam872]

As an old time Unix guy this video makes me very happy. I'm about to upgrade my Mac and this is a good prompt to install a package manager on it.

[@stebesplace]

I wonder what the oldest code in OSX is at this point. Like, is there a BSD line dating back to the late 90's? Don't know why this video made me think about that.

[@heartdyedpurple]

Oldest tools I could find and their years taskinfo 84 sysdiagnose 84 mempurge 84 gnumake 89 rarpd 90 machine 91 whoami 93 tty 93 groups 93 false 93 true 93 logname 93 crontab 93 accton 93 cap_mkdb 93 pagesize 93 pathconf 93 mount 94 mkfifo 94 expect 94 wrjpgcom 95 tops 95 lorder 95 cksum 95 colldef 95 leave 95 xxd 96 vm_stat 97 mkfile 97 cmpdylib 97 gencat 97 bashbug 98

[@heartdyedpurple]

Note: these are not guaranteed to be bsd, I just scraped the man pages

[@dealloc]

Depends... do you mean OS X? There's no way to check that without having the source code _and_ repository history (there are some sources out there btw, but not with full history). But for Darwin, it also depends if you mean committed by Apple (XNU) or from Mach kernel.

[@zoomosis]

@@heartdyedpurple "January 24, 1984" in the man page for taskinfo and others may be an in-joke at Apple. That's the launch date of the first Macintosh, which didn't have a shell, so no taskinfo command either.

[@rcnhsuailsnyfiue2]

Commands like ‘cat’ originated in Unix v1 way back in 1971, and are still present on macOS today. They’ve been tinkered with over the years, but no doubt some portions of the original code remains.

[@heyjustj]

This is what sets snazzy labs apart from the rest. Giving that extra edge to what many tech focused channels miss… because frankly it’s becoming lost on the majority of people. So many have “grown up” with technology don’t REALLY have much of an understanding of how it works other than pretty the superficial. It feels like the bar is so low that if you can remember your password or scan a QR code you are tech savvy. I work in marketing but have a fairly decent background in technology so when I open terminal your average employee thinks I’m a “hacker” haha. I’m also who IT tends to go to see if I can get around stuff that they are deploying to the rest of the team that is using Macs, but I really don’t know much. Just enough to get myself in trouble.

[@Dragon1276]

I'm legitimately shocked that Quinn doesn't know about the macOS Terminal command "open". Whatever directory you are in, typing "open ." will open the current directory as a folder in Finder. "Open" can be used in the Terminal to open any file using the GUI.

[@HarryLoveTV]

Can I just say, I thoroughly enjoy your info and tips for mac - I much prefer your style of delivery in this video. Thanks for all the content either way

[@RyanMorsheadable]

While Snazzy's audience is generally more technically savvy, it would have been good to warn people that running scripts downloaded from the internet poses a security risk - not something the average person should make a habit of.

[@dealloc]

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Though install Homebrew is safe, someone who is not savvy enough to know about how insecure it is running scripts from arbitrary websites, may end up doing it from now on. Would have been nice with a disclaimer to warn people about it.

[@RC2225]

Jep, the average person should stick to run compiled stuff they fund on the internet.

[@gavinvales8928]

@@RC2225needs the missing /s

[@TristanBurgener]

I think the warning is implied

[@dstinnettmusic]

This advice applies to any program, whether installed via a package manager or otherwise.

[@OnlyMon0]

instead of `speedtest-cli` you could use `networkQuality` comes already installed with Mac OS Monterey and later

[@OnlyMon0]

Also if you use `networkQuality -p` it test the quality through Apple's Private Relay

[@tsunghan_yu]

does networkQuality auto stop when a test is done?

[@randomhkkid]

h stands for 'human'! Same thing can be passed as an argument to many functions like `ll -h` to get nicer outputs

[@Col_Crunch]

Fun fact, ll is actually an alias to ls -la, so ll -h is actually ls -lah

[@adderalll]

Started learning to work with terminal recently and this is so helpful. All these apps are geniunely useful. Thanks Quinn!

[@TheLikeys]

Such a great video. While I actually do have homebrew already, I haven’t used it much lately. This gave me some inspiration to rethink some of my workflows. So please don’t hesitate to cover these more niche topics from time to time ;)

[@LusRetroSource]

At an airport my niece wanted to connect her Nintendo switch to the airport wifi but couldn't because of the login requirements. So I used brew to install an tool to clone my niece's Switch MAC address and sign in to wifi with my Macbook. After that, her switch worked with the airport wifi.

[@-aexc-]

btop is htop but better for general use in my experience, not sure if it works on mac though

[@stelz0r_]

it does. just tried it and it is WAY nicer than htop

[@bsmarques]

I love your guides. Very easy to follow, yet not superficial. Would love a guide on how to use some common tools, not only presenting them. Like, how to use VIM, SSH, nmap, etc

[@subwaygaragemusic]

I've been using mpv since the Linux days and you're dead on about its efficiency.

[@somecallmesean_]

24:08 holy crap Scott the Woz

[@jordanabendroth6458]

Hey all, Scott here

[@davidGA殿]

Is that the guy who owns Sonic Jam?

[@tomaszcaka8360]

WiiU

[@afanporsaber]

Oh my gooooo...

[@MarioMastr]

@@davidGA殿I have terrible news for you

[@Alex-oh5rt]

12:59 if you want the best speedtest cli experience get the official package! What Quinn installed is speedtest cli in a python wrapper. The official native package performs better especially when testing speeds over a gigabit!

[@salman_3833]

whats the official one?

[@zoomosis]

@@salman_3833 Ookla have their own cli speedtest app, listed on the speedtest web site.

[@glyph_official]

Quick tip: Python 2 has not been shipped with the mac for about 2 years now; macOS 12.3 and onwards removed it. A version of Python 3 is *sort of* present (it's part of the Xcode command-line tools, and thereby also full-fat Xcode itself) but in a base OS install with no dev tools, there's no Python any more.

[@myteachingcoach]

I’ve been interested in learning more about terminal for years but it was always daunting. This video was perfectly situated for my knowledge level. Thank you so much!

[@snazzy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@reddcube]

You say how useful it is to learn Vim ‘shortcuts’. Then immediately use nano.

[@snazzy]

Hahaha old habits die hard (but actually just wanted to use nano for beginners watching cause it’s so much easier)

[@bangoker]

@@snazzy you should try Micro :P, even MORE beginner friendly

[@Mark64]

Dude, you are so good at what you do. Where others are boring or annoying, you thread the needle of being just fun, likeable, and informative. Frankly, I think you'd be a good successor to Conan. Good job man.

[@sherlockmaverick]

For a video player, I'd recommend IINA. It's FOSS as well, with a beautiful UI and is quite feature laden and supports every codec I've thrown at it so far

[@snazzy]

I mention IINA. Good app. Prefer hotkeys in mpv.

[@sherlockmaverick]

Yeah, fair, @@snazzy. I really like the web scraping of subtitles, audio eq and visual characteristic controls on IINA despite using mpv for all other kinds of playback, especially in anything I build haha.

[@MarioMastr]

@@snazzy iina does actually have an option to replace the default hotkeys with mpv's default ones

[@davidglascock3293]

I love these types of videos Quinn makes every once in a while

[@Radi0he4d1]

Great apps, even for powerusers. Thank you!

[@TPD]

very cool. mac on expert level

[@aayushjaiswal3781]

You're the most informative and at the same time the funniest and at the same time the cutest sweetest tech youtuber man! Love your videos!

[@49Macman]

You have made this easy to understand. Can't wait to try it tomorrow. I want to install python to use with OBS software. Thanks

[@peterpayne2219]

I use FFMPEG to convert videos and I love it. It's good for converting any kind of file to another format, burn in subtitles, save a RAW copy in MP4, etc.

[@Alex-jv6ye]

I'm actually surprised you hit on so many of these. Several of them I use daily, but I also spend my whole day in a terminal since I do software development on distributed computers, glad to see someone suggesting 'vim' over one of the boring editors like 'nano'! I use 'tmux' a lot, so those wanting to use the terminal more, tmux rocks! I will say, plugins are super important though.

[@jarnobot]

Great video! I've been using the terminal on Linux for years and I feel like you did a great job at making it understandable and approachable, while also showing the power of the terminal! One extra tip: Instead of running the "clear" command, you can also press Ctrl+L. Way more efficient and it should work on Mac as well. :)

[@avonbarksdale2506]

this is an amazing video. thought i was a power user before but i've now added like 5 of these to my every day workflow. Thanks!

[@Stan_sprinkle]

These types of videos you do are flippin amazing. Love it every time

[@miege90]

23:30 you can indeed see the per core processor load with activity monitor, it is just hidden in a seperate window accessible via the toolbar. It's pretty crap but it exists

[@tompov227]

22:37 btop and glances are better than htop in my opinion

[@dough.9241]

In the Winblows vs. Mac debate, your average Mac user doesn’t even get the best part of Mac: ‘nix underpinnings. There’s a reason Microsoft abandoned their own platform (e.g., Winblows NT) for server side backend infrastructure and moved to Linux instead. Mac users - even on Apple silicon - have choices outside of Mac GUI world… VMs, Docker, native BSD/Linux-ish stuff. There’s a reason Mac has worldwide market share of 43% specifically among developers. Linux desktop GUIs are lame compared to MacOS, so with Mac you kind of get the best of both worlds.

[@GFJDean35]

Thank you so much for this video! It probably won't get as many views as a review of a fancy new product, but it was really helpful! I use linux at work (mac at home), so I am totally comfortable with the command line, but I only know a few things worth doing in it. This will really upgrade my mac usage, plus I got Clean My Mac based on your glowing rec!

[@definingslawek4731]

IMO, cleanmymac isn't worth paying for monthly, if you want an uninstaller the best one is appcleaner which is free. I think cleanmymac as a business exists to extract money from the non tech savvy. I refuse the believe snazzy actually uses it / likes it / pays for it.

[@mucookul]

Personally I love homebrew for how many packages it has, no need for Coprs or PPAs just use brew instead and pretty much done

[@wohfab]

For imagemagick, the command "mogrify" will do basically everything what "magick" does, but does it to multiple files at once. So "mogrify -resize 20% *.jpg" takes all the JPGs in the folder and resizes them. It is INCREDIBLE!

[@rjhornsby]

The only obvious tool I thought was missing was ffmpeg - basically imagemagick for video. At the most basic usage, it's dead simple to convert a video from one format to another "ffmpeg -i " where the output file's extension says what format to convert to. Like imagemagick, ffmpeg is wildly powerful.

[@patricknelson]

I'm not a macOS person (more of a Linux daily driver) but some of these really are pretty interesting suggestions. p.s. Big +1 for encouraging folks to pick up some command line skills. 😄 Warning: Just be careful when pasting commands like that first one into the CLI. It's just for installing "brew", but you really need to trust the developer and the developer's own security, since that command would allow them (or whoever potentially hacked their servers) to take 100% complete control over your system if you also enter your credentials into the sudo prompt.

[@kilobytedump]

Absolutely tremendous video. Also the delivery made me smirk lots. Top drawer.

[@snazzy]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@lukekanowski4107]

This should be a once a month series - best brew packages and how to use them

[@priultimus]

3:05 Why install python? I’m curious - packages have usually just installed their own dependencies anyway in my experience 🤔 that being said I’ve installed python anyway because I write python, so maybe there’s a reason and I just never noticed

[@zoomosis]

Yeah, there's no need to install Python if you don't need it. HomeBrew itself doesn't use it.

[@Humpelmutz2]

Thanks for the tip with the speedtest. I hope for more content for hombrew/command line. You seem to have a lot of knowledge. How did you learn VIM? Learning by doing?

[@JamesGreen-gv4yn]

Don't remember you saying this, but brew can also keep your apps up to date. Just `brew update` to get the latest information and `brew upgrade` to have it upgrade all your apps to the latest version.

[@mokolabs]

Awesome! Thanks for doing another app roundup. Love seeing all the cool apps you dig up! :)

[@fjolfrin]

In case someone stumbles upon this comment, aside from htop there is also nvtop, which is htop for your NVIDIA GPUs. As a machine learning engineer, I find it invaluable to be able to monitor the activity of my GPU and to see which python session consumes what part of RAM, power, e.t.c.. It is not for Macs obviously, but I just wanted to share as it helped me a lot!

[@apresthus87]

I use homebrew for pretty much everything when it comes to installing and managing software on my mac. Plus most of my work related apps like neovim live in the terminal as well, so it's like my home base on my mac :)

[@Nemanja0202]

Man I really love these videos. I implement maybe 10% but it's so interesting and useful to know

[@DeerDesigner]

Personally I use Nix exclusively on both Linux and Mac machines

[@no_name4796]

Nix is just overkill for me. I use fedora and dnf has already enough packages, otherwise i just download and use the tar/appimage

[@BATC-DESIGN]

you are my hero, I am new to use terminal and you er perfect to explain how to use it :-D the best regards from Denmark 😀

[@laughingvampire7555]

not only that, if you play a long list of files with mpv in the command line and then you quit and run the command again will resume where you left off

[@xamarinmaster1403]

As a developer, I use homebrew. However, running a shell script downloaded from the Internet and enabling sudo always scares me. Sure, I guess it is better than an actual mac installer since you can always download the shell script first and look through it to make sure it doesn't do anything bad. One could also say that using any package manager which downloads executables off the Internet to run locally is itself a risky idea. But, I guess you have to trust something otherwise a computer is unusable.

[@valramos2003]

Love these classic Snazzy Labs videos.

[@moelassus]

I prefer btop as a task manager. It's gorgeous and functional.

[@StuartGelin]

There are apps that make sense as CLI, but almost all of these are easier to use with a gui for most people (and almost all of them have free/open source/ad free options with a gui)

[@DigiDriftZone]

That sponsorblock-remove option is incredible, thank you for that! - I have premium, but sometimes I just don't want to watch those sponsored blocks!

[@BojanKnezevic]

last time i was watching these videos like brew i was not a programmer, now its like watching adults play with lego

[@sv7495]

Love these types of videos!

[@awksedgreep]

Suggestions for next episode: brew install btop, brew install openra, brew install livebook, brew install exa, brew install bat

[@awksedgreep]

Oh, brew install darktable

[@MattManuel]

Great video. A few of these I wasn't aware of. Thank.

[@TheCerealHobbyist]

The Python install is not containerized.

[@cloneindanger]

Ahh light mode terminal

[@kevinmckevinface4563]

Take a shot every time Quinn says "This takes a minute" 😂

[@GarrettThorn]

Nothing will have me click faster than a macOS related SnazzyLabs video

[@funnyent]

love these types of videos. thanks for sharing!

[@professorpanda2022]

I could never date someone who isn’t subscribed to you ❤ great video Quinn!

[@yagoa]

cmd+K is much faster than typing clear

[@markp8418]

Great video xsh/bash is the reason I switched to macOS 7 years ago!

[@RaheelJunaid]

If you want a better HTOP, give BTOP a try

[@markushomm1886]

amazing !! pls more of this. thank you for your work

[@TheAppleExperience]

Some brew formula i use: asitop, btop, neofetch. some brew Casks: warp, alt-tab, iterm2, Greetings from the Nederlands.

[@handquake]

Fantastic. Quality stuff as usual.

[@p99chan99]

MPV mentioned lets gooooooo, also I recommend Emacs :)

[@andyxiao8913]

yes! this is the nerdy stuff i need!

[@Hopatrick06]

2:42 far as I know, python 2 isn't installed on macOS since macOS 13

[@552gemacjr]

Your terminal window gives me a headache

[@Ghfvhvfg]

Why

[@swiftrealm]

@@Ghfvhvfg no dark mode

[@TheBitStick]

@@swiftrealmdefault on macOS unfortunately

[@user-ii7xc1ry3x]

"Bean-efits" genius

[@TagetesAlkesta]

Vim and Haskell mentioned in a Snazzy Labs video? I seriously wasn’t expecting that lmao

[@VulcanOnWheels]

3:48 I have seen websites for which I'd like to use a temporary e-mail address, and they are pretty *suspicious*.

[@Jim-Jam]

Amazing. If there’s enough for a part 2 I’d be game

[@kushangshah-be7hn]

I need more of this terminal tutorial

[@mike_junmin]

A little correction: the default python that ships on macs has changed from 2 to 3 in recent macOS versions

[@00111000]

Any suggestions on a simple free and lightweight app to trim videos while still keeping the same resolution?

[@ScottLahteine]

Another thing I always do on a new OS install, where possible, is to edit /etc/pam.d/sudo to put “auth sufficient pam_tid.so” at the top. This allows you to use the Touch ID instead of typing in your password when running sudo. (The latest macOS uses “include” to bring in a separate file, so the new line goes into the included file instead.)

[@_cocoalabs]

you can also COMMAND+K to clear a terminal.

[@pixelplayground]

plop@plops lol, that's literally my go to

[@adiboy_223]

Best kind of videos from Snazzyyy