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

2 ай бұрын

Double this.

@DominicMuir

2 ай бұрын

Triple!

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@Dashient

2 ай бұрын

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

@therealsimdan

2 ай бұрын

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

@katrinabryce

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

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

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

@Battler624

2 ай бұрын

Whoever thought of that is great.

@JackSalzman

2 ай бұрын

Yes lol

@mirzaangon

2 ай бұрын

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

@orimandel

2 ай бұрын

lmao I missed that (wonder why hehe)

@adityasinghania1747

2 ай бұрын

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

in the comments to say the same thing haha

@no_name4796

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

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

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

@TheITWarrior

2 ай бұрын

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

Ай бұрын

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@martinseal1987

2 ай бұрын

I thought cmd k clears it

@jarnobot

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

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

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

@sherribooher7930

2 ай бұрын

AGREE!!!

@alxmasterdesk3105

Ай бұрын

hell yeaaa

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@gbrown7911

2 ай бұрын

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.

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@dealloc

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

@@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

2 ай бұрын

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.

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.

I hope you'll make this a regular series.

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

2 ай бұрын

Great point

@Parnassic

2 ай бұрын

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.

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

2 ай бұрын

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

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.

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.

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

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

@OnlyMon0

2 ай бұрын

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

@tsunghan_yu

18 күн бұрын

does networkQuality auto stop when a test is done?

24:08 holy crap Scott the Woz

@jordanabendroth6458

2 ай бұрын

Hey all, Scott here

@davidgoncalvesalvarez

2 ай бұрын

Is that the guy who owns Sonic Jam?

@tomaszcaka8360

2 ай бұрын

WiiU

@afanporsaber

2 ай бұрын

Oh my gooooo...

@MarioMastr

2 ай бұрын

@@davidgoncalvesalvarezI have terrible news for you

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 ;)

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

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.

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

@Col_Crunch

2 ай бұрын

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

love these types of videos. thanks for sharing!

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

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

@stelz0r_

2 ай бұрын

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

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

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

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

@snazzy

2 ай бұрын

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

@bangoker

2 ай бұрын

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

22:38 Activity Monitor this is a perfect example of how Apple mostly abandons MacOS as a serious OS. Also their refusal to revamp the Dock with is just a terrible design. I guess they don't want to follow Windows or Linux and admit it's an outdated design that looked cool 20 years ago but was never as functional as it looked.

@EdtheFED6132

2 ай бұрын

the Dock is awful. years ago Apple users used to defend it hard and you would get a response that you don't know how to use MacOS and it's your fault. i've noticed years later there is a good portion of Apple users who agree it's completely outdated. to me the litmus test on the dock being a bad design is how everyone has there own way of attempting to use it and the advance guys solution is to basically hide it lmao. yes as you mentioned the good Linux distros like Ubuntu have a modern dock design.

@dealloc

2 ай бұрын

But what functionality to you expect it to have? It's a Dock. It does one thing; docking your applications. If your intent is to use it as a search engine, use Spotlight, Alfred or even better, Raycast for such tasks.

@jothain

2 ай бұрын

@@EdtheFED6132 Yeah. Not that very long ago got myself Mac out of curiosity to see the "allmighty" OS. Well first thing that struck me that this "dock" thing isn't anything to scream about. Interestingly read somewhere that it's awesome? Second was the discovery of worst application window management of any OS available. Jeeszh it was like going back to WinXP 🤢🤮😀

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

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

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!

isn't clean my mac basically malware itself? what the hell?

@gilbill

2 ай бұрын

came to say this, I´ve been seeing several youtubers being sponsored by cleanmymac as of lately

@mauriceschoenen

2 ай бұрын

Why?

@mlsmlc

2 ай бұрын

You can't remove it completely, ever… Unless you reinstall macOS itself. Just one of those fancy-looking junk software that keeps on recommending things that you “need” to buy from them after you purchase it. Basically just more ways for you to give them your money. So many simple open source apps that do uninstalling, etc, much, much better.

@mauriceschoenen

2 ай бұрын

@@mlsmlc Thank you for the answer! Could you give me a recommendation for a good alternative? Finding duplicates, keep the storage clean, uninstall completely, etc?

Great apps, even for powerusers. Thank you!

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

2 ай бұрын

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@gavinvales8928

2 ай бұрын

@@RC2225needs the missing /s

@TristanBurgener

2 ай бұрын

I think the warning is implied

@davidnotonstinnett

2 ай бұрын

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

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

2 ай бұрын

whats the official one?

@zoomosis

2 ай бұрын

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

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. :)

Love these types of videos!

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.

Love these classic Snazzy Labs videos.

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.

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.

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

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

Fantastic. Quality stuff as usual.

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.

Ahh light mode terminal

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?

yes! this is the nerdy stuff i need!

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

@snazzy

2 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it!

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 :)

The Python install is not containerized.

Really good video, thanks

Personally I use Nix exclusively on both Linux and Mac machines

@no_name4796

2 ай бұрын

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

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

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

27 күн бұрын

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

MPV mentioned lets gooooooo, also I recommend Emacs :)

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 😀

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

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

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!

Have you tried the Nix package manager? I use it in its bespoke Linux distro, but it's apparently pretty good on MacOS as well.

@no_name4796

2 ай бұрын

Nix on macos feels wrong somehow ahahah

@GoldenBeholden

2 ай бұрын

@@no_name4796 Haha, that's why I want to hear the thoughts of a Mac power user.

Awesome video!!! I wish Snazzy Labs taught courses for beginners I would sign up!

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!

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

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

I love this! Thank you.

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

"Bean-efits" genius

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

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.

SponsorBlock segment at 25:26 is kinda funny ngl

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

@awksedgreep

Ай бұрын

Oh, brew install darktable

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

brew install package. *upgrades entire Mac*

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)

which app you use to record screen like this? with the selfie circle and moving windows and such

@snazzy

2 ай бұрын

ScreenFlow.

@WilliamHaisch

2 ай бұрын

22:45 I figured it was ScreenFlow, since I saw the ScreenFlow process in Activity Monitor! 😂 When I worked for a public school, we used SF for user tutorials. Everything from “how to install Office” to “how to send Bill $20”. I still have that one if you’re interested. 😂

Best kind of videos from Snazzyyy

so useful, needed this

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!

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

htop is a godsend. I use it on my Linux machine.

i thought i was just too dumb to use activity monitor, i don't understand how to use it at all, task manager is one of the few things i actually miss from windows

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

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

2 ай бұрын

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

@sherlockmaverick

2 ай бұрын

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

2 ай бұрын

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

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.)

Did u drop the idea of a video regarding VLANing out your smart home equipment using UniFi? Otherwise, Love to see a CLI video! Can’t believe you are encouraging vim to new shell users but super cool to see some of your useful tools! I’m gonna pick up ATA and maybe kill my web-based subscription in favor of api now

very cool. mac on expert level

Yay time to install stuff I will never use again. Not kidding I download everything you suggest 😂

@pgknippel

2 ай бұрын

Fellow data hoarder!

YOU THE BEST BRO!! thankss