Anyone still using Ice?

It's been months since the beta came out to fix the issues in Tahoe, yet still to this day it's so buggy. It feels like I'm constantly fighting with it. So I finally ask this question today, is there any alternative to Ice that's polished and works smoothly in Tahoe?

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Unable to uninstall or get MechVibes working

Hey y'all. I'm not sure what happened but the other day MechVibes suddenly stopped working. The icon still appears in my control center and along my dock, but I can't uninstall it to try to get it re-installed. Every time I try MacOS tells me it's still running. I'm sorry if this is the wrong subreddit, I just need help!

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Is Amphetamine still working?
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/amphetamine/id937984704?mt=12

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Parachute Backup - Specially Designed for iCloud and Photos

Parachute Backup

The difference between a backup service and a syncing service is subtle but important. iCloud keeps the same version of your documents and photos in the cloud and on each of your Mac and iOS devices depending on your settings. That's great until something goes wrong. If you delete a photo on your phone or a file gets corrupted, that change syncs everywhere. The damage spreads instantly because sync's job is to mirror whatever state your device is in, good or bad.

A true backup service works the opposite way. It freezes copies of your data at different points in time and stores them safely elsewhere. If you delete a photo by accident or a file becomes corrupted, the backup stays untouched. You can roll back to yesterday, last week, or last month. That's the whole point: preservation, not mirroring.

This is why iCloud isn't a backup for your photos or files. It's convenient for keeping devices in sync, but it won't protect you from accidental deletions, corruption, or a bad software update. Backup keeps history; sync copies the present. The distinction shapes whether your data survives mistakes or vanishes with them.

Additionally, as recent news shows, administrative issues with an iCloud account can cut off your access with no warning and limited recourse. The best recourse is a regular backup of your data. Just using Time Machine won't accomplish this. Time Machine backs up what's on your hard drive only. If you've selected the option on your Mac to upload to the cloud to save disk space, you have little control over exactly where your files exist at any given moment. It gets confusing.

# The Solution is Parachute Backup

The solution is available in the Mac App Store for just $4.99. Parachute Backup, an app by independent developer Eric Mann, is a set-it-and-forget utility that performs true incremented backups to your own storage device or to another cloud provider. If you have a lot of data or a slow connection, the initial backup can be slow. After that, unless you've made huge data additions to iCloud, the backups are pretty speedy. If you prefer occasional manual backups instead of having the app run in the background on a schedule, that is also an option.

# Things to Like

The security of having a true backup you control
Inexpensive, one-time purchase, no subnoscription, no telemetry, no bloat
Intuitive, uncomplicated interface
Flexible backup destination

# What Could Be Improved

Initial backup speed
Implementing a one-click restore process. The current method is manual only.
Edge cases for some larger photo libraries, custom metadata, and shared albums

# More Information

Backs up original and edited versions of photos
The app never deletes anything from iCloud. It only has read-only access.
Provides notification of any file corruption on iCloud and does not back up the file.
Provides backups of shared photo albums
Backs up to NAS, SFTP, and WebDAV
Option to include non-iCloud folders in your backup
Will back up your photo library from local storage if you do not use iCloud

One last tip \- You can find great deals on hard drives at places like Disk Deal. Buy a large, refurbished 3.5-inch internal drive with a warranty and get a case for it that offers Thunderbolt speed. When you set up the drive, create two partitions with Disk Utility. Use one of them for your Time Machine backups and the other for Parachute Backup.

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Help What is this weird HUD that keeps popping up?

https://reddit.com/link/1pmccqu/video/xthj3a02s57g1/player

There is no community in Korea with power users like you guys so I came here to ask. Since I installed Lunar I think this HUD started to appear. I tried uninstalling Lunar and also checking running processes but I still cannot figure out what is causing it and it is driving me crazy.

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CrissCross: cursor animation when transitioning between screens

I built a macOs app to solve an issue I think I only I have:

I've only recently started using an external monitor and I found that when I moved my cursor to my smaller Macbook screen, I couldn't identify it easily.

I didn't know where on the screen's edge the cursor was exiting my monitor and entering back.

The solution I envisioned was to have some animation or a flash next to the cursor and screen that let me know where my cursor was. Which led to me building this.


## Video demo

## Github link

Note:

I am a developer but I have no swift experience. I heavily relied on AI for this, so if there any issues you notice, please let me know. I wanted to build this to both learn and create something.

Of course I understand this is a silly project that might be of no use to anyone else, so feel free to ignore or criticize :)

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I don't use "Chess" or "Stocks". They can't be removed. Can I hide them?

Title says it all. I now have about 75 apps in my "Applications" folder on my Sequoia Mac. A couple dozen of them ship with MacOS, which I never use (does anyone?) ... like PhotoBooth, Chess, Stocks, Books, etc. They can't be deleted. Even via Terminal, changing the properties flag to "hidden" is not permitted.

My current work-around is to make a "My Apps" folder with aliases to the actual app. But there are some apps I can't make an alias for inside the original "Applications" folder, like Automator.

Using RayCast at least lets me get around fishing through my overpopulated Applications folder. It just bugs me.

So I am wondering if there's an app out there to hide unused apps (I see the irony), or maybe Apple fixed this for MacOS26?

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MatchApp Initiative - Community activity to help devs and users get what they want by working together
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I added GitHub Actions support to the deployment monitoring menu bar app, Deplog
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TextSniper Free Alternative | Shortcuts Route
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macUSB – Easily create macOS/OS X bootable drives for all Macs, even when working from Apple Silicon

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Question about Cardinal, the search app

I've tried to get started with Cardinal several times. The initial process runs for 24 hours or more and finally just locks up with a white screen. There doesn't seem to be a way to exclude external and network drives. Evidently it's trying to add about 56 TB from my NAS and backups to its database. Does anyone have a solution? I'm looking for the holy grail - a Mac search app that is as fast as Everything by Void Tools is on the PC side.

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A Chrome update broke a CLI tool to noscript your browser extensions, so I found a workaround to bring it back

I've been working on extension, a command-line tool to make your browser extension setup as noscriptable as your dotfiles. It lets you install and configure extensions for Chrome, Edge, and Arc from the terminal.

A Chrome update broke it. The update killed the Chrome DevTools Protocol connection.

My first thought was to change the debugging port. I figured any port in a storm would do. But that did nothing.

The actual workaround was to wrap our original process by copying the user data directory to a temporary location, running the configuration on that copy, and then moving it back to replace the original.

This copy-and-replace method feels more complex and fragile than the original. But it gets the job done.

The tool is for macOS only. The source code is available on GitHub. If you've ever wanted to noscript your browser setup, I'd love for you to check it out.

Has anyone else here had a platform update break one of your favorite Mac apps?

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Zen PDF Version 2 with OCR, Search and Themes

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