Julie's Macbook setup

[jules32]

Had a new logicboard and whole harddrive was reformatted, so starting afresh:

System preferences

trackpad

• Point & Click: tap to click > check
• Scroll & Zoom: scroll direction natural > uncheck

general

• show scroll bars > always

keyboard

• keyboard > Touchbar shows expanded control strip > check, then Customize Control Strip:
  • https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/customize-the-touch-bar-mchl5a63b060/mac
• shortcuts > screenshots > copy picture of selected area to the clipboard > command 4

doc & menu bar

• size: small
• magnification: middle
• automatically hide & show the doc > check

notifications

• turn on do not disturb: when mirroring to projectors > check

Safari

• show full url, see #11

[jules32]

R, RStudio, Git setup

Follow https://ucsb-meds.github.io/meds-install-mac.html. Exceptions:

• I installed the RStudio Daily since I'm working with Quarto: https://dailies.rstudio.com/
• Didn't install Anaconda
• RStudio suggested installing XCode, said yes.
• Git setup: in addition to storing my GitHub PAT, I set up my SSH keys: https://happygitwithr.com/ssh-keys.html
  • I set a passphrase (for the first time).
  • To Create a file ~/.ssh/config I typed in the command line:

    cd .ssh
    touch config
    nano config 
    < paste>
    Host *
    AddKeysToAgent yes
    UseKeychain yes
    <control X, yes, enter >

Quarto Install

• https://quarto.org/docs/getting-started/installation.html
• quarto serve - woop woop
• quarto render index.qmd - yes install all required packages

[jules32]

Garrick's setup

https://twitter.com/grrrck/status/1333986413906436098

I didn't do everything listed here, but yes to these:

• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copy-as-markdown/ Firefox add-on

[jules32]

1 Password

Zotero

• https://www.zotero.org/
• Login from browser
• Download desktop app and Zotero Connector to Firefox Firefox add-on
• Desktop app: login, approve syncing, press the sync green circle-arrow to start syncing

Slack

• https://slack.com/downloads/mac
• Login to connect existing workspaces to Slack

Zoom

• https://zoom.us/download
• (Julie sign in with SSO to UCSB)

[jules32]

Dragon Software (by Nuance) setup

I bought the Professional Individual account, learning that this can be run on a Mac using a virtual machine (blog)

From a Mac, requires Parallels and Windows. Then, move the .exe to the Local Disk C: drive (and I saved it there as well). This followed Claire G's advice on the Parallels Forum about the Download Manager hanging for hours and hours when I double-clicked the .exe from the Mac's Downloads folder

(update: I returned it and started investing the time into physical therapy and strength building for my arms/RSI)

[jules32]

Mac OS Sonoma 14.2.1 - need to install XCode

TL;DR:

xcode-select --install

The story

Last week I upgraded to OS Sonoma. Today when I opened RStudio, there was no "Git" tab. In the terminal, git status errored:

git status
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

I googled the error message, found the solution here: https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/673827

So in the terminal, I typed: xcode-select --install. It cryptically returned xcode-select: note: install requested for command line developer tools. I typed it again. Same cryptic message. Using the keyboard shortcut command-tab I noticed an unfamiliar application was open, some kind of installer. I looked it it - it was a dialog box that I needed to click in order for this to fully install.

It said it would take 47 hours to download. Then corrected to 9 minutes. When it finished, I quit RStudio, and when reopened, I had the "Git" tabs again. 😎