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> Everything I do on modern MacOS feels like it's prodding me to go spend $8 on a tool that I'd have for free on Linux or even Windows. Yeah, that’s so annoyin

> Everything I do on modern MacOS feels like it's prodding me to go spend $8 on a tool that I'd have for free on Linux or even Windows. Yeah, that’s so annoying. Wanna browse a .zip file (not extract it)? Either `brew install file-roller` with its non-macOS UI, or use shady paid shovelware. Wanna record your desktop audio as part of a screencast? It’s so complicated [0] and often involves shady stuff [1] or software that costs $99 [2]. What about Windows? There’s (mediocre) ZIP browsing support in Explorer since Me, 7-Zip is free and trustworthy, and OBS just has a desktop audio input built-in (and I also could do that easily in 2005). Linux? You’ll probably get a working archive tool built-in (file-roller, ark, whatever) and OBS desktop audio just works. [0] https://billykorando.com/2020/04/14/capturing-desktop-and-zoom-audio-in-obs-on-macos/ https://billykorando.com/2020/04/14/capturing-desktop-and-zo... [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4VPbMvBuLg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4VPbMvBuLg [2] https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/ https://rogueamoeba.com/loopback/

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> Wanna record your desktop audio as part of a screencast? It doesn't have to be a screencast, it's kind of a convoluted process regardless of which operating system you're using [1]. If I'm not mistaken OBS is using the built-in virtual loopback devices available through pulseaudio, but MacOS does not include a virtual loopback device by default, hence requiring a third party one such as Blackhole or loopback. > ...and often involves shady stuff ...what shady stuff are we talking about here? Blackhole [2] is open source software. It's about as shady as any of the (several) linux audio systems. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback [2] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole

least 5y ago

> Wanna record your desktop audio as part of a screencast? It doesn't have to be a screencast, it's kind of a convoluted process regardless of which operating system you're using [1]. If I'm not mistaken OBS is using the built-in virtual loopback devices available through pulseaudio, but MacOS does not include a virtual loopback device by default, hence requiring a third party one such as Blackhole or loopback. > ...and often involves shady stuff ...what shady stuff are we talking about here? Blackhole [2] is open source software. It's about as shady as any of the (several) linux audio systems. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loopback [2] https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole https://github.com/ExistentialAudio/BlackHole