Macos sequoia setup

I keep My Stuff in the Cloud so don't really do traditional backups of my desktop.

For this new Sequoia install¹, I bought a LaCie USB-C 1TB hard drive and did move some files off.

• Downloads is in iCloud, as is Desktop/Screenshots
• Backed up both to the external hard drive
• Trimmed to the last 2 months (so: deleted from iCloud)
• Had Rogue Trader and No Man's Sky as large installs in Steam, so backed up their game files
• Copied across the entire Photos Library, which synchs with iCloud anyway, but won't have to pull down ~100GB of photos
• Copied across the entire Music folder. Will probably go direct from that external drive to Ampache TinyHome Install

I did the Erase All Content and Settings because I wanted to do a fresh install. Turns out this did get me back into Monterey, and then I had to download and install MacOS Sequoia.

OK, fresh Sequoia install, where do we go from here!

Setup Apple Intelligence. Hmmm. Not sure what if anything this does.

1Password, as it gates pretty much everything.

I also got new headphones, Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless, so let's get Amperfy installed from the App Store so we can listen to music while doing setup.

Used Safari for a bit, then got Chrome setup. I sync Bookmarks (pretty much just visible ones in the browser bar, not like a collection or anything), Extensions, and Saved tab groups. Installed Squoosh as a PWA while I'm at it.

I want to be taking these notes in Obsidian, so need to grab that. Oh right, it's in git, which triggers the Xcode CLI tools install.

Grabbing LogSeq too. I use it for all my private notes, sync via iCloud. Which barely works to get stuff on mobile. Side quest of figuring out what I can lean into with LogSeq. logseq-calendars-plugin (grab meetings from your calendar and enter as notes), Journals calendar plugin, Todo List.

Made the Developer folder where code checkouts will live.

Symbolic link for iCloud:

ln -s ~/iCloud -> /massive/path/to/where/iCloud/is

Not diving into this quite yet, but going to try Orbstack for local VMs / containers. It has a download…but also a brew install. In the same category, UTM I paid for in the app store to support their development. Downloaded.

Signal desktop installed.

Grabbed Nextcloud files desktop app. Also accessible over WebDAV. Oh. Went and looked at Nextcloud apps. They're all mostly bad?

Re-activated Internet Accounts. Nextcloud, Google.

OK, let's git commit and push this.

Ah yes, git config --global --edit we meet again. But first, the micro text editor, and our temporary friend export EDITOR="/Users/bmann/bin/micro". This is where walkah's dotfiles would come in handy. Followed by git commit --amend --reset-author.

Good night!

At Z-Space for a couple of hours today, and need to follow my own past instructions for my mechanical keyboard. This time, I downloaded the manuals and am just putting them publicly on the RK71 page.

Stacher needs ffmpeg, so I guess now is when I install Homebrew. Whelp. I've got a .zprofile now, and I'm straying further from the light of walkah's dotfiles.

ffmpeg installed. Stacher updated to use a custom ffmpeg in the ~/.stacher folder with a symlink ln -s /opt/homebrew/bin/ffmpeg ffmpeg.

Discord app installed so I can send a link to Stacher to Jonny Ostrem.

Hmm. Learning some zsh tips about PATH management:

# append
path+=('/home/david/pear/bin')
# or prepend
path=('/home/david/pear/bin' $path)

I guess it's time for a non-terminal based code editor. Let's start things right and go straight to Windsurf, hat tip Ryan Betts. Oh, I guess I'm signing up for a trial, let's see where this goes. It's based on VSCode, so it's also just a regular editor.

A brief detour in remember colourized ll preferences.

alias ll="ls -lahG"

Markdown All in One recommended as plugin for previewing. I use Obsidian for editing the blog, but lots of Markdown in other contexts.

(back home for the evening)

Oh yeah, let's install some games! I bought a founder's pack early beta access to The Bazaar.

And Steam of course. Not really playing anything actively on the laptop, always down for a Caves of Qud session. Yes, my ice monk in Path of Exile 2 on Steam Deck is doing great, thanks!

Oh, OK, now I need Rosetta. I guess Steam is still really far away from a native Silicon client from some quick reading.

Jane Manchun Wong says I should install Ghostty.

brew install --cask ghostty

My first cask install! I poked around config, and settled on duckbones as my theme.

It's New Year's Eve, so not doing much today! Fedora Media Writer installed via brew because I was thinking about it. Got to get back to my Bazzite install on the MiniPC PL63.

brew install --cask fedora-media-writer

Installed GoLang in order to complete Migrating accounts to my own PDS. Added to path:

path+=('/Users/bmann/go/bin')

Happy New Year! Found Taildrive and worked on re-activating my Tailscale stuff. They have multiple ways to install on MacOS. I'll grab the package from them directly.

Re-familiarizing myself with what I have going on here. I have my old Mac Mini Intel at Z-Space that I connected. Which I should probably just get rid of.

Oh I know, I can connect to my BringYourOwn.Computer PDS, and backup repos from there.

Huh. Having issues ssh'ing into the server. Somehow this is grabbing different IP addresses because I have Cloudflare proxy turned on??? Ok, I'll set /etc/hosts with the IP address of BringYourOwn.Computer.

Hit the Ghostty terminfo thing.

Things to Figure Out

Email

I still need to figure out Email Clients. Spark Mail has been a total fail for me. Either back to a new, personal Missive, or I try Superhuman. Or…I try the Apple Mail app for a while? With Spark Mail not working for me, I've just been using Gmail in browser on desktop.

Mac Host Naming

I've set Local hostname to Altaria.local, but "Boris's MacBook Air" still shows up in lots of places.

The "Use dynamic global hostname" looks interesting, too! I guess Dynamic DNS is built in.