Casey Liss

Yeah, that's the tricky bit, and there's many apps that do this. They basically disable the keyboard until you do some really complicated thing that you're unlikely to do by accident. I don't know if the one we're putting in the show notes is the quote-unquote good one. It is just the one that I found that seemed vaguely reputable, but there's a million of these apps, right?

Yeah, that's the tricky bit, and there's many apps that do this. They basically disable the keyboard until you do some really complicated thing that you're unlikely to do by accident. I don't know if the one we're putting in the show notes is the quote-unquote good one. It is just the one that I found that seemed vaguely reputable, but there's a million of these apps, right?

But you do need one sometimes if you want to clean the keyboard without fear of accidentally doing something bad to your computer. It's not like you're worried about waking it up or the screen turning on. You're worried that you're going to accidentally hit a keyboard command that's going to delete something.

But you do need one sometimes if you want to clean the keyboard without fear of accidentally doing something bad to your computer. It's not like you're worried about waking it up or the screen turning on. You're worried that you're going to accidentally hit a keyboard command that's going to delete something.

Or you basically just want to say, I want all key presses to just go nowhere for a while because I'm going to clean my keyboard. And that's separate from the turning off thing, but that's relevant because you're like, oh, I'll solve this problem. I don't need a special app. I'll just shut down my Mac. And that used to work until many, many years ago. I forget when. They said, guess what?

Or you basically just want to say, I want all key presses to just go nowhere for a while because I'm going to clean my keyboard. And that's separate from the turning off thing, but that's relevant because you're like, oh, I'll solve this problem. I don't need a special app. I'll just shut down my Mac. And that used to work until many, many years ago. I forget when. They said, guess what?

touching anything on the surface of this laptop will make it boot from a temporary quote-unquote off state you shut down not sleep you shut down your portable macintosh computer and then what makes it turn on it used to be there was a power button but then they kind of got rid of that then it was a touch id button they said you know what it should wake up if you touch anything and now shutting your computer down to clean the keyboard very carefully uh no longer works because of this

touching anything on the surface of this laptop will make it boot from a temporary quote-unquote off state you shut down not sleep you shut down your portable macintosh computer and then what makes it turn on it used to be there was a power button but then they kind of got rid of that then it was a touch id button they said you know what it should wake up if you touch anything and now shutting your computer down to clean the keyboard very carefully uh no longer works because of this

I find it frustrating too. I believe there probably is some firmware. I was going to say open firmware, whatever the hell, whatever the hell the, the firmware that, uh, the ARM base max use to turn this off, but it's not sort of a user visible, you know, feature that you could find in a GUI somewhere as far as I know.

I find it frustrating too. I believe there probably is some firmware. I was going to say open firmware, whatever the hell, whatever the hell the, the firmware that, uh, the ARM base max use to turn this off, but it's not sort of a user visible, you know, feature that you could find in a GUI somewhere as far as I know.

So I kind of understand why Apple did this because searching for the power button on Macs has been a bit of a silly game for many years. And it seems silly to tech nerds who are like, I remember when the power button was on the keyboard and I loved it or whatever. But if you don't know where it is, like people just want to open up their laptop and if it's turned off, they just want to...

So I kind of understand why Apple did this because searching for the power button on Macs has been a bit of a silly game for many years. And it seems silly to tech nerds who are like, I remember when the power button was on the keyboard and I loved it or whatever. But if you don't know where it is, like people just want to open up their laptop and if it's turned off, they just want to...

mash it with their meaty paws and have it turn on so this is the right thing to do 99 of the time except that one percent of time when you want to clean the keyboard when it's incredibly frustrating so i don't know the solution maybe there should be a gui to toggle this off in system settings somewhere that nobody can find but yeah in the meantime maybe check out one of the keyboard cleaning apps

mash it with their meaty paws and have it turn on so this is the right thing to do 99 of the time except that one percent of time when you want to clean the keyboard when it's incredibly frustrating so i don't know the solution maybe there should be a gui to toggle this off in system settings somewhere that nobody can find but yeah in the meantime maybe check out one of the keyboard cleaning apps

It's been in the notes for a while. I started using Quicksilver ages ago as my launcher thing. I use it in a very limited way. I've talked about it on the show. I mostly just use it to launch apps and do a few other things. I've had it for years and years. And, you know, I know there's a million other launchers. I own a million other launchers as well. But I just like Quicksilver does what I want.

It's been in the notes for a while. I started using Quicksilver ages ago as my launcher thing. I use it in a very limited way. I've talked about it on the show. I mostly just use it to launch apps and do a few other things. I've had it for years and years. And, you know, I know there's a million other launchers. I own a million other launchers as well. But I just like Quicksilver does what I want.

And I'm good with that. I like how it looks. I like how it works. I like everything about it. I'm so used to it. I don't need to do anything fancier than it does. Everything's fine. But Quicksilver, being a very old app whose original developer moved on to do other things, has had a bumpy road in recent, the past five years or so, maybe.

And I'm good with that. I like how it looks. I like how it works. I like everything about it. I'm so used to it. I don't need to do anything fancier than it does. Everything's fine. But Quicksilver, being a very old app whose original developer moved on to do other things, has had a bumpy road in recent, the past five years or so, maybe.

I think someone else picked up the project, but there's not a lot of people developing and maintaining it. And when it works, that's fine. But when it starts getting flaky, it's like, well, it's open source. Maybe I could try to fix it myself. I can never get the freaking thing to build because of some obscure Xcode error that I can't figure out and it's Objective-C.

I think someone else picked up the project, but there's not a lot of people developing and maintaining it. And when it works, that's fine. But when it starts getting flaky, it's like, well, it's open source. Maybe I could try to fix it myself. I can never get the freaking thing to build because of some obscure Xcode error that I can't figure out and it's Objective-C.