Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Yeah, I thought that was interesting, too. I was rather hoping I might have the option to send voice over to the audio on the TV I'm using for a monitor, since the connection is hdmi and OS X recognized the monitor right away. But, it hasn't shown up anywhere as an audio option so far. Janina An

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
cvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> on behalf of Brad Snyder > mailto:wb...@swbell.net>> > Reply-To: Macvisionaries <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> > Date: Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 10:27 > To: Macvisionaries <mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>>

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread Sandie Jazmin Kruse
Wait , reboot! What is that , we dont do that in Linux, at least not often! LOL. For the guy asking for Linux help i might be able too help out as well i run my own on VM on the chromebook. That is another subject. All of this ssh on mac reminds me of a story, back in the times when i was young w

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Hey, Brad: I actually didn't know that. I found a command to do the same thing in terminal: sudo scutil --set cantata did the trick. Brad Snyder writes: > Forgot to mention, you can change your computer’s name on the network by > going to System Preferences > Sharing, but I bet you knew that.😉

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Thanks, Brad. The Apple support page Jason White provided had pretty much these same directions except that it advised doing so from a second account with administrative privileges. Best, Janina Brad Snyder writes: > Hi Janina, > > Glad to hear you’ve received your new Mac mini and are getting

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Thanks, Jason. That support file is just what I needed, and it was updated last December so is quite up to date. Task accomplished! Best, Janina 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries writes: > Assuming these instructions are not out of date, you cane rename your user > account and home directory: >

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread dan d.
Your home account name is found in the users folder. Rename it as you desire, your password will not change. On Sat, 4 Apr 2020, 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries wrote: > Thanks for the pointer, Andrew. I was there before, but didn't realize I > needed to adjust the browser to show applicati

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread Brad Snyder
f of Brad Snyder mailto:wb...@swbell.net>> Reply-To: Macvisionaries mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> Date: Saturday, April 4, 2020 at 10:27 To: Macvisionaries mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com>> Subject: Re: Mac Mini Now Here Hi Janina, Glad to hear you’ve received

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
: Macvisionaries Subject: Re: Mac Mini Now Here Hi Janina, Glad to hear you’ve received your new Mac mini and are getting things setup the way you like. I know it is quite a process with what seems like a million little settings that you only deal with when setting up a new machine, and

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread Brad Snyder
Forgot to mention, you can change your computer’s name on the network by going to System Preferences > Sharing, but I bet you knew that.😉 - Brad - On Apr 4, 2020, at 09:27, Brad Snyder wrote: Hi Janina, Glad to hear you’ve received your new Mac mini and are getting things setup the way you

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread Brad Snyder
Hi Janina, Glad to hear you’ve received your new Mac mini and are getting things setup the way you like. I know it is quite a process with what seems like a million little settings that you only deal with when setting up a new machine, and then forget about. As for changing/modifying your use

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Jason White' via MacVisionaries
Assuming these instructions are not out of date, you cane rename your user account and home directory: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201548 On 4/4/20, 08:59, "'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries" wrote: Thanks for the pointer, Andrew. I was there before, but didn't realize I needed

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread Anders Holmberg
Hi! Happy you get things going. Strange that it didn’t went back to speakers when you disconnected the cable from the headphone jack. /A > 4 apr. 2020 kl. 13:11 skrev 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries > : > > And, she's on line on my LAN slowly getting configured for service. BTW: > Her name is

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Janina Sajka' via MacVisionaries
Thanks for the pointer, Andrew. I was there before, but didn't realize I needed to adjust the browser to show applications. It doesn't default to applications, and I missed that one thing. Got it now! However, here's a somewhat bigger concern. The setup wizzard concatinated my name to create the

Re: Mac Mini Now Here

2020-04-04 Thread 'Andrew Lamanche' via MacVisionaries
Janina, If you go to system preferences and users, and choose logging options, one of the choices is to enable voiceover on login screen. This should solve your problem of not having speech when logging in. By the way, I hadn’t responded to your last message when discussing OT Linux because I