• zephyrvs@lemmy.ml
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    • Maccy for clipboard history management via simple shortcuts
    • Stats for useful system metrics in the menubar
    • LM Studio for easily exploring open source Large Language Models
    • NoTunes to get rid of Apple Music launching when you connect your headphones
    • Bitwarden for multi-platform password management
    • Rectangle for keyboard-based window management
    • Homebrew if you’re a developer/sysadmin/command line user
    • Fluent Reader to subscribe to RSS feeds
      • calm.like.a.bomb@lemmy.ml
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        I don’t know about him, but I have my first mac (from work) for two months and I never had Apple Music open when I plugged my headphones in.

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          I wasn’t clear in my description. For me, Apple Music always kept on opening whenever I interacted with my headphones, e.g. by clicking on play/plause buttons, at least since macOS 10.5 in 2007. Might just be an issue on my side (doesn’t look like it though), but I’ve been disabling iTunes/Apple Music for years by making it non-executable until Apple introduced System Integrity Protection, making it impossible to modify Apple’s apps. And now I just keep NoTunes running. I can live with it eating 8MB of my RAM.

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            I literally never had this problem. And I run a Mac since 2012 and I have never even opened music since it is called that way.