u/ObjectionablyObvious

I’m glad Deidre Henderson is standing up for Utah voters’ privacy. She deserves credit for that. But seeing people already talk about her as a future governor gives me pause, mostly because I remember how I felt about Spencer Cox when he was lieutenant governor.

I used to be a public information officer for an agency, and I went to a conference in St. George where Lt. Gov. Cox was one of the closing speakers. He asked people to put their phones away, explicitly saying he didn't want to be recorded, then spent a good ten minutes criticizing Trump and talking about how worried he was for the Republican Party. I left genuinely impressed.

Now he would probably tell you that he changed his mind about Trump. But I think he would be lying: Spencer Cox as a person, as a Lt. Gov, and as Governor all have their own interests; in the end no matter who fills the seat, as long as they have an "R" next to their name, I don't trust that they won't take marching orders from higher-ups, or cater to increasing interest in the platform of the opposition party.

That’s what makes me cautious about turning Henderson into a political hero based on this moment. Sometimes it feels like the lieutenant governor can be just different enough from the governor to give more moderate voters someone to identify with, while the direction of the state stays the same. Am I being too cynical? What would Henderson need to do for you to believe she’d govern the way she’s acting now?

So lots of people know you can do CMD+SHFT+3 for a fullscreen screenshot, but I often times only want a partial screen screenshot.

I end up dragging the start point from the wrong area, taking a wrong screenshot, doing it again and again until I get the right crop. Then it's cleanup time, gotta go delete the bad ones off the desktop/destination folder.

However today I held the spacebar down and lo-and-behold, the entire box moves around before you let go of the click. You can let go of space and keep adjusting the screenshot window size, too!

This has been a peeve of mine for 15 years and I feel like I'm going to save so much time moving forward. Any other tiny tricks that have helped you use your Mac more efficiently?

I [30M] recently moved into a new place. When I first moved in my roommate told me to "make myself at home" and explicitly said I should feel completely comfortable setting up my Apple TV on the living room setup. I never actually ended up doing that, but I figured the green light applied to general living room tech.

Yesterday I started setting up a Chromecast Audio dongle on an unused input channel of his AV receiver. I did it right in front of him and explained that I was hooking it up so we could sync his AV system to my personal Sonos speakers. If we throw a party, we could use both his system and mine to have whole-home audio. I didn't unplug or rewire any of his stuff, just added it to an available input.

But I got home late today, opened my app, and saw the device was offline. I walked out to the living room, and my dongle is completely unplugged, its cord wound up, and just sitting on the coffee table. No text from him, no heads-up.

AITBF here? I felt like I was operating under the "make yourself at home" rule he established, especially since I explained it while doing it and he seemed genuinely excited about the tech. But seeing it unceremoniously dumped on the table has me second-guessing myself.

Was it super rude of me to just start plugging my ecosystem into his receiver without a formal "hey, can I do this?" conversation beforehand? Is an AV sound system more personal than plugging into an HDMI port on the TV? Or am I overthinking what might just be a technical glitch/tinkering? Help me out, I don't want to start off on the wrong foot.