user_pinger_2 VS macmediakeyforwarder

I think I could significantly speed up User Pinger by using async PRAW to send all the ping messages concurrently but I don't really understand how to embed an asynchronous task within a larger synchronous function

Yeah, in this case probably the only reason I didn't get hacked was because the example config file I have publicly online doesn't include the mistake I made

It was the result of people saying that they had a difficult time clicking on the links before. I can change it any time, because now the bot uses proper text templating 😌

That's what I'm thinking. I already have the API grabbing data from Reddit to determine whether someone is a mod, so it wouldn't be much additional work to return the comments of a thread as a JSON object

For user_pinger_2 I define a list of "recoverable errors" and have the bot run in a while True loop that restarts if it throws one of those. See the bottom of this file. Those are Reddit-side errors, but you could presumably add specific client side ones if you know which are safe

The code is available on GitHub here https://github.com/neoliberal/user_pinger_2/

Found this article which suggests Mac Media Key Forwarder or BeardedSpice.

Try this. It works great to tie that key to Apple music. Says it works for Spotify too.

I don't know the exact issues but might be related to the issues why I left Apple : I was developing a very successful little tool for MacOS ( https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder ) which listened for keypresses. From 2016 to 2019 it became harder and harder to install it because apple added more and more restrictions to apps like this. By 2019, you had to enable the application explicitly to listen for events at least in three places deep down in the system preferences, click accept in various popups and if you stuck somewhere then nobody could tell why it wasn't working. So I had a very expensive laptop and the OS didn't let me use it freely. So I just switched to freebsd and linux, I don't have fancy productivity apps like photoshop and final cut but with open source tools and with my own desktop applications I created the best looking/most usable desktop experience MacOS will never have. ( https://swayos.github.io/ )

Hello! Try Mac Media Key Forwarder I use it for the exact same reason.

I like this app for fixing it. https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder

Here you go, I'm on an M1 MacBook Air 2020 and this works perfectly for me. It's called "Mac Media Key Forwarder"

Media Key Forwarder: lets you pause iTunes/Apple Music/Spotify when you hit the pause button. Apple, for unknown insane reasons, changed the pause button to pause front-loaded media instead of background music when I actually want to pause background music because I now want to watch something.

I dislike the way how the media keys work on macOS by default. I used to use this app (https://github.com/milgra/macmediakeyforwarder) with previous versions of macOS, but it's no longer supported and its recommended replacement 'Bearded Spice' doesn't work on my computer. Is there another way to make those media keys work just for the music app?