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Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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Without auto scrolling through the headlines, this is kind of useless in my opinion. And clicking the X on the right doesn't quit 0.3.1 for me, I installed the prebuilt package, had to SIGKILL the thing. TouchBar Piano retains the crown as basically the only good TouchBar app. Which says all you really need to know about the TouchBar.

Is there any touchbar app that just shows configurable buttons that you can use for performing certain functions?

Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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Anyone who has the new model w/ Touch Bar can comment on the usefulness of it, now that it's been out for a while? Do you ever used it / still use it daily?

I'm a developer and one of my work laptops is a MBP 13 inch w/ touchbar. I wasn't a huge Apple fan to begin with, but I used one of the last gen 17 inch MBP's for work, for about 2 years and liked it mostly because of the excellent hardware, specifically the keyboard and trackpad. The new keyboard is absolutely terrible though. Genuinely the second worst keyboard I've ever used. The new switches have caused dramatica…

The keyboard is... different. I would recommend anyone try it out at an Apple store before buying, absolutely. I actually love it.

Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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post #13

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Worse than useless. Adds no value and sometimes it crashes.

Debating whether to buy this model or stay away. How do you ESC when this thing crashes?

The crash takes the form of it locking up. This is particularly annoying when you need to turn the volume down.

Clicking on another app usually unlocks it.

Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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post #24

Mac Touch Bar is useless. Does anyone actually use it? Would you rather have the touch bar or your escape key back?

I'm using a machine with a touch bar right now and I have an escape key in the upper-left corner of the touch bar where it always was. I don't understand this complaint.

Unfortunately it's not quite where it was though. It's about one key's width in from the left. Presumably for the sheer sake of symmetry with the touch sensor the other end.

Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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Anyone who has the new model w/ Touch Bar can comment on the usefulness of it, now that it's been out for a while? Do you ever used it / still use it daily?

I don't like the touchbar at all. I didn't initially like the keyboard either, but have grown quite quickly to prefer it - seems more solid, and the keys are a bit larger.

Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm a developer and one of my work laptops is a MBP 13 inch w/ touchbar. I wasn't a huge Apple fan to begin with, but I used one of the last gen 17 inch MBP's for work, for about 2 years and liked it mostly because of the excellent hardware, specifically the keyboard and trackpad. The new keyboard is absolutely terrible though. Genuinely the second worst keyboard I've ever used. The new switches have caused dramatica…

The keyboard is... different. I would recommend anyone try it out at an Apple store before buying, absolutely. I actually love it.

Same. I've been loving it as well. I've had the 15" MBP since December, and it took a week or two to get used to the keyboard, but once it happened, I haven't looked back. It was weird at first, but now I rarely even think about it anymore.

Re: Hacker News News Feed for the Mac Touch Bar

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post #28
post #18

The Touch Bar has revolutionized the way I accidentally invoke Siri once per 30 minute period.

You can remove Siri from the touch bar in the touchbar settings. While in the settings you can tap the bar to open the different configurations and remove her anywhere

Oh my gosh. I've had this laptop for 4 months and never discovered that the Touch Bar could be customized beyond setting when the F-keys show up by default.
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