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Primary reason it turns off is because its oled, and leaving it on would cause burn-in.
It's almost as if they shouldn't have made with with OLED
It is as if they shouldn’t have released it in the first place.
Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
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Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#102Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like a great application for an e-ink display. No burn-in, low power, and can always emit as much light as the keys on the keyboard do (by front-illuminating the bar when the keyboard backlight is on).
The 2014 ThinkPad X1 Carbon had an e-ink touch strip instead of an F-row (exactly like the MBP does). It didn’t work very well: poor display contrast, hard to see in bright daylight, can’t feel for keys, slow response time, etc. They switched back to real keys for the 2015 model release. ...that’s why Apple’s adoption of it surprised me the most: I saw how it on the ThinkPad added no value, and while Apple has greate…
> hard to see in bright daylight
Huh? One of the defining features of e-ink is that it's easier to read in bright light, compared to a regular screen...
Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds like a great application for an e-ink display. No burn-in, low power, and can always emit as much light as the keys on the keyboard do (by front-illuminating the bar when the keyboard backlight is on).
Do eink displays have decent pixel density yet? The last time I used an eink was in 2012 and looked terrible by modern standards
They do, the newest e-ink Kindles have 300ppi screens which puts them close to iPhone/iPad Retina display density.
Most e-readers were only 167ppi in 2012, with 212ppi just starting to hit the market in premium models.
Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's almost as if they shouldn't have made with with OLED
It is as if they shouldn’t have released it in the first place.
It is as if the only thing you should run on it is Electric Sheep.
Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#105Thanks, I have been dreading the upcoming time when my pre-touchbar macbook pro is too old and I will check out these tips when it does. One bit of feedback: > RAM usage: Useless. In modern OS it's always nearly 100%. That's natural. A good ram usage indicator is still really useful, and along with cpu and network usage it's one of the first things I install on any machine. The issue is that your indicator needs to s…
I use gkrellm, and set the three memory krells option. The "usage" is memory actually used for application memory. The other krells mark how much cache and buffers are allocated. htop does something similar, green is application usage, blue is buffer usage and yellow/orange is filesystem cache (at least, as far as I know, I might be wrong)
edit: on linux. I would assume Mac and even windows have enough granularity to distinguish.
Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#106The biggest problem with touchbar is that Apple intentionally made non-touchbar model inferior in terms of hardware and the amount of USB-C ports to make sure ppl buy touchbar. This is truly infuriating and I'm sure, was done for purely marketing reasons.
I'd buy a non-touchbar model if it had the same hardware as a touchbar model in a heartbeat.
Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#107The biggest problem with touchbar is that Apple intentionally made non-touchbar model inferior in terms of hardware and the amount of USB-C ports to make sure ppl buy touchbar. This is truly infuriating and I'm sure, was done for purely marketing reasons. I'd buy a non-touchbar model if it had the same hardware as a touchbar model in a heartbeat.
Don't forget the huge price hike "because of the touchbar" that included the non-touchbar model.
Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#108I started remapping the Caps Lock key to the Escape command when I got my tbMBP, and now it's the very first thing I do on every single computer I start using, touch bar or not. MacOS even now offers this as a 1st party option in system preferences, it works phenomenally. I even love, at a visceral level, the balanced symmetry of ESC and ENTER being opposite each other.
You can make the Caps Lock key even more useful by turning it into a "Hyper" modifier (Command+Ctrl+Option+Shift) when it is held down (great for system-wide shortcuts in Hammerspoon[0], since application shortcuts that use all four modifiers are very rare) but acts like pressing "Escape" when it is tapped . This is easily done with Karabiner Elements[1] and a simple rule[2] you import and enable. [0] http://www.hamm…
Do you happen to know how to do that on a linux machine running X? I'm afraid to dive back into the xkb rule hell-hole to figure it out myself.
Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#109The structure of this article is weird. I just gave up reading it because it was too annoying to keep up. Or is it just me?
Re: Making the Touch Bar useful by abandoning Apple guidelines
#110The structure of this article is weird. I just gave up reading it because it was too annoying to keep up. Or is it just me?
No. Both the writing style and the page breaks lead the reader to think the article has "finished" several times before it ends. While I completely agree with a lot of this article's recommendations, it's funny that an article criticizing Apple's design would be designed so poorly itself.