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MacBook Pro Keyboard Drives Me Crazy

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Post by thelittleone »

slowmovintarget wrote: post #209
Raticide wrote: post #119

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But they're still keeping the annoying touchbar. I suppose I'm stuck with Dell laptops now.

The Touchbar and the kernel panics in BridgeOS that go with it. That's the hardest thing to swallow. Mine does this when I use video conferencing. https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/2018-macbook-pros-crash...

I found the touch bar a hindrance on my 2017 MBP. Then I read a HN comment [1] recommending Better Touch Tool [2] with GoldenChaos config [3]. I've found it quite useful since.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20229123

[2] https://folivora.ai/

[3] https://goldenchaos.net/goldenchaos-btt.html

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Post by userbinator »

dsego wrote: post #68
madeofpalk wrote: post #49

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Press print screen and it does... I'm not sure what? I /remembered "Snipping Tool", so I searched for "Snip" and launched that, and it shows a menu that says like "Snipping Tool is deprecated, use Snip n Sketch" so you click that and a new app opens (but old one stays open as well) and you take your screenshot and then its open in a window that you have to go and save. I know I'm biased because its what I'm used to f…

> Press print screen and it does... I'm not sure what? Copies it into the buffer, silently. No notification, nothing. Great UX. In Ubuntu it's even better, it actually saves it as an image file (and does the annoying shutter effect). But the repeat key is not turned off... so if by any chance you hold it down by mistake, thinking it was the right ctrl, oh boy, you get a shitstorm of shutter effects and dozens of scre…

Copies it into the buffer, silently. No notification, nothing.

Do you expect Ctrl+C to not be silent either? Because that's what PrintScreen and all the other clipboard operations were designed as.

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Post by harrisonjackson »

jagger27 wrote: post #204
harrisonjackson wrote: post #180

Apple is replacing these keyboards for free... https://support.apple.com/en-ca/keyboard-service-program-for... I get that it is hugely inconvenient to go without your laptop for any amount of time - I depend on mine for work at a 2 person startup, so really I do get it! But if you are this fed up with it, then I'd say go for it. I finally bit the bullet and found a local certified apple repair place (NOT THE APPLE ST…

I wish I knew this before I lost my machine for 4 days last year. My replacement has mostly held up too—just a few blasts of compressed air here and there.

I am pretty sure this policy alone is keeping the lights on for this particular company. It is a serious bummer the way apple handles it through the apple stores.

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Post by PixyMisa »

madeofpalk wrote: post #49
blinkingled wrote: post #34

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> Taking a screenshot. Opening the right file Former is PrtScn key on my keyboard. Microsoft ships Snipping Tools and lately Snip n Sketch for screenshots - never had any issues with either. Latter - not sure what you mean - opening the right file as in setting default program to open a file? That's easy enough and it's the best experience on Windows.

Press print screen and it does... I'm not sure what? I /remembered "Snipping Tool", so I searched for "Snip" and launched that, and it shows a menu that says like "Snipping Tool is deprecated, use Snip n Sketch" so you click that and a new app opens (but old one stays open as well) and you take your screenshot and then its open in a window that you have to go and save. I know I'm biased because its what I'm used to f…

Window-Shift-S then click and drag.

Unfortunately it's one of those things that is incredibly useful but isn't mentioned anywhere.

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Post by mdtusz »

aeontech wrote: post #157
ggm wrote: post #151

I don't know anyone who was a real TTY user who likes on touchbar. I don't know any EMACS user who likes on touchbar. If I do the join over these and anyone else I ask, I actually don't know anyone who likes on touchbar. I think Apple took a long standing market acceptance in the community I live in, and basically trashed it, for lipgloss. I expect to move to a Lenovo Carbon X1, with qualms.

FWIW, most people I know remap caps lock to ESC for ergonomic reasons, so for them removing the physical escape key was a no-op. I realize that's a vanishing minority of normal people though :)

But then where do you map your Ctrl key if Capsloc is Esc?

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Post by orpheline »

kalleboo wrote: post #220
_coveredInBees wrote: post #136

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I hear you about Finder. Windows File explorer seems a lot easier and more feature rich compared to Finder. The single most annoying thing is that there is no easy/ obvious way to grab the path to a file/folder in Finder, which seems like the most basic of features. I did figure out a keyboard shortcut at some point, but Finder feels so dated as a file manager.

As a life-long Mac user, I feel the opposite. Whenever I have to use Windows, it feels like Windows Explorer is missing lots of features I take for granted, some that the Mac has had since the 90's. Stuff like spring-loaded drag and drop, directory sizes being calculated in list views, QuickLook... It also has some really braindead design choices like sorting directories separate from files, making navigating with th…

Interesting. I use a MBP for work, and hate that Finder intermixes directories and files. I much prefer having directories sorted separately: it makes it easier to drill down through a hierarchy of all the directories are grouped together...

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Post by ryanbigg »

jahbrewski wrote: post #188

Off-topic, but Ryan, your name brings me back to 2013 when I was just learning Ruby on Rails and you were snarkily answering my dumb questions on the #rubyonrails IRC channel. But seriously, thank you so much. Learned a ton from that channel, gained a career, and now I run my own software consultancy. And since no one learns Rails anymore we can make $$$!

Um, thanks? I think? ;)

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Post by rhinoceraptor »

ben-schaaf wrote: post #128
gerbilly wrote: post #113

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Speak for yourself. (Typed on an IBM Model-M keyboard)

Not quite on that level (Cherry mx), but I have to concur. If you're not always on the go a proper keyboard is worth the investment.

Especially because working with just a laptop is horrible ergonomically.

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Post by pier25 »

I'm surprised people are still buying MBPs.

When the 2016 models were announced I bought a 2015 model. It had a great keyboard but I sold it because the 4th gen CPU ran too hot in my tropical climate and it was rather bulky.

I moved to a 5K iMac instead. Best computer I've ever owned. I still use an old 2014 13'' MBP on the rare occasions I'm not working from home, or when I'm on the couch (like right now).

Apple are not idiots and they will fix this at some point, but the Mac is about 10% of their revenue so they are in no hurry.

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