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> 4. MacBook Pro has 4 USB-C ports. Only if you get one with a Touch Bar - which are the more expensive end of the MBP range. However many users don’t like the Touch Bar. For myself, I used escape and the F-keys a lot and the idea of remapping caps lock is really more of a kludge than a proper fix (not least of all because I do frequently hope between USB keyboards and Linux laptops as well - so pressing caps lock is…
Wish they’d still stick with the function keys... but axed it off this year. Regardless it’s ridiculous to sell any machine with only two ports.... even the $35 Raspberry pi has ports than this!
1. Never once seen an issue with USB-C to HDMI or VGA connections. It doesn't even make any sense since MacBook Pro users with external, third party monitors are an extremely common combination. 2. I just downloaded Caret (Markdown editor) from their website and used Homebrew to install a CLI tool. Nothing has changed between the current OSX and previous ones. 3. If you have a tech support issue go into the Apple Sto…
There is not a single tech support issue which would make me get out of my slippers into some store.
Meanwhile HP doesn’t want to fix my work Zbook because while the high pitch fan whine is annoying, the computer still functions. Keys and the little mouse button are falling off after one year.
Apple 2019: Siri remind me to call mom when I get home Linux 2000: … Apple 2019: Use my iPad as a secondary screen wirelessly Linux 2000: … Apple 2019: AirPlay to my TV this content Linux 2000: … Apple 2019: Sync my contacts, notes, calendars, wirelessly with all my devices Linux 2000: … Can we stop being ridiculous now or do I have to keep lowering myslef to the stupidity of the writer of this?
Basically -- don't assume the person is stupid, figure out a way to interpret it better.
Surely the author is aware of the inaccuracies in a direct comparison. The author is implicitly pointing out that a multi-billion dollar corporation is putting out a product that is not polished in several ways, while people who love the product do mental gymnastics to defend against any flaw rather than admitting that such flaws exist.
Well, no, it's not the Linux of 2000, it's worse than that, because it's closed source. The GNU/Linux (e.g. the ecosystem) of 2019 is really fantastic. It keeps on getting better, and better, and better. There may be a few missteps, maybe you don't like GNOME 3, but you can still use Xfce, or KDE, or LXDE, or i3 or whatever else if you want, no-one is stopping you. By contrast, if Apple or Microsoft update the OS and…
As somebody on a 2015 15" MBP looking to make the switch, how do you deal with things like Word/Excel documents or updating the firmware of IOT things (not mine but those of relatives) that only offer proprietary Windows and Mac updaters/installers? Do you just spin up a KVM and pass through USB, or use a separate computer? These edge cases (and the uneasy feeling that there are many others that I won't discover unti…
I don't deal with proprietary IoT things. If I did I probably would KVM it, yeah.
I generally just don't care about things that aren't supported. Probably not the answer you're looking for, but there it is.
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As somebody on a 2015 15" MBP looking to make the switch, how do you deal with things like Word/Excel documents or updating the firmware of IOT things (not mine but those of relatives) that only offer proprietary Windows and Mac updaters/installers? Do you just spin up a KVM and pass through USB, or use a separate computer? These edge cases (and the uneasy feeling that there are many others that I won't discover unti…
Im my case, I use Crossover and a VM. They work well for my use cases. > Word/Excel documents I run Office 2010 in Crossover, which works very well. (I have a copy of 2016 as well, but it is slower.) You can also try WPS office, which does a decent job of handling Office documents. > updating the firmware of IOT things I have a Windows VM and I use USB passthrough for things like iTunes. I usually use it less than on…
I will say that Mac OS is incredibly disk-hungry (and MBPs get vastly more expensive when you add options like bigger (still not that big) disks). I don't want to become a Mac OS hobbyist and figure out how this happens (I like Mac OS overall because it's a BSD and I'm a BSD guy, but it is not my hobby BSD of choice) so I ended up just spending a few bucks on some "cleaner" program that purged a surprisingly huge amo…
Not saying it is your issue, but if you do use Time Machine, have it enabled all the time and you are not always connected to your Time Machine backup disk then Time Machine will continue to make those backups except it does them to your local disk. Because of this you will end up with time machine snapshots and you can get rid of them using the tmutil command that was referenced in the post. In order to do so, see for example [1].
In earlier macOS versions you could disable the local time machine snapshots, but I seem to recall that that no longer works (but I might be wrong on that)
[1] https://ppolyzos.com/2017/10/20/how-to-manually-delete-local...
Sure. I was using Linux in 2000 and now I’m using Apple in 2019.
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Regarding the first point, I had to give up on using an external monitor because fonts look blurry and give me a headache after a while. The same monitor with Windows and Linux shows perfectly fine fonts. I tried all sort of incantations found on forums, and nothing works.
This should do the trick. https://github.com/LumingYin/macOSLucidaGrande Note for me, this makes the ••• dots go away when typing passwords into system prompts. Fine!
Apple 2019: Siri remind me to call mom when I get home Linux 2000: … Apple 2019: Use my iPad as a secondary screen wirelessly Linux 2000: … Apple 2019: AirPlay to my TV this content Linux 2000: … Apple 2019: Sync my contacts, notes, calendars, wirelessly with all my devices Linux 2000: … Can we stop being ridiculous now or do I have to keep lowering myslef to the stupidity of the writer of this?