New 13-inch MacBook Pro

Post by williamdclt » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:01 PM UTC

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You can program your touchbar with something like BetterTouchTool. It's laughable that Apple ships the touchbar with such useless functionalities, but you can turn the touchbar into whatever you want, it's an amazing tool. For example, when I open iTerm I have buttons for my local development env (DB, redis, api, frontend, various microservices) color-coded by status and can start/stop them by tapping a button. You c…

Wow that sounds awesome. You can do this with just BetterTouchTool? Could you share your config?

Post by williamdclt » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:06 PM UTC

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You can program your touchbar with something like BetterTouchTool. It's laughable that Apple ships the touchbar with such useless functionalities, but you can turn the touchbar into whatever you want, it's an amazing tool. For example, when I open iTerm I have buttons for my local development env (DB, redis, api, frontend, various microservices) color-coded by status and can start/stop them by tapping a button. You c…

I can see state indicators for various services being remotely useful. But git workflow? I have terminals open anyway and everything is easily accessible from shell using aliases and ^R etc anyway. Is there a way to decouple touchbar from active window btw? For example if I have Skype running I'd like to have Skype's buttons on touchbar regardless of focused window. I tried using BetterTouchTool but all I found out w…

Post by mekster » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:10 PM UTC

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It really stuns me how “MacOS” doesn’t appear anywhere in the Pros (or the Cons). That’s literally the main discriminant between choosing an Apple machine over any other brand, and there’s no mention of it. By missing that main difference the comparison is reduced to pure comparison of commodities, and of course the result is that the Apple machine is ‘unjustifiably’ more expensive. The Apple ecosystem is literally w…

MacOS has really stagnated over the years. I first started using it back in 2004, where its main competitor was pre-SP2 Windows XP. At that time you could really call MacOS advanced. At this point, it's sort of a wash. Windows does things better, Mac does other things better, and it mostly comes down to preference. The old argument about security is mostly a wash now as well. (whereas with pre-SP2 Windows XP vs. OSX…

Post by bla3 » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:11 PM UTC

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The macbook still electrocutes you when it's plugged in since the grounding is all fucked up. This is still a problem: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3969131 https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/macbook-pro-giving-me-e... https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/10545/is-it-bad-th...

>This is still a problem: The three posts you provided are from 2012, 2013, and 2011. So is it really still a problem?

Post by jlg23 » Mon, May 04, 2020, 8:12 PM UTC

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Bringing back the escape key is such a admission of their original screw up. I'm glad they admitted it and reversed the design decision. But I'm still on a 2012 15" MacBook that's running strong. I normally would have updated but using my work 15" has been horrific between the dongles, the keyboard randomly dropping keys (last week "G" would not work, now it's back. The most infuriating thing about the touch bar, out…

As a fellow vim user, I don't get the esc key problem. is the same thing and a lot less movement. Esc is too far away where as is already where my hands naturally lie and similar to other patterns I use ( , , etc). I seriously do not understand the whole obsession with the esc key. If you have to lift your wrists you're doing it wrong.