It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download
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macOS Catalina 10.15.5
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Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#42> Major new releases of macOS are no longer hidden when using the softwareupdate(8) command with the --ignore flag. This change also affects macOS Mojave and macOS High Sierra after installing Security Update 2020-003. As a Mojave user, not happy about this.
Meaning? Can you elaborate a bit? I’ve just downgraded to Mojave on an iMac (fusion drive) primarily used for Logic Pro.
Do you think Mojave is not getting updates anymore ?
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#43Still having a (at least one of the multiple different) kernel panic during sleep: panic(cpu 0 caller 0xffffff801e29169c): Sleep transition timed out after 180 seconds while calling power state change callbacks. Suspected bundle: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily. Thread 0x2754. Ever since moving to a brand new 16" MBP there isn't a day that passes wihout me being welcomed by the crash report dialog…
Read a user somewhere reporting that leaving his iPhone plugged into his Mac caused this problem to occur almost daily. After charging it with a wall charger, and not having it plugged in, the problem went away. After resetting PRAM and SMC too. Hope the issue gets resolved for you someday!
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
This destroys battery. You do need to charge and discharge the battery frequently.
Seems strange that they don't put code in to repeatedly drain the battery to 90% and then charge it again when plugged in, if that were the case.
The happy range for a modern battery is 20-80%.
The bottom and top 20% are what's causing the wear, so merely staying between 90% and 100% won't do you any good.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#45It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download
I "asked HN" about this recently but unfortunately it has not received much attention. Maybe now there are people around who know what exactly happens during an update?
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#46It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download
Btw does anyone know how to test-install a newer OS other than with Mac OS' upgrade option burning through 6gb+ downloads supposedly also replacing the OS rather than installing it onto an external disk? I've got an unused old mini that's still on the OS it came with - way out of date. I even went to an Apple dealer to get Mojave onto an SSD drive last year, only to find out that the mini needs a firmware update for APFS that only comes with Mojave/Catalina, but I can't find a download option for only the firmware update so that I could boot from an external AFPS disk.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
This destroys battery. You do need to charge and discharge the battery frequently.
Got any credible sources that back that up? My 2015 13" MBP has been charged 221 times in 4.75 years. It has been plugged in for the vast majority of the time, yet still shows 88% total capacity and will still last 8+ hours doing standard web dev stuff. My iPhone gets discharged every day, but its capacity is down to 78% after just 2.5 years.
Do you discharge your iPhone all the way to 0%? The bottom 20% are also not so great for battery wear.
Ideally you would stay between 20-80% (only charging to 100% and discharging to 0% when you really need it)
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#48It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download
Binary patching hasn't been a thing for years unfortunately. Even bigger wreck on consoles these days, where an update can be 50+ gigabytes...
If they would only use something like rsync or ostree at the least. But if the biggest files are archives it would require recompression. If it's more like an uncompressed tar archive then it should be easier, but still it would require either a clever algorithm or the format support by the algorithm.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#49Earlier quoted context omitted.
Got any credible sources that back that up? My 2015 13" MBP has been charged 221 times in 4.75 years. It has been plugged in for the vast majority of the time, yet still shows 88% total capacity and will still last 8+ hours doing standard web dev stuff. My iPhone gets discharged every day, but its capacity is down to 78% after just 2.5 years.
Do you discharge your iPhone all the way to 0%? The bottom 20% are also not so great for battery wear. Ideally you would stay between 20-80% (only charging to 100% and discharging to 0% when you really need it)
I try not to but it has been below 10% many times (and occasionally so empty it turns off).
Now WFH, so it has been plugged most of the time since late March and I'm really just nursing it through until the newer phones are released so I can decided whether to get the updated SE or the newer model.
Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5
#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Where are you getting 50+ GB console updates?
I think they’re referring to games. A good example? CoD Modern Warfare (the recent one) _always_ seems to have 50GB updates. It is rather annoying, even with fast internet.
I can't remember a time I've downloaded a patch that is as big as the base game on a console. Granted, most of the games I play are on physical copies.