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Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by dividedbyzero »

irjustin wrote: post #36
diimdeep wrote: post #3

> The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery's lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery's temperature history and its charging patterns. > Based on the measurements that it collects, battery health management may reduce your battery's maximum charge when in this mode. This happens as needed to ensure tha…

Deep discharge & Heat are common accelerators of swelling. Avoiding going to My favorite is Macs Fan Control[0] for removing heat. 40' the fan is spinning mid range speed and by 50' it's full 6500 rpm. It's the least I can do =/ [0] https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control

I think I'll rather take the battery performance hit than bear with (near-?)constant fan noise.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by kjakm »

Operyl wrote: post #33
Hamuko wrote: post #30

Earlier 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.

Modern Warfare is a nightmare. 50-80GB updates every month and no online play until you update. That can be over 12 hours for me. It's one thing I've noticed since getting a console recently after not having one since the PS2 era. Huge updates constantly. Even when you buy a disc they have to download a bunch of stuff. Such a horrible user experience.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by azangru »

Anyone using Node.js for work who has updated to Catalina here? How did it go? I heard there were problems with node-gyp, but didn't investigate further. Everything running smoothly now? Any gotchas?

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by paultopia »

m1h4 wrote: post #31

Still 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…

Oh damnit, damnit. I've been having those on 10.15.4 too, was really hoping they'd fixed it on this one. It's really profoundly upsetting to spend $3,500 on a brand new computer by the most reliable major manufacturer in the industry and still have daily damn kernel panics.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by nvahalik »

azangru wrote: post #73

Anyone using Node.js for work who has updated to Catalina here? How did it go? I heard there were problems with node-gyp, but didn't investigate further. Everything running smoothly now? Any gotchas?

I helped a junior dev get set up with this a couple of weeks ago. The docs on GitHub worked just fine.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by deergomoo »

m1h4 wrote: post #31

Still 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…

I managed to eliminate (or at least majorly reduce) kernel panics by disabling Power Nap. I've since re-enabled it to see if this is any more stable.

Kind of a joke really, this isn't a brand new model, nor is it using any cutting edge components. I thought we'd worked out sleep mode a long time ago.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by have_faith »

dirtylowprofile wrote: post #65
TMWNN wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same, except on Mojave. Keeping fingers crossed that 10.16 will continue supporting 2012.

Why are you still on Mojave? If I may ask

Still on Mojave on my work laptop. If there's no clear benefit to outweigh potentially breaking some local setup I have then I ignore it.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by chooseaname »

diimdeep wrote: post #3

> The battery health management feature in macOS 10.15.5 is designed to improve your battery's lifespan by reducing the rate at which it chemically ages. The feature does this by monitoring your battery's temperature history and its charging patterns. > Based on the measurements that it collects, battery health management may reduce your battery's maximum charge when in this mode. This happens as needed to ensure tha…

Why does everything have to be automated? Why can't I just specify manually that it should not exceed, say, 80%? This is just another process running and ... using battery.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by reaperducer »

dividedbyzero wrote: post #71
irjustin wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Deep discharge & Heat are common accelerators of swelling. Avoiding going to My favorite is Macs Fan Control[0] for removing heat. 40' the fan is spinning mid range speed and by 50' it's full 6500 rpm. It's the least I can do =/ [0] https://crystalidea.com/macs-fan-control

I think I'll rather take the battery performance hit than bear with (near-?)constant fan noise.

My favorite nerd hysteria conspiracy theory is that Apple runs its computers hot and fans loud in order to sell AirPods.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by szhu »

gonehome wrote: post #7

The group FaceTime UI is very strange, why have several overlapping boxes rather than just dividing the screen equally and using all of it? I know it's like this in iOS, but I'm not sure what group video looks like in macOS (though it sounds like it's the same based on the update text here). It's weird because the easier thing also seems like the obvious thing, and it's clearly better.

I typically use video chat apps like Facebook, Google Meet, and Zoom. I think the grid is efficient from a space perspective -- there's less wasted space -- but the grid looks very corporate and boring.

I think there's also a practical advantage of placing tiles haphazardly: it might help spatial memory. It's a lot harder to focus on or find a particular rectangle in a sea of rectangles than it is to follow a shape than looks a little different from the rest. However, I have never used FaceTime group calling (because I don't have most of my friends' phone numbers), so I don't whether this is effective in practice.

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