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Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by barkingcat »

Reason077 wrote: post #62
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…

Swollen batteries were a result of design/manufacturing defects. It was certainly a common issue 5-10 years ago but should hopefully be a thing of the past by now. Modern batteries should never swell, but will still wear out over time. Smarter battery management should be able to extend their lifespan.

I don't think you can conclusively say "Modern batteries should never swell" since there's always the possibility of manufacturing and design defects in new batteries too.

It's the battery equivalent of the halting problem in software.

No manufacturing and design process is perfect, there will always be errors. If you do find a perfect design and manufacturing process, I think you wouldn't be posting here on hackers news but would be drinking champaign with Bill Gates and Warren Buffet.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by tempodox »

darkteflon wrote: post #5

> 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.

I was just about to let the 2020-003 Security Update run on Mojave, but after this warning I will leave that well alone.

Apple had a great OS once, but now they are losing me more with each update. Can't buy new Mac HW either any more, since it will be systematically unable to run the 32-bit SW I need. Apple forcing decades-long users off their platform to Windoze and Linux is just bizarre.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by doctorwhat »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #108
MperorM wrote: post #93

Since Catalina I have been getting daily freezes, where the entire operating system locks up. I can still move the cursor around and audio keeps playing as well, but everything else is completely frozen. Once in a while the freeze lasts so long the computer crashes resulting in a crash report: Termination Reason: WATCHDOG, [0x1] monitoring timed out for service Termination Details: WATCHDOG, checkin with service: Win…

Why do you guys put up with this? Do you like pain? Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I genuinely want to know why people put up with this. I bounce between Linux and Windows and have no loyalty to either of them. I've settled on Windows with WSL2 on my desktop but I'm tempted again to install the new Fedora on my Thinkpad. Is it the lock in? With my hardware I can run anything I want except for macOS. Once you buy Appl…

You can't discuss logically with apple fanboys.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by infinityplus1 »

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

I have a working machine and wherever I have read, Catalina is buggy. There is absolutely no reason to upgrade and waste time fixing bugs.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by rayiner »

MperorM wrote: post #93

Since Catalina I have been getting daily freezes, where the entire operating system locks up. I can still move the cursor around and audio keeps playing as well, but everything else is completely frozen. Once in a while the freeze lasts so long the computer crashes resulting in a crash report: Termination Reason: WATCHDOG, [0x1] monitoring timed out for service Termination Details: WATCHDOG, checkin with service: Win…

Tons of people: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/constant-kernel-panics-...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-mbp-gpu-panics.22210...

There's like a dozen threads on MacRumors and the Apple discussion forums on various crashes, mostly related to sleep, but also to the watchdog timing out for WindowServer due to GPU lockups.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by caribousoup »

i2shar wrote: post #10

It's crazy that even dot releases are a full 3.6G download

Right... the earlier point releases were 100-500 MB.

Full history of OS X update sizes: https://robservatory.com/a-full-history-of-macos-os-x-releas...

It seemed to start getting out of hand around Yosemite 2014.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by SamuelAdams »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #108
MperorM wrote: post #93

Since Catalina I have been getting daily freezes, where the entire operating system locks up. I can still move the cursor around and audio keeps playing as well, but everything else is completely frozen. Once in a while the freeze lasts so long the computer crashes resulting in a crash report: Termination Reason: WATCHDOG, [0x1] monitoring timed out for service Termination Details: WATCHDOG, checkin with service: Win…

Why do you guys put up with this? Do you like pain? Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I genuinely want to know why people put up with this. I bounce between Linux and Windows and have no loyalty to either of them. I've settled on Windows with WSL2 on my desktop but I'm tempted again to install the new Fedora on my Thinkpad. Is it the lock in? With my hardware I can run anything I want except for macOS. Once you buy Appl…

OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) is no longer supported, unfortunately.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by abluecloud »

doctorwhat wrote: post #113
2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you guys put up with this? Do you like pain? Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I genuinely want to know why people put up with this. I bounce between Linux and Windows and have no loyalty to either of them. I've settled on Windows with WSL2 on my desktop but I'm tempted again to install the new Fedora on my Thinkpad. Is it the lock in? With my hardware I can run anything I want except for macOS. Once you buy Appl…

You can't discuss logically with apple fanboys.

What a childish attitude.

Some people like cheap laptops. Some people like expensive laptops. Some people, like you, obsess over people's choices.

An, apparently, if you make a choice (the wrong one, in your eyes), you're not allowed to complain when things go wrong.

Jeeze.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by AlexandrB »

2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote: post #108
MperorM wrote: post #93

Since Catalina I have been getting daily freezes, where the entire operating system locks up. I can still move the cursor around and audio keeps playing as well, but everything else is completely frozen. Once in a while the freeze lasts so long the computer crashes resulting in a crash report: Termination Reason: WATCHDOG, [0x1] monitoring timed out for service Termination Details: WATCHDOG, checkin with service: Win…

Why do you guys put up with this? Do you like pain? Edit: I'm not trying to troll, I genuinely want to know why people put up with this. I bounce between Linux and Windows and have no loyalty to either of them. I've settled on Windows with WSL2 on my desktop but I'm tempted again to install the new Fedora on my Thinkpad. Is it the lock in? With my hardware I can run anything I want except for macOS. Once you buy Appl…

Personally I'm staying the hell away from Catalina, but it's not like Windows is the land of milk & honey. I've lost overnight testing data multiple times thanks to Windows' hostile "we're rebooting right now, whether you want to or not" upgrade strategy, and their mandatory telemetry bullshit is well-known at this point.

Basically: Catalina sucks, but there's nowhere to go that's unequivocally better.

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