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Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by thewebcount »

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.

In some cases (like the AppleWatch), a swollen battery upon failure is an intentional design choice, apparently. At least that's what they told me when my Series 0 battery swelled up and caused the face of the watch to pop off. They claimed they do it intentionally so you know it has to be serviced and can't be used anymore. Probably different for laptops, though.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by dreamcompiler »

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

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

Why are you still on Mojave? If I may ask

Speaking for myself (not the person you asked) I still have machines on El Capitan and don't plan to upgrade them because they just work. High Sierra almost completely bricked them. Every new version of MacOS is more buggy than the previous and it takes dozens of hours of googling to figure out how to work around the bugs, restore features Apple removed, and turn off misfeatures Apple added.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by Wowfunhappy »

vardump wrote: post #228
riobard wrote: post #222

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I'm hitting the stupid SMB bug everyday but the symptom seems to be different. I tried to manually connect to `smb://nasbox.local` in Finder and it works with `nasbox.local` appearing in the sidebar. I can also click `nasbox` (without `.local` and this is advertised by the avahi-daemon on the nasbox I believe) and it opens the network shares fine. However, if the Mac goes to sleep for a while and then later wakes up,…

> This is so damn frustrating. Agreed. And then there's that extremely childish "Windows 95 blue screen" icon representing SMB shares... Really professional.

Not all SMB shares. If you use a Mac to host an SMB share, it'll appear on other Macs with a nice Mac icon. ;)

I don't know, I find it funny/charming and I'd be sad if Apple got rid of it. It's something of an easter egg—you can't tell that it's a BSOD unless you open the QuickLook or Get Info window (or set your Sidebar Icon Size to "Large").

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by balladeer »

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…

It's years of fantastic painless experience and even now it's relatively good. Before using these laptops I never knew what it meant to just slam the lid, then hours or sometimes days later open it and start from where you began, instantly.

The privacy. The comfort of having two devices (phone and computer) to be in sync in a private and safe manner. Excellent app ecosystem. Timely and long term updates, upgrades, and support.

But as the parent commenter says I am at my wit's end as well, for the first time since I started using Macs a decade ago - crappy recent OSX and iOS releases, iPhones getting bigger and bigger, being trapped in a data/communication silo etc.

So why am I still here? Because there's nowhere else that's better.

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by raihansaputra »

prputnam wrote: post #209
raihansaputra wrote: post #60

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Usually it's around 30GB. I play on PC and have to remind all of my party to update the night before. Each update seems to only come with small changes, and the total game size only increases by ~5GB usually. So they're either recompressing previous assets or changing stuff that can't be patched in along with new content. These updates usually happens every week/every other week. It's insane. I think all of the previ…

My girlfriend and I play with our old roommates most evenings as of late - we've gotten in the habit of turning on my gaming rig and her PS4 around lunch to suss out any updates. We are lucky to have symmetrical gig internet, but even with an Ethernet cable connected the PS4 download speeds abysmal. Those COD patches really are monstrous.

Newer games in general have these humongous updates. I’m somehow pleasantly surprised when checking that GTA V total size is 90GB all in. An open world online game with endless possibilities. Fortnite, a way simpler game, is ~70GB with monstrous patches too. I really wonder what is in those files..

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by riobard »

derefr wrote: post #342
riobard wrote: post #331

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Jeez, this is so messed up… So basically I cannot have both Time Machine and SMB from the same NAS box servicing a Catalina Mac? I just tried disabling Time Machine share in Samba and Catalina Mac still complains "The operation can't be completed because the original item for "Share" can't be found." if I click the sidebar to connect to a share.

The sidebar entry is still coming from mDNS. Play with the NAS’s config until it shows up the same way Windows peers with shares do: as an all-uppercase-named machine only visible under the WINS workgroup name in Networks. (Finder will give it a sidebar entry from then on after the first time you connect to it, IIRC.) Also, wait 15 minutes. Because mDNS.

Thanks for the suggestion. I figured it's actually less painful to just cmd+K in Finder to manually connect to NAS via its local host name before Apple got time to fix the bug…

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by 72deluxe »

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #186
asdff wrote: post #183

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Bootcamp drivers are in a sorry state. Expect battery life, performance, trackpad, display to all tank.

I was recently using Bootcamp on a relative's 2020 Macbook Air, and I was generally impressed with how well everything worked. Especially the Trackpad, which I remembered being a problem under Bootcamp many years ago. If I didn't dislike Windows so much, I thought I could see myself using that setup full time. I didn't look at battery life though.

Even my old MacBook Pro 2012 in BootCamp is very poor under BootCamp. Getting the right drivers for it is the worst bit because who knows whether I should be using Bootcamp 5 or 6? The display brightness and volume keys no longer work. The discrete GPU is used all the time so battery life is very bad.

The touchpad works fine though!

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by 72deluxe »

vardump wrote: post #233
sixothree wrote: post #124

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XPS 15

Personal experience: XPS 15 overheats and becomes extremely slow. Maybe it's a user error... Touchpad hardware is good, but the software and adjustability... it's nowhere comparable to a Macbook.

What does task manager say is causing the CPU to be used so much that it overheats and thermally limits itself?

Have you used Sysinternal's Process Monitor or Process Explorer or any of the tracing tools already built into Windows to see why it's slow?

If you've got some service running behind the scenes and keeping the machine busy, of course it'll be "slow".

Re: macOS Catalina 10.15.5

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Post by 72deluxe »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #269
riobard wrote: post #222

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I'm hitting the stupid SMB bug everyday but the symptom seems to be different. I tried to manually connect to `smb://nasbox.local` in Finder and it works with `nasbox.local` appearing in the sidebar. I can also click `nasbox` (without `.local` and this is advertised by the avahi-daemon on the nasbox I believe) and it opens the network shares fine. However, if the Mac goes to sleep for a while and then later wakes up,…

I've given up on Mac-to-Mac networking in Catalina. All my other (older) Macs in the house can talk to each other just fine, but the new Catalina Mac just pretends to connect to them and fails. I have to use thumb dives to move files to/from it. Apple networking had mostly "just worked" since the 80s. It took a big hit when they abandoned Appletalk, and now with Catalina it doesn't work at all. Apple has fallen a lon…

The annoyance of trying to connect to a remote system and the entire desktop and all Finder windows locking up whilst there is a network request is the most annoying issue. I can't understand why it wouldn't make the request in a thread with a callback on success/failure - instead it seems to be in the primary thread and therefore hang the machine until it decides it can or cannot interact with the remote network share. Pretty shoddy.
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