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--permissive-security is the setting that you want. You are then able to enroll hashes of unsigned kernels with kmutil.
Kmutil is only there to load kernel extensions? Or did that change with Big Sur?
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Uhm. Adding 16GB RAM instead of 8GB costs almost nothing and which by far and large, is useful to all users. The only reason why they ship 8 GBs is because they want to sell you upgrades, similar to why Apple products come with miniscule SSD hard drives. Certainly, only professionals would need something like 512GBs right?
Yes but those certain professionals can now only upgrade to 16GB on a MacBook Pro in 2020 which is shameful. Oh and it's soldered so you have to buy the beefed up version today, cannot upgrade the RAM 6 months from now. Go look at a non-techie webbrowsing habits alone: they have 50 tabs open in chrome, some of which are months old. And they install all sorts of other crappy software, anti-virus, browser extensions. S…
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There's a market for aftermarket coolers on laptops universally - I sometimes see laptops on those fan pads?
I wonder how useful they are. I used to have a gaming laptop in the early 2010s and the nicest cooling fan I could find, but it only dropped the temperature down by 2-3 degrees
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You can do that, but keys on glass are still in every way inferior to physical keys.
I didn't claim that this solves all issues someone might have with the touchbar. Just the specific "I keep triggering Siri" issue.
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The 13" MBP has the same limitation.
For the lowest end models right? It's the same tradeoff to bring down prices for people buying the lowest end machines. Presumably they understand that people who need the higher end spec'd machines will wait to buy a new laptop until more software has been migrated to run natively. If you need a 13" MBP that supports more than 16gb of ram, they sell it. It seems unlikely they'll stick with a 16gb limit once they sta…
For the current M1 models. You can still get 32GB of RAM on the Intel models.
So they're "low end" only in the sense that you can't get more than 16GB of RAM on them.
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I'm with you. My work computer has the TouchBar, and my personal computer has the physical keys. While I prefer the physical keys, once you get the TouchBar configured properly (I use MTMR), it's really quite nice. Combined with a physical escape key, it would be ideal. Considering how the people on HN boast so much about being L337 Haxxorz, I'm surprised they don't see the value in a secondary interactive screen tha…
I don't look when I type. The touchbar makes me look down from my screen if I want to interact with it.
One minor annoyance, however, is that the TouchBar isn't visible in direct sunlight, which is to be expected of any screen. Function keys don't have that problem.
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I was having issues with my 16” until I disabled Turbo Boost. I dunno if it’s specific to the i9 model, but it was running hot and processes were spinning out of control. Since disabling, it runs a lot cooler and I have pretty much zero issues. http://tbswitcher.rugarciap.com/
Doesn't that more than halve the single-thread performance? 2.4 GHz vs 5.0 GHz on the i9-9980HK and 2.3 GHz vs 4.8 GHz on the i9-9980H
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Not op, but my main laptop is a 2013 MacBook Air with 8GB of RAM. It’s old enough to have developed dead pixels, the backlight is now noticeably uneven, the USB ports have become loose, several keys now only work unreliability, and it now does an emergency low power shutdown when the battery reports 55%. (Naturally this means it is now permanently plugged into mains power and an external monitor, keyboard, and mouse)…
Your use is probably shaped by the limit, though. I mean, a few tabs open in Chrome is easily a couple of GBs alone.