macOS Monterey • Hacker News Board

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by threeseed » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:11 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #15

lghh wrote: post #8

Funny that they used a very clunky looking Windows laptop and a pretty dated looking Android phone to show off Facetime.

If they used an XPS people might accidentally realize that you don't need a notch to put a camera at the top of your screen.

Dell uses a low quality 720p camera on their XPS line.

And the notch gives them room for a future FaceID sensor stack.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by judge2020 » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:12 PM UTC

evanmoran wrote: post #32

For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!

The first time i opened Messages on iOS 15 is prompted me for if I wanted to alert contacts when i'm on do not disturb, and there's an option in settings to toggle it as well.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:13 PM UTC

threeseed wrote: post #19

lghh wrote: post #8

Funny that they used a very clunky looking Windows laptop and a pretty dated looking Android phone to show off Facetime.

Many popular Windows laptops e.g. Thinkpad look like that. And since they are targeting younger people for Facetime maybe not surprising they didn't choose the most expensive, flagship phone.

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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by neilalexander » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:14 PM UTC

kkirsche wrote: post #17

NaN1352 wrote: post #10

Focus …. by adding gazillions of notification options, and also get more notifications for "weekly screen time"… yeah, I really needed even more useless information to process instead of living my life. If i want time off i’ll just put the device down, what a concept :/ They’ve got it completely backwards.

It’s ok it doesn’t work for you. But for some of us it provides isolation between various aspects of our life.

More importantly, it gives us granular isolation and automated ways of activating them, rather than just having a single Do Not Disturb option that does all-or-nothing. It’s a feature that I have really come to like during the betas and definitely helps me to stay on top of information overload, allowing notifications from certain apps at certain times of day (e.g. work hours, sleep hours) or places (e.g. gym).

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by ascagnel_ » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:14 PM UTC

joshka wrote: post #48

That Focus mode would be killer if it integrated some sort of pomodoro / calendar integration.

There are people that do some wild things with shortcuts, I wouldn't be surprised if someone has already done the work with that.

Edit: It looks like shortcuts won't be able to set (or clear) focus modes, so that'll have to wait. Bummer.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by ValentineC » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:17 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #3

Oh, the things I'd give for an LTS version of Mojave...

Same here. Most things still work well for me, so my plan is to stick with Mojave until I get an M2 MacBook Air or similar next year.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by RussianCow » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:17 PM UTC

Am I the only one that's really excited about Universal Control? If nothing else, it's extremely impressive from an engineering perspective (if it works as seamlessly as they make it seem). To be able to take your work from your iPad to your iMac like that would be pretty incredible.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by L0stLink » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:18 PM UTC

mrgalaxy wrote: post #4

How stable is Monterey for those that have been using it? Ironically I just upgraded to Big Sur yesterday from Catalina. I think I'll probably wait again to let 3rd-party apps catch up.

If it is your work machine than you probably shouldn't upgrade right away, give it a week or two (esp. if you work with old/outdated dependencies or packages). For personal machines I would be less cautious.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by judge2020 » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:18 PM UTC

smoldesu wrote: post #3

Oh, the things I'd give for an LTS version of Mojave...

High Sierra for me, since it's the latest that would've been able to run any recent NVIDIA GPUs (assuming NVIDIA stayed dedicated to releasing Web Drivers).

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by evanmoran » Mon, Oct 25, 2021, 8:19 PM UTC

nathanyz wrote: post #34

evanmoran wrote: post #32

For the Focus feature, I find it a bit unexpected that someone messaging me can tell if I'm Driving, Sleeping, Coding, or Reading, etc. Does anyone else find this a bit strange/awkward? I know you can turn it off (and I did) within iMessage, but it seems a bit poorly considered. Curious if people like that aspect of the feature!

I thought it was only letting them know that you were currently unavailable, not the specific Focus type you are currently in.

Ah wonderful. I misunderstood "focus status" to mean the actual name of your focus was displayed, rather the generic "Evan has notifications silenced" message. Thank you for the clarification!

As to what notifications have been helpful: I ended up making Reading and Listening focuses to make personal stuff like reading and podcasting more enjoyable. Then for work I separated out Communicating (email, slack, asana, collaborative docs) from Coding (everything off) as it seemed those had quite different notification needs.