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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.
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.
When i turn on my Bluetooth speaker in the shower room it goes into a focus mode that diverts all calls for 15 mins and resumes my podcasts. I thought the experience on macos was supposed to be a superset of the ios one. Really poor decision by apple then.
That Focus mode would be killer if it integrated some sort of pomodoro / calendar integration.
I'm not sure I need yet another macOS version, feels like they've opted for a more frequent release cycle. I (genuinely) wonder why...
They've been released pretty close to every 11-13 months since 10.7, which was nearly 2 years after 10.6. That happened a decade ago now, so it's not something that's changed recently.
I've been dealing with `kernel_task` hitting 900% CPU usage and the entire window server running at 2 FPS when using external monitors since I got the mbp 16" a year ago. Good riddance.
[1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...
With the advances in AI and the ridiculous compute power of modern CPUs, we should be able to have OSs that are Digital Assistants.
Just one example:
- file management: Why even? Why expose most regular users to this metaphor in the first place. Mobile OSs have been rather successful in getting rid of this implementation detail. If I write a lot of documents and need to come up with names for them, I expect that to be sufficient. My Assistant will sort/group/maintain them for me and if I want to open the "status report to vendor X from last week", then that should be enough. Make sure my documents are safely stored, encrypted and all that jazz. Don't make me pick between "iCloud" or "OneDrive" or "C:\" or "Document" or "Desktop". Index all the content I'm producing semantically. Just DoWhatIMean? (tm) Have this be consistent throughout the applications I'm using - including web apps. (And why even make that distinction. Who here doesn't have relatives who have trouble understanding the differences between locally installed applications, apps on their phone and web apps in the browser?)
Regular users are consistently struggling with low-level concepts like 'files' and similar remnants of trying to emulate desktop metaphors from the workplaces of the 80ies.
"Do you want to change the extension to .doc or change it to .txt"? What?!? "Do you want to overwrite file "xyz.xls"? Overwriting sounds bad, what happens if I say no though?
That is just the tip of the iceberg where we are somehow tied to ideas of HCI that are rooted in the 70s/80s.
I do appreciate being able to tell my phone "Set a timer for 10 minutes", but where is "Plan a trip to Dallas for next week Friday" - and the Digital Assistant knowing exactly what to do (since that ain't its first rodeo)?
A lot of these changes seem to be pandemic-driven, which makes sense, but it's telling that smaller competitors hacked together all these same features within weeks of WFH and the largest and most advanced company in the world is finally here 18 months later.
That’s the thing. Apple doesn’t want a feature to look like a hack, and they also have to consider how every feature plays with everything else in their OS and ecosystem.
Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.
Exactly, thank you! At least they should implement some easy cli commands for those who don't want to deal with the awful UX.
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Did you know you can drag the controls out onto the menu bar?
No, I did not.
https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/control-center-mchl...
(Note the Tip sentence.)
Always read, or at least browse, the macOS and iOS/iPadOS User Guide. Even advanced users will learn a thing or few.