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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by mulmen »

dkdk8283 wrote: post #66

Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.

No. It is all still the same dumpster fire. I think they may have actually made it worse.

I got a calendar notification of a cancelled event. The notification itself had no buttons to interact with. A hover where the close button would be (top left of the nmotification) causes it to appear and also causes a "delete" button to appear in the bottom right. But if I move my mouse off the "close" button to click "delete" both the close and delete buttons disappear. The only way to delete it is to click it (opening the calendar) wait for the calendar to open (5-10s on a 2019 i7 MBP) then open the event itself to delete it.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by simondotau »

shawnz wrote: post #222
fnord123 wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reboot for an upgrade happens by holding a spin lock until it overheats and reboots. This happens every time on multiple computers so I think it's intentional(?) but the crash reports are pretty wild. No official package manager. The Macbook cases ground through the user when they're on an insulated surface (there is no ground pin on the Macbook power adapters). Audio crackles when the machine grounds through the use…

They are grounded if you use the "power adapter extension cable" (not shipped with the unit): https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MK122LL/A/power-adapte...

Why don't Apple offer grounded duckheads? For that matter, why haven't any third parties made grounded duckheads? This has been irritating me for the past decade or more.

The ground connection, where available, occurs through the metal stud which the duckhead slides into. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the UK (Type G) duckhead doesn't connect ground even though the physical ground pin is mandatory.

I know that most DC adapters are unearthed, but my lived experience is that you can often feel electrovibration in the aluminium Macbook chassis when ungrounded and it goes away when the Apple DC adapter is grounded.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by brailsafe »

mxxx wrote: post #248
EamonnMR wrote: post #185

If any apple product managers are reading this, the biggest thing holding MacOS back is that it global searches when you search a folder. I know there's a config setting for it, but dammit I want the default to be local file name search and full text search should be an off-by-default option, and search the whole hard drive should be a different also off by default option.

the one that does my head in is you can search for a file with spotlight but then the only thing you can do with the result is open it; you can't see what folder it's in or open the folder.

Press tab to bring up the preview pane in spotlight, then holding CMD brings up the folder it's in near the bottom. CMD+double click opens it in it's enclosing folder.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by grincho »

mxxx wrote: post #248
EamonnMR wrote: post #185

If any apple product managers are reading this, the biggest thing holding MacOS back is that it global searches when you search a folder. I know there's a config setting for it, but dammit I want the default to be local file name search and full text search should be an off-by-default option, and search the whole hard drive should be a different also off by default option.

the one that does my head in is you can search for a file with spotlight but then the only thing you can do with the result is open it; you can't see what folder it's in or open the folder.

Hit command-return to open the folder the file is in.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by treeman79 »

Uehreka wrote: post #212
rewtraw wrote: post #131

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly sounds like you might want an iPad. I recently got one to use as a secondary display just for Slack /Discord/etc, but after connecting a trackpad & keyboard I totally fell in love. It's a very simplistic environment, but it's actually quite nice as an alternative to the full-blown macOS.

People say this, and then when you say “sure but one of my full screen apps is VS Code and another one is the Terminal, how do I get that on an iPad?” they go “Honestly sounds like you might want a Mac.”

Vs code with terminal in codespaces via a browser is most impressive.

I still prefer local, but I was blown awat

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by binaryblitz »

vaughan wrote: post #243
Implicated wrote: post #235

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I ended up getting tired of this fight and built a windows box. I've recently tried to migrate back to the mac but it's just terrible with another monitor. Crazy that this is still a thing.

Try VRM thermal pad mod.

100% It actually let the fans spin down when plugged into a monitor.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by deworms »

beders wrote: post #116

It is frustrating to see how stagnant desktop OS's have become. Both macOS and Windows 11 have added incremental features that are surely nice to have, but no one dares to improve on the human-computer-interaction which has remained the same for decades now. 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 mana…

If you're too dumb to understand a fundamental concept like file extensions, which has been around for decades, and remains at the core of desktop computing, you should not be allowed near computers, and you definitely have no say in what computers are, should do, or should work like.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by mulmen »

z5h wrote: post #117
paxys wrote: post #107

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.

> hacked together 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.

> Apple doesn’t want a feature to look like a hack

Tell that to the Messages team.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by concinds »

Klonoar wrote: post #177
concinds wrote: post #163

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Apple took away a key feature, where you pressed a key combo (shift+alt) and clicked on the Bluetooth menu bar item, and you'd get an option to reset Bluetooth; this helped for the inevitable case where people have bugs and devices won't connect, or Bluetooth just won't work. https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/reset-mac-bluetooth-module/ That no longer exists on Monterey. They might be referencing Control Center, thoug…

...are you sure? When bluetooth was broken as all hell in the Monterey betas I believe that the reset trick was the go-to for people to get it to reconnect to devices properly. Unless they removed it entirely in a later beta and I'm simply unaware.

I can only confirm that it's gone from Monterey RC1 and RC2 (& therefore the release build).
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