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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by banana_giraffe »

pas wrote: post #234
fnord123 wrote: post #223

>Stream movies and TV shows while on a FaceTime call with friends. With synced playback and controls, you’ll see everyone laugh, jump, and react to the same moments at the same time. And the volume automatically adjusts, so you can keep talking while you watch. Pretty sure this is illegal.

maybe only works with "apple tv", and they have the license for it?

It works with several streaming providers. The API is opt in though (Coordinated Media Playback), so the providers need to implement some hooks to make it work, meaning they've decided they have the rights.

Notably, Netflix doesn't allow it, but Disney+, Huly and HBO Max do.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by willyt »

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.

type name:nameoffileIwant or just start typing and press down arrow then enter to select and search the Name matches:blah blah option that appears usually straight away.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by tomrod »

concinds wrote: post #144
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…

I don't like hero worship, but I happened to hear a Steve Jobs clip the other day, where he said: a great idea is only 10% what you think it's worth; the 90% is the implementation details and craftsmanship that goes into it. I don't want an OS that "doesn't make me pick between iCloud or ~/Documents". That just means turning macOS into ChromeOS. An OS with just a search bar would break a ridiculous amount of uses, fr…

> I happened to hear a Steve Jobs clip the other day, where he said: a great idea is only 10% what you think it's worth; the 90% is the implementation details and craftsmanship that goes into it.

I like your comment, and I would LOVE a source on the quote!

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by simondotau »

ctime wrote: post #261
simondotau wrote: post #253

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 mos…

The UK/Ireland 3 prong duckhead is grounded. I have no idea why third parties haven't produced grounded versions, other than the obvious (no demand and anyone who cares has a solution, use the extension cable). [1] https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Adapter-Duckhead-Universa...

Are you sure?

https://thisbeast.com/how-to-avoid-electric-charge-on-macboo...

https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/17575/how-to-prope...

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by concinds »

nawgz wrote: post #175
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…

How are secret features better than the now-discoverable option of simply shutting it off and turning it back on? It's an all-time computing classic and now it's using the UI classic toggle language. This seems superb to me.

Turning bluetooth on and off doesn't reset anything, so it doesn't help when people have deeper problems with their Mac's bluetooth.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by aikinai »

Ambroos wrote: post #189
RussianCow wrote: post #57

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.

It doesn't work very well in office environments unfortunately. I gave it a try with my work MBP and Mac Pro, and the amount of cursor judder / keyboard lag was wild. It'd also just plain not work at times. I think things are better when the environment is less busy and devices can talk to eachother over the same WiFi network (instead of WiFi direct), but it has proven to be unusable in the one scenario where I'd hav…

Universal Control isn’t even out yet in beta.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by banana_giraffe »

neilalexander wrote: post #54
kkirsche wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

Agreed, though I really wish it would let me pick which Slacks or Mail servers get through in different modes.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by bjustin »

ascagnel_ wrote: post #55
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.

Shortcuts on iPadOS and whatever beta of Monterey I'm running on this computer can both set and clear focus modes. I use that on my iPad to set a focus mode, which also updates my home screens, and launch AudioBus in one go by running my shortcut. Weirdly it can't check what the current focus mode is.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by sergiomattei »

psychometry wrote: post #244
sergiomattei wrote: post #78

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I'm impressed. People really will never be satisfied. A relatively low-key, under-the-hood Mac release? "Man I miss when the Mac was innovative. These releases are a snooze fest." A big release, packed with features? "Man I miss when Apple cared about their OS stability. We need a new zero features snooze fest like 10.6. Take me back to Snow Leopard :(" Only HN can pull off such astounding mood swings. I know this si…

Wow it's almost as if multiple people comment on things here and they have different opinions!

I know, it's just a caricature at this point. Common, everyday tropes in HN.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by mulmen »

astrange wrote: post #233
aserdf wrote: post #190

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am referring to the on device flavor - if it does not apply to macOS that is great.

The server-side version is strictly less private.

Only if the client-side scanning includes end-to-end encryption, which was never part of the deal. It was a possible future feature. Also, only if the-client side scanning only scans images being uploaded to iCloud and not literally everything.

Also any kind of content scanning is always strictly worse than no scanning at all.

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