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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by jonwest »

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

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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...

I feel so stupid that I was chasing down audio hum issues for a while and even though I knew it was ground related I didn’t even clue in to use the 3 prong adapter.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by abrazame »

Smoofer wrote: post #200
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.

This is the _biggest_ thing holding MacOS back?

It may sound insignificant, but quality-of-life issues like these feel incredibly frustrating, and build the feeling that your computer is working against you, rather than with you (or at the very least at cross purposes to you). Friction is a big deal. It doesn't feel like your tool when it keeps doing things you don't want it to do.

It was exactly this issue that made me finally dump Gnome.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by fastball »

smoldesu wrote: post #313
crooked-v wrote: post #299

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> Yes we can use VMs for this, but Mac laptops aren’t generally beefy machines The newest ones with M1/M1 Pro are actually pretty beefy, and even the Macbook Air has benchmarks that beat literally everything else in the Apple lineup except the iMac Pros and the new-model Mac Pros. This doesn't help much with current equipment, but it should make future planning easier.

What they really need is something powerful and open along the lines of QEMU/KVM. HyperKit is dead-last when it comes the virtualization race, and it's one of the technologies I'm rooting for Apple to scrap altogether. MacOS needs either a thinner hypervisor or a lower-level virtualization solution, either of which I see as equally unlikely from Apple.

Pretty happy with Parallels performance on my M1 Mac tbh.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by xattt »

brailsafe wrote: post #267
Waterluvian wrote: post #121

I've been away from MacOS for about 10 years. Big Sur now. Kinda hate it. I keep accidentally invoking extra layers of UI everywhere. That's fine I guess. But what I ran into that I LOVE is making EVERY app full-screen, pretending there is no desktop or window management, and just swiping right/left among them. I wish there was a way to smooth out the UX so that this feels first-class and I stop accidentally breaking…

I've always enjoyed the spaces feature. Tried to get into it as my main way of interacting with apps, but it never fully stuck. That might be because I'm often using preview windows and everything is chaos.

I’ll open a second desktop if I need to look up something in a new browser window, but have work open and windows arranged a certain way.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by xattt »

krono wrote: post #213
ehakan wrote: post #115

The Macbook Pro 16" thermal throttling problems with external monitors [1] finally seems to be fixed with Monterey by enabling low power mode. (At least with 16:9 60Hz monitors). 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-noi…

Castrating your €3k "pro" machine just to run an external monitor goes for a fix these days? Man Apple has it good.

Why else do you think Apple includes screen time features and an ability to disable Safari on the iPhone flavour of the day‽

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by FireBeyond »

threeseed wrote: post #93
FireBeyond wrote: post #79

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And Apple only just with the new MBPs upgraded to 1080p. And Dell supports Windows Hello 3D face recognition without a notch. It's not quite as unbalanced as you imply.

And the notch was only just introduced. Not sure what your point is here.

The initial implication, "Dell's webcam implementation sucks. Apple's is better because of the resolution and position, which allows facial recognition".

Apple's resolution was equally as bad as Dell's until eight days ago.

Dell's position allows facial recognition without cutting into the screen.

So my point is that contrary to several comments implying how "obvious" it is that Apple's webcam implementation is superior, it's not necessarily obvious, nor superior.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by FireBeyond »

threeseed wrote: post #92
FireBeyond wrote: post #77

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And yet iPhones are flagship phones... Taste is subjective. Anyone arguing that the MBP is objectively better than, say, https://icdn.digitaltrends.com/image/digitaltrends/dell-xps-... is just expressing their preferences. And I say that as someone who is waiting on delivery of the 14" MBP.

M1 Pro/Max destroys the competition by every definition. https://www.anandtech.com/show/17024/apple-m1-max-performanc... So taste maybe subjective. But there is simply no argument that if you care about performance or battery life then the MacBook Pro is objectively better.

Right. I just ordered the M1 Max, for similar reasons. Even against my mid 2019 MBP.

The iPhone / Android objection still stands.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by smoldesu »

ubercow13 wrote: post #329
smoldesu wrote: post #313

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What they really need is something powerful and open along the lines of QEMU/KVM. HyperKit is dead-last when it comes the virtualization race, and it's one of the technologies I'm rooting for Apple to scrap altogether. MacOS needs either a thinner hypervisor or a lower-level virtualization solution, either of which I see as equally unlikely from Apple.

QEMU runs on macos already?

That's news to me!

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by jonwest »

Vomzor wrote: post #315
deathanatos wrote: post #132

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Just having functional bluetooth would be nice? Bluetooth on my MBP recently decided to turn "off", and clicking/sliding the on/off slider just does nothing. The slider doesn't move to "on", and I get no feedback, errors, information or anything about why I can't re-enable it. Prior to that BT devices would just drop the connection, AFAICT. Bi-directional file transfer has never worked properly. And that's only BT… I…

Do you have an 16" Macbook Pro? There is a hardware bug where plugging in external bluetooth kills the internal bluetooth.

That’s a thing on 13” MBP as well, it happened to me. I needed to use some super antiquated BT USB adapter and provide the digital equivalent of an indigenous rain dance in order to revive it. Apparently Apple was just straight up replacing motherboards because of it but I really didn’t want to be without my machine for a week plus during peak COVID.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by tempfs »

MrWiffles wrote: post #181

I haven’t seen this anywhere when I’ve looked, so I’ll ask here on the slim chance maybe they really added something I badly want and somebody knows… Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet? Something users can control to forcibly stop bad behavior from certain “must have” apps. Chrome, for example, has been caught doing entire drive scans on Windows, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Zoom either. So I…

Well... you could create a new user profile, install the apps to that user's profile, give their group access to the folders you want the browser to be able to get to (Downloads folder, whatever), then lock them out of anything else....then run the browser as that user only. aka (sudo -u Bob /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/Firefox )

OS perms should do the rest. I don't know if OSX has a firejail equivalent but that would be nice too.

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