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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by pram »

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.

They added a framework specifically for Linux in Big Sur. Also QEMU runs on MacOS lol

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by forgotmyoldname »

0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290
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…

I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

I use Photoshop for art. Unfortunately, all other desktop software just isn't good, but thankfully Procreate is absolutely amazing software that I can use on my iPad (if you're reading this, devs, please port it to macOS. There are countless artists that'll pay to switch to a non-subscription based, non-Adobe piece of software that doesn't suck). But for desktop, I really have no choice but to buy into the Adobe scheme.

But yes, Creative Cloud is seriously completely fucking nuts. It's shit I do not and will not ever need or want for any reason and exists just to burn through my electric bill and contribute to climate change. Trying to find ways to disable it gives you cheeky employees who post marketing fluff about how it enables consumer whatever BS, but nobody can explain what those 8 dozen background tasks are doing or why we can't disable it.

I resorted to just deleting parts of the software package one by one. Most background tasks are gone. I made the mistake of updating one (1) time and the number of background tasks doubled. Absolute insanity. Nearly gigabytes of memory swallowed and CPU cycles wasted doing nothing. For all I know, it's nothing but crypto mining processes--and honestly, it probably is since Adobe has shown themselves to be money hungry and absolutely nobody can or will say what those processes are.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by arcticbull »

josephg wrote: post #322
0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290

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I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

> Well a few months ago I needed to fill out customs form 5106. This form uses some kind of proprietary Adobe PDF form creation software thing PSA in case anyone doesn't know this: the built-in Preview app on MacOS can be used to fill in any PDF form. You can type into text boxes on some forms. But even if they're not there, you can add text anywhere on a pdf. You just have to drag your own text boxes to wherever you…

Some of the, especially government, form utilize what I think is some kind of Acrobat Forms QR code generation to create a machine-readable representation of the form. This isn't supported in Preview.

Further, PDF is a monstrous format which includes its own variant of ECMA script built in. I think its pretty unrealistic to expect Apple to cleanroom the whole "standard" so I'm not too upset. They've got probably 90% of the way there, but it's unfortunately not every form.

For Canadians, PPT-054 is a good example [1] - notice $Form$054 and so on in the upper right corner. I can't remember which off hand but either the US I-131 or I-765 has one, too. Unfortunately I-131 isn't even loading in Safari for me at the moment.

[1] https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/ircc/migration/ircc/englis...

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by [deleted] »

astrange wrote: post #228
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…

> 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. That's a watchdog kernel panic (maybe). Shouldn't be seeing that unless you have misbehaving NFS mounts or something.

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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by throwawayboise »

gibspaulding wrote: post #351
josephg wrote: post #322

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> Well a few months ago I needed to fill out customs form 5106. This form uses some kind of proprietary Adobe PDF form creation software thing PSA in case anyone doesn't know this: the built-in Preview app on MacOS can be used to fill in any PDF form. You can type into text boxes on some forms. But even if they're not there, you can add text anywhere on a pdf. You just have to drag your own text boxes to wherever you…

For Wimdows/Linux users LibreOffice Draw also mostly works for this. Its clunkey, and there are exceptions, but generally you can drop a textbox wherever you need, then re-export as a pdf when you're done.

You can do this with Inkscape also.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by hokumguru »

fnord123 wrote: post #216
Smoofer wrote: post #200

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This is the _biggest_ thing holding MacOS back?

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…

Woah is that why it feels like my MacBook is humming sometimes when I touch it? Wondered this for years.

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Post by nsonha »

movedx wrote: post #297
nsonha wrote: post #183

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> rude to Apple? Why can't this be a predictable hold and drag, like everything else? They expect users to... what read a manual? There is an alternative, make it so that users can intuitively discover features by playing around. I believe Steve Jobs told some pretentious story along that line when he launched the iPad.

> There is an alternative, make it so that users can intuitively discover features by playing around. I believe Steve Jobs told some pretentious story along that line when he launched the iPad. And of course the technology hasn't evolved since then. Society hasn't gotten more complex. The problems we're solving are the same. Nothing has changed and people aren't asking for new things and demanding more convenience. E…

> technology hasn't evolved since then... everything is static.

Maybe read again, no one said that. If anything it used to be the norm to have clunky products that require a manual. Many products these days don't need manuals.

I mentioned Steve Jobs to say he was full of shit, I don't believe for a second that Apple did actually pursuit that philosophy, let alone that they should stay doing it

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by nsonha »

whynotminot wrote: post #265
nsonha wrote: post #142

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> Apple doesn’t want a feature to look like a hack That means they care about their reputation more than actually helping user. I don't think feedback is valued (more than their designers' opinions), so no reason to ship fast.

Shipping so fast you end up delivering a bad user experience doesn't actually help the user. I feel like this needs to be strongly emphasized for the agile crowd that knows what speed is but sometimes forgets what quality is.

no one said that speed is the end goal. I said if you don't need to collect feedback, there is no need to ship fast. Of course the outcome is that you have a product with ideas pulled out of your arse instead of responding to users' voices. Having said it could still be good

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by kenhwang »

blufish wrote: post #325
vaughan wrote: post #241

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If you want to solve your problem do the VRM mod. And use a small desk fan. It’s easy and reversible.

how about a cooling pad

I've found a laptop cooling pad works wonders, even without the fan on. Just letting ambient air reach the laptop bottom was enough passive cooling to keep the laptop fans off most of the time. But if the bottom of the laptop is touching any surface for extended periods of time, it got so hot that it couldn't even keep the battery charged without thermal throttling while the laptop was essentially idle.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by diebeforei485 »

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.

11.6.1 (the latest Big Sur) was out this morning, so you may have to check for updates again.
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