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macOS Monterey
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#412The 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…
My MBP 16" used to be so throttled sometimes that Google Meet would freeze up and disconnect me when it was the only thing I had open. This was after I tried cleaning the fans out by blowing some compressed air in the vents.
I had a computer shop clean the inside of my laptop in August and haven't seen kernel_task ever since.
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#413Dear Apple,
I have no interest in using your locked down operating systems. On the other hand, your M1 based hardware is excellent. Please open up your drivers so I can run Linux on it at full performance (instead of using reverse engineered drivers which will probably never reach the performance levels of the proprietary drivers).
Thank You
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#414I 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…
> Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet?
On Linux you can use flatpak where you can manually limit the permissions on a per application basis.
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#415Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 sche…
> I use Photoshop for art. Unfortunately, all other desktop software just isn't good I see this "I've tried one solution and I'm all out of ideas" approach a lot. I used Photoshop for many years. Pixelmator is hands down better than Photoshop in every regard and much cheaper.
> I see this "I've tried one solution and I'm all out of ideas" approach a lot.
Not sure where you've seen it, because it sure wasn't in my post.
I've tried the alternatives. I once (regretfully) paid for Pixelmator. I tried Krita. I suffered through GIMP. I've fiddled with Clip Studio Paint.
Photoshop is quite simply better, more full-featured, and stable. Pixelmator would crash fairly often and I'd lose progress. The others just don't have good UI, and in GIMP's case, it's outright user-hostile.
I've managed to switch most of my software to free/cheaper alternatives (Blender has improved a lot lately and I was glad to leave Maya), but when it comes to 2D art on desktops, Photoshop is unfortunately still the best.
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#416any news on whether we can control external monitor brightness with lunar on Monterey with M1? I miss that feature
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#417Betting that the next incremental update will be named macOS Carmel.
Nah, too close, they will go farther north, I think.
Point Reyes is my bet.
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#418It runs really well on my 2012 Macbook Pro thanks to OCLP. Better even than Big Sur so far.
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#419any news on whether we can control external monitor brightness with lunar on Monterey with M1? I miss that feature
I beleive there was a software update for that
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#420Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I use Photoshop for art. Unfortunately, all other desktop software just isn't good I see this "I've tried one solution and I'm all out of ideas" approach a lot. I used Photoshop for many years. Pixelmator is hands down better than Photoshop in every regard and much cheaper.
> I see this "I've tried one solution and I'm all out of ideas" approach a lot. Not sure where you've seen it, because it sure wasn't in my post. I've tried the alternatives. I once (regretfully) paid for Pixelmator. I tried Krita. I suffered through GIMP. I've fiddled with Clip Studio Paint. Photoshop is quite simply better, more full-featured, and stable. Pixelmator would crash fairly often and I'd lose progress. T…
Affinity Photo is pretty good though it may not suit your needs. I know you already tried it but Clip Studio is very powerful if you stick with it (possibly depending on what art you’re making)