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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by iscrewyou »

crossroadsguy wrote: post #388
ksec wrote: post #75

Sort of a mini review. Using it at home on my MacBook Pro 2015 Intel Machine. Big Sur on M1 was fine ( if not great ), mostly because M1 is extremely fast. But Big Sir on x86 was slow, really slow. I am in the group that reported Big Sur was slower than Catalina, and Catalina was slower than Mojave. That is with both the OS itself and Safari. So Big Sur was not a smooth experience for me. Monterey so far brings back…

I heard the same from a friend. But my 2012 Air won’t get it. So I’m stuck on Catalina, as I can’t downgrade to Mojave.

This option lets you downgrade to the OS your Mac came with: “ Reinstall your computer’s original version of macOS (including available updates): Option-Shift-Command-R.” https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/reinstall-macos-mch...

You can download the Mojave image from here afterwards: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT211683

Backup your data before doing a clean install.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by jay_kyburz »

bombcar wrote: post #365
hobos_delight wrote: post #356

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All / most PDF forms used by the Australian Defence Force are like this - I suspect it’s because it’s all tied into the identity / ability to digitally sign the forms. It’s very frustrating when you send someone (externally) a PDF and it required them to install Acrobat. Or maybe it’s just Adobe trying to take the P out of PDF…

The PDF format supports all sorts of insane extensions only implemented in Acrobat and only used by governments and large enterprises.

When I get forms like this I just dump them to jpg, fill them in an a paint program and zip them back up and send them as static images.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by nikanj »

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.

But it's SO THIN -Jony Ive

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by nlitened »

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

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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.”

You can also connect iPad to your Mac as a second display, and put terminal there :)

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by 0x38B »

JKCalhoun wrote: post #405
dev_tty01 wrote: post #346

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This is an excellent Mac PDF editing tool. I'm not affiliated, just a user. https://pdfexpert.com I was editing pdf drafts from a publisher and just couldn't stand another minute of dealing with Acrobat. Found this, removed all vestiges of Adobe, and haven't looked back. I've used Preview a lot, but it just isn't reliable (for me). Apple seems to muck around with the code every couple of versions and break things. Od…

Noped out. 1) Defaulted to setting PDFExpert as my PDF viewer, 2) followed with a survey I could not close out, 3) required an account to begin. I'm happy it works for you but I'm tired of the modern software that wants accounts, your data....

I'm not surprised by this.

Readdle's apps, namely 'Documents', have always been my go-to on iOS for editing PDFs and transferring files[1].

But they went and added a useless VPN to Documents, then released a 're-design' which cuts functionality (and from the reviews is quite buggy). It's sad to see a quality app degrade as the developer adds bloat and new 'features'.

1: For example, Documents (which edits PDFs as well) has a built-in WebDav server that is super useful for getting files between an iPhone and a Linux machine over Wifi.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by cpuguy83 »

smoldesu wrote: post #344
zepto wrote: post #324

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What do you want from an ‘official’ package manager?

For one, it would at least solve the issue of MacOS' coreutils being perpetually outdated. Secondly, it would be a nice way for developers to skip the burning dumpster fire otherwise known as the App Store when distributing basic apps, without having to download untrusted third-party software. As for specific features, I'd really like to see a list of all the different MacOS components so I can remove the things I do…

How would a official package manager solve packages being out of date? Apple has a means to deliver those updates already. If they had an interest in doing so, they'd update them. So it stands to reason it would be up to the community to deal with this, as it does now.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by anonymoushn »

nsonha wrote: post #386
rubyist5eva wrote: post #198

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I don't think expecting Apple to implement every single pet feature of every single power user is something that is reasonable.

Aranging windows is not a "power user feature". It's a basic thing that all other desktop OSes have. If you think hotkeys are "power user" things then replace them with gestures. Mac has none. They actually do have windows splits, it's just unfortunate that they force a workspace onto them. If anything workspace is a power user feature. Many including myself rarely use it. I could not if I wanted to because it looks…

What app do you use to get a normal alt+tab on mac?
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