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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by crawrey »

dual_dingo wrote: post #473
crawrey wrote: post #444

I just upgraded to Monterey on my Macbook Pro 2018 15-inch and after rebooting, all of the USB-C ports stopped working, including the power adapter. I spent some time on the phone with Apple Support trying to figure out how to fix it. After about an hour and a half there was about 18% battery left before I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. After panicking, the 3rd Apple Support Re…

> I just upgraded to Monterey > I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. Upgrading to a new OS on release day without a prior backup. You like to live dangerously, do you?

I do!

Actually I never upgraded to Catalina and waited until Big Sur seemed stable enough to upgrade to and it upgraded from Mojave without a hitch. I had been following the beta releases of Monterey and it seemed pretty solid, so I figured what the heck, let’s live dangerously baby!

As for not having a recent backup it’s just something that always gets put the back burner. That’s my failing. But to be honest, I wouldn’t have really lost anything of worth, everything important is in version control. Maybe I would have lost a few dot files, some configs, some PoCs, the grooves in my couch. Those grooves that I’ve cultivated wouldn’t cost me much time and honestly sometimes it’s good to get a fresh couch and re-evaluate the grooves of the past.

With all of that said, despite the inconvenience of the upgrade, I would love to give a shout out to Apple support. It’s these moments that you get to appreciate the fact that you can pick up the phone and talk to someone who has some outstanding fault finding and problem solving abilities, leagues ahead of any other provider I have ever had experience with.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by Vuska »

sneak wrote: post #482

Big Sur is the first macOS since I have been using macOS (I distinctly recall being extremely excited to install System 7) where the next major version (Monterey) came out before I had installed it onto any of my daily driver systems. I'm not really sure what this says about macOS product management decisions, but I don't think it's a good thing. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/10/fucking-apple-4/ https://www.jwz.org/b…

These links go to a NSFW image if you have a Hacker News referrer.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by tim333 »

forgotmyoldname wrote: post #372
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…

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…

Question from someone who doesn't know about this stuff - If I need photoshop can I get away with an old version pre creative cloud - cs5 or 6 or something?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by 8draco8 »

popcorncowboy wrote: post #485
dual_dingo wrote: post #473

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> I just upgraded to Monterey > I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. Upgrading to a new OS on release day without a prior backup. You like to live dangerously, do you?

At what point do we start to hold software and software providers to a higher standard? A multi-trillion dollar company releases an upgrade to its flagship operating system and "anyone who knows anything" smiles and nods because we understand that actually USING the upgrade runs a high enough chance to brick your device that doing so without a backup is a rube cliche. I get it. But my question stands.

And it's not like it's under Linux or Windows where target hardware configuration is more or less unknown. Building both software and hardware by Apple supposed to be advantage of Macs.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by e_proxus »

roryokane wrote: post #441
egypturnash wrote: post #367

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oh awesome, thanks! Now if only there was a way to also make it default to searching for filenames instead of text contents.

That feature exists as well. Press ⌃⇧⌘F in the Finder to activate File > “Find by Name…”.

You could even swap the key bindings to make it the default, by going to System Preferences → Keyboard → Shortcuts → App Shortcuts.

I do this to swap the shortcuts Reply and Reply All in Mail.app as well, so that I always reply everyone when pressing ⌘R.

See https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchlp2271/mac

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by chanc3e »

jer0me wrote: post #479
chanc3e wrote: post #451

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This is absolutely my experience of Adobe software too. Terribly engineered with priorities weighted for the board rather than users. I’ve been a designer for +20 years and sans-Adobe for five, I absolutely recommend any young designers to avoid the Adobe workflow. You don’t need it. Photoshop = Pixelmator (Kitura is also very good) Illustrator/Indesign = Affinity Designer Highly precise vectors I draw in Glyphs/Font…

Just to add to this list: Gravit Designer is quite good for small vector projects, though it is a subscription. Adobe Lightroom (the new one) and possibly more can be installed from the App Store without all the Creative Cloud bloat.

Gravit is new on me. I'm bias against web apps, but it's very cool a someone is playing in that space. Thanks!

It's beautiful to see that inside a decade we've gone from having a monoculture of Illustrator as the sole vector app (post freehand) to having multiple very capable competitors on all platforms.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by pharmakom »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #519
jamil7 wrote: post #501

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> I am not very experienced with Arch, but my impression is that it is actually more reliable when updating/upgrading then going to a new major MacOS release I used Arch briefly and this was not my experience, but at least in that community it's kind of expected that you understand this is a possibility and a tradeoff of running the OS.

Use Manjaro then. It's a polished and reasonably tested Arch (roughly saying kind of like what Ubuntu is to Debian). Never had a single problem with it.

Ubuntu… polished? Ha!

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by Toutouxc »

Vuska wrote: post #522
sneak wrote: post #482

Big Sur is the first macOS since I have been using macOS (I distinctly recall being extremely excited to install System 7) where the next major version (Monterey) came out before I had installed it onto any of my daily driver systems. I'm not really sure what this says about macOS product management decisions, but I don't think it's a good thing. https://www.jwz.org/blog/2021/10/fucking-apple-4/ https://www.jwz.org/b…

These links go to a NSFW image if you have a Hacker News referrer.

Wow, that's kinda immature.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by e_proxus »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #100

I've been enjoying Safari's tab group feature quite a lot. It's helped me wrangle the usual set of 5+ windows of tabs related to various tasks down into a single window, with the groups lined up neatly in a side list and auto-sleeping tabs. For me at least it's much better than the implementation Chrome has gone for which tries to shoehorn groups into an already overburdened tab bar.

Is there a way to force apps or links to open in the current tab group?

I often find myself clicking links from apps (e.g. Slack), then keep working and loading project related sites. After a while I suddenly have 12 tabs open in the default tab group that all should have been in the project tab group.

It’s not very visible which group you’re currently in. When it switches group from under your feet I often miss that and keep thinking I’m in the old group.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by chanc3e »

tim333 wrote: post #523
forgotmyoldname wrote: post #372

Earlier 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…

Question from someone who doesn't know about this stuff - If I need photoshop can I get away with an old version pre creative cloud - cs5 or 6 or something?

I think on a Mac you'd struggle to get anything to pre-creative cloud to execute. Windows might be a different story?

If you are doing basic PS work - the open source alternatives are more than capable. Some non-adobe applications can open PSD files in a reasonably sane fashion.

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