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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by native_samples »

seniorivn wrote: post #515
native_samples wrote: post #504

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We do hold them accountable ... by using Apple :( It's not like Linux or Windows upgrades are drastically smoother. In fact right now I have a Windows VM that tells me "This PC doesn't meet the requirements to upgrade to Windows 11" in the upgrade screen, and their health check app tells me "This PC meets the requirements". Probably something got cached somewhere, as I had to add a virtual TPM just now. But still. Th…

NixOS updates are drastically smoother, if default option to boot into any of previous updates is enough to never overthink it

I don't think a platform that requires you to learn a custom functional programming language can be described as having smoother updates, really.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by heurisko »

qwerty456127 wrote: post #535
pharmakom wrote: post #527

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Ubuntu… polished? Ha!

There always is a huge room for subjectivity, edge cases and other critique in this. But generally saying I'd say yes. My experience mostly is about desktop/laptop (non-gaming, on-board video only) though.

Same. The Ubuntu long term support releases are quite conservative.

I did find the Unity interface more polished however.

It seemed like Canonical did a lot of UX research, to make things like the "power off" button adjoin the corner of the screen, so you could imprecisely flick the cursor and know it has hit the target. It also worked a lot better under old hardware.

I still use Unity with community support. It's a shame, I think as I remembered seeing the Unity interface at work sometimes and thinking that Ubuntu was making inroads.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

Yet another release that misses a crucial feature.

With the recent years push to store "everything in the cloud", macOS sorely needs a way to backup cloud content. Currently the only way to do so, is to create a "server" machine that pulls everything from the cloud and stores it locally, which you can then backup.

Since most modern computers are sold with harddrives size equivalent of a USB Stick, and cloud storage is typically 2-10 times larger, this means you need to add even more hardware just to hold the data you just want to backup.

Considering that Apple is pretty vague with regards to exactly how protected your iCloud data is, and they themselves strongly recommend that you backup your iCloud data, i find it an odd omision that the only way to do it is part manual process, part synchronize stuff locally before backing it up.

All it would take (on the UI end) was an option in Time Machine to include "mac optimized storage". Third party support gets a bit more complicated. Where Microsoft OneDrive, Google Drive and Dropbox all use placeholder files, iCloud placeholders apparently only exists inside "Finder", so most third party backup software won't be able to see these files.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by BillinghamJ »

irae wrote: post #549
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…

The T2 chips were a bold move and probably necessary for Apple as a transition plan. Imagine all the features it provides (Touch ID, secure boot, disk encryption) arriving only with the M1 Macs? Firmware and software needed to see the light of day and be put to test by the millions. Thanks everyone that ever owned Intel Macs with T2 chips. I am so glad I never owned anything from that generation, and I appreciate you…

I think in most regards, they were actually a lot better than the Intel-only Macs - including on stability etc.

As the T2 chip was the primary thing controlling the computer, effectively they were M1 machines, up until the point where the full x86 OS was being loaded.

So for a problem like this - with the SMC, ports, etc. - there's no distinction between the T2 Macs and the M1 Macs, they're the same thing and run the same fundamental software (which does get updated)

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by kylehotchkiss »

joconde wrote: post #90

So Private Relay is available on both iOS and macOS stable releases now. Have there been expert opinions about how private this is? I understand they built a Tor-light, by hopping through one Apple server, then one external server, with some sort of anonymisation between the two?

The external servers are like cloudflare and fastly. Private relay doesn’t make any claims to be as private or anonymous as tor. It’s designed more to keep ISPs less aware of your browsing history and prevent websites from tracking you with IP.

In my experience so far, Private Relay just turns off and back on randomly. There’s no safari indicator that private relay is off, just push notifications to inform you of the status. Private relay and mail privacy protection also completely disable when using another VPN. That said I’m very happy to get private relay with iCloud+ as it means phone is approaching the point where carrier can’t associate me with browsing history for to sell to whatever creepy business offers them money.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by EamonnMR »

RussianCow wrote: post #217
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.

If this is the biggest thing holding their operating system back, Apple must be doing okay.

Almost everything else I do in an application, so the most I interact with the OS is when I clumsily look around for a file. I've started using fzf (you can install it with brew) and open but I shouldn't have to. QOL would be on par with Windows and Linux if not for this type of issue.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by EamonnMR »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #342
aikinai wrote: post #264

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What any the fact that Spotlight is terrible at finding files and is now just trying to be a bad version of Google?

seriously, why is spotlight still so bad at finding files?

Oh you don't want every search to find every python bytecode file on your whole system every time?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by EamonnMR »

slmjkdbtl wrote: post #616
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.

Are you sure it's not .DS_Store?

I've .gitignore'd it and never looked back.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by EamonnMR »

hk1337 wrote: post #207
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.

Meh. It’s only slightly annoying. It global searches by default but all you have to do is click your folder name at the top of the search

On my previous macbook it was a showstopper because it would lock the machine up returning thousands of irrelevant files.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by gremloni »

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 doubt anyone backs up their data with mac oses since they feel so much like generic updates.
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