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Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by haunter »

skydhash wrote: post #61
xlii wrote: post #35

I recently got bored of Apple ecosystem. Was considering buying System76 for work, but thought that iPhone Mirroring feature would be really neat and decided to wait. Turns out it’s not available in EU because yadda yadda Apple threw a fit. Oh well.

I've installed Asahi on my mac. Altough I had to recreate some utilities, it's so much worth it. With macOS you have to accept the good and the bad, and the bad are really annoying. It work great for task focused usage, but for personal computing, it's a pain.

>With macOS you have to accept the good and the bad, and the bad are really annoying

You can say that about every single OS

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by kccqzy »

dbbk wrote: post #149
kccqzy wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you elaborate on why it's nice? How do I do multi-touch gestures with a single cursor? Is the main benefit be able to use iPhone apps on a bigger screen? Can iPhone apps display more content (maybe let the app pretend it's being displayed on an iPad or at least a larger screen than the physical screen size)?

> How do I do multi-touch gestures with a single cursor? The same way you do them on Mac. With a trackpad.

But with a trackpad you cannot see what you are touching. You see a single cursor on the screen. If you touch two things on your iPhone you know exactly which two things you are manipulating. With a single cursor on the Mac, no matter how many fingers you use you only manipulate one thing.

This seems to me a difficult challenge in mashing up the wildly different interaction paradigms. I'd love to see how Apple solves it in their new feature.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by queuebert »

jmward01 wrote: post #14

A long time ago I started dreading major updates from corporate providers. They push features they want, not features I want. It got so bad with Microsoft that I fled. Apple's updates have been aggressive in resetting my preferences and pushing things like iCloud and their login to the point that they are on the Microsoft path. I am forced to use mac for work but only because of work.

When I hear "updates" instead of "upgrades", it sounds like no guarantee of improvement is being made.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by joshdavham »

gigatexal wrote: post #99

I’ve already upgraded everything in my home. All our phones, our watches, our HomePods, our laptops, and our iPads, and the AppleTv. It’s pretty cool! Still playing with things but upgrade went smoothly and I like the customizability.

Does this "iPhone Mirroring" thing work with iPads, or just iPhones?

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by toofy »

bredren wrote: post #44
leetharris wrote: post #15

Weird how the title says, "macOS Sequoia is available today, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and more to Mac" Then you look at the paragraph for this and it says, "Coming Soon: Apple Intelligence" They announced this in June, and it's just loosely coming "this fall." I have a feeling they are finding it very difficult to do anything with any kind of consistency or value on their 8gb RAM phones / Macboo…

A commonly cited analyst described lower than expected sales of iPhone 16 Pro due to AI features not rolling out until October. https://www.macrumors.com/2024/09/15/iphone-16-pro-demand-es... I find that a little hard to believe. I would suppose the vast majority of customers don't think a lot about the timing of software features in a purchase decision.

absolutely anecdotal, but from my experience, people who are normally excited for iPhones really don’t care about AI at all.

i think Apple hyping AI so much was a mistake, doesn’t have nearly the same impact to them as hyping up a new camera feature or a new screen or a new color or something.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by dbbk »

_lvbh wrote: post #75

Although I don’t use MacOS, the fact that you can now control an iPhone from a Mac will probably be reverse engineered to allow Linux to do the same at some point. A lot of automation opportunities

Nope. It uses device attestation.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by JoBrad »

tpmoney wrote: post #39
AndrewSwift wrote: post #13

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Note that you can option double click the corner of a window to make it fill the screen. I realize that this isn't what you're asking, but it might help.

You can also double click the title bar to expand to fill the screen, and double click it again to return to the previous size. One caveat to this is if your application saves window sizes on close and you close with a full screen window and re-open, it won’t shrink again because the “original size” was full screen when the window was opened

Setting the "Double-click a window's title bar" action to Zoom just fills the vertical space. It doesn't adjust the width to fill available space, which is usually what I want. Finder, as an example, almost never sets the width to something usable.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by skydhash »

andrelaszlo wrote: post #106
skydhash wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've installed Asahi on my mac. Altough I had to recreate some utilities, it's so much worth it. With macOS you have to accept the good and the bad, and the bad are really annoying. It work great for task focused usage, but for personal computing, it's a pain.

How's your experience? I'm tempted but have so many questions: - Which mac are you using? - Any missing hardware support? - Dual booting? - How's Bluetooth? - Anything else that was surprising, scary, or disappointing?

It's both on my Mac Mini and my MBA (both M1). It work great on the Mini. I think bluetooth work, but I have no use for it and have never checked. Everything works great as far as I know (even virtualization with qemu). I don't game on it, so can't say anything about that.

As for the MBA, suspend is still a miss (I read that the asahi team can't get certain devices to go to deep sleep, so they chose a safer low power mode instead). The lack of DP over usb-c is a bit annoying, but I mostly use the laptop display on macOS too, so I don't really mind. I think thunderbolt is not there too, but I have no thunderbolt devices (dock or storage). It boots very fast, but I'd recommend against KDE as the MBA gets hot with it. I'm using Sway. I heard about microphone issue, but I've never used it for calls as I have a usb one on my desktop.

The installation process is as easy as something done in the terminal can be. It's pretty much guided (just make sure you have enough space for the installation). If I had to redo it, I'd choose the minimal installation as I don't like KDE that much and it was some pain to remove it.

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