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Post by clumsysmurf »

illiac786 wrote: post #581
clumsysmurf wrote: post #268

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Seems that bclm no longer works https://github.com/zackelia/bclm/issues/49 I had to start using it because macOS insisted on keeping my battery charged to 100% no matter what I did, and that can damage the battery.

Doesn’t optimised charging ensure it’s not always at 100% natively? Additionally, AlDente is even better than the native battery management.

When I first got my M1 mac, optimized charging worked OK. Eventually it would settle at 80%. But since macOS 14.6-15.0, it's always charging to 100% and staying there no matter what.

Luckily, I gave 'battery toolkit' a try, and it has been working great:

https://github.com/mhaeuser/Battery-Toolkit

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Post by spartanatreyu »

codepoet80 wrote: post #295
RadiozRadioz wrote: post #244

I feel left out sometimes given that I'm still on Mojave. Everyone else is enjoying their new features. But I also like running 32-bit apps and knowing where the system preferences are (because they haven't changed every year for me). So swings and roundabouts.

Right there with ya. They can pry my perpetually licensed pseudo-32-bit copy of Photoshop off my cold dead Mac Pro…

Have you tried photopea.com ?

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Post by KetoManx64 »

nolist_policy wrote: post #568
jonathanyc wrote: post #559

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The way Apple product management works is that everyone is always demoing stuff up the chain and ultimately to Tim. They’re reverentially referred to as “Tim demos” internally. If Tim likes it, you get tons of resources. The downside may be that in the pathological case you’re implementing stuff just for Tim. Another downside is you can’t really demo e.g. high-quality backwards-compatible SDKs to an exec. The upside…

Google released their latest chat app 7 years ago.

Nope, Google Chat is their newest chat app and was released in 2021 : https://www.theverge.com/2021/6/21/22538240/google-chat-allo...

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Post by atonse »

NotPractical wrote: post #583
subjectsigma wrote: post #74

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I'm sitting here thinking - man, how is it possible that they can make the best laptop hardware no contest, and yet I still get blurry icons when connecting to a non-retina external display? Something that the cheapest Windows laptop money can buy would do flawlessly? Macs are great and so is macOS, but it's not that good, at the end of the day it's just a computer

What does "retina" mean exactly? From what I can tell it's a general Apple marketing term rather than something concrete. Are 4K monitors unsupported by macOS? I've been using one with my MacBook for a while and I haven't noticed blurriness.

Jobs explained it when he first debuted it. It's called that because the pixels are small/dense enough that you can basically not distinguish pixels anymore.

So on phones it has usually been about 300dpi. On laptops and desktops it's been something over 220dpi.

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Post by valval »

tl wrote: post #544
gorkish wrote: post #339

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Do you still have to quit and restart the entire application after you give the permission? Holy shit mac users are gonna become a meme in meetings. MacOS is turning into quite the poo log lately. I respect that Apple has every right to completely destroy the legacy of the Macintosh, but they are slow playing it so that it's just a little bit better than the alternatives. The end result is my life gets just a little…

> I respect that Apple has every right to completely destroy the legacy of the Macintosh I disagree. Apple's various machinations to control the best available supply lines (deals with TSMC, etc...) make me feel quite entitled in saying what is and is not acceptable behavior on their part. This feeling amplifies with every "courageous" announcement they make sunsetting some useful feature they no longer feel like sup…

What a pompous and annoying message you’ve written. Apple is one of the most successful businesses in the history of the world for good enough reason — providing value to customers.

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Post by wilg »

philistine wrote: post #115
wilg wrote: post #38

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I wish I could set the macOS one to allow me to have ⅓ on the left and ⅔ on the right.

There are so many totally invisible third-party apps that do exactly that.

I know, I use Moom, but I wish the macOS one did it.

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Post by pseudosaid »

seec wrote: post #605
rgovostes wrote: post #261

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Apple has been doing low latency screen mirroring for, I don’t know, a decade. If you find the latency unacceptable, consider looking into your network performance.

Great way to tell you have low standard and can't detect latency. The same thing has been said about the iPad Mirroring, expect it's effectively unusable for anyone half serious if you don't use the wired mode. For a quick tech demo, it's all fun and games, but when there is real shit to do, nobody wants to fight their tools.

fix your network. i send a display to my ipad to run audio mixing in realtime for work. 30fps, but more importantly consistent pen input for control. been doing this for 3+ years regularly

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Post by pseudosaid »

kccqzy wrote: post #407
dbbk wrote: post #399

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Why would you use iPhone Mirroring for this

I don't even like Apple as a company but I have high expectations of their products and I assume their product is meticulously designed for a variety of use cases. Why should I as a consumer expect half-assed implementations? Just because all software are half-assed these days? Apple says "With iPhone Mirroring, users can now fully access and engage with their iPhone right from Mac while iPhone remains locked nearby.…

this is so asinine. reassess your expectations for a corporate monolith that only cares about money. You should expect half assed implementations from a corporate board beholden to only a profit directive.

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Post by pseudosaid »

kccqzy wrote: post #465
dbbk wrote: post #416

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I guess I just don't follow why you'd discount an entire feature for such a minor, niche reason but you do you

I didn't discount anything. Where did I say that? I merely have high expectations and I'm asking about the feature and whether it satisfies the high expectations, and if so, how. This is called curiosity. I'm never the kind of person who discounts a feature before I even use it. And I clearly said I haven't used it.

This was a painful journey to read. I cant take my wasted time back, but I can waste more letting you know that youve got a blindspot in your mirror
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