Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a Mac. "whether the screen is faulty, or the board is faulty" have the same fix.
Not if you know how to take apart computers.
and own a blowdryer.
Sensible macOS Defaults
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Re: Sensible macOS Defaults
#122This is neat! I had no idea so much of macOS was configurable at the cli. That said, I am very nervous to try these commands because I'm not sure what the original default is - so if I don't like any option I have no idea how to set it back! Short of an OS reinstall, I suppose. I can see why Mathias would want to preserve these - it's not any weirder than checking in your emacs.d folder.
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#123I'd greatly prefer a title such as "Mac OS defaults I prefer". I read the first page or so and honestly didn't find any that I would actually want.
Labelling these "sensible" then suggests that the alternatives rather than just being personal choice are somehow not sensible, and who other than a fool would choose something that's not sensible?
Well me it seems, and I feel like the patronising title is implying that I am one.
Re: Sensible macOS Defaults
#124I'd greatly prefer a title such as "Mac OS defaults I prefer". I read the first page or so and honestly didn't find any that I would actually want. Labelling these "sensible" then suggests that the alternatives rather than just being personal choice are somehow not sensible, and who other than a fool would choose something that's not sensible? Well me it seems, and I feel like the patronising title is implying that I…
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26514195
I would have titled it differently had the creator not referred to the file as such. I even tried changing the title earlier today (I don’t particularly like it either), but it got changed back. Apologies!
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
The default is reaching to the top left corner of the keyboard. I know the default and it's terrible if someone uses vim. In macOS it's trivial to remap the caps lock key to ESC system wide through the built in preferences. So while it's not that way out the box, it's certainly in the realm of default configurations any user might make on their machine.
I can't really understand picking an editor that is so awkward that it relies on me reconfiguring my hardware and breaking the labelling of the keys to make it usable.
Here's the thing. Even if someone doesn't use vim, remapping a mostly useless key like caps lock to ESC is still more useful. ESC should cancel out of most dialogs and popups, so should be key that is likely used more often than the occasional times someone needs to type a long enough string of upper case characters to need caps lock.
As far as editors and key labels, I don't really understand the problem. Move beyond any of the basic shortcuts on any editor, and you quickly move into combinations that have little to do with what's written on the key(s).
Re: Sensible macOS Defaults
#126This is part of the reason I switched to Linux. I've heard so many people say "Linux is free only if you don't value your time" and then turn around and write one of these. If I'm going to go through the trouble of customizing an operating system to fit my needs, I may as well do it with a free and open system rather than MacOS, which can change for the worse at any moment (the dealbreaker for me was dropping 32 bit…
Realistically, the person who compiled this script file to make the OS behave exactly how they desire is very different from the kind of person who says "Linux is free only if you don't value your time". Personally, I like to keep to the defaults and prefer to change my own workflow to match the OS designers' vision of how I should use a computer, rather than to try to bend the OS to my priors. I understand why this…
Absolutely! I thought I was the only one who felt this way. I used to customise everything “back in the day” and then I’d change machine or have to use someone else’s - and all my muscle memory would be lost.
These days the only thing I customise is the “refactor” shortcut in IDEA because the Fn keys suck on MacOS.
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#127the sudo loop is really dangerous
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#128Sorry, soon as I saw the line that disables the startup chime I knew everything here was wrong.
Yes! The startup sound is part of the long history of the Mac. It’s entirely nostalgic for me and always reminds me of the sense of wonder I felt when I first used a 128K Mac.
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#129prefsniff is a tool that can monitor defaults changes on macOS if you want to see what default key underlies a particular setting:
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#130> Disable the sound effects on boot
As someone who grew up using an old school Mac in the 90s, this is blasphemy! That triumphant chime is essential to the Macintosh experience (just kidding but kinda not).