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It's a Mac. "whether the screen is faulty, or the board is faulty" have the same fix.
Among the many differences, if the screen is faulty, one can plug in an external monitor, and: get files off, perform a backup, use the computer , and so on and so forth.
You don't need a chime in order to try that.
Disabling natural-direction scrolling isn't sensible. It's the first thing I fix on all other OSes. Why should the content go the opposite direction of the way I'm moving my finger? This is one of the best fixes Apple ever made, back in Lion. Kudos to them to seeing the everyday and noticing that it was wrong.
This is configurable almost everywhere it is encountered, and there's a reason for that! It's the same dilemma as panning a first-person-perspective camera up and down. Some people think that down should move the perspective, some people think that down should move the camera : so pushing the joystick down should move the viewing window up. These physical intuitions are durable and hard to change. I grimly endured th…
It makes perfect sense when I'm on a phone that I'm grabbing the content, since I'm reaching out and literally touching the content.
But on a desktop, I have a cursor. Obviously if I want to point at something below where my cursor is, I move it down. And if it's off the window, I need to scroll down further.
1) Remove the dock (killing the dock automatically restarts it) 2) Remove all desktop icons (Killing Finder accomplishes this, but they reappear as soon as you need to open something in Finder)
Stuff like the above is why I greatly prefer Linux.
While we're here, there's a couple things on a mac I haven't been able to figure out how to do, and maybe some of you mac pros can give me answers. 1) Remove the dock (killing the dock automatically restarts it) 2) Remove all desktop icons (Killing Finder accomplishes this, but they reappear as soon as you need to open something in Finder) Stuff like the above is why I greatly prefer Linux.
$ defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock
While we're here, there's a couple things on a mac I haven't been able to figure out how to do, and maybe some of you mac pros can give me answers. 1) Remove the dock (killing the dock automatically restarts it) 2) Remove all desktop icons (Killing Finder accomplishes this, but they reappear as soon as you need to open something in Finder) Stuff like the above is why I greatly prefer Linux.
As for the dock you can set it to auto hide, and change the delay so that it will come up but after N seconds [1].
[1] https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/59556/is-there-a-w...
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You can have different opinions on what's sensible but to claim that something is not sensible as general you need to make a point about an issue due to the default settings. For example, if people were getting hacked through remote desktop connection all the time you could have said that macOS has insensible defaults on the security or even existence of that feature. However, with macOS that's not the case, in fact…
The defaults aren't powerful, thought they are sensible. Windows (and most Linux DEs like KDE) come with out of the box snapping windows to the four corners of the screen and to the left and right which is perfect for how most people use their laptops. Most people need two separate windows open side by side because most jobs are about synthesizing two separate flows of information in some way (research in one window…
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Onyx has a bunch of these: https://www.titanium-software.fr/en/onyx.html It’s probably not exhaustive, but quite convenient.
Oh thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for.
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> Instead of running it all, you can take a look what’s possible and apply it individually. That's true of any script. The fact that this one is well commented doesn't make it not a script. A cheat sheet is something you hang on a wall and glance at every so often. A script is something you run to make changes to a system. You can't run a cheat sheet.
How do you tell that it's not a really long string or a web page but a script? Maybe it's just a pattern of dots projected on LCD or 1s and 0s stored on a computer. I don't see any more concrete proof that it's not any of these but a script.
How can you tell if the series of dots you perceive as an LCD isn't just a photorealistic painting glued to the front of the screen?
How do know if your nervous system isn't just your bain in a vat connected to a matrix-esque electrochemical system?
How can you tell that anything you believe to be real isn't just a sophisticated simulation?
How can you tell if someone on hackernews isn't just making a specious argument just for the sake for arguing?
While we're here, there's a couple things on a mac I haven't been able to figure out how to do, and maybe some of you mac pros can give me answers. 1) Remove the dock (killing the dock automatically restarts it) 2) Remove all desktop icons (Killing Finder accomplishes this, but they reappear as soon as you need to open something in Finder) Stuff like the above is why I greatly prefer Linux.
"Remove the dock": $ defaults write com.apple.Dock autohide-delay -float 1000 && killall Dock
On Snow Leopard you could actually kill the dock and it'd stay killed.