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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by MrWiffles »

I haven’t seen this anywhere when I’ve looked, so I’ll ask here on the slim chance maybe they really added something I badly want and somebody knows…

Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet?

Something users can control to forcibly stop bad behavior from certain “must have” apps. Chrome, for example, has been caught doing entire drive scans on Windows, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Zoom either. So I’d like to lock down what they can access in terms of files, paths, devices and so on and be fully confident that even if my employer demands I run some software installer provided by their “partners” that it hasn’t installed some creepy daemon and configured launchd to keep it running after I kill the app or even kill -9 the process.

Yes we can use VMs for this, but Mac laptops aren’t generally beefy machines, so that’s not an optimal solution.

There used to be sandbox_exec, but I’ve heard they removed it entirely from this version. We’re now supposed to get things from the (cr)App Store, which guarantees the app will only have entitlements that Apple approves. But vendors are abandoning the App Store in droves for many good reasons, and after recent events I don’t totally trust Apple to prevent malicious use piggybacking on top of a legit entitlement.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by zdwolfe »

ehakan wrote: post #115

The Macbook Pro 16" thermal throttling problems with external monitors [1] finally seems to be fixed with Monterey by enabling low power mode. (At least with 16:9 60Hz monitors). I've been dealing with `kernel_task` hitting 900% CPU usage and the entire window server running at 2 FPS when using external monitors since I got the mbp 16" a year ago. Good riddance. [1]: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noi…

Wow, I didn't realize that was a common problem, and didn't realize it was related to external monitors. Thanks for the link!

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by nsonha »

movedx wrote: post #105
brink wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, I did not.

Not to be rude, but this has been a thing for some time now.

> rude

to Apple?

Why can't this be a predictable hold and drag, like everything else?

They expect users to... what read a manual?

There is an alternative, make it so that users can intuitively discover features by playing around. I believe Steve Jobs told some pretentious story along that line when he launched the iPad.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by spiderice »

systemvoltage wrote: post #141

There seems to be some kind of a negative space exponential law. Margins and paddings increase with every release because designers can’t resist minimalism over density and usefulness.

I'm not sure which specific elements you're referring to, but it very well could be in your head. I remember everyone complaining about the wasted space in the latest Safari tab redesign, until a designer showed that there is actually less wasted space in the new design than there was before. It just didn't look it.

Not saying it's like this in every case. Just something to consider.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by EamonnMR »

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.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by edvinbesic »

Jtsummers wrote: post #138
Waterluvian wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm. Not a crazy idea. simplification is appealing to me. But I’m guessing it’s still not really a computer? Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust?

> Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust? Not really. The best dev experience I have with the iPad is using Blink to mosh into (the mobility mosh offers over SSH is key for me) a server, which lets me run whatever I want on it. But if you're developing GUI applications, it's not really that great. You can use something like Working Copy for git and Textastic for editing programs on the iPad, but it's not real…

Have you found a consistent way to get color schemes working for vim/tmux when running over mosh?

Haven’t tried mosh in a while but this was my biggest gripe, over what is otherwise an amazing mobile experience.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by Isthatablackgsd »

jcelerier wrote: post #162
xu_ituairo wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

As you say, we're getting exactly these advances with phone and tablet OSs. iPads are becoming a dream appliance in the ways you mention and capture 90% of the average person's computing needs. Regular computers have to maintain some backward compatibility and it's nice for power users to still be allowed to fiddle with file extensions and system internals.

But no one uses tablets in practices. Everyone I know who bought an iPad or iPad pro use it for a bit and then it just takes dust.

Perhaps I am the only one who use iPad daily. I uses it for work and video streaming from my PC folder share. Still using it for 4 years and onward.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by cassianoleal »

Jtsummers wrote: post #138
Waterluvian wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm. Not a crazy idea. simplification is appealing to me. But I’m guessing it’s still not really a computer? Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust?

> Can I get iterm2 with bash and vscode and rust? Not really. The best dev experience I have with the iPad is using Blink to mosh into (the mobility mosh offers over SSH is key for me) a server, which lets me run whatever I want on it. But if you're developing GUI applications, it's not really that great. You can use something like Working Copy for git and Textastic for editing programs on the iPad, but it's not real…

You can run VS Code in the browser: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev

One of their listed use-cases is exactly this:

> Develop on your iPad. You can upload/download files (and even store them in the cloud using the Files app), as well as open repositories remotely with the built-in GitHub Repositories extension.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by Ambroos »

RussianCow wrote: post #57

Am I the only one that's really excited about Universal Control? If nothing else, it's extremely impressive from an engineering perspective (if it works as seamlessly as they make it seem). To be able to take your work from your iPad to your iMac like that would be pretty incredible.

It doesn't work very well in office environments unfortunately. I gave it a try with my work MBP and Mac Pro, and the amount of cursor judder / keyboard lag was wild. It'd also just plain not work at times. I think things are better when the environment is less busy and devices can talk to eachother over the same WiFi network (instead of WiFi direct), but it has proven to be unusable in the one scenario where I'd have liked to use it.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by aserdf »

threeseed wrote: post #22
aserdf wrote: post #6

is CSAM scanning included?

Yes. If you use iCloud Photo Library then CSAM is scanned server-side. Same it has always been and no different to every other service.

I am referring to the on device flavor - if it does not apply to macOS that is great.
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