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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by concinds »

tomrod wrote: post #273
concinds wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't like hero worship, but I happened to hear a Steve Jobs clip the other day, where he said: a great idea is only 10% what you think it's worth; the 90% is the implementation details and craftsmanship that goes into it. I don't want an OS that "doesn't make me pick between iCloud or ~/Documents". That just means turning macOS into ChromeOS. An OS with just a search bar would break a ridiculous amount of uses, fr…

> I happened to hear a Steve Jobs clip the other day, where he said: a great idea is only 10% what you think it's worth; the 90% is the implementation details and craftsmanship that goes into it. I like your comment, and I would LOVE a source on the quote!

https://vimeo.com/475108226 at 35:30

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by skhr0680 »

concinds wrote: post #122

SharePlay to Mac (I tested audio) is utterly broken. Shockingly so. I just tried it again, and my music isn't paused, yet is stuck at 0:02. Pausing and unpausing it, and the song starts ticking, 0:03, 0:04, and so on, but you can't hear any audio. Pause it again. It goes back to 0:02. Now try this with AirPods connected to your Mac. Connect your iPhone's Apple Music to AirPlay to Mac. The YouTube video you had playin…

The easiest way to avoid “surprises” when installing a Mac OS update is to wait a few months and let early adopters be the gunnies pigs.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by smoldesu »

crooked-v wrote: post #299
MrWiffles wrote: post #181

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…

> Yes we can use VMs for this, but Mac laptops aren’t generally beefy machines The newest ones with M1/M1 Pro are actually pretty beefy, and even the Macbook Air has benchmarks that beat literally everything else in the Apple lineup except the iMac Pros and the new-model Mac Pros. This doesn't help much with current equipment, but it should make future planning easier.

What they really need is something powerful and open along the lines of QEMU/KVM. HyperKit is dead-last when it comes the virtualization race, and it's one of the technologies I'm rooting for Apple to scrap altogether. MacOS needs either a thinner hypervisor or a lower-level virtualization solution, either of which I see as equally unlikely from Apple.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by skhr0680 »

prewett wrote: post #305
concinds wrote: post #122

SharePlay to Mac (I tested audio) is utterly broken. Shockingly so. I just tried it again, and my music isn't paused, yet is stuck at 0:02. Pausing and unpausing it, and the song starts ticking, 0:03, 0:04, and so on, but you can't hear any audio. Pause it again. It goes back to 0:02. Now try this with AirPods connected to your Mac. Connect your iPhone's Apple Music to AirPlay to Mac. The YouTube video you had playin…

I'm on Mojave, but I've had the same symptom for audio happen to me but just using wired headphones, and `sudo killall -9 coreaudiod` fixes it.

I remember that being a solution to fixing AirPlay woes at least 8 years ago

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by Vomzor »

deathanatos wrote: post #132
dkdk8283 wrote: post #66

Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.

Just having functional bluetooth would be nice? Bluetooth on my MBP recently decided to turn "off", and clicking/sliding the on/off slider just does nothing. The slider doesn't move to "on", and I get no feedback, errors, information or anything about why I can't re-enable it. Prior to that BT devices would just drop the connection, AFAICT. Bi-directional file transfer has never worked properly. And that's only BT… I…

Do you have an 16" Macbook Pro? There is a hardware bug where plugging in external bluetooth kills the internal bluetooth.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by eyelidlessness »

RussianCow wrote: post #210
eyelidlessness wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think quite a lot of that has been available by copy/paste over Handoff, it seems like the major change here is that it's available with a shared pointing device. Still impressive!

Agreed, but that one change instantly takes it from "occasionally useful" to "hot damn that's so cool".

I’m a weirdo who does ~1/3 of my device time on my phone so I’ve probably just been using this feature more than most people already :)

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by reaperducer »

0xFACEFEED wrote: post #295
kayodelycaon wrote: post #291

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> I'm never touching Adobe software ever again unless there's a way to completely sandbox it. At this point I’m going to recommend a virtual machine.

I could, but I think it would take considerable effort on my part. You know how it is. You end up with a long tail of little things that don't quite work properly. Eventually I could get it to work but I'm so upset with Adobe that I'm straight up boycotting their software. I'm ashamed of this but I've fantasized about berating Adobe executives/engineers to their face if I ever met them in real life. Of course I'd nev…

I still haven't had to go through the process of cancelling my Creative Cloud subscription. I'm sooo hoping they didn't throw in a bunch of dark patterns in there as well but I have feeling they will.

I dumped CC two months ago and was bracing for all kinds of shenanigans. But I was really surprised. Not only did it cancel immediately with no dark patterns, but I got a refund for the partially used month.

I was only a month-to-month Photoshop subscriber ($13/month), so maybe it was easy for Adobe to let me go. Perhaps it's harder for higher value hostages... er... customers.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by jim-jim-jim »

simondotau wrote: post #253
shawnz wrote: post #222

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They are grounded if you use the "power adapter extension cable" (not shipped with the unit): https://www.apple.com/ca/shop/product/MK122LL/A/power-adapte...

Why don't Apple offer grounded duckheads? For that matter, why haven't any third parties made grounded duckheads? This has been irritating me for the past decade or more. The ground connection, where available, occurs through the metal stud which the duckhead slides into. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the UK (Type G) duckhead doesn't connect ground even though the physical ground pin is mandatory. I know that mos…

It's not just your experience. When using the Apple-supplied charger, the surface of the macbook feels slightly fuzzy, and even delivers minor shocks.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by fleddr »

I've come to the discovery that I'm a deeply anti social being. Watching a TV show "together", remotely, sounds like the stuff of nightmares to me.

If you insist, we can do a 2 min review after the show. During the show, you stay quiet. Don't ask questions, I didn't see the show either. You're allowed a laugh, a silent tear or a brief "wow", keep deeper reflections on how the footage makes you feel to yourself.

When you watch, you pay full attention, or leave the room.

It would be factually incorrect to say "I must be fun at parties" due to a lack of data.

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