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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by reaperducer »

mxxx wrote: post #248
EamonnMR wrote: post #185

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.

the one that does my head in is you can search for a file with spotlight but then the only thing you can do with the result is open it; you can't see what folder it's in or open the folder.

you can't see what folder it's in

Hold down Command (or maybe Option), and it shows you the full file path in the bottom of the preview pane.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by josephg »

0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290
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…

I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

> Well a few months ago I needed to fill out customs form 5106. This form uses some kind of proprietary Adobe PDF form creation software thing

PSA in case anyone doesn't know this: the built-in Preview app on MacOS can be used to fill in any PDF form. You can type into text boxes on some forms. But even if they're not there, you can add text anywhere on a pdf. You just have to drag your own text boxes to wherever you want to type. It also supports signatures and various shapes.

The options are sort of hidden - View -> "Show Annotation Toolbar" or Tools -> Annotate -> Text.

You shouldn't ever need adobe acrobat.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by zepto »

fnord123 wrote: post #216
Smoofer wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is the _biggest_ thing holding MacOS back?

Reboot for an upgrade happens by holding a spin lock until it overheats and reboots. This happens every time on multiple computers so I think it's intentional(?) but the crash reports are pretty wild. No official package manager. The Macbook cases ground through the user when they're on an insulated surface (there is no ground pin on the Macbook power adapters). Audio crackles when the machine grounds through the use…

What do you want from an ‘official’ package manager?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by blufish »

vaughan wrote: post #241
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…

If you want to solve your problem do the VRM mod. And use a small desk fan. It’s easy and reversible.

how about a cooling pad

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by todfox »

deworms wrote: post #258
beders wrote: post #116

It is frustrating to see how stagnant desktop OS's have become. Both macOS and Windows 11 have added incremental features that are surely nice to have, but no one dares to improve on the human-computer-interaction which has remained the same for decades now. With the advances in AI and the ridiculous compute power of modern CPUs, we should be able to have OSs that are Digital Assistants. Just one example: - file mana…

If you're too dumb to understand a fundamental concept like file extensions, which has been around for decades, and remains at the core of desktop computing, you should not be allowed near computers, and you definitely have no say in what computers are, should do, or should work like.

This is an elitist view and there is nothing wrong with that. Don't dumb down desktop computers for those of us who like and understand them as they are. Everyone else can use an iPad.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by reaperducer »

sam_goody wrote: post #204

I bought a 2019 iMac with a Fusion drive. In the next major update (High Sierra), Apple switched to APFS, which has issues with Fusion drives. It often shows as having no empty space, even with 40% empty. Much, much worse, it stops writing to disk without giving any indication (the non written items show in finder, etc.) - for some ten hours or more - and then suddenly crashes and you find that the entire days worth…

Sorry to hear about your problems.

But what does it have to do with the topic at hand: the new version of macOS?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by tuzed »

josephg wrote: post #322
0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

> Well a few months ago I needed to fill out customs form 5106. This form uses some kind of proprietary Adobe PDF form creation software thing PSA in case anyone doesn't know this: the built-in Preview app on MacOS can be used to fill in any PDF form. You can type into text boxes on some forms. But even if they're not there, you can add text anywhere on a pdf. You just have to drag your own text boxes to wherever you…

That’s not entirely true. Some government forms where I live are shared in a PDF format but are only downloaded and displayed properly when they are opened in Acrobat, and otherwise display a page telling you to download acrobat. I suspect this allows the form to be updated, and see why it might be done, but I still find it very annoying.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by ubercow13 »

smoldesu wrote: post #313
crooked-v wrote: post #299

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> 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.

QEMU runs on macos already?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by rubyist5eva »

fnord123 wrote: post #226
rubyist5eva wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't think expecting Apple to implement every single pet feature of every single power user is something that is reasonable.

But they can support like two features for every single power user: hotkeys for managing windows and snapping to windows when you push it against the border.

but...why? just install Rectangle and forget about it why does it matter so much if it's "built-in" or not..? It's like complaining that Apple doesn't make Alfred built in because you don't like Spotlight.
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