Careful if you're a user of Karabiner, it doesn't work in Sierra - there's a rewrite underway to correct.
Thanks so much for the heads up! I rely on Karabiner to turn caps lock into a meta key and would not want to lose that.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
I apologize to you for Apple for not catering to your specific needs and wants when rolling out their newest version of OSX. I'm so sorry that you consider none of these new features exciting nor useful. Personally, I agree with you to an extent - I prefer taking notes on individual parchment paper with a Ticonderoga #2 HB pencil that I sharpen with my $400 hand crafted knife. Heck, I don't even use digital photos or…
Maybe it wouldn't be such a dud if there was the possibility of using any of this outside the walled garden of filling your house only with Apple products. Once upon a time apple.com advertised their OS by showing off what you could create with it and how it was based on open technology. Now it's just about how the computer and its flock of gadgets can entertain and do your thinking for you, if only you give in to th…
So in other words: now it's just about making life easier for you.
Sounds good to me!
Re: MacOS Sierra
#43Doesn't seem to be much of interest there if you're a Mac user without an interest in iOS devices. Of the WSJ's "Top 5" features [1]: - Universal Clipboard: Neat, but iOS only. Doesn't appear there's an open API for it that would make it useful elsewhere, which is too bad, because it could be rather neat. - iCloud Drive: Cloud sync of your document folders. Free space (5GB) is surprisingly limited and the upgrade pri…
The other thing that scares me about the optimized storage is the privacy concerns. Has everybody forgotten about "the fappening" stuff?
Now imagine that your PC backs up stuff to the cloud without your knowledge. Not only that, it will only backup those old files that you forgot that existed.
Maybe I'm being overly paranoid, though. I guess that a nice interface that only starts the backup after a prompt and that shows what files are being backed up can help a lot.
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#44Doesn't seem to be much of interest there if you're a Mac user without an interest in iOS devices. Of the WSJ's "Top 5" features [1]: - Universal Clipboard: Neat, but iOS only. Doesn't appear there's an open API for it that would make it useful elsewhere, which is too bad, because it could be rather neat. - iCloud Drive: Cloud sync of your document folders. Free space (5GB) is surprisingly limited and the upgrade pri…
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#45yeah don't be an idiot and install this on your work computer and break vpn. what kind of idiot does that....
what's the specific issue?
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#46I'm excited to see a working speech interface. I use the one on my phone quite a bit to send quick messages to my wife while I'm driving. The shortest command so far is [press siri button on dashboard] + "tell my wife to come down in 2 minutes". I wish I could tell Siri I trust it and not to confirm the message. [Are you ready to send this message?] "Yes" [Ok, I'll send it]. Every. time. On the flip side, we're past…
How about "Ask my wife to come down in 2 minutes"? :-)
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#47Any news about APFS?
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#48yeah don't be an idiot and install this on your work computer and break vpn. what kind of idiot does that....
what's the specific issue?
I was the idiot who made the jump. While on VPN, no less. My work laptop has both GlobalProtect and Cisco installed as VPN clients. The GlobalProtect client broke but the Cisco client works fine - both require two factor authentication.
Everything seems to work so the unnecessary risk I took didn't cause too much harm.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#49Careful if you're a user of Karabiner, it doesn't work in Sierra - there's a rewrite underway to correct.
Was sad to see that karabiner no longer works. I discovered that bettertouchtool can substitute for my purposes (adding media keys to a dasKeyboard)
+1 to Bettertouchtool. I've been using it for the last year, and it is awesome. It meets all my needs of customizing a bunch of shortcuts to different apps.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#50I see they changed very little, so I'm hopeful this is one of those versions (like Lion if I remember correctly, might be other) where basically Apple just stopped one year, add very few features, and improved the system stability and performance.
I didn't see (perhaps I've missed it) them saying this was the case, so, any insights on that?