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Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by d12bb »

hwbehrens wrote: post #132
orpheansodality wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

wow - how is this not the default? It's always the behavior that I expect to happen, and I'm pretty much always surprised and disappointed when it does a global search instead.

> how is this not the default? This is just speculation, but based on a conversation with my partner, there are two types of computer users. The first group makes use of hierarchical storage, consistent naming conventions, and other organizational tricks to give them a rough idea of where any file might be. The second group has never heard the term "file systems" and just stores everything with an arbitrary name in w…

Well, count me in the third group: I make use of hierarchical storage, consistent naming conventions, and other organizational tricks to give me a rough idea of where any file might be. I also fail miserably at it (apart from dev/programming stuff, which all is in `~/dev/`) and rely heavily on search to find anything again.

As search is fast enough nowadays with indexing, I'd rather have it search the whole disk every time than the directory I'm in just to realize I've put it someplace else.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by cr4nberry »

nsxwolf wrote: post #184

I ended up skipping Monterey on my 2013 Mac Pro entirely because it wouldn't let me install it because my original SSD broke and I replaced it with a non-Apple SSD. Starting with Monterey, that's not cool anymore because reasons. Supposedly if you install the original SSD it will update some firmware somewhere and you'll be able to use the 3rd party SSD after that. But, like I said, mine's broken. You can supposedly…

> Interesting story, Apple will not sell you a replacement or upgrade SSD for your 2013 Mac Pro - not for any price. They're only available for warranty replacements, and these computers haven't been under warranty for a long time.

This is bullshit. Think about all the PR they have about eco-friendliness, yet they do this

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by cr4nberry »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #280

I'm surprised they released this. I try to participate in every macOS beta I can. This is by far the most unstable release I've experienced. - Settings app has a lot of weird bugs and performance issues. After a restart I have to wait a few minutes before the Settings app actually functions. Overall the Settings app has felt like a step back in terms of UX and performance - Lots of weird issues with Docker (might be…

> Lots of weird issues with Docker (might be on Docker's side though)

Thanks for the heads up on this

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by d12bb »

cr4nberry wrote: post #403
zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

Imo grep and fd are the most consistent way, all these GUI apps do is get in the way and reinvent the wheel

As you're already using fd for find, you may like ripgrep for replacing grep.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by 10729287 »

antipaul wrote: post #268
galoisscobi wrote: post #9

I’m usually excited about macOS releases but this one is an underwhelming update and don’t see any reason to update any time soon. Stage manager seems like a half measure to introduce better window management in macOS and it doesn’t help that it doesn’t support a keyboard only workflow, from what I can tell from the demos. Coming from i3wm, I found Yabai to be an excellent keyboard-first window manager. I do wish som…

For keyboard control, I've gotten into using "Hide " or "Hide others" cmd(-option)-h This keeps the workspace nice and clean For switching apps, either cmd-tab or cmd-` or with Alfred App Indeed, for moving windows to left/right/etc, you may need an app like Rectangle You _could_ add custom shortcuts in Settings - Keyboard for menu items like Zoom or "Move Window to Left Side of Screen" but it's a bit limited. What i…

I replaced Cmd-tab shortcut to launch https://alt-tab-macos.netlify.app/, who fix every issue with macos feature. Couldn't be happier.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

Updated my MacBook Pro, worked well (as expected), then proceeded to upgrade my M1 Mini headless "server". Update in itself went OK, though it doesn't respect that i have user accounts on an external SSD, so i had to ssh in as my "admin account", delete the /Volumes/Homes mount and reboot.

Now, my mini mirrors our cloud data locally for backups, and as such every user is signed in, and one way of doing that is simply a remote desktop and "switch user". It's cumbersome, and i wish it would just "magically" synchronize data once the user had registered on it, but it only needs to be done every time it restarts, which is when i new patch/version is released.

Anyway, i clicked "switch user" and poof lost connection. Following tries gave an "invalid desktop size 0x0" error, or it simply produced noise on the remote desktop window.

Logging in the user directly through remote desktop worked, but just be aware there may be dragons.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by 8fingerlouie »

Maarius wrote: post #312
insane_dreamer wrote: post #118

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Agreed. Its an embarrasment. Use Alfred; I've been using it for years (10 maybe?) -- solves this problem and is extremely useful in general

Alfred ( https://www.alfredapp.com/ ) and BetterTouchTool ( https://folivora.ai/ ) really are two of the must-haves for every mac.

I have a lifetime/powerpack Alfred license, and i don't use it much, if at all. I have it installed, but in my experience Spotlight has gotten a lot better in recent years, at least to the point where i just use that.

My only excuse for using Alfred is Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash), which integrates with Alfred, but these days so does just about every editor i use (including Vim, Emacs and Sublime Text), so i very rarely find myself using Alfred for it anymore.

One tool i do use at lot though is Hook (https://hookproductivity.com/).

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by saagarjha »

waz0wski wrote: post #288
rahen wrote: post #46

Very excited about the ability to run x86 VMs through Rosetta. This will make x86 virtualization a lot more straightforward on Apple Silicon (no more reliance on qemu).

Can Ventura run x86 VMs on M1/M2? I thought it was only able to run ARM VMs which can _utilize_ rosetta to run x86 code? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...

You're correct, there is no support for directly running non-ARM VMs.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by garyclarke27 »

zestyping wrote: post #16

Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?

Finder and File organization is the worst part of Mac experience, it's terrible - I still can't get used to it after 3 years. Windows Explorer is so much better. Aswell as not searching the current folder, I find it so infuriating that Save-As does not default to the Current folder, just picks a random one!!

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by frankfrankfrank »

shpx wrote: post #319
anigbrowl wrote: post #303

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I am ethically obliged to supplement my original summary [hours later] -Ha ha just kidding of course there's a feature tour do you want to see it now Hmm OK -Have you ever wished I was a phone? (8 slides) Really? Let's have a talk about Preferences -They are Settings OK, let's have a talk about Settings -No

I do wish I could put a SIM card in my Macbook and not have to buy a phone.

You are asking for an iPad.
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