I recently bought a new System76 laptop as a stopgap, but it might end up becoming permanent. Kind of a sad end for 25+ years of Mac use.
It'll show the total of each partition (the normal, and the new read-only system partition) on their own line, thereby giving a false total. e.g. 1x 100GB disk, 50GB normal, 50GB system partition will show as capacity 100GB for both partitions which would mean a 200GB disk.
Small things like this just make me completely lose faith in Catalina.
EDIT: Other "fun" things I noticed within half an hour:
a. Text search in PDF no longer works
b. I can't create anything under /
c. I have to use synthetic.conf to map paths from / to my real partition, but the parser of synthetic.conf is very particular to tabs/spaces unlike any other /etc/ file format
d. Xcode wants to ask for my password to debug every single time I reboot and debug a C++ app. This is incredibly incredibly incredibly incredibly annoying.
Safari is faster in general use. But that's so far the only good point.
I'll keep it on a SSD for App Store submissions and keep my machine on an older decent version thanks
I’m torn. I don’t want to return the machine because everything else is crap. At least the 16” works well as a laptop so long as you don’t plug anything into the ports. But Apple’s Q&A has seriously gone down the toilet ever since Steve Jobs died. Clearly him throwing staplers at people was the glue holding Apple together.
I had a similar problem, and it turned out that the dock needed a driver. I don't think I've installed a driver for an external device since I switched to Macs years ago, so it never occurred to me that something like a dock would need a driver.
But it turns out that once I installed the vendor's driver, the problems all went away. I'm not sure who's fault that is.
Oh is this macOS? I'd just assumed all the PDFs I've tried to search for the past while have been poorly formatted with the text as images, but that makes more sense.
> I'll keep it on a SSD for App Store submissions and keep my machine on an older decent version thanks
FYI it's pretty easy to integrate binary upload to App Store Connect on the CLI of your CI system.
While this is an awful stopgap solution, at least I can get back to work.
I my self have a maxed out 16 MacBook Pro and a for the first few weeks after the upgrade it was literally in usable because routine user input would result in the entire system locking up. I suspect it was actually this issue but, thankfully, the issue is now resolved.
This is no longer true. It is a very similar and annoying experience for me.
I use OSX, Windows and various versions of Linux.
The browser is the real platform at this point and is the shared experience between all three.
1. Upgrades are not optional. The system will relentlessly nag me until I upgrade even if I don't want to upgrade.
2. Upgrades are crap shoots. An Apple upgrade nowadays is as likely to break things as it is to fix things.
3. Upgrades are difficult and sometimes impossible to revert. If an upgrade breaks something, I'm just screwed.
So I'm still running Mavericks. It works. It's reliable. It does everything I need it to do. And I can count on that still being the case tomorrow. If I upgrade, all bets are off.
My 2017 13" MBP (without discreet GPU) was barely usable when powering my 4K monitor but at least it was quiet. It makes me think that the more modern integrated Intel GPU in the 16" should be enough to power my monitor without fan noise. Sadly, Apple has decided I can't have that option.
In Safari or in general? I have only noticed the former.
> I have to use synthetic.conf to map paths from / to my real partition, but the parser of synthetic.conf is very particular to tabs/spaces unlike any other /etc/ file format
You may already know this, but man synthetic.conf will explain that you must use tabs.
> Xcode wants to ask for my password to debug every single time I reboot and debug a C++ app. This is incredibly incredibly incredibly incredibly annoying.
I can only offer you my condolences as I cruise by with SIP off.
It runs adobe software like total shit.
I think it's something to do with Catalina + accessing files in Google Drive File Stream + Adobe.
It runs illustrator horribly.
It's basically the saddest thing I've ever seen.
I think I'll get her a 17" XPS for christmas this year.
Lenovo has a couple of AMD-based ThinkPads that are looking pretty appealing, although they come in around $1500 with the configuration I'd want.
I don't know about Android. I only have one Android device. It is so old I don't even remember how old it is and I've only ever upgraded it once. It still works like a charm for all the things I need it to do.
Unfortunately, while the kernel panics will most likely be fixed eventually (10.15.4 is a complete shitshow, even by Catalina standards), it seems the dGPU is actually working as designed with the high idle power draw. If you search for “navi multiple monitor power draw” you can find reports of desktop AMD cards that predate the 16” MacBook Pro that exhibit the exact same behaviour. It’s something to do with memory clocks and mismatched resolutions/refresh rates between monitors, and I very much doubt it will ever be addressed via software (if it even can be).
Very annoying as it causes the fans to spin up audibly when you put it under the slightest stress.
Like you I don’t know what to do. I’m able to return it due to the extended return window they have currently, but I have absolutely no intent of switching to Windows or Linux.
At least when operating in clamshell mode with one external monitor, I can get the power usage to drop from 20W down to 5W by using switchresx and dropping the refresh rate from 59.88 to 56.88 Hz. When I do that, even light WebGL work doesn’t cause it to exceed 7-8 watts.
It sounds like some work around for the special case of a single external monitor with the internal display closed isn’t kicking in like it’s supposed to.
AirDrop requires touch based selection and sharing on the iOS device and the transfer is very quick and if it’s your Mac the files go straight to your downloads folder.
So it’s more streamlined overall with AirDrop.
I had a colleague who used to do a similar dance with Image Capture. He had no idea he could AirDrop photos even though he airdropped files from Finder to others all the time.
Personally I just have them all sync via iCloud Photo Library.
My understanding of the issue is that the card has variable memory clocks to save power. However, to avoid visual distortion/tearing, the clocks can only be changed during the monitor's v-blank. However, when you have multiple monitors, presumably you would need extra circuitry or at least some mechanism ensure each monitor is in sync, or to detect when the blanking intervals match when using monitors with different refresh rates. I don't have a strong knowledge of this sort of thing, so I don't know how exactly this is achieved, but in this case AMD has "solved" the problem by simply running the memory clocks at full tilt 100% of the time, thereby avoiding the need to precisely time changes in speed.
Finding a USB cable though, sometimes that does take a search and a wee bit of cursing!
Maybe OS X 10.4 worked for me out of the box.
The longer you use a computer, the more you expect certain behavior, and the less you get it out of the box.
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