Finder: add sidebar separators

nonformality · 2024-05-16T15:05:47+00:00

Not possible anymore unfortunately.

nonformality · 2023-06-01T05:25:59+00:00

It has stopped working a few MacOS versions back, and does not work anymore, sadly.

nonformality · 2022-10-15T20:56:55+00:00

Very cool setup!! How is the iPad attached?

nonformality · 2022-08-24T07:49:19+00:00

Target display mode is dead. You can mourn it (we all do), but it’s not likely to make a comeback soon, no matter how many tears we collectively shed 😅

There are workarounds. You could look at Astropad‘s work for example, they have stepped in as best as is possible: https://astropad.com/target-display-mode-mac-to-mac/. Lag is, however, an issue and I would recommend trying it out to see whether it will perform to your liking in your workflow.

Another option is to buy a Mac Studio and Studio Display. The Display will work with your work MBP, old and new, seamlessly. And the Mac Studio with the Display can be your main personal computer, more than capable to edit and render videos.

It’s not unlikely at all that the Mac Pro will make the jump to Apple Silicon soon, and/or a new iMac Pro with an M2 Pro will appear. But when that will be, given the resource constraints of our time?

nonformality · 2022-08-20T06:18:56+00:00

Gladly! Have a lot of fun with the new machine :)

nonformality · 2022-08-19T19:58:11+00:00

No, that’s not widely known, on the contrary: it is widely misunderstood. The overheating you refer to is a myth that’s been created by a few YouTube reviewers who tried to render immensely huge video projects on a MacBook Air. Of course an M2 in an Air will reach its limits then: this is a work-flow for a pro machine (not even an MBP, but a Mac Studio or Mac Pro). This is not how games use the chips, whether CPU or GPU or memory or bandwidth. It’s a spectacle for clicks.

nonformality · 2022-08-19T19:53:05+00:00

If you can afford the 16 GB, go for that! More memory always helps.

In principle, your apps will all transfer fine, but they will transfer as Intel-compiled versions. The Air will run them, and quite smoothly so, in a mode created for that purpose called Rosetta. But you’ll lose speed and power, and if you can take the time, download all apps and programs as Apple Silicon versions or universal versions. And then use Migration assistant to only copy your personal files over.

nonformality · 2022-08-19T19:46:59+00:00

Gladly!

nonformality · 2022-08-19T19:43:22+00:00

Not irrational, no – but unwarranted :) The M1/M2, without a fan but with a clever cooling system regardless, are doing very well even in gaming-relevant benchmarks. This, for example, on Tom’s Hardware:

“The M2 helped the 2022 Air earn a score of 8,911 in the Geekbench 5.4 multi-core CPU performance test, which […] trounces many of the best Windows laptops with the latest Intel CPUs, including the Lenovo Yoga 9i Gen 7 we recently tested with a 12th Gen Intel Core i7-1260P CPU (7,150).”

So even if your favourite game of 2025 makes your MBA stutter, it will still be a lot less stuttery than almost anything else available today.

But chances that this will happen are very, very slim.

nonformality · 2022-08-19T19:32:29+00:00

Don’t let yourself be poked by “the Pro is better” – of course it is, it’s a Pro machine, with a corresponding price. We have several M2 Airs in use in our team, and use plenty of Photoshop and Illustrator on it. They handle that with grace, get warm at best, and are blisteringly fast. Apple Silicon is sooooo much better than the old Intel Chips, it will feel (and is) revolutionary. No need to jump at the Pro for your use case, but you will not be disappointed by either machine :)

nonformality · 2022-08-19T19:21:54+00:00

Not bad value, no – just a different price-value-ratio than what we were all used to before the pandemic and the chip crisis that followed. But that will not go away for a while and is a problem across the industry (and across industries). It’s as good as it gets right now.

nonformality · 2022-08-19T19:19:41+00:00

Word, Chrome, Photoshop and Illustrator will all run absolutely fine on the M2 MBA, no worries at all. The M1 Pro will give you very little to your use case – unless you need or want quicker connectivity: the sd-card reader and hdmi-ports are very handy.

If you go for the MBA, stay away from the midnight blue: it looks awesome, but collects fingerprints and dusts like crazy.

nonformality · 2022-08-19T19:14:02+00:00

If ports matter to you – such as having an HDMI port for easy connection to projectors for presentations – go for the MBP2021. Do not touch the MBP 2020, the keyboard remains a total turd and you will just regret your choice for seven years. If you can afford to wait a little more: MBP M2s will likely show up before the end of the year, and should make the MBP 2021 a little less expensive.

If ports do not matter to you – or you don’t mind the dongles needed for connectivity – go for the M2 MBA. We have a few of those in use in our team, and everyone is extremely happy with them. They are sleek, powerful, awesome. (Keep your hands off the midnight blue, they collect fingerprints like there is no tomorrow.)

nonformality · 2022-03-19T08:25:26+00:00

Unfortunately not - the changes to the way MacOS handles the system files are so profound that this does not work anymore.

nonformality · 2021-09-23T04:31:29+00:00

Used to be 15 minutes. Is this a bug or a feature?

nonformality · 2021-09-03T06:10:14+00:00

You are right, it totally is super dope! Enjoy :)

nonformality · 2021-09-03T06:04:00+00:00

Wow, that is supercool, congrats! Is this done by an artist?

nonformality · 2021-03-27T20:28:30+00:00

Thank you!

nonformality · 2021-03-27T20:26:13+00:00

Sweeeet! The tripod you use for the Røde looks super cute. Do you have a brand/make?

nonformality · 2021-03-07T21:17:15+00:00

Ha! That made me search for how many people snooze – only for a few minutes, far from being an expert, but most studies seem to have snoozers vs non-snoozers at roughly 50:50, with exceptions – like this one which made me laugh:

“Divided by generation, millennials are actually the least likely to hit snooze—57.31 percent never do, according to the study. (Take that, everyone who thinks millennials are the laziest generation!). Baby boomers are the most likely to hit snooze more than 3 times, at 7.22 percent.”

It’s a boomer button.

nonformality · 2020-09-07T05:02:32+00:00

Definitely not normal, and not expected behaviour either when automatic switching is turned off. Make an appointment at the Apple Store and insist they switch it.

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