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Man, the next version of MacOS sure has a lot of features for people who do a lot of video calls and don't make a habit of sitting somewhere offline when they work.
The "low power mode" might be useful to me, that's really about it. Looks like I'm not gonna be leaving Mojave (10.14) until I buy an M2 Air that comes with... probably whatever surf beach comes after Monterey, really. Or the next one. Or maybe when some absolutely catastrophic 10.14 bug happens after they drop support.
This feels weird, I used to pretty much always have the latest OS, but "losing the little desktop kitty that never got recompiled for 64 bits" made me put off 10.15, and I just... haven't bothered. Funny how a habit like that can be ended by something so trivial.
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@anthracite I think I'll finally go with Big Sur, now I know there's a way to keep Aperture running in 64-bit land. (The app itself is clean; there's a utility around that supplies 64 bit versions of a few support apps/libs) Can't go to Monterey, as they've nudged the criteria forward a couple years, leaving my (rather too) venerable MBP behind. Pity, as I'd *love* to play with Monterey's photogrammetry.
iPadOS 15, though, I'm leaping on.
I doubt I'll ever leave Aperture behind. ^_^ It's /still/ the best photography processor/management application around - they did a really good job with its design.
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@porsupah @anthracite Oh dang Aperture is still usable?! I loved that and I still deeply dislike Photos.app, and I regret converting my library.
I'm glad that Monterey finally lets you explicitly share stuff between machines instead of just hoping/praying that Handoff detects that you might be trying to do a thing. And also I'm glad that they FINALLY sync do-not-disturb across all devices.
The FaceTime updates seem neat but there is only one person I regularly FaceTime with and it's a 1:1 thing. At work we use a hodgepodge of Zoom and Google Meet, both of which are endlessly cloning one another without adding any real quality-of-life improvements.
I'm disappointed that they didn't talk about hardware revisions today, but I'm not in a huge hurry to upgrade anyway. My M1 mini is doing fine for now.
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@fluffy @anthracite Still fine on Mojave! But after that, Retroactive supposedly does the trick:
https://appleinsider.com/articles/20/10/27/how-to-run-aperture-iphoto-and-older-versions-of-itunes-on-macos-big-sur
Mmm, I'd really been hoping to hear of 16" MBPs today, but eh, highly moot, given I can't afford to repair this clunker and prevent further nerve damage. (It'd be a horrible repair anyway) Sounds like they're on course for autumn, anyway.