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SuperSubZero
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So back on Tuesday, macOS 10.12 "Sierra" launched to little fanfare. The launch only warranted a little corner of Apple's website. Surprisingly little "it destroyed my Mac" chatter this time around.
Key features:
Minus X - We do not discuss the X anymore.
Siri - Siri does Siri things, but can't directly modify settings or shut down. She can open apps (usually), dictate (tho with Mail it's rough) and do calendar, weather, and if you ask her what's going on, she'll show Twitter stuff. On every Mac I tried Siri on, for some reason the mic takes a full second or two to start listening to me, so I end up with half a command. -.-; An "Irish Female" voice is available, which I am using, since it's cyber-sexy.
Universal Clipboard - between supported devices on bluetooth+wifi, You can copy from one device and paste in another. I got it to work, but the devices did have to both be on wifi, with bluetooth on, and be close to each other. My perpetually wired ethernet 2011 17" MacBook Pro does not get to participate in those activities.
Watch unlock - Unlock newer (2013+) Macs with an Apple Watch nearby. This requires setting a PIN on the Watch, and Two Factor on your Apple ID. If you have the older 4-digit 2FA like I had, the process to turn it off and switch it to the 6-digit type isn't hard, but they don't actually EXPLAIN the process at all. Note that you need a Mac to be actually locking for this to do anything. So unless you explicitly have your Mac set to lock, this is kinda useless.
iCloud Docs/Downloads - let Sierra automatically throw your Documents and Desktop folder into iCloud. Note that the free limit on iCloud is still 5GB. I didn't even try it.
Apple Pay in Safari - Whatevs.
App updates - Mail does filters, Photos does Memories, iWork stuff has beta collaboration features. Yay. Messages gets the updated emotes/big emotes, but not much else. iTunes looks different again, and they still REALLY want you to get Apple Music.
Picture in Picture - Apparently videos in Safari can be broken out and floated, but I haven't tried it.
Pruning old Macs - Sierra trims off some older Macs from the supported list. *pats his old 2007 MacBook Pro* There there buddy, they may not love you anymore, but *I* still love you.
I can already see stuff that would be nice to fix in .1 but nothing show-stopping. Just business as usual really.
Key features:
Minus X - We do not discuss the X anymore.
Siri - Siri does Siri things, but can't directly modify settings or shut down. She can open apps (usually), dictate (tho with Mail it's rough) and do calendar, weather, and if you ask her what's going on, she'll show Twitter stuff. On every Mac I tried Siri on, for some reason the mic takes a full second or two to start listening to me, so I end up with half a command. -.-; An "Irish Female" voice is available, which I am using, since it's cyber-sexy.
Universal Clipboard - between supported devices on bluetooth+wifi, You can copy from one device and paste in another. I got it to work, but the devices did have to both be on wifi, with bluetooth on, and be close to each other. My perpetually wired ethernet 2011 17" MacBook Pro does not get to participate in those activities.
Watch unlock - Unlock newer (2013+) Macs with an Apple Watch nearby. This requires setting a PIN on the Watch, and Two Factor on your Apple ID. If you have the older 4-digit 2FA like I had, the process to turn it off and switch it to the 6-digit type isn't hard, but they don't actually EXPLAIN the process at all. Note that you need a Mac to be actually locking for this to do anything. So unless you explicitly have your Mac set to lock, this is kinda useless.
iCloud Docs/Downloads - let Sierra automatically throw your Documents and Desktop folder into iCloud. Note that the free limit on iCloud is still 5GB. I didn't even try it.
Apple Pay in Safari - Whatevs.
App updates - Mail does filters, Photos does Memories, iWork stuff has beta collaboration features. Yay. Messages gets the updated emotes/big emotes, but not much else. iTunes looks different again, and they still REALLY want you to get Apple Music.
Picture in Picture - Apparently videos in Safari can be broken out and floated, but I haven't tried it.
Pruning old Macs - Sierra trims off some older Macs from the supported list. *pats his old 2007 MacBook Pro* There there buddy, they may not love you anymore, but *I* still love you.
I can already see stuff that would be nice to fix in .1 but nothing show-stopping. Just business as usual really.