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I haven't used a screen saver in years. I just use a hot corner to turn off my Mac screen when not in use.
I do this on my M1 MBP, but on my Intel Mac mini I use the Aerial screen saver with footage from San Francisco - I really like this.
 
And congressional hearings... Not a joke, now Senator Klobuchar wants to interrogate Apple about supposed "anti-trust" violations due to the release on AirTags. Le sigh...
Seemed to me that particular effort was already planned, and she was just capitalizing on the news attention of the new AirTags as a way to highlight the concerns.

I see lots of reasonable points for antitrust conversations regarding Apple and other companies. AirTags, for me, is not one of them.
 
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Juli Clover strikes again, failing to mention that 11.3 has not yet been released.
 
Just as interesting as the rest of Big Sur's new features. *Yawn*

However, I do understand Big Sur is more about "under the hood" improvements and Apple silicon compatibility.
 
When 11.3 is going out? they are already in 11.4 beta... I am totally ready to leave 10.15.7, that I have to say, it is working great; but Big Sur UX is really cool...
 
Re instant wake-up, I'm assuming you've never run long-running processes then? These would be stopped when the device slept.

I just blank the screen/turn the screen off, don't see the point of screensavers nowadays.
I offload long-running processes to a headless machine, it’s has been and continue to be the standard for any post-production industry. Which professional locks their computer to complete a long-running process?

I use a blank screen too, see no point in these as I believe it was a CRT prolonging innovation and early LCD’s with image retention and burn-in issues.
 
I’m one of the unfortunate ones. My late 2015 iMac suffers from serious performance issues since upgrading to big sur. According to Apple Support it’s caused by a bug in big Sur related to Fusion Drives. Now I’m afraid to upgrade my even older MacBook Pro, even while it doesn’t have a fusion drive.

But if I were you I would just give it a try. I guess the problem is not that widespread.
I’m to sorry to know you are part of the affected ones and you are having troubles with Big Sur. I hope that as you say, this is a bug affecting only a minority, so maybe I should think in give it a try. Maybe I should try it on an external drive to see how it works that way.

I really hope you find the problem and solve it. Thank you very much for your kind feedback.
 
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Anybody else bothered by the way the cursive "o" is traced wrong? Just me?

This is the right way: https://cursiveletters.com/cursive-o
Did you just claim the 'o' is wrongly written—then use a random blog as factual evidence—even though the blog shows the 'o' to be written correctly?

'There are numerous different cursive fonts that are all correct and no one cursive style is necessarily better than another', it would help if you read the blog you were posting.
 
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