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BetterDisplay
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Ask HN: Best Hacks for a Ultrawide Monitor?
2. "BetterDisplay" for better scaling quality on bigger screens, especially if you have a 4k ultrawide. https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
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Ideal Monitor Rotation for Programmers
It isn't a device, it's a software tool. It doesn't make the monitor magically 2x the resolution; it can trick macos to render onto a 5k buffer and then downscale the output to the physical display so it looks not-broken.
https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay
I'm not saying that it'll make 4k look good. I'm saying macOS is unusable on native resolutions - everything is either too small or too blurry, so a 4k display won't do me any good. 25x14 is the sweet spot for me, but I guess Apple decided I'm holding it wrong.
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Mac Mouse Fix: Do the things you do on a trackpad. Without a trackpad
Totally unrelated, but since we are talking about QOL tools on macOS, i thoroughly recommend BetterDisplay[0]
It enables reting scaling functionality on any external monitor, regardless of the resolution or the Apple compatibility.
It's great for 2k monitors that are totally hiDPI but are not deemed enough by Apple, and even for FHD secondarh displays that don't need that much display real state so you can use that real state to scale everything nicely.
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A collection of useful Mac Apps
Better Display is another I run on startup. I have a 1440p 144hz monitor and using the default options in the Display System Settings at native resolution it is too small, retina makes it 720p which makes everything too large, and scaled resolutions are fuzzy. This let me find the sweet spot for me which was 1600x900 - not too small or too big and also not fuzzy. It was not available as a selection using the standard Mac System Settings.
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Can Dell’s 6K monitor beat their 8K monitor?
No, HDMI 2.1 doesn't matter (yet) because there are no 8K desktop monitors (meaning 32-inch size or similar) on the market that use HDMI.
The only 8K monitor has for years been the Dell UP3218K, which uses DisplayPort -- and requires two DisplayPort cables, actually, to get 7680 × 4320 at 60Hz.
Apple has never supported this on any of their machines -- they just couldn't drive the monitor. (It worked, but only in 4K mode.)
They quietly changed this with the M2 machines. I had a MacBook Pro M1 Max that couldn't drive this monitor at 8K. Then I found this GitHub thread[1] where it was revealed that M2 Pro can drive up to one of these 8K displays over Thunderbolt (to DisplayPort). And the M2 Ultra on a Mac Pro or Mac Studio can drive 3 of them.
I don't think it is scaling, per se, but rather that Apple has never supported the full DisplayPort spec. That 8K monitor apparently needs support for something called "dual SST" and Apple never supported that in their software. More details are in the linked GitHub discussion.
So, I don't know why they didn't make this work on the M1 Ultra, too, but Apple gonna Apple. So I went down to the Apple Store and bought a Mac Studio M2 Ultra the day I read that. Now I can plug my Mac into my KVM switch and use this monitor on Mac just like I always could with Linux and Windows.
[1]: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay/discussions/199#d...
OS X not only uses a lame hack to scale, it completely muddles the issue by introducing the concept of "HiDPI". Somehow I can set my 4K monitor to use "native resolution" at 3840 x 2160, and yet the UI and fonts look fuzzy! Absolutely terrible, and a complete embarrassment for Apple imo since they are supposedly the UI kings.
For me, I only closed the book on the issue after finding BetterDisplay [0]. Basically a 3rd party program that gives you complete control over resolution, display density, and a ton of other options on MacOS. It has a trial mode but it is well well worth the money. With that + the CLI tweak to set font smoothing to 0, the 4K experience on MacOS looks decent. You can even decrease the effective scale of the native screen past "More Space", so those of us with good eyes can actually take advantage of the screen real estate.
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Monitor choices
Also for 4k and 5k2k Ultrawide’s Better Display is a great free enhancement. There’s also a paid version. Better Display
Theres also free apps that give you more scaling options, like BetterDisplay.
Opencore-Legacy-Patcher
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macOS Sonoma is available today
Have you explored https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher?
I have used it before and, in my experience and everyone else I know who has used it, the vast majority of time the newer versions run absolutely fine with no issues. Occasionally some newer features don't work, but I'd but confident that 2015/2017 iMacs would be able to run the latest version no problem.
- How to update from Catalina 10.15.7 to Catalina 11 on a 2011 Macbook
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Hello, need help from REALLY advanced hackintoshers!
Inject the power management kexts via OC. Get them from here: https://github.com/dortania/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/tree/main/payloads/Kexts/Misc You need to download and inject AppleIntelCPUPowermanagent and AppleIntelCPUPowerManagementClient
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A buddy gave me his 2011 MBP to upgrade for him, so I stuck in an SSD and 8gb RAM, and with the help of Opencore Legacy Patcher, I got Ventura running great on it! If you have an old Mac, I would really recommend doing this, they still have a lot of life left in them!
Find out for yourself!!
Here you go. It’s astounding the age of Macs that OCLP works on. There’s even machines from 2008, ffs.
Wow. Are you sure it’s even on the list?
You could run a modern-ish Mac system via OCLP and Chrome Flex (God forbid), would run radically different and faster than Windows 10 (shudder).
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I used Open Core Legacy Patcher, and it worked so well I'm actually annoyed.
Finally, it's "perfectly capable of running" a new OS until it's not, and then you'll be stuck with a useless bricked machine. Good luck though.
I wonder that that particular page hasn't been updated. The release notes for the last few OCLP iterations explicitly list Mac Mini's from 2009 to 2017 as compatible.
Really? I'm running Ventura on a late 2012 Mac Mini; installation was per OP. As of this week we're up to OCLP 0.6.1 and atGithub's page late 2014 Mini is supported since 0.5.1.
What are some alternatives?
Geforce-Kepler-patcher - Install Nvidia binaries files on Snapshot disk for macOS Monterey 12
Patched-Sur - A simple but powerful patcher for macOS Big Sur.
big-sur-micropatcher - A primitive USB patcher for installing macOS Big Sur on unsupported Macs
MonitorControl - 🖥 Control your display's brightness & volume on your Mac as if it was a native Apple Display. Use Apple Keyboard keys or custom shortcuts. Shows the native macOS OSDs.
OpenCore-Install-Guide - Repo for the OpenCore Install Guide
bigmac - Big Mac, macOS 11 Big Sur and macOS Monterey disk installer and back up tool for Intel based Macs
Lunar - Intelligent adaptive brightness for your external monitors
ryzen-hackintosh - OpenCore EFI for AMD Ryzen Hackintosh
GenSMBIOS - Py script that uses acidanthera's macserial to generate SMBIOS and optionally saves them to a plist.
Wireless-USB-Big-Sur-Adapter - Drivers for Realtek 802.11n and 802.11ac USB Wi-Fi adapters. Packages for macOS
monterey - obsolete
displayplacer - macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements. Essentially XRandR for macOS.