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Tenashus1

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Today is another day and thank God for it. I do medical notes and I use caps lock to write them. As I've written before, since "upgrading" to Sonoma 14.5 I now have a caps lock indicator arrow that follows me in my note writing program. it's like my shadow as I write. It causes a constant orienting response in my brain, and just lights up my thalamus as I write. Apparently, there is some kind of fix through terminal for this indicator to be turned off, but Apple does not support it. Dear Apple, who in their right mind came up with this idea to let people know they're using caps lock and further, who in their right mind would not program in an option to turn the sucker off? Hey, it's my computer, and I don't need Apple to direct it's workings. I hope someone from APPLE is reading this, and will provide a fix SOON!.
 
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Tenashus1

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Just one more note. Apple did not offer any support for the above fix. They suggested that I alter the font size in the overall display which is different from the default. Rather disappointing that the solution had to come from outside Apple. I am, however, thankful that the solution was possible after all.
 

Sciuriware

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Just one more note. Apple did not offer any support for the above fix. They suggested that I alter the font size in the overall display which is different from the default. Rather disappointing that the solution had to come from outside Apple. I am, however, thankful that the solution was possible after all.
Rather disappointing .... ???
What do you think MacRumors is for?
;JOOP!
 
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Tenashus1

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Rather disappointing .... ???
What do you think MacRumors is for?
;JOOP!
I pay Apple for support. They invade my computer with some stupid feature, and don't offer assistance to me in fixing it. Despite paying for support, I have to go outside of Apple to get a fix. Of course I appreciate MacRumors for helping me out. That was great.
 

fisherking

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I pay Apple for support. They invade my computer with some stupid feature, and don't offer assistance to me in fixing it. Despite paying for support, I have to go outside of Apple to get a fix. Of course I appreciate MacRumors for helping me out. That was great.
some people like this feature (not me! i disabled it too). but it's not something broken, so it doesn't, by apple's definition, need to be 'fixed'. the good news of course is we have communities like this one, to find workarounds...
 

HDFan

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Apple did not offer any support for the above fix.

don't offer assistance to me in fixing it.

Apple support is not allowed to support native Unix commands for a good reason. Given the complexities of Unix an error of even one character in a command line can completely hose your system.

Whether a configuration GUI option should be made available is a different issue.
 

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some people like this feature (not me! i disabled it too). but it's not something broken, so it doesn't, by apple's definition, need to be 'fixed'. the good news of course is we have communities like this one, to find workarounds...
The problem is when Apple breaks the workaround and forces you to see that your caps lock is on (because the light and the text being in all caps is apparently not enough, Apple must not think very much of their users).
 
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fisherking

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The problem is when Apple breaks the workaround and forces you to see that your caps lock is on (because the light and the text being in all caps is apparently not enough, Apple must not think very much of their users).
it's a feature, regardless of whether some of us like it or not. i don't, you don't. but this has nothing to do with what apple thinks of it's users.
 
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Sciuriware

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I pay Apple for support. They invade my computer with some stupid feature, and don't offer assistance to me in fixing it. Despite paying for support, I have to go outside of Apple to get a fix. Of course I appreciate MacRumors for helping me out. That was great.
If you determine every feature as an "invasion", I wonder if you would like to abandon Copy and Paste as well.
If I'm correctly informed it was introduced by the Xerox boys without any demand from the (then non-existing) users.
And the people at APPLE support simply can not change MacOS instantly at anybody's complaint.
Any OS is a compromise between demand and reject. Even the wall socket is not what you asked for.
;JOOP!
 

Tenashus1

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One chooses to use cut and paste.With the idiotic Caps Lock arrow there is no choice.
 
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Nermal

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it's a feature, regardless of whether some of us like it or not.
It's a feature, implemented in a buggy way. It should not pop up in the corner of the screen every eight minutes in a full-screen game, but it does* (until you use the plist edit to get rid of it, anyway).

*Possibly "did"... I disabled it back in 14.0/14.1 so it might have been fixed since then, but knowing Apple it's probably still broken.
 
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zevrix

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it's a feature, regardless of whether some of us like it or not. i don't, you don't. but this has nothing to do with what apple thinks of it's users.

well. the fact that Apple didn't provide a human-oriented option to disable this feature clearly shows what Apple thinks of its users (or at least those people on its team who are responsible for this decision).
 
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fisherking

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something built into the OS that some people don't like remains a feature, not a bug... no matter how much those who don't like it complain. again, i don't like it, and disabled it. but that doesn't change the facts. there are lots of 'locked' things in the OS.

i've been on a mac since 10.3, and have locked the dock away ever since. don't like it, don't need it. but that's my problem, not the OS's....
 

zevrix

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something built into the OS that some people don't like remains a feature, not a bug... no matter how much those who don't like it complain. again, i don't like it, and disabled it. but that doesn't change the facts. there are lots of 'locked' things in the OS.

i've been on a mac since 10.3, and have locked the dock away ever since. don't like it, don't need it. but that's my problem, not the OS's....

well that's exactly the point. you can disable the Dock via the human-oriented UI. you can't do this with the caps lock icon (need to scavenge the internet in hope to find some kind of a shady solution).

plus some things cannot be disabled/enabled at all: real icons in the sidebar, the annoying expand/collapse animations of outline views (e.g. folders in Finder file list), rollover highlighting of scroll bars and some other.
 

fisherking

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well that's exactly the point. you can disable the Dock via the human-oriented UI. you can't do this with the caps lock icon (need to scavenge the internet in hope to find some kind of a shady solution).

plus some things cannot be disabled/enabled at all: real icons in the sidebar, the annoying expand/collapse animations of outline views (e.g. folders in Finder file list), rollover highlighting of scroll bars and some other.
the dock can only be truly locked away with the terminal (in my case) or an app like onyx.

either way, as you've pointed out, some things can't be changed. and yet... there is a way to disable that caps lock indicator, so (despite the whining), all is well...
 
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