- This episode of Krazy
Ken's Tech Misadventures
is sponsored by Linode.
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Okay, so the public beta for
Apple's reimagined macOS,
macOS 11 Big Sur, is now out.
I feel like it's been longer than normal.
Normally we get public betas way sooner.
Anyway, let's do an
installation sensation.
You're comin' with me.
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Hey guys, how are you all doin'?
Really, that's just great.
You know, I'm doin'
pretty great today too,
because it's time for that public beta.
Let's install it.
It's been awhile since we've
done an installation sensation.
Now, we are crazy here,
but we're not that crazy.
Let me tell you what I mean.
This is my daily driver currently.
What am I not gonna do?
That's right, I'm not
gonna install beta software
on my daily driver.
Maybe on another partition, I don't know.
What's safer is we're gonna
install it this LaCie drive.
It's currently running Catalina,
but we're gonna put Big Sur public beta
on this guy.
And, we're gonna have some fun with it,
test out the new features,
see how well it runs for some basic things
on an older MacBook Pro,
and we're gonna see if some
of those user interface things
that I constructively complained
about in my other video,
(laughs) we'll see if
those were fixed or not.
Let's have a look.
Right when the refrigerator
kicked in, you asshole.
I normally turn it off,
but this was a long one.
Hey, I gotta be fed, you know.
Shut up.
So, here we are in Catalina
with 57% battery life left,
because we like to live dangerously.
Let's see if we can get it
done before the battery dies.
So, the LaCie drive is
plugged in over there
with the Thunderbolt cable,
and it looks like it says update,
so it was doing some Big
Sur thing at one time,
because I had the developer beta on there,
but now let's get the
public beta on there.
Let's see if we can format
this thing without causing
a catastrophic meltdown.
I am so--there's two containers.
Oh my gosh, I still don't really
understand what APFS does.
Okay, so I think it makes two containers
for like protection reasons.
I (laughs), I don't know.
Why is this under this, but this isn't?
(whispers) Oh my gosh, I have
no idea what I'm looking at.
How do I format this drive,
there's like 17 volumes, geez.
Oh well, I guess I gotta get
with the Times New Roman.
Okay, full reminder, I'm
going into this blind.
That's kind of the fun of
an installation sensation.
And then, once we get the system working,
we'll take it for a test drive
to see how well it works,
which is even more fun
when it's beta software.
So, yeah, you're comin'
along for the ride, oh no.
Okay, so I'm gonna take a
couple educated guesses,
and I'm going to erase this,
and I'm just gonna call it Big Sur APFS.
Okay, and if I'm thinking
about this correctly,
it should automatically clean that up,
which it looks like it did.
Good, I think I did it right.
Okay, so my other data on
the drive is left untouched.
I used this for Final Cut Pro,
editing, and stuff like that,
and that is right there.
So, that should be good, okay.
Formatting is done, now, since
the public beta is now out,
man, it came out way later than normal,
we can use the macOS Public Beta Utility.
So, let's open that up.
No Time Machine backup detected.
We like to live dangerously.
We're actually installing
it on an external drive,
(whispering) so we don't need a backup.
Let's read the whole EULA, done!
And, install (scoffs).
You can't look at this part.
Okay, update not found!
Great, okay, that's horrible.
Oh, hey, there's the beta.
Okay, I'm gonna close out of that for now,
because, again, we're not
installing this internally,
so we're gonna use the feedback assistant
on the external drive once it's there.
So, we should just be able to say upgrade.
And, it should--two hours,
oh one hour remaining, okay.
I was about to jump off a cliff, although,
I don't think there are any
cliffs 10 stories underground.
Anyway, okay, so it's gonna
download the app installer,
and we should be able to
open the app installer,
select the external drive.
Right there, Big Sur, and install to that.
Just so we don't F up anything
on the internal drive here.
So, I'll check back with
you guys in 53 minutes.
One hour, two hours (groans).
Three, oh, it was at three,
now it's back to two.
You know, this literally
just launched today,
so I'm sure Apple servers are
getting slammed a little bit.
I only tested beta once so far,
because beta two--I think I
tried again on beta three,
and it just would not
download for some reason.
Oh well, still got beta one.
If you haven't seen the
video I made about it,
talking about the user interface,
definitely go check it out.
It's kinda fun looking back on it.
I'm guessing a lot of that
stuff has been fixed by now.
That's gonna be one of the
things we test out today,
once we get the installation finished.
We're gonna see if those bugs
and design issues got squashed.
Four minutes left on
the--oh, three minutes left
on the download now.
All right, well, this has
been goin' for about an hour,
and we haven't even started
the installation phase yet,
so I think we're not gonna make it
with our battery life there.
Aw, short-lived dream.
Okay, right when I walk
away, it changes the screen.
Oh, hey, good, it's done with that part.
MagSafe, get in there.
Get, get.
It's been a long day.
It's been a long week,
it's been a long month.
It's been a long everything!
It was March yesterday, now it's August.
What the, what the (beep).
That is a beautiful,
beautiful view of Big Sur.
I am not a linguist, but I
think that is some language
for big south.
I could be wrong.
Should probably check
my information on that.
All right, agree.
Show all discs, and here is
the Big Sur drive we have,
so we don't F up anything internally.
Gotta close your eyes.
And there we are, we are
now in the next phase
where we get to wait another 14 minutes.
Okay, so what do you wanna talk about?
Lovely sports team we're having.
Closing applications, here we go.
Oh, going back.
Didn't want to shut down
all the way just yet.
Oh, now you're going, okay.
Okay, well, we got an apple instead
of a Ghostbusters symbol,
so that's a good start.
Looks like it's already doing a reboot.
Makin' sure it didn't
go to sleep on me, okay.
Fans are running, just waitin'
for it to do its thing.
And, it completely shut down.
Okay, this happened when I
was installing Catalina, man,
and that wasn't even a beta.
Yeah, the fans just turned
off, everything shut down.
So, oh wait, hang on.
It just made a noise.
I didn't even press anything.
Now, it made another noise.
Okay, okay, all right, well,
okay, now it's going (laughs).
It's a seven year old computer,
(whispers) we'll cut it a little slack.
Okay, this is what I was waitin' for.
About 29 minutes remaining.
This might still reboot
one more time or so,
but this is the final part
of the installation process.
Pretty easy, very minimalist looking.
All right, we just had our next reboot.
Well, the progress bar is chuggin' along,
so it looks like we'll be able
to test drive Big Sur soon.
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All right, now back to the Mac.
And, we're rebooting again.
Oh, the faster moving progress bar.
I think we're in the home stretch here.
All right, we got cursor, and it moves.
So, that pretty much means we're done.
Okay, oh, the bar just reset itself, okay.
All right, well, I spoke
too soon apparently.
This is a patience exercise.
Please keep your hands, arms,
and mental sanity inside
the exercise at all times.
And, another reboot!
Got the apple back, and
hopefully this is it, please.
So we can get on with our lives.
Oh, here we go, this is it for real now.
Boom, gray screen, and then we
should get that new colorful,
beautiful setup screen.
There it is!
With the sexy new glyphs, oh beautiful.
I'm not sure which region I'm in,
but I'm gonna guess it's this one.
Continue.
And yes, in case you
haven't noticed already,
or in case you don't know,
the whole interface has been redesigned,
so we'll definitely take a look at that.
And, nope, gonna do that later.
Don't really need to set up
my Apple ID with this for now.
And as you can see, instead
of the sheet sliding down
from the top of the window,
they now just kinda pop up
in the middle, so that's
another user interface tweak.
Everything's been tweaked.
It's pretty much all new.
Okay, well, we don't have a photo on here,
so let's choose one of
the account pictures.
Guess we could do the bowling, I guess.
Oh, this is a lovely selection of photos.
I'm gonna choose this one.
Oh, it's a football!
Football, what's a football?
Okay, obscure reference, anyone get that?
No, okay.
Don't really need location services,
'cause I'm 10 stories underground.
I know where I am.
Oh, well that might have
been nice for the time zone.
Well, we'll say Chicago.
Not Kansas City, not
Minneapolis, not Kansas Ci--
- -there we go, Chicago.
Continue.
Dude, I love these new animations.
Oh, the little things.
Analytics, yes, it's a
beta, so you kinda need
to have that on.
Screen time, no, I don't
need to be reminded
how long I use my computer.
Siri, I can do things myself, thankfully,
we don't need you.
Oh, yes, dark mode, light mode.
Dark mode, light mode.
What do you think?
What do you normally use?
And, here we go.
And, here we are.
We are in macOS Big Sur
public beta, numero uno.
So, let's see if they fixed
some of the beefs I had.
So, it looks like they're
stickin' with the design
of the messages in FaceTime icon,
and you know, I'm not
really against the design,
I just don't think it really matches a lot
of the other design language,
'cause you have like
flatter looks over here,
and then you have these
really extruded kind
of looks over here.
It's like a mix of flat
and neumorphism-ish.
So, I mean, we'll get used to it, I guess.
It's not the worst thing.
But, in my opinion, it's
also not the best thing.
Okay, so battery
preferences, let's go ahead
and pop into there.
Yep, they fixed it.
This needs a little bit of work,
'cause that text is way
too close to the edge.
And, this is my audit, by the way.
This is part of the test spin (laughs).
This is my auditing process.
It is kinda cool though.
We do have onscreen usage,
battery level last 24 hours,
last 10 days, kinda like
what we have on iOS.
It's really handy, and yes,
the icon looks so much better.
They fixed the bell icon's resolution.
The last time it was kinda chunky looking.
I mean, it's looking better though.
It really is looking better.
So, that makes me happy.
Okay, let's check another thing.
Alignment of menus.
Vertically, yep, everything
looks good there.
Let's open the Force Quit window.
I mean, it looks better.
I'd have to look at it side by side
to see if it was off, but
last time this red button,
the close button, was like
way too close to the edge,
but now it seems comfortable.
So, either my perception is wrong,
or they actually fixed that.
So, things looking good.
All right, so yeah, some of
the new features we have,
obviously, new design.
We have Control Center up here.
Go into Display here, yay.
Display, we can change the brightness,
just like you would on your phone.
I still think they
should add like some sort
of back button up here,
so you know where to click
to go back a level.
So, I think that could
use a little refinement.
Control Center, or excuse
me, Notification Center.
I mean, that's lookin' pretty good.
I know, it's kinda weird that
you have to click the Clock
and the Date to get that.
I guess that makes sense (laughs).
Either way, it looks pretty.
I think they're doing this with SwiftUI,
looks really nice.
Consistent with how iOS looks.
We can add in our own widgets.
So, we can put our reminders in there.
Stocks, so I can be depressed
at how much Kodak has gone up,
and I wonder why I didn't keep
investing in them, ha ha ha.
Screen Time, we can drag that into here.
That's pretty, that
looks really good there.
Alrighty, swipe that away.
Safari, big new changes in Safari.
The Computer Clan, the
Computer Clan wallpapers
is a Google suggestion.
What are you guys searching?
Do you guys only want our wallpapers,
is that what you guys are
searching all the time?
Well, good for you.
So, we'll go to our incredibly
out-of-date website (laughs).
We can test the new
feature while we're here.
This is like the new privacy
report for the website.
Let's click on it.
Two trackers prevented--there's
trackers on our website?
Seriously?
Oh, Google Analytics,
well, that's totally fine.
Do we need a disclaimer on our website
for using Google Analytics?
Not even sure (laughs).
Maybe we should put one on there.
But yeah, that's all we have on our--
- -wait, wait, hold the phone.
Does that mean I'm not
gonna get analytics?
Analytic data from people using
the new version of Safari.
So, if you visit our website,
I'm not gonna know that information?
What the hell, seriously?
I don't know what profiling really means.
I need to look into that.
I'm not a cyber security expert,
but that is interesting.
What if I press the I button.
Oh, oh, this is like the help thing.
Anyway, that is a cool feature though,
that really is.
What's a cool wallpaper?
I mean, I have a few good ones.
We can download this one.
This as the desktop picture.
(whoosh)
Yeah, look at that.
Okay, so something that I
believe is specifically new
to the latest betas is
a new version of WebKit
that supports VP9.
Finally, I really don't
know why it took so long
for Apple to get VP9 in their stuff,
but apparently it took forever.
Okay, so the biggest feature from that,
that most of you will benefit from,
4K playback on YouTube,
'cause that relies on VP9.
You couldn't do that in Safari,
until potentially now.
Let's find out.
Let's go to, yeah, why
not, my iPhone 12 video,
which has a whopping four views.
So, let's say no thanks,
and go to that.
Let's see here.
Scrolling up (gasps), 4K!
Oh, it only took, what, four
years to get that in there?
Oh, finally, I watch 4K YouTube in Safari!
I don't have to go to Chrome anymore!
Oh, Apple, thank you.
Wow, this looks good.
I mean, the sad thing
is--it's not really sad--
- -but this is not a 4K display,
so I'm not even seeing
pixel accuracy here,
but wow, that looks sharp still.
You can still easily tell the difference
between 1080p and 4K.
Oh gosh, that looks so crisp.
I just wanna lick it.
Is that weird?
Another thing I heard about
is you can turn off the window tinting,
which someone actually
tweeted me about recently.
He was like, "purple dark mode".
Well, what dark mode does is it takes--
- -I think light mode does
this too, I'm not sure,
but the average color of your wallpaper
is tinted into the dark mode,
so it's very hard to see, but it's subtle.
So, this isn't like a gray, this is like
a very desaturated
bluish-green goin' on up here.
It does that.
I think they call it window
tinting, or something.
I wanna see.
Oh yeah, allow wallpaper
tinting in Windows.
So, I'm gonna turn that off.
You can now see the difference there,
that's the gray dark mode and
this is the tinted version,
but I don't mind the tinted version.
I think it looks pretty.
I'm very confident this is
gonna be a great release,
and it's also gonna be
the first operating system
for Apple Silicon.
Apple is moving away from Intel chips
to their own Silicon, like
they use in the iPhone,
but way more powerful.
So, this is a good way to pave
that road map for the future.
I actually did a tech talk
episode about Apple Silicon,
so if wanna learn more about it,
I highly recommend checkin' that one out,
that's a good one.
Okay, so there is one thing
I have not checked yet.
I heard the screenshot sound changed.
I guess there was some controversy
around the little blip sound.
So, let's see how it sounds now.
(clank)
Oh!
So, they brought back the original sound
that I think Jim Reekes, who
made up the startup chime,
made, but they combined it
with a little bloop bloop.
Okay (clank).
(clank)
Actually the camera shutter does sound
a little bit different too,
or maybe I'm just crazy.
(clank) I like that though!
(clanking)
I'm not stopping.
Okay, well, the desktop looks good.
Okay, so Big Sur, you're on your way.
You're lookin' pretty good.
I can't wait to try you
out when you go final.
(sighs)
(laughs) My heart sank when I said that.
I usually wait a little bit until I update
on my daily driver.
Which, hopefully soon
will be that new iMac,
so pretty cool stuff.
Let me know what you
think about macOS Big Sur,
and let me know of any
other bugs and little things
that you saw.
I also did notice the
Doc menu highlighting
still isn't rounded
like everything else is,
so I guess there's still a
few design things they need
to fix, but that's what the
feedback assistant is for.
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