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Good thing they removed the battery time remaining indicator. People will never notice. /s

by sprite 10y ago

jjawssd 10y ago
In macOS 10.12 sierra you can option-click on the battery indicator and click on "show percentage". Now the fact that they are trying to obfuscate how low you are on juice is really damning
- MiddleEndian 10y ago
  Show percentage is insufficient. If something in my behavior will cause the battery to drop from 50% to 0% in one hour instead of six, I want to know that.
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - JimDabell 10y ago
    You still do – that drop-down shows apps using significant energy, and if you want more details, Activity Monitor shows per-process stats, graphs, and time remaining.
    - MiddleEndian 10y ago
      That's still a big jump back in usability.
  - paublyrne 10y ago
    You can use CoconutBattery to show time remaining in the menu bar. It is still being estimated, just not shown in macOS. This does not excuse its removal.
- 72deluxe 10y ago
  Oddly the underlying calls in the power api are all still there (so you can just write a quick app to query it) so I have absolutely no idea why in the world they have removed it, other than to completely irritate you. It's infuriating.
  - Bud 10y ago
    They removed it for the announced reason; at least at the moment, it's not accurate. It would be infuriating to display an indicator that is completely unreliable.
    - 72deluxe 10y ago
      But it is accurate - at that point in time, the time left is valid. If you suddenly go mental with the CPU then yes it would be inaccurate. I would argue that some indication is better than none. On the same machine, I can run Windows and get an estimate on the time left until it is flat.
- sprite 10y ago
  It's not the percentage they removed but the 'time remaining' indicator.
  - jjawssd 10y ago
    thanks for clearing that up
metafunctor 10y ago
You can still, by the way, get the remaining time estimate in Activity Monitor. They only removed it from the status bar widget, everything else is still in place.
r00fus 10y ago
I really found that time-remaining to be very unpredictable in the past (unpredictable workloads) and I never relied on it. Has it been useful for any folks here?

Good thing they removed the battery time remaining indicator. People will never notice. /s

by sprite 10y ago

Good thing they removed the battery time remaining indicator. People will never notice. /s

In macOS 10.12 sierra you can option-click on the battery indicator and click on "show percentage". Now the fact that they are trying to obfuscate how low you are on juice is really damning

MiddleEndian 10y ago
Show percentage is insufficient. If something in my behavior will cause the battery to drop from 50% to 0% in one hour instead of six, I want to know that.
- deleted 10y ago
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- JimDabell 10y ago
  You still do – that drop-down shows apps using significant energy, and if you want more details, Activity Monitor shows per-process stats, graphs, and time remaining.
  - MiddleEndian 10y ago
    That's still a big jump back in usability.
- paublyrne 10y ago
  You can use CoconutBattery to show time remaining in the menu bar. It is still being estimated, just not shown in macOS. This does not excuse its removal.
72deluxe 10y ago
Oddly the underlying calls in the power api are all still there (so you can just write a quick app to query it) so I have absolutely no idea why in the world they have removed it, other than to completely irritate you. It's infuriating.
- Bud 10y ago
  They removed it for the announced reason; at least at the moment, it's not accurate. It would be infuriating to display an indicator that is completely unreliable.
  - 72deluxe 10y ago
    But it is accurate - at that point in time, the time left is valid. If you suddenly go mental with the CPU then yes it would be inaccurate. I would argue that some indication is better than none. On the same machine, I can run Windows and get an estimate on the time left until it is flat.
sprite 10y ago
It's not the percentage they removed but the 'time remaining' indicator.
- jjawssd 10y ago
  thanks for clearing that up

metafunctor 10y ago

You can still, by the way, get the remaining time estimate in Activity Monitor. They only removed it from the status bar widget, everything else is still in place.

r00fus 10y ago

I really found that time-remaining to be very unpredictable in the past (unpredictable workloads) and I never relied on it. Has it been useful for any folks here?