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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by noneeeed on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:07PM (#25051132)
For me it hides the things I use all the time (media and volume controls) to make room for application specific controls that I never use.

If it was more customisable I wouldn't mind it, but the apparant inability to force it to show me the things I actually want is annoying.

I can imagine there are some people for whom the application specific buttons are useful, but for me they are not worth it for what they displace.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by imjared on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:11PM (#25051198)
Not sure if it's helpful for you but you can customize the behavior by going to your System Prefs > keyboard settings and toggling "Touch bar shows:".

I did this on like day 2 of having my MBP for what sounds like the same reason you want to. The setting I have turned on is "Expanded control strip" and I never see any application-specific controls, only volume, brightness, etc.

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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by noneeeed on Thursday November 12, 2020 @02:32AM (#25067410)
Omg, thank you. Somehow I'd missed that setting.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by 1123581321 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:09PM (#25051160)
Check out BetterTouchTool if customization is holding you back.
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Re:Apple unveils M1, its first system-on-a-chip for portable... by fitzrocks on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @03:12PM (#25051210)
FYI you can customize it, and force it to always display certain controls.

I had the exact same frustrations as you. Took me 10 mins digging into settings to figure it out. Now I have my touchbar constantly displaying all of the controls that are buttons on the Air (ie a completely over-engineered solution to get the same result)

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