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Comment by dvcrn | Hacker News Reader

Just remove Siri from the TouchBar then?

I’ve removed every control besides volume and mute... and I still accidentally brush them every now and then. The Touch Bar is way too sensitive.

If the Touch Bar was adjustable sensitive to force, it would be almost perfect in my book. My biggest objection to it is that it establishes a different UX between laptop and desktop.

Yeah the only time I notice it is when I brush the mute which is a key I rarely want to hit. Also when I want to hit escape I often miss because it is oddly indented.

The escape button is actually quite large. At least on my 2018 MBP, the whole empty left also acts as the escape button so no need to try and hit the escape in the middle of the label.

I used to have this, that I could tap anywhere on and to the left of the esc touch button and it would trigger esc. But after one of the OS updates (i forget which) it stopped working, now I have to hit the etc touch button, if I hit the blank aria to the left, nothing happens anymore. It bugs me so much!

Just curious, what OS version are you using? I'm on Big Sur (but same issue in Catalina). I've got the 2017 MBP 15"

EDIT: I should add, I mean that I could hit the far left blank aria of the touch bar any time in any touchbar mode and it would trigger the esc action. They "fixed" that in an update. I can still press to the left of the esc and trigger esc when the esc button is visible. But often I'll have spotify touch bar "app" open and the esc key won't show, so I have to close the app just to access the esc key, super annoying.

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