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I wonder if SwiftDefaultApps might yield different results compared to the Cmd+I menu? It's a crude-yet-still-working preference pane for setting default apps in System Settings, r…

You're probably right, just add it to the collection of "not-quite-window floating thingies", accompanied by Quick Notes, Stickies, Special Character Picker, Color Picker, Font Pic…

The “window” also doesn’t belong to an app! His menu bar continued to show Finder as the active app, not Siri. Which means, if shipped like this, the Siri dialog will be a poor exc…

Well at least the metal part of any type-C plug will inherently be more fragile due to the hollow design and manufacturing by stamping out of sheet metal. Whereas for Lightning, it…

>chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly Blink (Chrome) is not WebKit. If anything, the duopoly is Blink and WebKit at places 1 and 2 respectively. Firefox is at around 3% market share. …

A kid raised on an animal sounds toy keyboard might also expect the computer to go “moo” when pressing the “M” key, but that doesn’t mean Apple should build that in. Expectations f…

Nope, no bad faith here, I’d genuinely like to hear your use cases for the touchscreen. I just hope you could exclude speculative new interfaces and gestures in future macOS that s…

I’d even say pipe dream of just Apple commentators and pundits. I’ve yet to hear from a normal, real-life Mac user who legitimately wishes for a touchscreen MacBook.

This isn’t heavily censored social media, you can say Pornhub.

The status bar – as in: the area where the clock, battery and signal strength are shown – is absolutely always at the top of the screen on iOS.

The Circle (2017) is by no means a perfect movie, based on a 2013 book which I’m told is only marginally better. But it did do a surprisingly accurate job of depicting pretty much …

> my own CLI browser but is more graphical So based on the first paragraph, I would’ve assumed “CLI” and “graphical” were mutually exclusive? Did you in fact mean to type “TUI” her…

As a non-native speaker, TIL that "magnifying glass" and "loupe" are not synonyms. According to Wikipedia: > [Loupes] generally have higher magnification than a magnifying glass, a…

When you say "Apple's dominance", are you referring to a potential dominance? Because in terms of actual dominance, Apple is far from that in laptops. Lenovo, HP and Dell each sell…

Even funnier is, it was obscenely bad for years, and then it made a sudden jump to “pretty darn good”. My headcanon is that someone high-up at Apple tried to search for a message, …

I'm in the same boat. It seems like the mindset for consumer-grade hubs is to provide support for as many old, legacy devices as possible, rather than a higher number of new device…

Correction: Apple neither uses nor contributes to Chromium. They have WebKit, which Chromium (Blink) was forked from in 2013.

Trains are expensive upfront, which might favor buses when expanding into new areas. But if the infrastructure is already there, a train line will always be more economical in the …

See also: the plot of Cars 2. I’m only semi-joking. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Allinol

Worth mentioning that Orion is fully based on WebKit. Calling it a “Safari wrapper” would be unfair, but it’s also not extremely far from that either.

(This is probably terribly obvious, but should be mentioned anyway: that's 1.4% Mac and 2.06% Linux users of Steam . Not users in general.)

> exactly one data Datum :)

The minimum number of platforms for “cross-platform” software is by definition two (2).

…and macOS. Sandboxed Mac apps get their own little home directory in `~/Library/Containers/`. To access anything else, they need to ask through system APIs.

> I have access to all of them on my phone via Files app and the iCloud sync TIL that "unsaved" TextEdit files automatically go to the iCloud/TextEdit folder! That changes things f…