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OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by throwanem »

bovermyer wrote: post #245
orbitur wrote: post #229

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Hey, one less reason for me to use FB Messenger. In complete honesty, I prefer FB Messenger because it seems a lot more expressive and it's way easier to access your photos. FB is really stomping on iMessage in the chat realm, and I'm sad I have to wait for iOS 10.

I really enjoy FB Messenger. There's a part of me that is disturbed by how deeply integrated into my life Facebook has become, but there's another part of me that just loves the convenience of it all. Now if only they'd fix that random infinite-reload-loop bug that's been plaguing me for the past week...

> There's a part of me that is disturbed by how deeply integrated into my life Facebook has become

You have no idea. I thought I was just choosing not to use Facebook - I didn't realize I was choosing not to have a social life any more, too.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by jarjoura »

sdkmvx wrote: post #274
jarjoura wrote: post #253

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What version of Mac OS was ever meant for more technical consumers though? Apple's DNA has always been consumer product focused in everything they build.

Obviously they were never exclusively marketed towards technical users, but Apple was definitely targeting the UNIX workstation and multimedia workstation markets in the early 2000s. See http://www.brainmapping.org/MarkCohen/UNIXad.pdf

That's an ad for the PowerBook G4 marketed to power users of the platform.

See http://www.apple.com/mac-pro/performance/ for comparison of the difference in marketing.

Also see http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/black_... when the black macbook was launched.

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Post by [deleted] »

kylec wrote: post #290
masklinn wrote: post #284

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You probably can't. You couldn't any previous year AFAIK, though they publish the sessions online afterwards (an other commenter posted the 2015 one)

So essentially a big middle finger from Apple to anyone not attending the conference. Sigh.

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Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by marcosscriven »

knd775 wrote: post #325
bigdubs wrote: post #22

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https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes is your friend.

Does anyone know if this is a bad idea? Like do any of the system provided utilities do anything special in OS X that will be broken if they are replaced? I'd like to do install these replacements, but am concerned about possible side effects.

In the case of Homebrew, it'll install things to 'usr/local/Cellar', and symlink them from /usr/local, leaving the OS X tools in place in /usr/bin

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Post by leogiertz »

jedberg wrote: post #249
leogiertz wrote: post #230

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Isn't fiber being rolled out across the US?

Yep. And it has a cap too. In fact, that cap is so low that if you max out your connection for just over two hours you'll be over the cap for the month.

Seems like AT&T are increasing the caps and adding the option to have an "unlimited" version: http://arstechnica.com/business/2016/03/att-boosts-data-caps...

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Post by reacharavindh »

otterley wrote: post #102
reacharavindh wrote: post #12

Copy/paste across iPhone and Mac is very useful. All the other features are Meh. I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work. I can't be sure that all my questions to Siri are not awkward to speak out. Would have been great to have a textual interface though. You know that Keyboard thingy that is always with a Mac?!

> I really don't want to be that guy talking to my Mac at work What about your disabled colleague?

Now, I'm all for making Siri better as an "Accessibility feature". I was just referring to myself talking to my Mac for doing my basic activities. It might be annoying at best to my co-worker so would he be to me when he does talk to his Mac all the time.

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Post by aethant »

kylec wrote: post #290
masklinn wrote: post #284

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You probably can't. You couldn't any previous year AFAIK, though they publish the sessions online afterwards (an other commenter posted the 2015 one)

So essentially a big middle finger from Apple to anyone not attending the conference. Sigh.

Do you attend a lot of paid conferences that stream live for free in real time? That must be cool.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by rleigh »

jsheard wrote: post #337
robotresearcher wrote: post #329

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> I went crazy trying to find the square brackets. Apple's US keyboards have them in a good place: on dedicated keys to the right of the 'p' key. Scroll down a bit here: http://www.apple.com/magic-accessories/ Like you, I am baffled as to why some of their BSD userland programs are so very out of date.

Apples US keyboards are fine, the problem is their international keyboards are usually bizarre hybrids of the local layout and US layout. Standard UK layout: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:KB_United_Kingdom.svg Apple "UK" layout: http://i.imgur.com/pIGiilv.jpg (@€#@|\`~ are all wrong)

The worst part is not that they have a "unique" UK keyboard layout, but that they don't support the standard UK layout at all with the built-in keymaps, which is frankly incredible given that every single keyboard other than Apple ones uses it since it's a British Standard and that's what everyone uses and expects.

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Post by kingnothing »

tajen wrote: post #317
TheCoreh wrote: post #238

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Out of curiosity, what scared you away from 10.11?

That Apple doesn't do quality anymore? For Mac OS, system bugs are increasing release after release, kernel panics were introduced in Mavericks and didn't go away with El Capitan even though it was supposed to be a bugfix-centric release. I also have deactivated upgrades.

For whatever it's worth, El Capitan hasn't been any worse than previous versions of OS X that I've used over the past 6 years.
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