Let's count the useful features since Snow Leopard: 1. Messages integration to text from laptop 2.
For you maybe, for others, many of the new features have been very useful.
MacOS Sierra
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Re: MacOS Sierra
#142While waiting for the webpage to load I eagerly imagined a port of all my favorite old games to OS X.
If you mean DOS games... use Boxer (it's basically a way to package DOSBox into self-contained apps).
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#143Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've been actively looking for a MBP-quality laptop that shows up on my doorstep running Fedora for about 2 years, but at this point all I'd need is a significant uptick in hardware to justify starting fresh. I'd also point out how frustrating it is that Linux laptops tend to be on the cheap side (on par with a 13" Air), or generally massive, plastic, and loud.
I have both the latest Dell XPS 13 and the Dell XPS 15, either of which would meet your requirements.
Possibly... Do you have Fedora running on the 15? ...not required, just curious.
Re: MacOS Sierra
#144"Siri makes its debut on Mac" Siri has been in iOS since 2011 and still can't handle basic parsing/questions. There was that demo of something that looked a lot better, but I've never seen it actual rolled into the product.
I keep hearing, both from the media and individuals, Apple Watch is way better at dictating than iPhone (nobody really knows why). I have seen increases both in latency and accuracy using the same phone/mic. I wonder what the major issues are for bad Siri experience? It does seem like they're continuously improving it. Often, it seems like a technology like this gets released, it kind of works, and you don't see any more development.
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#145Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Debian + stumpwm + emacs + Firefox: why use anything else? Because it's 2016? What about multimedia? Or an IDE? Or my proprietary apps like Photoshop and Premiere?
PS works surprisingly well in Wine, but that I could understand. Emacs works better than any IDE. Your browser is usually good enough for multimedia unless you're talking about creating it.
>Emacs works better than any IDE.
In the immortal words of Jeffrey Lebowski: Well, that's like, your opinion, man. Good IDEs like IntelliJ and VS have so much better integration for given languages that only result in ad-hoc, ho-hum solutions in Emacs (if one can suffer the millions of key bindings).
>Your browser is usually good enough for multimedia unless you're talking about creating it.
Well, if multimedia we mean "watching web video" or some flash pages. The browser can't even put up with viewing RAW images or playing FLAC files...
But true, I'm talking about creating (which doesn't mean anything at the Michael Bay level -- even something as simple as family vacation video or high school project).
Re: MacOS Sierra
#146For non-technical users, is there a good tutorial I can point them at to disable iCloud Desktop/Document deleting? This is extremely bad behavior and I have no clue why Apple thought this was a good idea. Like, this is class action material imho. You can't just take people's files and lock them behind a paywall just because they previously opted into the paywall on a case by case basis. Edit: For those downvoting, it…
Can you elaborate on this? Is OSX deleting iCloud documents if you run out of space?
Re: MacOS Sierra
#147For non-technical users, is there a good tutorial I can point them at to disable iCloud Desktop/Document deleting? This is extremely bad behavior and I have no clue why Apple thought this was a good idea. Like, this is class action material imho. You can't just take people's files and lock them behind a paywall just because they previously opted into the paywall on a case by case basis. Edit: For those downvoting, it…
The "Optimize Mac Storage" functionality you're referring to is not enabled by default.
You can manage settings for this and other storage optimization features in About this Mac -> Storage -> Manage, and System Preferences -> iCloud -> Option... (beside iCloud Drive).
Re: MacOS Sierra
#148Does anyone know if a different storage engine can be used in place of iCloud? (I ask because I'm not keen on my data being exported to foreign country with very different privacy laws and I'd also like to be able to shop around without being tied to a single storage supplier).
> Does anyone know if a different storage engine can be used in place of iCloud? Obviously not. There was not even a chance in hell that that could even be possible.
Conceptually, any such application is just an internet-connected filesystem driver with (presumably) a local cache in front. So there's no technical reason it couldn't be pluggable, just Apple being Apple as usual.
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#149Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So, there's no new features that anybody asked for Many asked for tabs in every app, shared clipboard, more voice control, improved Photos app and better iTunes, picture in picture, and more full featured Messages app. Plus few would ask Apple to take back the ability to save space (up to tens of GB) through iCloud/Desktop integration and more. In the meantime, there's also a new filesystem on the way, already in e…
> Many asked for ... more voice control, Colour me skeptical
Well, let's start with immobile and impaired users, of which are millions...
Then, let's check all those media pundits lamenting for the lack of something like Cortana on the Mac...
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
> So, there's no new features that anybody asked for Many asked for tabs in every app, shared clipboard, more voice control, improved Photos app and better iTunes, picture in picture, and more full featured Messages app. Plus few would ask Apple to take back the ability to save space (up to tens of GB) through iCloud/Desktop integration and more. In the meantime, there's also a new filesystem on the way, already in e…
>Like? I can't possible thing anything that got made more complex, save for a couple of trivial things (with an equal amount of other stuff or more becoming easier). UI complexity: Apple keeps moving the goalposts on its UI focus, and it shows: The new interface is WAAY more complex. EC did some interesting unix things, which broke some stuff IIRC. The new FS will be nice, but it's not there now .
>UI complexity: Apple keeps moving the goalposts on its UI focus, and it shows: The new interface is WAAY more complex.
What would be a concrete example?
(And is that example major and/or indicative of lots of changes towards difficulty, or just a random example, among other things that got easier and some that got harder?)
>EC did some interesting unix things, which broke some stuff IIRC.
Well, even Linux might break some UNIX stuff ocassionally (systemd anyone?). But is there anything specific and important in EC or Sierra regarding that?
>The new FS will be nice, but it's not there now.
A developer version is included with Sierra, but yes, it's no there fully formed and default.