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Anyone having trouble with macports or homebrew?
I haven't installed yet as I'm just waiting for a current backup to complete. However, generally you have to run the command below after every OS update since El Cap. sudo chown -R $(whoami) /usr/local
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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…
Thanks for the clarification of what you meant by multimedia. VLC, GIMP, Openshot, or an app run through Wine can handle all the things you described.
Finally need a new Mac ! My 2009 MBP has been cast off from the upgrade train - forever to be stuck in ElCapitan :( Over the years I could upgrade the HD speed and size from 5400 rpm -> 7200 -> Momentus -> 512 GB SSD. Can't say that about the newer MBPs .. (waiting for October to see what comes out)
I knew Apple was planning on obsoleting it when they broke some USB-2-ethernet software with a update last year but it's lasted longer than any Mac I purchased before and I figure it will be good for another year or two at least.
> "Copy a quote, image, or video from an app on one device and paste it into an app on another device." Oh my I'm looking forward to this. How many silly workarounds (pastebins, email drafts, iMessages to self, Safari bookmarks) have we used to approximate this?
You should check this out, I've been using and enjoying it for a while. My previous solution was sending emails to myself, so painful lol https://www.pushbullet.com/
> "Copy a quote, image, or video from an app on one device and paste it into an app on another device." Oh my I'm looking forward to this. How many silly workarounds (pastebins, email drafts, iMessages to self, Safari bookmarks) have we used to approximate this?
While they're at it, can we make paste and match style the default? I can never remember the four key chord to do this and as a result send emails that look like ransom notes because of mismatched formatting.
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While they're at it, can we make paste and match style the default? I can never remember the four key chord to do this and as a result send emails that look like ransom notes because of mismatched formatting.
You can do the "paste into address bar and re-copy" dance. I'm getting pretty fast! CMD-C CMD-T CMD-V CMD-A CMD-C CMD-W CMD-V
Anyone having trouble with macports or homebrew?
We really just need new hardware!! What is worse is they're selling their hardware at full price. I was in the Apple Store and the rep was trying to sell an iMac / Mac Pro to a poor punter who had no idea of their age. I didn't quite have the courage to interrupt the conversation but I did leave this little gem: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hgury35bsickbvu/MacProProtest.jpeg...
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Funny I don't particularly find anything interesting after Snow Leopard. After Jobs left, they decided not to decide on anything and just sit on what was already there. At least they're free. Perhaps the most interesting thing these days is what kind of new name they come up with. It seems to only break apps.
Feel free to continue using Snow Leopard if you're happy with it. Here are a few things I've liked in subsequent releases (sorry if some are actually in Snow Leopard and I forgot): * Notifications * Air Drop * Face Time * Native Full Screen apps * Multi-touch gestures (mostly use with multi-desktop and fullscreen apps) * Mac App Store (I like it better for OS updates) * Recovery Partition * App Resume * Terminal impr…
- Notifications : Had Growl, nothing new.
- Air drop : Perhaps but personally in no need.
- Native fullscreen : This is crazy. I turn iTunes fullscreen on secondary display and somehow it blacks out the primary screen for no good reason. Never using this feature.
- Multi touch gesture : Customizability is a joke. BetterTouchTools is what is keeping my sanity by applying custom trackpad gestures.
- Mac app store : Apparently this is big.
- Recovery partition : One of the great invention was network recovery but not like I use it often at all.
- Terminal : It was ok back then. Perhaps better if you say so. I do use SSH all the time. Never needed third party terminal.
- Air play mirroring : Don't have experience.
- Notes : Calendars, notes, reminders, stickies... What's coming next for note taking app? It's just cluttering my app folder.
- Compressed memory : Sorry I don't know what this is. Does this help you daily?
- Full disk encryption : Important feature.
- Multi monitor support : It was fine back then. As said above, part of it is a joke now.
- Spotlight : Maybe. I keep my files and mails all tidy, so I don't need a search helper.
I mean, Leopard brought Time Machine, grid view folder display from dock, quick look just to remember from top of my head which are all vastly useful and Snow leopard perfected it by making it lighter than previous OS. And today they boast they added like 100 new stuff which almost doesn't matter and I doubt things ever get lighter than previous OS these days.
Ever since they thought merging iOS feature into OSX was a good idea, it keeps adding useless pieces and they call it the best release ever.
Back then I thought Windows had tons of crapware on newly bought machine but funnily lately OSX is almost a victim of that from the vendor itself...
I love using OSX because of high quality third party apps. And in my opinion frankly Windows is still far worse.
And for OSX naming... I thought Apple is an international company. Tiger, Leopard etc was easy to read and understand as a word for us foreigners and now what? El capitan? I must think their vision is just getting narrower naming a OS to some local name they thought was cool.
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AS an outsider looking in. What is holding a developer from moving to Linux? I don't understand the draw of OS X for developers especially the past few years. These yearly updates seem to break everyone's workflow for a while.
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.