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Can't argue with that! Lenovo trackpads seem to alternate between almost usable and utter trash every few years. I usually just plug in a mouse...
Lenovos have trackpoint; why would you want to use trackpad, when you have the nub?
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I guess I'm behind the times. Is the Candy Crush installer still in the Start menu? Do they still randomly revert telemetry settings on updates? What was that thing I read last week about no more local user accounts? Maybe all of these things have little asterisks on them, but at this point I don't care anymore. Chrome and Firefox are also noticeably faster on Linux than on a fresh Windows install on the same machine…
> Is the Candy Crush installer still in the Start menu? Yup. > Do they still randomly revert telemetry settings on updates? Yup. I've heard that this is a bug? Who knows, I just know I still see it flipping. > What was that thing I read last week about no more local user accounts? It's hidden behind the "Join a Domain" option, or triggers when you're not online. Dark patterns!
> Yup.
No. Windows now remembers that you have uninstalled these apps.
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I expect applications to have access to my desktop. I do not need to be asked. It would be like asking permission to access my clipboard, or use my speakers, or read my keyboard. If you bombard users with dialogues for every little thing, all you will do is train them to habitually click yes . Now you have lowered security, because users will ignore the more serious warnings too. And you've wasted everyone's time in…
> I expect applications to have access to my desktop. I do not need to be asked. You mean the place where your mom stores her confidential banking statements ? > It would be like asking permission to access my clipboard, You mean the place where you often copy paste passwords ? > or read my keyboard. You mean the place where you type your sensitive infos ?
At some point, the only way to be truly secure is to switch off the computer—that's why voting should be done on paper ballots! Once a computer is switched on and connected, everything is a tradeoff between usability and security. Personally, I have work to get done.
At what point is Apple the only one able to make useful software? And by the way, while Apple is pretty good at user privacy, they are by no means at the top of my list, particularly after the whole Siri debacle.
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I expect applications to have access to my desktop. I do not need to be asked. It would be like asking permission to access my clipboard, or use my speakers, or read my keyboard. If you bombard users with dialogues for every little thing, all you will do is train them to habitually click yes . Now you have lowered security, because users will ignore the more serious warnings too. And you've wasted everyone's time in…
> I expect applications to have access to my desktop. I do not need to be asked. It would be like asking permission to access my clipboard, or use my speakers, or read my keyboard. I would like to know if an application: - Is scanning the contents of my documents or desktop outside of files I specifically selected or it previously created - Is monitoring data going on the clipboard - Wants permission to make alert so…
As I see it, those are the same things within this context. The effect is the same. Users are just going to click yes. They aren't going to think through "what other files are on my desktop right now?"
Apple seems to be forgetting their own credo against nag-based security: https://i.imgur.com/qbUy5aH.png (from an ancient WWDC slide mocking the Windows approach.) They may have overdone it in a few cases, and not done anything where it's really needed (like a unified list of all third-party startup items, such as Google’s sneaky Keystone malware, or seeing all outgoing data and connection attempts like Little Snitch…
> https://i.imgur.com/qbUy5aH.png (from an ancient WWDC slide mocking the Windows approach.) That's funny
This isn’t a “step forward in user privacy” or whatever the others here are saying. It’s a mess and very poorly executed UX. Users will tend to feel overwhelmed and just click through modals when they are presented in this way. Displaying stacks of modals is an anti-pattern. The right thing to do would have been to create a migration UX that allows quick review and audit of application permissions, presented in a tab…
It's a huge step forward, because some of the bad actors that have ruined mobile by abusing every possible API to read whatever they can get their hands on are also developing for the desktop. The article is a pathological example anyway, because I got zero prompts even on my work machine. And Vista was a good step forward also back then, but people can't be bothered to take care of their data. This is why security w…
Personally, if I encountered this mess, I’d be shamed, inspired to meditate a bit on my own personal computing hygiene.
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I still don't know why I always have to reinstall xcode. It's very annoying.
For one, it needs to install the SDK's for the new deployment target you just installed (be it macOS or iOS), and update the toolchain so it can build for it. It's mildly annoying, but the alternative would be to let you continue using the old version pegged to an older deployment target, and let you figure out all the incompatibilities at once when you decide you want release your app to the app store. IMO this woul…
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You expect applications to have access to your desktop? You should only ever expect the user to have access to the desktop and, even then, the only apps that would ever prompt for access to the desktop are those that aren't updated for High Sierra and above. On the latest versions of macOS, the Desktop folder is shared by iCloud. This is definitely not an instance where security has been lowered nor is this the stand…
> You expect applications to have access to your desktop? Yes! That's what applications do , they read and write files. Most other software is, more likely than not, either a game or a web page. Does every app need to access my desktop specifically? No. But if we're trying to protect "normal users", I don't think most of them have the wherewithal to think through "what exact locations does and doesn't app X need to a…
The permission is needed only when the application wants to go around the normal way of opening files.
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Both s2idle and deep ( https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/power/states.txt ) are what you want, and work. > Just that and I wish Bluetooth remembered the on/off state it was left in after reboot. That's just a Qualcomm problem. The BT is completely broken. Fixed in the latest kernel for me.
I might be missing something but doesn't that still depend on swap space and having a swapfile and virtual memory set up? I'm fine with having a swapfile but I don't want it used for anything other than Suspend-to-disk. i.e. I don't want the SSD being hit with multiple writes caused by VM.