I feel like the continual development of MacOS is making it worse and worse. Similar to Windows, where every extra feature causes more and more complications.
But alas the 1000s of engineers gotta be put to work somehow.
MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
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But at Apple scale: 9% of $58 billion = $5.2 billion Mac revenue last quarter .
OTOH when Apple was a much smaller company the mac was much more important to them and it showed. Maybe it's not related to revenue per se, but clearly since iOS became their main thing the Mac has suffered tremendously.
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There are two new Security/Privacy Settings that I just noticed last night. "Full Disk Access" to allow a program to access any place on your computer without a warning. A few programs requested this, so it looks like it's been around for a while. The other one is "Developer Tools" and it looks pretty new. The only application requesting it is "Terminal". This "allows app to run software locally that do not meet the…
I don't see it on macOS 10.15.4 (19E287). The full list of categories on my Privacy tab: - Location Services - Contacts - Calendars - Reminders - Photos - Camera - Microphone - Speech Recognition - Accessibility - Input Monitoring - Full Disk Access - Files and Folders - Screen Recording - Automation - Advertising - Analytics & Improvements Granted I don't typically use Terminal.app (iTerm 2 user), so I launched term…
I don't see it on my machine. Do you happen to have System Integrity Protection disabled?
Re: MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?
#294I hope Apple currently has a team focused on macOS perf. I worked on the team in charge of improving iOS (13) perf at Apple and IIRC there was no dedicated macOS “task force” like the one on iOS. Luckily some iOS changes permeated into macOS thanks to some shared codebases.
What changes permeated into macOS? What did your team do to improve iOS perf?
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#295Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't see it on macOS 10.15.4 (19E287). The full list of categories on my Privacy tab: - Location Services - Contacts - Calendars - Reminders - Photos - Camera - Microphone - Speech Recognition - Accessibility - Input Monitoring - Full Disk Access - Files and Folders - Screen Recording - Automation - Advertising - Analytics & Improvements Granted I don't typically use Terminal.app (iTerm 2 user), so I launched term…
Maybe you need Xcode, try running "mkdir /Applications/Xcode.app"
I would expect checks for Xcode to go through xcselect rather than a simple directory check. Installing the command line tools (sudo xcode-select --install) might actually be a better idea to test this.
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#297Earlier quoted context omitted.
There are two new Security/Privacy Settings that I just noticed last night. "Full Disk Access" to allow a program to access any place on your computer without a warning. A few programs requested this, so it looks like it's been around for a while. The other one is "Developer Tools" and it looks pretty new. The only application requesting it is "Terminal". This "allows app to run software locally that do not meet the…
I wonder what "Developer Tools" grants in practice. Clicking the (?) for viewing built-in help does not mention this particular setting, it skips right over it going from "Automation" above it to "Advertising" below it.
I believe it means the process will no longer check for the Quarantine xattr.
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#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
The dual GPU is a pain in the butt since Nvidia still doesn't support Optimus on Linux (and probably never will).
Have you tried 19.10 or 20.04? Before that I had a lot of issues with my Dell XPS 9560 because of optimus, but it got a lot better in those versions. YMMV but it actually worked out of the box with nary a hint of manual configuration when I installed 20.04 recently. Edit: should note, when I say work I mean you can switch between GPUs/launch an app on the dedicated GPU with ease.
I've tried 19.10 and Arch Linux and the only option still was to statically choose only one GPU and reboot.
How does the offloading work now? I haven't heard anything about it
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#299NSA had a "hardening macOS" guide on GitHub that I can't find.
I wonder if that defeats the phone home that this article is highlighting.
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#300I've been forced to update to this pile of shit because latest iOS requires latest Xcode which in turn requires Catalina. It's a nightmare. First off the new apps (music, podcasts, etc) are terrible. They killed off iTunes but replaced it with much worse. These apps don't behave like standard macOS apps, the UI is full of inconsistencies and is just so empty. This website has nice examples of the failures of modern M…
I've had a similarly painful experience upgrading last week. Though it doesn't seem quite so bad as the posters above, and after making a few fixes most everything is back to normal. My one remaining serious annoyance is that my external monitor color settings are screwed up and there appears to be no fix. Reds are purple and everything is just a little washed out, which is a shame for a 4k monitor that was beautiful…
I have this issue constantly, even the laptop screen itself will get 'washed out'. The solution is to go to Displays > Colour Profiles and change the profile to any other one and then change back to the default.