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Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by cwhiz »

drdeadringer wrote: post #345
cwhiz wrote: post #275

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>It is a lifestyle brand now, people money because it is Apple, not because there is real value they gain for the higher cost. Oh come now, there are millions and millions of professionals using macOS to do work every single day. This is basically a slippery slope fallacy. Today they're making it marginally hard, what might they do tomorrow?!? There are many reasons to prefer macOS to Linux or Windows. The Apple ecos…

> there are millions and millions of professionals using macOS to do work every single day. Speaking for myself, every time I've used a Mac for work it's because I had to, being that it was what the employer issued. Could I have made a stink to be issued something else? Sure, but that is trading problems for problems. Have I used worse OSs? Yes, but that doesn't mean I should be grateful for what I find negative abou…

To each their own. You should use what you like.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by nanna »

pjmlp wrote: post #571
nanna wrote: post #522

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I'm happy for OSM, that's great for you and in turn the community. But what about small open source projects? One-person projects where the idea of having several people working on securing legal non-profit status and then acquiring non-profit signing certificates from Apple is for all intents and purposes impossible? And certainly not worth just coughing up the annual $99 fee (+tax) to Apple? $99+ every year is a lo…

Outrageous is the entitlement of the current generations for not paying for their tools. Many of us used to pay for every single piece of software that we had to run on top of our already expensive computer around 2000 euros on today's money.

This is a nice example of what a logician calls a false cause: your conclusion (definition of outrageous) isn't supported by your premise (how much you used to pay for kit).

It's also a straw man, since I was talking about an OS developer wanting to publish their software, and you're attempting to sink it by portraying it as referring to a consumer wanting free stuff.

The subject of your conclusion, 'current generations', is also so vague as to be redundant. Current generations who are alive? Generations of 21st century? Of modernity? Of the West?

I'm afraid this is not a very good HN post.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by jeroenhd »

sevensor wrote: post #265

Hold on a minute -- MacOS phones home every single time you launch an application? As a non-user of MacOS, this strikes me as utterly bonkers. You'd have to place a massive level of trust in the developers of your OS to accept this. And furthermore, surely the constant attempts to phone home have a negative effect on the user experience when the computer's network connection is missing or slow! Perhaps the fine artic…

Yes, this happens and it does cause slowdowns[1]. It can take several seconds to check an application if you're on a very slow internet connection.

The same happens on Windows through SmartScreen, but you can easily turn that off[2] at least. As far as I know, you can't disable this on macOS.

[1]: https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-d... [2]: https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/5593-turn-off-smartscree...

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by drdeadringer »

cwhiz wrote: post #581
drdeadringer wrote: post #345

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> there are millions and millions of professionals using macOS to do work every single day. Speaking for myself, every time I've used a Mac for work it's because I had to, being that it was what the employer issued. Could I have made a stink to be issued something else? Sure, but that is trading problems for problems. Have I used worse OSs? Yes, but that doesn't mean I should be grateful for what I find negative abou…

To each their own. You should use what you like.

I agree.

There was one short term gig [small start up needed short term help, I was available] and they wanted//needed me to bring my own laptop for work. "Fine by me, is it OK that my laptop runs off of Linux?" It was fine. Everyone was happy. If similar would happen more often that'd be great, but I'm going to cooperate otherwise within reason.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by solarkraft »

merijnv wrote: post #484
solarkraft wrote: post #464

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So they're shipping a proprietary version of bash?

Of course not, that'd be a violation of the GPL. They ship their own fork/patched version of bash, whose source is on their open source page: https://opensource.apple.com/source/bash/bash-118.11.1/

So ... rootless.h does nothing? I can compile a bash without it that does exactly the same thing? That seems like it would contradict previous comments. What am I not getting?

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by tialaramex »

IndySun wrote: post #563
benhurmarcel wrote: post #541

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OSM works like Wikipedia. There's no company looking at notes, it's just volunteers. You can also do the modification yourself, it's quite easy, you just need an account. For that particular case, if you post the URL or location I can take a look if you want.

In which case I'll make an account! Thanks for putting me right. So there's no point (is there?) letting any old people send in corrections, and waiting years...?

Actually doing mapping ideally requires a bit more understanding than a map user might want to acquire. So it may make sense to provide a correction and then let people with more expertise apply their knowledge to the problem, rather than stumble about and maybe make more work for somebody else.

Perhaps you notice that (as a gross example too large to be likely) the big field a few kilometres away from you that's used to fly aeroplanes isn't labelled on OSM. You don't know much about maps or aeroplanes, but it's not on there.

If you go into an OSM editor and tell it that's an airport you're probably unintentionally adding false information. Because it probably isn't an airport, there's a good chance OSM cares exactly what it is, like maybe it distinguishes controlled and uncontrolled airfields, maybe it would prefer you label the area one way, and then also label any marked runway (perhaps there isn't one) separately. There's a Wiki full of instructions about the best way to label things. Sometimes there are also local conventions, maybe the Wiki says not to distinguish uncontrolled airfields, but in your area a convention has arisen to add a specific marker for them. All this is stuff that an editor ideally should know, but a random person who thinks "Hey why isn't this on the map" doesn't know.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by ubermonkey »

manquer wrote: post #154
kjksf wrote: post #80

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Apple has been making things more and more restrictive over a decade now. New versions of mac os introducing new restrictions. Doesn't take a genius to see that their end goal is to make mac os as restrictive as ios. When that happens, will it still be the right spot for you?

You stop using Apple and go to a reasonable OS. You and I are not going to help Apple keep their $2T valuation, we are no longer the market not been one for 5 + years for Apple Apple moved their focus from the professional market who were willing to pay premium for productivity with better UX/Hardware/Software, to people paying just the premium . It is a lifestyle brand now, people money because it is Apple, not beca…

>It is a lifestyle brand now, people money because it is Apple, not because there is real value they gain for the higher cost.

People who do not see the value love to say this, but it doesn't make it true.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by moduspol »

_qulr wrote: post #272
usrusr wrote: post #155

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Could that be turned into a little funding opportunity? "Here are the sources, here are the binaries, here you subscribe to get access to signed binaries that run without the scare quotes"

The developer who signs the software is thereby taking legal responsibility for the software, and taking the blame if anything is wrong with it. That's not a good risk unless you're signing for someone you trust completely.

It also might be tough to run as a business because it's quite possible the first time you sign someone else's malware, Apple's going to revoke the notarization of all the apps you've signed (which would be for other paying customers).

Not to mention it undermines the purpose of notarization, so if it became popular enough they'd probably just squash it.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by loxs »

vladvasiliu wrote: post #558
loxs wrote: post #521

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Actually, this is the wrong comparison (at least for me). I went from a 2017 15" MBP that was around 3.5k EUR to a ThinkPad T495 (with AMD hardware) for around 1k EUR and I also maxed out the RAM to 32GB for another EUR 150. I couldn't be happier. You mention the worse touch pad, and I agree, it took me a week to adjust... but on the other hand, the keyboard of the ThinkPad is so much better, in fact it might be the…

Does that come with a 4k screen? I don't remember seeing any AMD models - I only looked at models that had that option and no soldered RAM.

It does not, probably the new model that came out recently (called T14) will have that, I haven't researched.

Re: Can't you just right click?

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Post by ubermonkey »

okamiueru wrote: post #528
weystrom wrote: post #491

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> If Apple continues to head in this direction, I think the right move is to migrate to Linux. Windows is a huge step back, as far as I'm concerned. Linux desktop has so many hidden problems, especially on laptops, you're definitely better off going the Windows route, unless your time is free.

Care to enlighten? I've been using all three, and I'd rate Linux to be miles ahead of MacOs, which is a few steps ahead of Windows. For what an OS should do, Linux does it far better, and Windows does it terribly with its ancient nt kernel. Then it comes down to usability for end user, gnome gets out of the way, and allows pretty good customization. MacOs is pretty mediocre and restrictive. And Windows is again prett…

>If you don't buy a mac for the software availability, or for some other restriction, you are literally making a terrible purchase.

I laughed. A lot. The whole thread is full of people noting the level of hardware and software polish on offer from Apple but unavailable elsewhere, and the seamlessness of working in a MacOS + iOS + WatchOS world and how nice that is, and your takeaway is that we're all dumbasses making the wrong choice.

Peak HN right there, boyo.

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