I’m on Mojave still, are you able to move or hide the FaceTime dialog that appears in the upper right when making or answering a FaceTime audio call so it doesn’t block whatever is behind it such as the taskbar ?
macOS Big Sur
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Re: macOS Big Sur
#222Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…
> - Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible) As a daily user of Safari, I can't let you say that. The devtools suck. The network tools suck (why is it so hard to find the request payload??), the elements tools suck, there are basically no extensions (React, Redux, etc.). They are just horrible. As much as I try to use only Safari, I still fallback on Firefox Dev when I need some real devtools. I use it for the…
I'll second the text selection (on Catalina, but the new safari). Not sure how they messed up so badly on that.
Also, safari on my iPad sucks as well, but got better with the 14.2 update.
EDIT: Screenshot here of Apple's Big Sur page NOT rendering! https://imgur.com/a/tF4TDPH
Re: macOS Big Sur
#223Re: macOS Big Sur
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It is great, but: 1. Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past. ) 2. Fav Icons meant they are no longer showing the Tab Description once you have a dozen tabs as they will shrink to Icons Size. So you either ha…
> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred ?
How do you not get there? There’s no point in the “core gameplay loop” of browsing the web where you are encouraged to close a tab. They just disappear among the other ones and you don’t really have a reason to stop and think about whether you’re done with them. At some point there are hundreds.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#225Re: macOS Big Sur
#226Confetti in Messages? Branded guides in Maps? This is for a .. (checks notes) “OS upgrade”? I guess updating Misson Control is good but other than that (and the M1 chip itself of course which seems quite impressive) who really gets excited about stuff like this?
No thanks. Don’t want it, don’t need it. Given all the pain that was involved with Catalina I’m holding off for a bit.
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Comparing Phone games to desktop ones is like comparing Modern art to finger painting. Sure, it kinda does look like Starry Night at first glance, but is it?
>Comparing Phone games to desktop ones Yeah but where is the border? There are lot of games on iOS that are basically the same as on PC/consoles maybe with a different UI and lower graphics. But you get the same features and experience. You can now play GTA San Andreas on your Mac cause it was released on iOS. And it's one of the best game ever https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grand-theft-auto-san-andreas/i... Genshin I…
genshin impact basically sealed the deal for me
no point buying a nintendo switch much less a proper mac.
I can get by with non-apple silicon arm Chromebooks like the wonderful lenovo duet
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred ?
Some people use tabs the same way others use bookmarks. Myself, I regularly have 100 tabs, easily, across several windows which are minimized. If the browser were to lose all tabs by accident, it wouldn't be a big deal (same as losing bookmarks isn't actually a big deal for some people)
Some people use tabs the same way others use bookmarks
My wife does this on her phone. I find it maddening, and tell her to just bookmark her sites. But that's just not how her brain works.
Fortunately, even between iOS updates, Safari remembers all of her old tabs.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#230Is the full screen behavior still the same? Is it possible to disable apps from expanding to full screen and instead only expand to maximum size? The top menu bar is also hidden when apps go full screen. I think the only alternative is to hold down option key when expanding the window.
https://github.com/eczarny/spectacle Great for short cuts to resizing your screens better then the OS Version I was using before.
Spectacle is no longer maintained (it may matter with Big Sur release). Rectangle is based on Spectacle and is actively developed: https://github.com/rxhanson/Rectangle