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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by reaperducer »

josephcsible wrote: post #157
bredren wrote: post #139

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Consider setting up a pihole locally or on a vps.

This isn't that effective anymore. A lot of sites now proxy their ads through their own Web server for the express purpose of making them harder to block. The only way to effectively block these, without something horribly draconian like breaking TLS, is a browser extension.

for the express[ed] purpose

This doesn't mean what you think it means. What you wrote means that web sites put text on their pages stating, "We're proxying our ads so you can't block them, nanny nanny boo boo!"

You probably mean "specific" purpose.

More to the point, this isn't new. We were doing this on web sites at least as far back as the early 2000's.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by wiredfool »

alwillis wrote: post #168
Someone wrote: post #83

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One might want to install it on an external disk that you move between machines and use as boot device. I think that’s quite a corner-case.

One might want to install it on an external disk that you move between machines and use as boot device. I think that’s quite a corner-case. Not at all; did all the time when the PowerPC to Intel transition happened. If you have an Intel Mac and wanted to use your universal apps on a friend’s M1 Mac mini with your operating system configured the way you like it, that's by far the easiest way to go. I upgrade to the un…

I did that, 10.5 IIRC. For some reason, I could only install on my Intel iMac, but I wanted to resurrect a PPC mini that had died.

Oddly, the imac is long gone, but the mini can still run ubuntu, and is still (somewhat) useful for testing bigendian bugs. It's slower than a raspberry pi of a few years back.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by tobr »

reaperducer wrote: post #229
khazhoux wrote: post #220

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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.

Genuinely curious, why do you find it maddening? Is it just the feeling that it’s somehow messy? Wouldn’t bookmarking every page be a lot worse?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Spivak »

kitsunesoba wrote: post #51
paulgb wrote: post #44

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I thought this too, but it seems Safari only supports the Notifications API for when a site is open, not Web Push for background notifications? https://caniuse.com/push-api

Wouldn't this be true for any browser? Unless other browsers leave daemons running at all times, which would be kinda creepy.

Most desktop browsers don't run daemons but they do "soft close" for this feature to work. If you completely kill your browser then notifications and service workers stop working.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by gazelleeatslion »

brundolf wrote: post #142
anupamchugh wrote: post #26

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Does that mean we can run Slack iOS app on Mac Silicon? That'll be great, if its possible. Slack Electron mac app consumed too much battery.

I was struggling to think of an actual use-case for running iOS apps on a Mac, but this is an interesting one

I predict with enough time this will become a standard practice. So much so that in enough time, many company's will stop supporting Intel on Mac entirely (aka, <2020 Macs)

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by whalesalad »

egypturnash wrote: post #209

Man I still haven't even left Mojave for Catalina. I don't think I'm gonna be changing OSs until I buy a second or third generation ARM Air that comes with whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS.

I religiously upgraded every machine up until this same release. I never had issues, and my tenure began at Tiger. Everything was smooth sailing – perhaps because I made sure to take a backup before every upgrade which might have protected me from Murphy's law.

I am also sitting still on Mojave. In the past there were usually compelling reasons to upgrade - in terms of quality of life and performance. Catalina, in my use cases, doesn't really do a whole lot for me. I can't think of a single feature that I want aside from perhaps the standalone Podcasts app. But because of all the noise raised during the last upgrade season from Mojave to Catalina I decided that the juice definitely wasn't gonna be worth the squeeze.

So now I have pretty much decided to just cruise this 2018 MBP along on Mojave until I replace the machine entirely. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by jjd33 »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just 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…

You have not tried FF dev tools.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by numpad0 »

enriquto wrote: post #183
ksec wrote: post #159

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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 ?

It’s ADHD/online vocal minority thing. Either you have it or not, there’s no fixing or accidentally contracting it.

Go ahead and label them insane and call yourself sane/normal, if that is comforting for you, for being a boring person.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by snazz »

lastofthemojito wrote: post #161
haunter wrote: post #123

Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I…

I wonder if any game (or other) developers are going to have major heartburn over this. "Woah, pricing/releasing this game this way was part of our mobile strategy, not our desktop strategy - how dare you run that game on a computer!" I know not all iOS apps target all devices - some are iPad only, etc. Is Apple allowing developers to arbitrarily prevent their apps from running on Macs? Can an app tell it's running o…

Android apps already run on Chromebooks, so maybe this situation has already come up? The performance is certainly better on M1 Macs, but the same situation is possible.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by pishpash »

reaperducer wrote: post #229
khazhoux wrote: post #220

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Maybe this should be formalized, like automatically get open tabs into easily searchable persistent storage, whether they are called Bookmarks or not. Then they can be closed by prompting to "clean up".

Maybe even skip that manual step entirely. People use browser histories like emails now -- by searching, not by active organizing.

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