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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by talentedcoin »

reaperducer wrote: post #260
talentedcoin wrote: post #226

Confetti 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.

Confetti in Messages? This has been a thing for years. This is for a .. (checks notes) “OS upgrade”? This is for consumers. Average consumers. The people that Apple is targeting. Not the L337 haxxors posturing on HN. Don’t want it, don’t need it. No problem. Don't upgrade. I have a computer still running Snow Leopard. Apple doesn't come to your house and force you to install its newest operating system at gunpoint. G…

Honestly, you’re right, but why should your good experience outweigh my bad one? I want a good developer experience is all. I’ve almost 100% switched back to Windows at this point and will never bother developing on a Mac again if I can help it.

EDIT: And to your point about not being forced to upgrade — that’s true, nobody’s forcing anybody to do anything. But you can’t just stay on Snow Leopard forever either ...

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by xodice »

ngrilly wrote: post #188
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…

I work and live in Sweden since one year, but I don't speak Swedish. For that reason, the one thing I miss in Safari and Firefox is the Google Translate integration in Chrome, on macOS and iOS. A life saver, honestly.

Safari has translation built in, at least in Safari 14.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by irq »

spenvo wrote: post #249

PSA: Big Sur forgets where apps' windows are when plugging back into an external display https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/651131?answerId=64... https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jt0gjk/big_sur_forge... I've been on the public beta of Big Sur for months (and issued Feedback Assistant bug reports on this). As of 11.0.1, there's still a dealbreaker bug for people who use external monitors. If you unplug a…

I've had this problem for all of 10.15 too, but using an eGPU with all my monitors connected to it. Simply putting the display in sleep mode is enough for macOS to forget where all my windows are when I return. You don't even need to disconnect.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by easton »

For those with download issues, developer.apple.com is timing out currently. Appears Apple is having system issues (and I'd link to the developer status page, but it's down too. All other Apple services appear to be up).

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by laichzeit0 »

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…

I mainly use Brave now, one killer feature is the “Open Private Tab with Tor”. That and Ad blocking out the box. Is Safari’s privacy any better than that?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by alwillis »

ngrilly wrote: post #188
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…

I work and live in Sweden since one year, but I don't speak Swedish. For that reason, the one thing I miss in Safari and Firefox is the Google Translate integration in Chrome, on macOS and iOS. A life saver, honestly.

Yeah, it's built-in to Safari now: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/translate-a-webpage-b...

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by least »

saagarjha wrote: post #154
lstamour wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It now supports WebExtensions like Firefox: https://www.wwdcnotes.com/notes/wwdc20/10665/ That said, it prefers its existing adblock implementation over extensions that block network requests manually, as that functionality is disabled, I think? https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/saf... Note also that the existing Safari adblock implementation is not subject to the hard limit of 30,000 rules tha…

WebKit has a 50K rule limit per extension.

AdGuard gets around this by running a different “extension” for different lists.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ogre_codes »

pishpash wrote: post #250
layoutIfNeeded wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

It's actually abnormal to actively throw away things. It's not how the brain works. Do you actively try to "forget" things? Very rarely. We only need to throw away physical objects due to space constraints and rearrangement/search cost. Mental and virtual objects can decay away and there is no rearrangement cost when they are already organized by relevance.

> We only need to throw away physical objects due to space constraints and rearrangement/search cost.

This is the same for throwing away tabs. If I'm not using a tab anymore, I want it out of the way so I can more easily find the tabs I do use.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by reaperducer »

top_sigrid wrote: post #41
sgt wrote: post #13

Will iTunes disappear in Big Sur - is the alternative equally good? I originally put off installing Catalina because I didn't want to lose iTunes.

It is already gone since Catalina. It was replaces by the Music, Podcast, TV apps. iPhone management happens in finder.

It is already gone since Catalina

That's what he meant by "I originally put off installing Catalina because I didn't want to lose iTunes."

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by evanjd »

alwillis wrote: post #225
tpush wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anybody know if Safari software or hardware decodes VP9 or AV1 YouTube videos? If software, does it lead to fans blowing?

VP9 videos run smoothly on Safari—no fans.

Not just on Safari either, VP9 decoding is HW accelerated in Chrome on Big Sur (as of Chrome 86)
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