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Same but instead of Air I’ll get the 13” ARM Pro with sufficient RAM and hopefully more ports. Mojave on my 13” MBP 2015 is still fantastic. Great OS, great keyboard, USB ports, MagSafe, etc.
Same RAM, same ports.
Is there a way to get those insane UI paddings smaller? I'm fine with the new styling except for that, but it's a big spoiler. Apple UI used to be remarkably space-economical until Big Sur.
It reminds me of Ubuntu when Canonical decided to replace GTK2 with the Unity desktop environment. Maybe people disliked that update and I am sure some people will dislike Apple’s too but at the end of the year everyone will prize the new UI like they always do.
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…
Using apps designed for touch inputs without a touchscreen must be frustrating.
Fortnite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KsQ27Ddtyw
https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=hk2u622s
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2020/10614/
Also I used the PS4 Remote Play with the Dualshock controller on Mac and it worked perfectly
https://remoteplay.dl.playstation.net/remoteplay/lang/en/ps4...
> “Big Sur has been engineered, down to its core, to take full advantage of all the power of the M1 chip” Does that mean that all of the OS code has been recompiled for Apple Silicon / ARM? And if so, does that mean Big Sur has two binaries: 1 for ARM (new M1 Macs) and 1 for Intel (existing supported Mac devices) and there is a flag at boot-time to determine which mode it runs in?
that seems like more of an app level compromise. I'm guessing on the OS itself they don't include the unneeded binary data.
The operating system can on both M1 and Intel Macs; therefore, the OS has binaries for both.
Wouldn't be much of an operating system if the frameworks and APIs weren't available for applications regardless of which architecture they're running on.
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Same here. I eventually upgraded to a Linux distro and couldn't be happier. What finally did it for me was when I did an "ls" in a terminal after an upgrade, accidentally hit the wrong button when the OS asked for permission, and locked my terminal out of file system access. Mac OS is no longer any good for professional use, outside of media creation.
What's the best ~15" Linux laptop to ask for as a new hire these days?
If you are using gatsby, please be prepared before upgrading. I had lots of problems using it. I couldn't run "gastby build" successfully in big sur. I tried much but couldn't solve it. Also, i had problems with webpacker as well. So, i downgraded it. I was using beta big sur but i'm not totaly sure it is fixed by now. Please do a research and if you do, please let me now.
Twice bitten, thrice shy. Every MacOS upgrade for the past 5+ years has been a bag of hurt: regressions in functionality and stability, annoying "features" like Notification Center and Catalina warning nags, various PITAs on fixing UNIX/dev toolchains, all for little to no benefit. I've stopped upgrading all my machines (other than security updates), unless forced by a mission-critical app or a new machine.
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…
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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.
Perhaps you are thinking of the term "express written consent", but there it's the word "written" that means it was, well, written.