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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by hombre_fatal »

ballenf wrote: post #219
cactus2093 wrote: post #98

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Honestly I've been finding ad blockers much less useful over time. Seems like every page I visit these days blocks the content until I disable it, if it's not an outright paywall. I think I spend more time disabling my ad blocker temporarily than I save by not loading ads in the first place. Do others find that ad blockers actually still work well? Meanwhile, reader mode in Safari will generally hide every ad on the…

The downvotes are maybe because you replied to a question of “is xyz still broken?” with “you don’t really need xyz.” For me it was kind of an annoying place to make that point. Many people use of ad block really more to protect from the surveillance aspects of ads than their aesthetics. Ads on big sites don’t really look terrible.

I also find generalizations from such unlikely scenarios a bit annoying. You (poster above) have to consistently visit the worst sites on the internet, and so many that whitelisting doesnt suit you, to conclude the adblocking isn’t useful.

If that really describes what you do online, then you need some self-awareness over how little you have in common with everyone else and then temper your epiphanies accordingly.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by type02 »

chrisked wrote: post #447

Installing failed three times in a row (2/12, 6/12, 9/12gb). Still on latest Catalina but most apps don't load after restart. Every other minute my Mac stops working for a few seconds. Guess will stop work and check back tomorrow morning.

Disconnect from your wifi/internet for a couple minutes and reconnect. Should fix things.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by pdxandi »

saagarjha wrote: post #189
wiremine wrote: post #23

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Not sure about the OS, but they introduced Universal 2 at WWDC 2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_binary#Universal_2

The OS is compiled as Universal 2.

Does this mean that after two years, Apple won't support Intel processors anymore? I just bought a 10-core iMac so really hoping that's not the case. My I'm misunderstanding.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by vr46 »

bartvk wrote: post #441
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 use Amethyst, as advised by another commenter here. It places and sizes windows automatically. Crazy good.

It’s great, or it was. Just refuses to work on my Mac now. It runs, but does nothing.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by hombre_fatal »

mikewhy wrote: post #206
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…

And my favorite: - Pinned tabs are actually pinned tabs, not a small tab at the side of a single window that can still be easily closed

So many times I accidentally close my pinned tabs from cmd-w and then have to remember what they were, slowly remembering as I need them again which is why I’d have them pinned in the first place.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by chrisked »

type02 wrote: post #512
chrisked wrote: post #447

Installing failed three times in a row (2/12, 6/12, 9/12gb). Still on latest Catalina but most apps don't load after restart. Every other minute my Mac stops working for a few seconds. Guess will stop work and check back tomorrow morning.

Disconnect from your wifi/internet for a couple minutes and reconnect. Should fix things.

It's trustd connecting to ocsp.apple.com

Blocking that connection fixes it, because OCSP is a soft failure.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by saagarjha »

pdxandi wrote: post #513
saagarjha wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The OS is compiled as Universal 2.

Does this mean that after two years, Apple won't support Intel processors anymore? I just bought a 10-core iMac so really hoping that's not the case. My I'm misunderstanding.

They will likely support that for a couple years at least.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by vr46 »

gnachman wrote: post #347

I released iTerm2 version 3.4.0 this morning with Big Sur support. Please update because 3.3 has various issues with it.

Thanks. iTerm2 has probably stopped me from moving to Linux and an ordinary laptop so Apple should be giving you a bonus loyalty royalty.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by ryandrake »

tobr wrote: post #453
ryandrake wrote: post #389

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I find it maddening too, but hey, it’s her phone. It’s only maddening in a “I wouldn’t personally do it that way” sense, so I don’t sweat it. My wife even does it more extremely: when she opens a web site, she opens it in another tab, even if she already has that web site in an existing tab. So she ends up with hundreds of Facebook tabs, hundreds of shopping tabs at the same store, thousands overall. I don’t think sh…

This is essentially what I do as well (modulus Facebook). Sure, if I happen to see the open tab I need, I’ll switch to it. But you only see about a handful of tabs at the same time so it’s easier to just open a new one. I don’t see the value of going through and tending to my old tabs at all.

I guess I’m just an old school C guy. I pair my malloc()s with free()s and get grumpy in environments where you don’t really have to.
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