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#622I hold out hope during every release announcement that Apple will finally push out support DisplayPort MST[0], but they never do. It sucks when the hardware supports everything but MacOS is holding it back.
[0]: https://medium.com/@sebvance/everything-you-need-to-know-abo...
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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.
The only reason I'm using FF is TreeStyleTab. I seriously don't understand how people live without it. Right now I have 993 open tabs, sometimes I have 100, sometimes 2k - don't really care, but they are easily navigatable as a tree-like structure on the side of the screen.
Genuine question because our tab handling strategies seem to differ - how frequently do you return to a given tab? Do you keep them for reference in some way, or is it more out of concern of having to navigate back over again?
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The nags for regular apps don’t bother me too much, but the fact that I still can’t figure out how to run GDB worries me. The old CLI overrides don’t work in Catalina anymore. I’ve only ever owned Mac laptops and I’m seriously considering switching to a Linux/arm on the next laptop. I’m fine with the lack of ability to run random apps on my iPad, but not on my computer. Big Sur apparently won’t let me run the ZFS ext…
I switched to Linux after the TouchBar was introduced. I've been using it for work exclusively for 3 years. It crashes, hangs, and generally acts weird every day. It's not always greener on the other side. The upside is 1) total customization, 2) if there is a problem you have a lot more power to fix it. There are just a lot more problems. Here's a list of my daily Linux issues (NVIDIA driver required to use external…
4, 7, and 10 are issues I've only experienced on systems running the proprietary NVIDIA driver. The cause isn't always clear, but I've easily had the most unexplainable graphical issues/crashes on my desktop with a GTX 980 compared to any of my Intel laptops running very similar software. Tend to chalk it up to that as a result.
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#625Man 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.
32-bit apps. I have 32-bit apps where the developer is either gone or will not update, thus if I wish to keep using these I have to stay on Mojava. This applies to four Macs which will likely never move away from Mojava.
We've got a old legacy multiplatform app that supported OS X for years. Looked at updating it for Catalina, was going to be a massive amount of work, since Apple also killed XWindows and updated OpenGL in some breaking way. Decided it wasn't worth spending months on it.
Still get a regular trickle of emails from schools complaining about it. I tell them to call Cupertino.
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If you want something friendlier than running du in Terminal, OmniDiskSweeper is free: https://www.omnigroup.com/more
My go to disk space inspector has always been the free Grand Perspective, such a useful and clever way to show disk usage graphically. You’ll be able to quickly see what folders are taking up space and more so easily see what folders and files in those folders are taking up the most space. http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/
This is the sort of app I hope we won't lose as part of the transition to Apple Silicon.
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#627Every MacOS upgrade for the last few years has made my computer less stable and required me to reboot more often. So I'm going to hold off as long as I can. Just this moment my laptop's keyboard and mouse took well over a minute to work after coming back from sleep. Twice in a row so time to reboot I guess.
IIRC the T2 does a DNS resolution every wake, and until it gets a valid reply your keyboard won't work. I guess a workaround would be to enable airplane mode prior to every sleep...
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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. 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." Everyone has a story like this - from all of the browsers. It seems like FF behaves better in this way now, but I still do silly things like rsync my home directory…
Found an Chrome extension that lets you do this!
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabcopy/micdllihgo...
I just tried it out -- you click a button to copy the list of tabs. If you just want the URLs and not the page titles, choose the "Compact" option.
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I really need Firefox's container models. The battery life for Firefox is awful, but everything else seems great.
Yeah I love containers and don't think I could go back to any browser without them ever again. On FF now after using Brave for ~2 years (and Chrome for ages before that). I haven't noticed any more battery drain compared to Chrome, but both are worse than Safari (or so I've heard).
Containers in FF have made me so much more productive as a consultant. I’ve been considering trying to develop a “containers” extension for Safari, but I suspect that the requisite APIs are not available...
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#630Just 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…
And why are you using Safari daily?
I only use it to open non work related sites to split distractions because I agree it's not the best browser.