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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by thebigspacefuck »

whalesalad wrote: post #236
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…

Might just be me, but the Podcasts app was actually pretty slow for me on a 2015 MBP, even though the phone version always worked great. I ended up switching to Spotify for my podcasts. No other benefits to upgrading I can remember. It makes your security settings a pain to deal with for a while after you upgrade. I didn’t have any 32-bit apps I’m missing so I wasn’t affected by that. The one cool thing about it is Sidecar if you have an iPad and Apple Pencil to use as a drawing tablet, but I don’t.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by bengale »

SimeVidas wrote: post #616
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…

Does Safari sync user data across devices (MacBook, iPhone)? Browsing history, bookmarks, etc.

Yes.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by bengale »

damm wrote: post #659
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 no USB Security key support like Yubikey for U2F/FIDO.

It has that now.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Razengan »

erklik wrote: post #668
Razengan wrote: post #648

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> Safari is extremely inaccessible software for most people How the hell is it "extremely inaccessible" for "most" people? It's Chrome that has an weirdass non-standard UI (the practice of showing app preferences/dialogs in a webpage needs to burn in the flames of Hades) and other niggles, not to mention being a privacy black hole. If they weren't told to use Chrome (i.e. Google didn't nag people to use Chrome when t…

> How the hell is it "extremely inaccessible" for "most" people? Because most people don't own Macs. The last Windows compatible version of Safari was back in 2012 or so, and as far as I know, it was never available on Linux. Therefore, for me to test on Safari, I either have to spend thousands to buy a laptop, or pay out of my pocket for some sort of cross-browser testing tool (even if it's free, I am spending extra…

How does Firefox win in privacy? Maybe through certain extensions but Safari has the edge in things like private mode tabs not sharing cookies etc. between each other.

It sure doesn’t feel faster.

As for Chrome I read this just now:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-patches-two-more-chrome...

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Kliment »

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 ?

I have 3088 tabs right now. I don't see how this is horrifying at all. I have a tab open for every dependency of every project I do, including one for every component of every electronics project I maintain. I have a tab for every webcomic I follow, a tab for every news page, a tab for every package that's on its way to me. It's like searchable, zero-effort bookmarks with state (including page scroll location) saved. Of course this is on firefox, and total suspender makes it easy to keep resource usage low. I have many years worth of state here, and if I didn't have this I don't see why I would even bother using a browser. It's like a personal knowledge base. Related tabs are clustered together in the list, I know approximately where things are in the list, I have two different search tools (% search and Tab Center Redux' own search box). I don't get why people keep trying to tell others that their workflow is bad ("horrifying") and they should feel bad. I don't care, this works, and nothing else compares.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by jackmaninov »

I'm seeing a new system snapshot in disk utility for 2 of my upgraded machines, with names like com.apple.os.update-somebiglongUUID. Does anyone know what these are (I assume for installs being interrupted) or how to delete them? tmutil doesn't see this as a "local" snapshop.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by [deleted] »

Kliment wrote: post #766
enriquto wrote: post #183

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> 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 ?

I have 3088 tabs right now. I don't see how this is horrifying at all. I have a tab open for every dependency of every project I do, including one for every component of every electronics project I maintain. I have a tab for every webcomic I follow, a tab for every news page, a tab for every package that's on its way to me. It's like searchable, zero-effort bookmarks with state (including page scroll location) saved.…

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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by zerkten »

jsinai wrote: post #719
laumars wrote: post #687

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I hate the fact that this needs to be an additional purchase and not part of the core OS. Windows and most Linux desktop environments are years ahead of macOS in terms of managing window placement. It doesn’t feel like macOS has advanced much in that department since it’s initial release in 2000 yet Windows has snapping, easier tiling, less glitchy multi monitor support....and this is coming from someone who hates us…

> Windows and most Linux desktop environments are years ahead of macOS in terms of managing window placement. I don’t understand. Windows has no ability to remember window positioning on screens to the point where I dread undocking my laptop because of the wasted time spent rearranging everything. The same way I dread it when Windows goes to sleep.

What version are you using? I haven't had any of these issues for a long time with Windows 10. I also have some weird configs going between an external monitor upstairs and a KVM-based setup in my basement office.
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