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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.
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why would a mac with an intel processor need OS binary code for an arm processor? I can understand apps having both, because the app needs to run on M1 or intel. But having both OS binaries is just dead disk space.
why would a mac with an intel processor need OS binary code for an arm processor? Remember that all of the resources—images, text, icons, etc.—are shared between the Intel and ARM binaries. There are a few use cases: • For troubleshooting, you can have one external hard drive/SSD that can boot both Intel and M1 Macs. This is very handy; this was pretty common back in the PowerPC to Intel days. • Same thing with runni…
- again, yes it would make sense to have this if you're booting from an external drive. Should be optional to have both binaries though.
- yes, the apps themselves will have binaries for both. That makes sense to me since you want one download link for an app and a lot of users don't want to think about what kind of mac they have.
the OS update tool should be smart enough to just get the OS binaries I need. Unless it's some kind of external boot disk like you mentioned, but that seems like a special case to me.
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I thought 1Blocker is quite a reasonable ad blocker for Safari: https://1blocker.com
I've tried few of the highest rated ones in App Store but they all break sites in different ways sadly. None of them really come close to uBlock
"Use font smoothing when available" is no longer available in System Preferences / General. Text looks blurry and kinda bold on my 27" 2560x1440 screen. Especially in Safari. Anyone has a magic command line?
give it some time and you'll never want to turn it on again.
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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 ?
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.
Windows for "idle browsing" get closed the next day when I open up my computer and look at the tabs and think "well this sounds boring, let's see what new has happened overnight".
On my phone OTOH, the tabs just stack up until twice a year I just mass-close them all.
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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.
Guess my views are too radical for this crowd though.
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…
As someone who has to support Safari, I can still say that both Chrome and Firefox are better by about an order of magnitude. They are bad enough that I've given up trying to debug safari specific issues in safari, and just proxy the behavior in firefox.
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> 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…
We have very different opinions on how bad IE6 really was if you think Safari is comparable at all.
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Some people hate bookmarks. When you want to read something later you just keep that tab open until you have time to go back. I usually have 200-300 tabs open at any given time. Works great.
A set of a few hundred tabs, spread across a few windows, is like the bubbling organic head of a stream of temporal bookmarks. It would be great if there were some kind of time-based decay -- or ripening, depending on your perspective -- of open tabs into a more permanent bookmark-like arrangement, with spatial/proximity and window affinity cues. These could easily rehydrate to their live versions, or become fixed as…