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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by asdff »

sergiomattei wrote: post #78
psychometry wrote: post #12

MacOS major version release are so underwhelming to me. They're not so much OS updates as they're updates to built-in apps I don't use or use at a very surface level: Safari, Facetime, Apple Maps, Messages, etc. I'm not really sure what I'd want out of a new MacOS, though. It's been stable and (for my purposes) feature-complete for many years now. I don't remember the last time a MacOS upgrade added a feature I wante…

I'm impressed. People really will never be satisfied. A relatively low-key, under-the-hood Mac release? "Man I miss when the Mac was innovative. These releases are a snooze fest." A big release, packed with features? "Man I miss when Apple cared about their OS stability. We need a new zero features snooze fest like 10.6. Take me back to Snow Leopard :(" Only HN can pull off such astounding mood swings. I know this si…

You can do both things at the same time, add new features that don't alienate their powerusers while also having a stable OS. Maybe if Apple delivered on both counts more in recent years people wouldn't feel the need to complain so much. It was complaining after all that got them to wake up and kill the touchbar and that butterfly keyboard.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by asdff »

macintux wrote: post #14
NaN1352 wrote: post #10

Focus …. by adding gazillions of notification options, and also get more notifications for "weekly screen time"… yeah, I really needed even more useless information to process instead of living my life. If i want time off i’ll just put the device down, what a concept :/ They’ve got it completely backwards.

I don't know how Monterey differs from iOS, but while I initially dismissed the new focus features as irrelevant, I quickly realized how useful they can be. Specifically I blocked all work-related notifications when I was on vacation. Allowing for one-time customizations doesn't add to my ongoing "useless information to process" queue.

It's just another means to an end that isn't much harder than what you could do before. I'm on mojave and ios 13 and I do the same by going to system preferences and hitting the checkboxes in my work account section.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by enriquto »

fnord123 wrote: post #220
MrWiffles wrote: post #181

I haven’t seen this anywhere when I’ve looked, so I’ll ask here on the slim chance maybe they really added something I badly want and somebody knows… Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet? Something users can control to forcibly stop bad behavior from certain “must have” apps. Chrome, for example, has been caught doing entire drive scans on Windows, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Zoom either. So I…

> Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet? Yes it's been there for a while. But like flatpak and all other attempts to sandbox applications they tend to ask for coarse permissions like Home Directory and once you give that, it can read everything important.

It shouldn't matter what permissions an application asks for. It is up to the user to decide to grant the app access to a system, or to a mock system.

The "sandboxing" model of flatpack and the like is completely backwards. I'd even say it's user-hostile.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by mattkevan »

insta_anon wrote: post #353
0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290

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I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…

Totally agree, Creative Cloud by now is really one of the worst pieces of software ever created. Because we are on this topic - what is a great alternative to Photoshop that uses mostly similar concepts? I’ve tried Affinity Photo but simply doing some photo cropping worked completely differently than PS and took me a long time to figure out. My main use case is having a photo, doing a selection overlay and running „c…

Pixelmator Pro is good. Prefer it over Affinity Photo. It’s lightweight and powerful with lots of smart ML-assisted features.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by igouy »

diegof79 wrote: post #197
beders wrote: post #116

It is frustrating to see how stagnant desktop OS's have become. Both macOS and Windows 11 have added incremental features that are surely nice to have, but no one dares to improve on the human-computer-interaction which has remained the same for decades now. With the advances in AI and the ridiculous compute power of modern CPUs, we should be able to have OSs that are Digital Assistants. Just one example: - file mana…

I can imagine a few reasons for such stagnation: - Business: there isn't a strong business need to re-think the desktop UI. There are needs on mobile and the web, but improving the classic desktop doesn't give a competitive advantage (unless you can combine it with the web and mobile, which is exactly what Apple, Google, and MS are trying to do). - Developers: you need to attract developers to your platform too. Devs…

> The first complaint that you'll hear about St is: "where are my files and version control?"

More like "Where's the program?"

Early '80s Smalltalk did use change-sets in files.

p462 "Smalltalk-80 The Interactive Programming Environment"

https://rmod-files.lille.inria.fr/FreeBooks/TheInteractivePr...

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You're right, Smalltalk is about "modifying objects that represent classes and methods" rather than editing files.

So versioning means fine-grained "classes and methods" rather than versioning files.

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Mastering_ENVY_Develope...

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You're right, we know what we like - we like what we know.

So (Pharo) "Manage Your Code with Git and Iceberg"

https://books.pharo.org/booklet-ManageCode/pdf/2020-05-12-Ma...

Re: macOS Monterey

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MrWiffles wrote: post #181

I haven’t seen this anywhere when I’ve looked, so I’ll ask here on the slim chance maybe they really added something I badly want and somebody knows… Is there any application forced sandboxing feature yet? Something users can control to forcibly stop bad behavior from certain “must have” apps. Chrome, for example, has been caught doing entire drive scans on Windows, and I’m not sure I entirely trust Zoom either. So I…

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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by zuhsetaqi »

vaughan wrote: post #243
Implicated wrote: post #235

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I ended up getting tired of this fight and built a windows box. I've recently tried to migrate back to the mac but it's just terrible with another monitor. Crazy that this is still a thing.

Try VRM thermal pad mod.

Any link to what exactly you mean?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by rcthompson »

tuzed wrote: post #328
josephg wrote: post #322

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> Well a few months ago I needed to fill out customs form 5106. This form uses some kind of proprietary Adobe PDF form creation software thing PSA in case anyone doesn't know this: the built-in Preview app on MacOS can be used to fill in any PDF form. You can type into text boxes on some forms. But even if they're not there, you can add text anywhere on a pdf. You just have to drag your own text boxes to wherever you…

That’s not entirely true. Some government forms where I live are shared in a PDF format but are only downloaded and displayed properly when they are opened in Acrobat, and otherwise display a page telling you to download acrobat. I suspect this allows the form to be updated, and see why it might be done, but I still find it very annoying.

Yes, I've had to fill out similar forms for submitting a manuscript to Nature Publishing Group journals. It seemed to me like the entire PDF was being dynamically generated via JS code or something. E.g. I would check a box for human subjects research and it would just add the relevant section to the form, re-adjusting the pagination on the fly.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by rcthompson »

jay_kyburz wrote: post #422
bombcar wrote: post #365

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The PDF format supports all sorts of insane extensions only implemented in Acrobat and only used by governments and large enterprises.

When I get forms like this I just dump them to jpg, fill them in an a paint program and zip them back up and send them as static images.

That doesn't work. You can't even view the PDF without Acrobat. (There's an example linked elsewhere in this thread.)
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