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Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by cassianoleal »

ctime wrote: post #261
simondotau wrote: post #253

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Why don't Apple offer grounded duckheads? For that matter, why haven't any third parties made grounded duckheads? This has been irritating me for the past decade or more. The ground connection, where available, occurs through the metal stud which the duckhead slides into. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the UK (Type G) duckhead doesn't connect ground even though the physical ground pin is mandatory. I know that mos…

The UK/Ireland 3 prong duckhead is grounded. I have no idea why third parties haven't produced grounded versions, other than the obvious (no demand and anyone who cares has a solution, use the extension cable). [1] https://www.amazon.com/Replacement-Adapter-Duckhead-Universa...

It is most certainly not. The ground is done over the round pin that slides into the duckhead. If you check the rail where the pin slides in, it's all plastic.

The extension cable is the only one that's grounded.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by cassianoleal »

out_of_protocol wrote: post #556
cassianoleal wrote: post #188

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You can run VS Code in the browser: https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2021/10/20/vscode-dev One of their listed use-cases is exactly this: > Develop on your iPad. You can upload/download files (and even store them in the cloud using the Files app), as well as open repositories remotely with the built-in GitHub Repositories extension.

> For example, the terminal and debugger are not available, which makes sense since you can't compile, run, and debug a Rust or Go application within the browser sandbox Direct quote

Ugh, that's pretty limiting. I wasn't aware of that.

Perhaps one of the self-hosted VS Code solutions out there would work?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by igouy »

diegof79 wrote: post #599
igouy wrote: post #435

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

This wasn’t a critique to Pharo. Don’t get me wrong I worked using Smalltalk professionally for 3 years, and I contributed a small library to Squeak and Pharo. My comment was about how difficult is to innovate in areas like the file system. Pharo had to use git because is popular, not because is the best way to handle object versioning (eg Envy was much better at handling the history of your classes)

I understood that the Smalltalk remarks were kind-of incidental to the point you wished to make.

So just some clarification for readers stuck at the big-blob Smalltalk no-version-control meme.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by simondotau »

thombles wrote: post #507
simondotau wrote: post #253

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Why don't Apple offer grounded duckheads? For that matter, why haven't any third parties made grounded duckheads? This has been irritating me for the past decade or more. The ground connection, where available, occurs through the metal stud which the duckhead slides into. Correct me if I'm wrong, but even the UK (Type G) duckhead doesn't connect ground even though the physical ground pin is mandatory. I know that mos…

They used to, in Australia at least. I can't remember if it came with my iBook G4 or one of the Intels soon afterward, but out of the box I got both a two-prong stub that attaches directly to the brick and a ~1.5m cable that goes to a three-prong plug. I sold the original laptop long ago but kept the old grounded cable all the way up to my current work MBP. Personally the buzzing drives me nuts. The first time I noti…

The no-longer-standard extension cable is properly grounded, the duckhead (what you called a "stub") has never been. This is the case in all countries including Australia, where I live.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by TimeBearingDown »

simion314 wrote: post #568
dual_dingo wrote: post #491

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I am not very experienced with Arch, but my impression is that it is actually more reliable when updating/upgrading then going to a new major MacOS release, which is an absolute disagrace given the fact that Apple can actually test their stuff on every single hardware model it is supposed to run. And no, my experience on general user behaviour is to expect no backup, but this isn't Auntie Ednas crocheting Facebook gr…

>I am not very experienced with Arch, but my impression is that it is actually more reliable It is only an impressions, Arch fanboyus will quietly try to fix the mess and blame themselves for the bugs, only some honest users will tell you straight in the face "never update Arch without first reading some news page and never update if you don't hve the time to rollback and fix shit".

Both things are true.

Arch is, in my experience, much more stable, and yet you should glance at the news page and run full system upgrades when you could spare some downtime if you had to.

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Post by slmjkdbtl »

EamonnMR wrote: post #185

If any apple product managers are reading this, the biggest thing holding MacOS back is that it global searches when you search a folder. I know there's a config setting for it, but dammit I want the default to be local file name search and full text search should be an off-by-default option, and search the whole hard drive should be a different also off by default option.

Are you sure it's not .DS_Store?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

seniorivn wrote: post #515
native_samples wrote: post #504

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We do hold them accountable ... by using Apple :( It's not like Linux or Windows upgrades are drastically smoother. In fact right now I have a Windows VM that tells me "This PC doesn't meet the requirements to upgrade to Windows 11" in the upgrade screen, and their health check app tells me "This PC meets the requirements". Probably something got cached somewhere, as I had to add a virtual TPM just now. But still. Th…

NixOS updates are drastically smoother, if default option to boot into any of previous updates is enough to never overthink it

Haiku [operating system], while not ready for most people to use ar a daily driver, also has this ability to boot into prior state. Updated an app, or the whole system, and now something's gone pear-shaped? Reboot with the magic key held down and choose a previous config by date-time.

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

0xFACEFEED wrote: post #290
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…

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…

For natural media, Corel Painter, not getting much mention these days?

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by IIsi50MHz »

iggldiggl wrote: post #606
danielrhodes wrote: post #474

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My belief is that Apple will eventually try to lock down macOS entirely or move to something similar to iOS sandboxing. This would more or less solve your problem and not hurt the majority of people’s experience. However, to make the OS good enough for software development, Apple will make it easy to create virtualized environments. This to me seems like the correct trade off and might actually be a net win for most.…

> My belief is that Apple will eventually try to lock down macOS entirely or move to something similar to iOS sandboxing. This would more or less solve your problem and not hurt the majority of people’s experience. Strict file-level-granularity sandboxing breaks all kinds of multi-file formats [1], because users will want to simply open the respective main file just as usual (especially if launching the file from the…

Regarding filepicker and path editing…

So, regression to several systems ago? Maybe System 7, or MacOS 8, or 9? If so, we'll need a new thing like Super Boomerang…except with all the modern security, it'd practic'ly have to come from Apple as some kind of option. )*:

Re: macOS Monterey

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Post by Tagbert »

snowwrestler wrote: post #594
crawrey wrote: post #444

I just upgraded to Monterey on my Macbook Pro 2018 15-inch and after rebooting, all of the USB-C ports stopped working, including the power adapter. I spent some time on the phone with Apple Support trying to figure out how to fix it. After about an hour and a half there was about 18% battery left before I started to panic and figure out how I was going to back everything up. After panicking, the 3rd Apple Support Re…

Good example of why I usually wait for a few dot releases before upgrading MacOS. I thank you and other early adopters (AKA QA testers) for your service.

But this kind of thing described by the parent (SMC data corruption) is usually caused by a local condition on the device rather than specifically buggy code. Waiting for a later version would not help in that case.

Not saying that there aren’t sometimes bugs in initial version released and it’s perfectly rational to wait to hear about any fire alarms going off, but the example given is not really a case in point.

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