Just today I tried to look for how to switch to using the discrete GPU on my 2019 Intel MBP, but I couldn’t find a setting for it. Is it gone?
was there ever a setting for this? I always used gSwitch or gfxCardStatus to varying degrees of success
Ventura Issues
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#42Apple is badly, badly in need of a “code red” style freeze on new features for macOS and iOS. Even very basic things which should be rock solid are not. I just had a kernel panic when copying files to an smb mount. No issue when I do the same copy mounted as nfs. Ridiculous in this era.
It still amazes me that in the 21st century no computer can use a couple of extra monitors reliably without sometimes not detecting them, getting in the wrong resolution, or other strange issues.
Me too. Sometimes it's even just one monitor.
I don't know whether to blame the monitor or the KVM, but one of my desktops on Windows will try to feed my monitor an unsupported resolution at boot.
Not if I switch to another KVM input and back. Not if I wake it after suspend. Not if I boot the Linux install. Just Windows on a fresh boot.
Don't get me started on the mess that seems to be HDMI.
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#43Apple is badly, badly in need of a “code red” style freeze on new features for macOS and iOS. Even very basic things which should be rock solid are not. I just had a kernel panic when copying files to an smb mount. No issue when I do the same copy mounted as nfs. Ridiculous in this era.
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#44The System Preferences redesign was a huge red flag. This OS is a Lion, no thanks.
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#45Apple on a good day does just enough to get the basics right. Beyond the basics it's a matter of luck whether something will work and continue to work reliably.
The thing is even Microsoft in the post Win 10 era is reliant on insiders to test Windows releases nowadays so there's not really much competition for desktop market nor is there anything huge at stake.
At this point I as a regular non-enterprise customer can't even pay for a churn free, ads free, forced apps free security updates only OS like Windows 7 - unexpectedly fast descent into sadness.
(Where possible I run Linux and thankfully it has worked fine so far but some work things still require Windows or Mac.)
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#46Apple is badly, badly in need of a “code red” style freeze on new features for macOS and iOS. Even very basic things which should be rock solid are not. I just had a kernel panic when copying files to an smb mount. No issue when I do the same copy mounted as nfs. Ridiculous in this era.
Don't know what happened with iOS 16, but Spotlight has been painfully slow. Results used to be nearly instant, now it can take 6+ seconds to show an app I searched for
I installed a few apps since upgrading to iOS 16 when it came out, and those apps never show up in Spotlight. I've updated with patches, restarted the phone, deleted and re-installed since then; still broken. The main one is Slack but I've seen it with others, too.
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#47OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was the last release of the golden years. You could argue it was actually 10.9 Mavericks, but that's the release that introduced the annoying notification every time you disconnected a USB drive. Either way, OS X 10.10 Yosemite was when shit started hitting the fan- that's when they started rewriting OS X in Swift, an Apple-designed language which is somehow WORSE than Objective-C.
As a software engineer, I find all three ecosystems (macOS, Windows, Linux) far from perfect, but the only one that ALLOWS me to do all the things I want and need to do, is Linux.
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#48Can I get a word in for Screen Time / Parental Controls being completely broken for years? (One bug of many: “Internet Filtering” randomly fails open after a few hours, allowing private browsing and no filtering on child accounts.)
Yeah it's a shame. FWIW, I block sites by using a DNS app on my iphone (AdGuard Pro) which emulates a VPN in order to work.
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#49OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion was the last release of the golden years. You could argue it was actually 10.9 Mavericks, but that's the release that introduced the annoying notification every time you disconnected a USB drive. Either way, OS X 10.10 Yosemite was when shit started hitting the fan- that's when they started rewriting OS X in Swift, an Apple-designed language which is somehow WORSE than Objective-C. As a softwa…
Also, it's 2022 and Xcode is still trash
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
Long ago, the release speed in the entire industry accelerated. I knew that quality would nose dive as a result because there was no way to develop and fully test an entire OS (even for a phone) as frequently as each is being released. All operating systems are now effectively permanently in beta.
It's not just about release speed. The whole industry is aligned towards new, towards features, towards impact. Going around making the world better doesnt rank, isnt visible work, isnt tracked or roadmaps, isnt rewarded, and frankly, it's not as fun being a 0.1X hacker tackling the gross ugly old shit, especially when the org wont say thank you either.
Sometimes I wonder whether Douglas Adams was the most prescient sci-fi writer when he came up with the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation. Year by year it seems to get closer, and I can't help feeling recent AI developments will only accelerate it.