I remember being at the office showing a new hire how to do some revisions in preview. I had a great system down for speeding through a process. As I was explaining, they were having trouble with my process. I was still using my old macbook and it turns out that the functionality I had been using had been removed from the newest version of finder, which the new hire had on their computer.
Features lost across versions of macOS
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Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#62Why is this flagged and unvouchable?
Because it is considered to be blasphemous by the true believers. This is only half in jest and all the more remarkable for the frequency with which the apostles of Apple need to defend user-hostile changes.
It looks like a combination of Effort Justification [1], some form of Confirmation Bias [2] and some form of Learned Helplessness [3] to me: given the money, time and effort spent in buying into and learning the ways of the Apple world and also due to the way that world creates a visible distinction between those inside the walls and those outside - blue and green text bubbles etc - some users get caught in a vicious circle of gettin the latest Apple thing, finding out about a user hostile change - ports gone from laptop necessitating a herd of dongles, 'butterfly' keyboard breaking due to unavoidable common contaminants, drives and memory soldered to mainboards making user-upgrade impossible, spare parts serialised making user or third party repair impossible as well as the software devolution described here - and needing to decide to either go with the flow or jumping ship, again. They choose to go with the flow but feel the need to defend the change to suppress the feeling they are at the whim of the company.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effort_justification
Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
No, it doesn’t work reliably, which is why they removed it. It’s better not to have a tool than having a security tool that might work. Also IIRC secure delete is useless on APFS volumes as they are always fully encrypted, even when FileVault is not enabled.
> It’s better not to have a tool than having a security tool that might work. This is what I don't get about SMS apps that may or may not send encrypted messages. (Like Apple's own)
In that case the button changes color before sending, making it clear whether the message will be encrypted or not. (I have disabled the SMS fallback, which is indeed problematic.)
Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Interesting, I hadn't heard of anyone using 1080i displays recently. Do you use one, and if so why?
Some ancient TVs only support up to 1080i instead of 1080p.
Yep that’s my use case. My home theater TV is from 2007 (not ancient) and supports either 720p or 1080i. Thanks to Apple’s helpful “up”grade now I’m stuck with 720p.
Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#65Apple's PMs removed a feature that was very useful on my MBP: system font size adjustment. Now I must wear my glasses all the time I use the computer. This is not comfortable or fun. I could increase the display pixel size, but then everything looks like garbage when I do wear my glasses. Apple has lost its user-focus. Its products will only get worse and worse. Fortunately, this creates opportunity for new companies…
It seems to still be there? System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Text Text Size and Menu Bar Size may allow you to do this adjustment?
Which version of macOS are you using?
I'm using macOS Ventura 13.6.3 on a 2018 Macbook Pro and there is no "Text" section under "Settings > Accessibility > Display".
Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#66Also screen recording with audio capture went away with Mojave.
Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
It seems to still be there? System Settings > Accessibility > Display > Text Text Size and Menu Bar Size may allow you to do this adjustment?
Which version of macOS are you using? I'm using macOS Ventura 13.6.3 on a 2018 Macbook Pro and there is no "Text" section under "Settings > Accessibility > Display".
can confirm it exists on my mbp running 14.2.1
Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#68one annoying one that's notably missing: There's no way to get rid of the Music.app, and the play/pause hardware button on my M2 macbook is always mapped to that app. I inadvertently press this button all the time and it launches Music.app, taking about 1/4th of the 8gb of shared memory
One of the first things I install on macbooks is this app that prevents iTunes or Apple Music from launching https://github.com/tombonez/noTunes
as someone who just launched Apple Music by accident yesterday... thank you.
Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#69I would add: A useable System Preferences app. It's been renamed "Settings" and some idiot tried to make it look like iOS. It's the absolute worst part of modern MacOS IMHO. As a Mac user measured in decades, it's the thing most likely to drive me back to Linux. [edit: I am curious why this topic has been flagged]
I'd add Apple Music as a horrorshow. iTunes was bloated garbage. Music is somehow much worse.
Re: Features lost across versions of macOS
#70Apple's PMs removed a feature that was very useful on my MBP: system font size adjustment. Now I must wear my glasses all the time I use the computer. This is not comfortable or fun. I could increase the display pixel size, but then everything looks like garbage when I do wear my glasses. Apple has lost its user-focus. Its products will only get worse and worse. Fortunately, this creates opportunity for new companies…
I don't know if you've tried 'scroll to zoom' https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/mac-help/mchl779716b8/...
That was a huge plus to me as an occasional reading glasses user. Which I only discovered after about five years of mac useage.