The iPhone Mirroring was the most interesting announcement (and I don't think was leaked). I suspect it will only be useful for emergencies as latency will be terrible, though.
this is needed on Vision Pro
macOS Sequoia Preview
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#112I never thought I’d see the day macOS would get tiling window management. Wonder how it will interact with Stage Manager if at all.
Finally Windows and Linux fanatics will shut up.
TBH, we still need to see how it integrates with the keyboard.
Ever since I've been using a Mac since Nov. 2023 that's been one of the things that I've battled with, and I've assigned a heck tons of shortcuts to make that happen.
Re: macOS Sequoia Preview
#113I never thought I’d see the day macOS would get tiling window management. Wonder how it will interact with Stage Manager if at all.
I use Moom for basic keyboard-based window management. Great for maximizing windows and quickly resizing them
Yes! I've been using Moom for I think over a decade now. Cannot recommend it highly enough.
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#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I thought that's what AirDrop is for? Even Android can drag and drop files to Windows.
That's exactly what AirDrop is for. I think the commenter must just not know about it?
Neither do I. And I've been using macs and iOS devices for a while.
You're saying that if i select AirDrop I can send photos from my phone directly to my mac's file system?
No Photos app or iCloud drive shenanigans?
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#115Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe". EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted…
NextDNS solves ads. Anything super special you can use the Stopthemadness plugin.
I don't believe either of those block YouTube ads on Safari
Re: macOS Sequoia Preview
#116I wonder how the "seamlessly drag and drop files, photos, and videos between your iPhone and Mac" will work. Right now, if you just want to grab the raw files of your photos and videos and not deal with the Photos app, your best bet is Image Capture, a 20+ year old seemingly unmaintained program that seems to glitch out disturbingly frequently. I really hope they can introduce something that seamlessly lets you drag…
It's already been working for quite some time: shared clipboard on iOS and macOS has supported photos and videos since more than 2 years ago. I'd expect drag-and-drop works the same way.
Like I mentioned in another comment, I've got 2000+ photos to dump onto an external hard drive (Samba share technically, but I can always move from local disk to SMB easily). I'm not going to cut & paste 2000 photos individually. Hell, I don't even want to select 2000 photos for a batch operation.
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#117Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe". EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted…
NextDNS solves ads. Anything super special you can use the Stopthemadness plugin.
uBO isn't just about ads, and the mechanisms Stopthemadness uses should be readily available to me without having to install an app-store blessed plugin, for monies.
Re: macOS Sequoia Preview
#118Wish I could use Safari with uBO, so that I could use Safari. Tired of feature fragmentation in 3rd party software, but equally tired of ostensible limitations in 1st party software that try to control and prevent every single edge case use in the name of "uSeR ExPeRiEnCe". EDIT: I'd like to add the following, in case any Safari team members come across this in the wake of today's keynote. I remain utterly disgusted…
If anyone is wondering why uBlock Origin is no longer available for Safari, since version 13, see: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/issues/1123#is... And for watching Safari status ongoing: https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/issues/52
It's not available because Apple don't want to allow it. Hence I use Firefox.
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#119Earlier quoted context omitted.
I know it’s simple but I am so pleased with this. Now if they fixed the mouse acceleration curve and the scaling issue for monitors, I’d be at peace.
What's the scaling issue?
Not GP, but macOS doesn't have fractional scaling, which means that running at non-integer scales is inefficient. For example:
A 3840x2160 monitor run at 1x means a framebuffer of 3840x2160.
At 2x, the effective resolution is 1920x1080, and this also uses a framebuffer of 3840x2160.
At 1.5x, the effective resolution is 2560x1440. This is implemented by rendering at 4x (5160x2880) and then downscaling that.
At 1.25x, the effective resolution is 3072x1728. This is also implemented by rendering at 4x (6144x3456) and downscaling that.
The difference between all of these is quite noticeable.
Edit: Apparently Apple has been shipping its laptops with non-integer scaling for a while, which is interesting.
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#120My corp desktop is an iMac Pro (2018). For a long time, it was the best way to get a Retina-quality desktop without getting into VFX budgets. It was also in that weird period in Apple's product calendar when the one-and-done trash can was obsolete, but its replacement hadn't been released. Work usually issues whatever panels they can buy in bulk from overseas, but for a magical window, we could get a nice screen with…
> top of the line panels
A few different people have figured out how to convert these panels into stand-alone displays. It's a pity that it would be impractical to make a small business out of this.
- https://ohmypizza.com/2023/04/converting-a-5k-imac-into-an-e... - https://mschmitt.org/blog/convert-5k-27-imac-external-displa...