Reminds me of Microsoft calculator having a one pixel off between buttons: https://www.reddit.com/r/mildlyinfuriating/comments/a5r971/t...
That's awfull!! I couldn't use it anymore after I've seen it once
Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
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Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH) If it' just "this", Linux is perfectly capable and IMO even superior.
Which Linux laptop do you recommend?
For the described usage pretty much any laptop would work, even a Chromebook.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#64It's font hinting and kerning. But whyyy the heck only in the last few chars?
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#65Haha, off-by-one pixel error! I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), but I also have a documents folder that I’ve accumulated over decades. I still use various .txt files in the docs folder as my low tech note taking apps. I use the Spotlight or Alfred keyboard shortcuts (that also use spotlight index?) for quickly opening the files when needed - and annoyingly my most impo…
Funnily enough a simple fgrep is super fast on SSDs and actually reliable. Even across TBs of data. With Spotlight you can never be sure. And to be fair, the Windows equivalent sucks just as much.
Yeah I sometimes use ripgrep for this. It’s suspiciously fast!
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#66My bet would be on some compounding error from long usage also. I'm using Apple Notes and it fails in some random ways after keeping it open for 1-2 weeks: When I try to copy something I select, it copies some random stuff, dragging text won't work, I can check/uncheck todo boxes. Goes away when I restart it.
Notes has been super buggy for a while. The failure modes are so weird I don't even understand how it's possible for a text editor. E.g. text and selections rendered floating between or on top of lines of text. I wonder how they manage to bork it so hard.
Did this possibly start when they added “live” collaboration (quotation marks placed very intentionally) to shared notes?
[0] says that was in macOS Ventura 13.1 and iOS 16.2.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to rewrite the text editing engine in Notes, or at least parts of it, to accommodate for this change. And if there’s anything more terrifying than modern Apple rewriting parts of macOS, it’s them doing it for any cloud-based functionality. shudders
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#67It's font hinting and kerning. But whyyy the heck only in the last few chars?
Well you’ve just answered your own question: because it’s not just font metrics.
There seems to be more to that custom view than a standard line of text; something about that view is not optimized for low-dpi displays.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#68One of my favourite unreported MacOS issues comes from how, at some point, they changed the appearance of the window close button to be a particular shade of red with a tiny little X in the center. And if you happen to be using a particular kind of screen and possibly wearing glasses, that little X kind of wanders around in the button, appearing just slightly off center in a maddening way. Made only more maddening by…
Another irritating thing that is captured in that image is the single pixel gap between the top of the application window and the menu bar. If the desktop background is bright it is very distracting. Not a mistake like the off centre X but drives me mad, nevertheless.
Re: Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator
#69Haha, off-by-one pixel error! I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH), but I also have a documents folder that I’ve accumulated over decades. I still use various .txt files in the docs folder as my low tech note taking apps. I use the Spotlight or Alfred keyboard shortcuts (that also use spotlight index?) for quickly opening the files when needed - and annoyingly my most impo…
> I still see MacOS as the best choice for my desktop/laptop uses (browser and SSH) If it' just "this", Linux is perfectly capable and IMO even superior.
Yep I should have written "mostly browser/SSH". But then occasionally I have to print something or run a (customer-provided) VPN client or open some corporate Excel file, etc. And there's the convenience factor of keeping my current setup. But should the MacOS thing become untenable for some reason, yep next step would be a Lenovo/System76 laptop known to work with Linux (including audio/bluetooth/wifi after resuming from sleep!) or even a Chromebook...
P.S. I've ran Linux/X (plus VMWare VMs with Windows) on my desktop machine with few complaints since the '90s and it was always the laptops that had issues, causing me to switch back to Windows after a couple of weeks of trial & frustration in the 2000s. I got Windows pretty performant & usable though, even attended Mark Russinovich'es Windows Internals class in London back in 2006 or so :-)