Literally nothing I care about.
As a web developer I'd be happy if Safari usage fell off a cliff.
macOS Sequoia is available today
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#72A long time ago I started dreading major updates from corporate providers. They push features they want, not features I want. It got so bad with Microsoft that I fled. Apple's updates have been aggressive in resetting my preferences and pushing things like iCloud and their login to the point that they are on the Microsoft path. I am forced to use mac for work but only because of work.
Apple is most certainly not the company you want to purchase products from if you're afraid of major updates. They are far more aggressive and eager to break things than Microsoft.
Re: macOS Sequoia is available today
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
It forwards notifications to your Mac too, even when a mirroring session isn't active.
But that was already part of continuity or was it previously limited to user activities? It’s hilarious that Apple made such a big deal out of it and then failed to release it for everyone.
NSUserActivity didn't forward notifications, it just provided a way to move whatever you were doing on your other Apple devices to the one you're currently using and only covered things that the dev specifically implemented.
This works for all notifications from all apps.
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#74I know I'll be seen as an Apple fanbot for saying it, but holy schmoley Apple's operating system-fu just leaves Windows in the dust.
I'm sitting here thinking - man, how is it possible that they can make the best laptop hardware no contest, and yet I still get blurry icons when connecting to a non-retina external display? Something that the cheapest Windows laptop money can buy would do flawlessly?
Macs are great and so is macOS, but it's not that good, at the end of the day it's just a computer
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#75Although I don’t use MacOS, the fact that you can now control an iPhone from a Mac will probably be reverse engineered to allow Linux to do the same at some point. A lot of automation opportunities
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#76I recently got bored of Apple ecosystem. Was considering buying System76 for work, but thought that iPhone Mirroring feature would be really neat and decided to wait. Turns out it’s not available in EU because yadda yadda Apple threw a fit. Oh well.
> because yadda yadda Apple threw a fit Publicly traded corporations generally engage in strategy. They don't "throw a fit". You're suggesting some kind of emotional immaturity. That's not how these corporations generally operate. I don't know why the iPhone mirroring isn't supported, but I can absolutely guarantee you it's not because anybody is "throwing a fit".
This is unnecessarily pedantic. Personifying the behavior of a company is not some new concept. It’s actually rather common.
Because a company itself cannot express emotions, the externally facing visible decisions are used as a proxy.
For example, a company raising prices to an unexpected level may be described as “greedy”. A company executing a series of decisions that appears misguided or incalculable may be described as “panicking”.
Re: macOS Sequoia is available today
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
But that was already part of continuity or was it previously limited to user activities? It’s hilarious that Apple made such a big deal out of it and then failed to release it for everyone.
NSUserActivity didn't forward notifications, it just provided a way to move whatever you were doing on your other Apple devices to the one you're currently using and only covered things that the dev specifically implemented. This works for all notifications from all apps.
Oh interesting! Does it mean that the content of these forwarded notifications goest through Apple servers then? With no way for the source app to prevent it?
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#78Earlier quoted context omitted.
> because yadda yadda Apple threw a fit Publicly traded corporations generally engage in strategy. They don't "throw a fit". You're suggesting some kind of emotional immaturity. That's not how these corporations generally operate. I don't know why the iPhone mirroring isn't supported, but I can absolutely guarantee you it's not because anybody is "throwing a fit".
This is unnecessarily pedantic. Personifying the behavior of a company is not some new concept. It’s actually rather common. Because a company itself cannot express emotions, the externally facing visible decisions are used as a proxy. For example, a company raising prices to an unexpected level may be described as “greedy”. A company executing a series of decisions that appears misguided or incalculable may be descr…
> Personifying the behavior of a company is not some new concept. It’s actually rather common.
I know, it's common and it's wrong and unhelpful. That's my point. It doesn't help us understand the situation better, but actively misleads us if we're interested in actually analyzing problems and coming up with solutions.
And I just looked it up and it appears that Apple isn't supporting it because their reading of the EU law is that they'd have to support iPhone mirroring to third parties like Windows and Linux, where it would be harder or impossible to control the security and privacy.
That's something that can be talked about intelligently, whichever side you're on. Saying they're "throwing a fit" is not. It's false, and makes the conversation worse for all of us.
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#79Ubuntu is really good these days. If you bought into the apple ecosystem with a recent Mac I’d not bother. But for those of your running a PC Ubuntu is incredible and their new App Store makes finding and installing software super easy. My workstation pc with Ubuntu is insanely faster than my Mac Studio when it comes to jetbrains IDEs. It’s so snappy I first couldn’t believe the performance diff.
I don't mean to say your experience isn't real, but that isn't what I encountered at all with my last 12 years "waiting for Ubuntu to get good" (I am quoting myself here). Every time I tried to install it to test if it was good, something broke for no reason. This happened to me on many PCs and many versions of Ubuntu. The last time I tried 24.04, the installer crashed in the middle of the installation and I couldn't…
Debian stands out as a Linux distribution that "just works" IME. Fedora isn't even all that bad, but the short support cycle can be problematic if you care about using it reliably in production. Debian doesn't have that issue, their "Stable" release is just rock solid. It can also be surprisingly snappy even on old, very low-end hardware where everything else (including every modern web browser) will visibly chug or not run at all.
Re: macOS Sequoia is available today
#80Weird how the title says, "macOS Sequoia is available today, bringing iPhone Mirroring, Apple Intelligence, and more to Mac" Then you look at the paragraph for this and it says, "Coming Soon: Apple Intelligence" They announced this in June, and it's just loosely coming "this fall." I have a feeling they are finding it very difficult to do anything with any kind of consistency or value on their 8gb RAM phones / Macboo…
Apple doesn't say how big the server Foundational model is, but it scores around Llama 3 70B, so that range should be it.