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Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by KaiserPro »

hit8run wrote: post #11

Ubuntu 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've been using linux since a long time (Redhat 5.2)

Much as I like it, its not as convenient to use on a laptop as OSX, for every day things.

Plus I like illustrator too much.

For a workstation, yeah, anything with more than one processor/GPU will be super fast on ubuntu.

But Gnome is a dick to use nowadays. very opinionated and an arse to configure.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by Nextgrid »

threeseed wrote: post #103
isodev wrote: post #67

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lol at “uncertainty”. It’s perfectly clear what they need to do (or not do). Oh well.

If it's so clear then tell us what they need to do. Because the DMA was designed not to be specific about what companies are required to do to be in compliance.

Publish the protocol docs. That's literally all that's required from them. Actually they don't even need to - they can just promise not to sue anyone who reverse-engineers it and publishes a commercial client.

That's how adversarial interoperability worked for decades (and gave free software the ability to interoperate with proprietary formats, see LibreOffice for example) before abusing the DMCA and/or threatening legal action to take down compatible implementations became common practice. I do not recall of any security breaches as a result of this.

Apple are however not going to do that, because doing so would overnight destroy their moat around Universal Clipboard and all their existing interoperability features. So instead they make up some bullshit that non-technical governments and courts will take years to disprove, buying them more time to operate anti-competitively.

It is however sad to see a member of a technical forum gobble up said bullshit.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by vinay427 »

dbbk wrote: post #176
kccqzy wrote: post #152

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But with a trackpad you cannot see what you are touching. You see a single cursor on the screen. If you touch two things on your iPhone you know exactly which two things you are manipulating. With a single cursor on the Mac, no matter how many fingers you use you only manipulate one thing. This seems to me a difficult challenge in mashing up the wildly different interaction paradigms. I'd love to see how Apple solves…

Okay? In what scenario is that an issue

Zooming into a map, a picture, a webpage, or quite frankly most things would be rather awkward if you didn’t know where it would zoom in (or if it would always zoom into the center of the screen, for instance).

As another comment mentioned, it appears to use the cursor position as the pinch-gesture location.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by KaiserPro »

crazygringo wrote: post #59
xlii wrote: post #35

I 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".

> You're suggesting some kind of emotional immaturity

Depends on who's in charge.

Meta has shit PR primarily because Zuck doesn't like/understand comms.

Hes bollocks deep in AI because he likes it. Even though it costs him shareholder value (dropping those billions on new data centres to run massive loss making AI infra. )

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by JohnBooty »

dkga wrote: post #222
xhkkffbf wrote: post #203

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Didn't the original Windows 1 put all of the windows in tiles? Here's an image from a history: https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/06/22/history-...

Thanks for this! By the way, does anyone know anyone of the icon designers of Windows 3, 3.1? I would be very happy to meet them or know more about them. For some reason I'm still fascinated with those icons even after all those years.

Susan Kare, who designed many of the original Macintosh's graphical elements, also designed many of Windows 3.x's icons.

https://www.famousgraphicdesigners.org/susan-kare

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by Nextgrid »

samatman wrote: post #143
cyberpunk wrote: post #34

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Ah I really wanted this too but it seems like it's not available in the EU. Does anyone understand why? Is it apple having a flap about recent DMA/Whatever regulations they don't like or is there an actual technical reason why what's probably a fancy version of VNC can't work without breaching European regulations?

Pretty simple really. The EU can't fine Apple for not doing business in EU countries, including not rolling out a feature. But if they do roll out a feature, EU has decided it can fine them 20% of global revenue if it isn't just how the EU wants it to be. Not doing so only costs Apple whatever marginal business they expect to lose in EU for not offering this or that feature. So I'd expect more of this going forward.

It's only a matter of time before the EU gets wise to this - this move is simply to delay the inevitable and buy themselves some more time to act anticompetitively. When they feel like the EU is closer to disproving their argument (because there is no technical reason this can't be opened to third-parties in a secure way), they will suddenly announce that they have found some magic and miraculous way to do it and release the feature, bringing them back into compliance.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

Thank you all for beta testing Sequoia for the rest of us!

Jokes apart: I tend to wait 2-3 months at least before upgrading. There's usually a number of security fixes, and a number of bug fixes, in the first, well, 2-3 months after a new Mac OS goes live. After that, things become quite stable.

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by subjectsigma »

matthew-wegner wrote: post #110
subjectsigma wrote: post #74

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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

I realize it's a very Apple ecosystem thing to shore up gaps in macOS with 3rd party apps, but BetterDisplay can do this for you: https://github.com/waydabber/BetterDisplay (Run non-retina displays at 2X frame buffer for proper anti-aliasing)

Thanks for the advice! I tried downloading this app and set both displays to HiDPI and UI elements seemed to sharpen, but certain icons are still blurry. I didn't see any options related to setting the framebuffer, I assume this happens automatically. Will keep experimenting...

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by throwitaway1123 »

krelas wrote: post #57

Here’s one for HN readers, you can now find jq in /usr/bin/ in Sequoia.

Wow, that might be the best part of the update. System Integrity Protection shields /usr, /bin, and /sbin, so I prefer to use the system provided executables in those directories when possible.
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