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Best new feature: Passwords are a separate app again instead of being a shitty, illegible panel in the inexplicably-unresizable, cramped, tiny-text hell of the iOSified system prefs. Maybe in a couple more major versions we'll have a re-re-designed system prefs app that actually looks like a desktop app again!
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Best new feature: Passwords are a separate app again instead of being a shitty, illegible panel in the inexplicably-unresizable, cramped, tiny-text hell of the iOSified system prefs. Maybe in a couple more major versions we'll have a re-re-designed system prefs app that actually looks like a desktop app again!
Well, 1Password must be feeling pretty sour about how Apple Passwords app is a complete 1:1 clone. They don’t do licenses, credit cards or ssh keys yet so we probably won’t switch… yet
However it also doesn't randomly crash or simply refuse to autofill in Safari, so, I already switched.
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Genuine q: is cmd–backspace too much? I’m in general pretty satisfied with the Finder keyboard navigation/editing. Especially with “enter” for rename, copy/paste/cut/move and deletion too…
Yes, it is too much. I've spent 20 years deleting by pressing one button. Why require two?
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Most people interact with apps like Health on their phone not their Mac. And there are also many third party apps that never made Mac versions. So the amount of data we are talking about exposing is significantly higher. And the issue is that the DMA is ambiguous about what competition and interoperability specifically means and so it would just take one company to complain about your solution for Apple to be fined 1…
Many people log into their Mac using the same credentials (Apple ID) that give access to the Health data, and in fact Apple makes it really hard or even impossible to use it without (you can't selectively grant access, you need to use a separate Apple ID but then you lose some useful features such as universal clipboard, etc). This is again a misinformed take. Your Mac can already get all your iPhone's data from the…
Only if the data is available in iCloud and it is stored in files and it is not encrypted.
Otherwise data from apps like Instagram will be exposed exclusively via screen sharing.
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Apple locking down the OS even more by making Gatekeeper harder to bypass makes me want to skip this version for as long as possible. The screen recording permission thing also doesn't help since I'm using Ice ( https://github.com/jordanbaird/Ice ) because somehow Apple still can't Sherlock this feature.
The way it's even implemented now is like the nightmare realized from everything Richard Stallman warned about for decades. Especially for non-technical users, they've practically implemented a system where Apple decides what software you are and aren't allowed to run on your own computer. They can muddy the issue by claiming it's for safety/security but I don't buy it. They could have made the override still clear b…
The level of difficulty is absolutely intentional. For you, it's a small speed bump. For the guy on the phone with my grandma trying to hack her computer, it's more of a hill to climb.
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Yes, it is too much. I've spent 20 years deleting by pressing one button. Why require two?
The macOS behavior has been the way it is for I believe 30 years, perhaps longer. Im not sure where your expectation of changing this comes from.
I am not changing, so that's why I install an additional app.
I am usually slow to upgrade but I jumped on this and iOS 18 immediately because of "iPhone Mirroring". I've only had it for a few minutes, but it's really nice!
This makes it practically useless for developers.
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> The right-click/control-click option for easily opening unsigned apps is no longer available. Users who want to open unsigned software will now need to go the long way around to do it: first, try to launch the app and dismiss the dialog box telling you that it can't be opened. Then, open Settings, go to the Privacy & Security screen, scroll all the way to the bottom to get to the Security section, and click the Ope…
at least it's still possible (and maybe more accessible) if not a bit more inconvenient. the ctrl-click thing was kinda a hidden feature.
More and more, I find that these sorts of "we know best" attitudes towards security utterly distasteful and the total opposite of empowering. Infantilizing, more like.