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macOS Sequoia is available today

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benkuykendall wrote: post #454
LeoPanthera wrote: post #309

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Figuring out what garbage to type into jq is the best thing about ChatGPT.

For some reason, I find it kinda funny you don't just ask the LLM to extract the values for you. Practically, your solution makes a lot of sense -- way fewer tokens, less likely to make weird one-off errors, can verify the response makes basic sense or re-use the code off-line or with sensitive data... But if I were watching Star Trek, they would definitely just ask the computer to grab the fields and it would be a d…

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Post by yoavm »

addandsubtract wrote: post #254
isodev wrote: post #65

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If it were me, I’d sell my MacBook and get a max spec KDE Slimbook with 96GB RAM.

If any other laptop had a trackpad like apple, with multi touch and gesture support, I would switch.

Linux user for the past 20 years - I cannot remember the last laptop I had that didn't have multi touch and gestures support. been using mostly ThinkPads & Dells.

I don't know what marketing team created this whole "our trackpad is so different" belief, but they've done a brilliant job!

Re: macOS Sequoia is available today

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Post by robinsonrc »

sunny_sigara wrote: post #209

Most annoying problems so far.. 1. Screen-recording permission once every week ? 2. No more sudo spctl —master-disable. Alternative way is bit complicated. 2. No more control+ click to bypass gatekeeper. 3. Why tcutil reset Accessibility not working for a specific app? It works for “All” . 4. Script to convert NSURL node ref url to posix url not working. 5. Normal usb Mouse pointer acceleration is not smooth. May be…

macOS is very gradually moving in the wrong direction for me. I never really saw myself considering desktop Linux again but I’m almost starting to get excited by the idea. For now I’ll just hold off on the update as none of it seems particularly compelling, especially as a happy Rectangle user (with all its key bindings nicely isolated from macOS preferences and synced along with the rest of my dotfiles)

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Post by someNameIG »

_0xdd wrote: post #194
whalesalad wrote: post #98

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I always take a full disk snapshot before full upgrades like this (boot into recovery and this is straightforward with a usb disk, or use carbon copy cloner) but yep updates in the Apple eco system are (knock on wood) very painless. Back in the day before things like homebrew it was far worse... the days of macports and mod_python to run your Django app are fortunately behind us.

MacPorts has a pretty slick migration feature now. Not sure about Django, but this is the smoothest migration I've experienced with MacPorts in over 15+ years.

How well does it work? With Sequoia I've been thinking of going MacPorts a go over Homebrew, haven't used it in about a decade.

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Post by nsonha »

Eric_WVGG wrote: post #285
trvr wrote: post #5

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!

It's kind of wild that it took Apple to make this feature before we could get a decent Instagram client on a laptop.

is that Apple's job, to make client app for X?

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Post by paulrudy »

Daub wrote: post #303

From TFA: ‘Highlights automatically surfaces directions for a location’ Is that a mistype? In an apple advertisement? Regardless, the whole thing feels like it has been written by a high school student. Try reading the following without wincing: ‘A redesigned Reader allows users to read articles more quickly with a streamlined view, a summary, and a table of contents, and a new Viewer helps users put videos front and…

"From TFA: ‘Highlights automatically surfaces directions for a location’ Is that a mistype? In an apple advertisement?"

"Highlights" as a singular brand/product/whatever name. Like saying "Postmates delivers stuff"

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Post by setopt »

agys wrote: post #126
NetOpWibby wrote: post #109

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PresButan is mandatory for me on macOS so I can make the Delete/Backspace key delete files.

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…

I don’t mind most of them, but the cut/move is IMO unusable.

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Post by nsonha »

thund wrote: post #377

nice, but still many things to be improved: - iphone mirroring keeps going into "paused" mode, showing a "resume" button - iphone mirroring doesn't unblock apps that need face Id, e.g. whatsapp says "passcode required" without prompting for some form of auth (auto auth is enabled, but no luck) - iphone mirroring is not really "mirroring": one cannot use both app and phone at the same time, and see what is going on. -…

> window tiling shortcut requires dragging a window first

man that's so dumb

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Post by tonyedgecombe »

windowsrookie wrote: post #207
benbristow wrote: post #177

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Nice that it can still be supported. Couldn't go back to Intel though personally!

I have an M1 Air 8GB and a 2018 MBP 16GB. Performance feels about the same until the Air hits swap, then the old Intel MBP still outperforms the M1 Air.

Interestingly my M1 Air 8GB runs my Rust unit tests about four times as fast as my i7 Mac Mini 16GB.

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Post by agys »

setopt wrote: post #497
agys wrote: post #126

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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…

I don’t mind most of them, but the cut/move is IMO unusable.

opt-cmd-v for move vs cmd-v for copy? Pretty usable imho!
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