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looking forward to use userspace filesystems with fskit !
What does fskit do better than MacFUSE?
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That would kill a lot of old software, though. Especially games.
I challenge you to find old software that still runs on modern Macs which was never code signed. Note that support for 32-bit applications has been retired, and x86 applications will eventually be sunsetted as well. This isn't Windows.
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> Once you need to be in the apple developer program to build and run from source or something, that’ll be a legitimate nightmare. But we’re nowhere near that yet. When Quarantine was released in Leopard, and Gatekeeper in Lion, and System Integrity Protection in El Capitan, and then "Allow from Anywhere" was removed as an option in Sierra... Each time, people were saying similar things. "Yea, it's bad, and it's gett…
To me these are clear security improvements; things are not getting worse. And there is absolutely no reason to think they'll be dropping support for endusers running their own compiled software.
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Setting the "Double-click a window's title bar" action to Zoom just fills the vertical space. It doesn't adjust the width to fill available space, which is usually what I want. Finder, as an example, almost never sets the width to something usable.
True, it would be more accurate to say that what "zoom" is designed to do is expand the window as much as possible to display all the content, however the application defines that. For many applications, the result is a fully maximized window. On my MBA, Notes, Messages, Calendar, iTerm, Solvspace, and Mail all just fill the screen. For other applications that report specific content area to the OS that can mean some…
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interesting % /usr/bin/jq --version jq-1.6-159-apple-gcff5336-dirty
I can't know what "-dirty" implies, but https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/cff5336 is a pretty random commit from 2022 :-( https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... hasn't been updated with a "jq" directory yet
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. -…
Weird 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…
My understanding is that 8GB is plenty enough to play with small models (7B or so) in a lightly quantized version. (Especially since model params are kept on disk and only really "mapped" to RAM, with it acting as a cache.) 4GB is where it gets dicey, as you're constrained to tiny models that just don't do anything very interesting.
Local Apple models are likely in the 2-3B range, but fine-tuned to specific tasks.
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.
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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!
What makes Apple's trackpads so nice is a huge and solid surface. I came from Thinkpads myself and honestly didn't expect that to be as much of a thing as it turned out to be, but yes, they really are that much better. There are a few PC laptops these days with similar trackpads, but you definitely have to look for it when picking one.