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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by rco8786 »

rcarmo wrote: post #29
dmitrygr wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> prioritize the results I want (apps, not internet garbage). Settings -> Spotlight -> Websites, UNCHECK

Does not work. I happen to know a fair bit about mdutil and the like and confirmed that does exactly nothing for my particular issue. A full Spotlight index reset works temporarily, but after a while it just conks out again. Also, I vaguely remember there being a way to _order_ results, not just disable them.

Yea this has been happening on all of my family’s MacBooks. Spotlight indexing just hammers the CPU, and also seems to be doing nothing at all.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#52

Post by fumufumufumu »

themagician wrote: post #18

This is an interesting idea, and I am actually curious what Apple is going to do going forward. A "Snow Leopard"-esque release would be nice, but I think what would be better is an LTS release. Historically, you get a new Mac and you usually only get 5-6 years before they drop your model from the latest release. This has always made some sense to me, as after 4-6 years, you do start to feel it. I bought an M1 Max tha…

Trying to use Wan2.1 to generate AI video or other various LLM or StableDiffusion style stuff is slow compared to other other platforms. I don't know how much of that is because the code is not optimized for M1+ Max (Activity Monitor shows lots of GPU usage) or how much of it is it's just not up to the competition. Friends on 4070 Windows PC are getting results many X faster and 4070 perf iss not even close to 4090

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#53

Post by rcarmo »

thewebguyd wrote: post #38
rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

> Most of the other examples in the article also apply, but to be honest I've been using GNOME in parallel for years now and I consider it to be my "forever desktop" if PC hardware can ever match Apple Silicon (or, most likely, if I want something that is _just a computer_). I'm there as well. I've been really enjoying desktop Linux lately, but I can't go back to a non-Apple laptop at this point. There's just nothing…

I have some hope that Framework and AMD can fix some of those issues. Would love to try out their new desktop (because it's a simpler, more tightly integrated thing) and replace my Mac mini -- then wait for Linux power management to improve.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#55

Post by torstenvl »

kn8 wrote: post #44
spudlyo wrote: post #32

I'm done with macOS, I've migrated to Linux for my general purpose computing. With every new release of macOS, Gatekeeper is becoming harder and harder to bypass, increasing Apple's control over what software can be run on macOS, forcing apps to be signed with an Apple Developer ID. While I'm happy they are taking security seriously, I'm seriously creeped out that macOS sends hashes of every executable I run to their…

I don’t know if it’s just me, but i want more Gatekeeper, not less - help me stay safer. Or is it a security theatre? Malware producers can sign things just fine?

An OS that won't let you do what you want to do is malware.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#56

Post by rcarmo »

rco8786 wrote: post #51
rcarmo wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does not work. I happen to know a fair bit about mdutil and the like and confirmed that does exactly nothing for my particular issue. A full Spotlight index reset works temporarily, but after a while it just conks out again. Also, I vaguely remember there being a way to _order_ results, not just disable them.

Yea this has been happening on all of my family’s MacBooks. Spotlight indexing just hammers the CPU, and also seems to be doing nothing at all.

It seems to churn the index. I have no other explanation for its behavior. And of course filing Feedback in Apple's tools doesn't help.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#57

Post by simondotau »

spudlyo wrote: post #32

I'm done with macOS, I've migrated to Linux for my general purpose computing. With every new release of macOS, Gatekeeper is becoming harder and harder to bypass, increasing Apple's control over what software can be run on macOS, forcing apps to be signed with an Apple Developer ID. While I'm happy they are taking security seriously, I'm seriously creeped out that macOS sends hashes of every executable I run to their…

I understand and appreciate the sentiment, but I see the intent very differently. Apple is not employing a frog boiling strategy, but rather being responsive to an increasingly sophisticated adversary.

It’s like criticism of the quality of Google search dropping. It has absolutely tanked, but it’s not because the algorithm is worse, it’s because the internet has grown orders of magnitude and most of it uses the same hyper aggressive SEO optimisation, such that the signal to noise ratio is far worse than ever before.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#58

Post by rcarmo »

fumufumufumu wrote: post #52
themagician wrote: post #18

This is an interesting idea, and I am actually curious what Apple is going to do going forward. A "Snow Leopard"-esque release would be nice, but I think what would be better is an LTS release. Historically, you get a new Mac and you usually only get 5-6 years before they drop your model from the latest release. This has always made some sense to me, as after 4-6 years, you do start to feel it. I bought an M1 Max tha…

Trying to use Wan2.1 to generate AI video or other various LLM or StableDiffusion style stuff is slow compared to other other platforms. I don't know how much of that is because the code is not optimized for M1+ Max (Activity Monitor shows lots of GPU usage) or how much of it is it's just not up to the competition. Friends on 4070 Windows PC are getting results many X faster and 4070 perf iss not even close to 4090

You need to run it under MLX, and AFAICT ComfyUI and the like are not really optimized for it (or at least not as optimized as LLM inference).

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

#59

Post by lttlrck »

pavel_lishin wrote: post #20

> I am not suggesting Apple has fallen behind Windows or Android. Changing a setting on Windows 11 can often involve a journey through three or four different interface designs, artifacts of half-implemented changes dating back to the last century. Whenever I find myself stuck outside of Appleland, I am eager to return “home,” flaws and all. Hard agree with this. I sometimes have to boot up a windows laptop to play M…

I lost Windows fluency around 7. I have little desire to get it back even though I use it every day as a secondary system.

How many "control panels"? How many places are there to adjust audio device properties?

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by mistyvales »

I'm enjoying Sorbet Leopard on my 20 year old Dual Core PowerPC tower. Mostly just messing around with old versions of Max making weird sounds.. but when I do interact with the OS it feels great and responsive and a joy to use. Modern MacOS can feel that way if you turn off a lot of crap. I don't even sync my accounts to the OS anymore.
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