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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.
Agree. Apple needs to clean up shop - MacOS has been egregiously worsening year over year. Some features like Universal Control and Continuity Camera are legitimately awesome, but they do not make up for the INSANELY slow System Settings app that gets harder to navigate with each release and which has >2s wait times for the right pane to respond to a change in the left pane. Steve Jobs would have fired the person res…
Another thing I dislike is that it stores the whole message history on the device. It's nice to have at times, but I send a lot of photos, which adds up in storage over time. I pay for iCloud, and store my messages there. Why does my Mac need to hold every single photo I have ever sent?
See my blog post "The myth and reality of Mac OS X Snow Leopard": https://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/2023/11/5.html TL;DR What people remember fondly is not Mac OS X 10.6.0, which was in fact very buggy, and buggier than 10.5.8, but rather later versions of Snow Leopard after almost 2 full years of bug fixes. See also "Snow Leopard bug deletes all user data": https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/snow-leopard-bu…
Thank you, the nostalgia for a 15-year-old OS release, which absolutely was not great out of gate, is strange. My recommendation for people who don't absolutely need the latest features: Upgrade to the previous version of macOS when the new version is released. Sequoia is incredibly reliable 7 (soon to be 8) updates in.
I disagree with that part. ;-)
We wouldn't even be having this discussion right now if today's updates were incredibly reliable.
They need a Snow-IOS too. - Ever since I've updated to the latest iOS 18, my watch complications(weather doodad) stop working randomly because they just lose the location services permission. Then in settings, the location services permission list acts like the weather app isn't installed. - The new Mail app now automatically classifies your email, but still gives you the "All Mail" option. But the unread count badge…
Depends on where you were seeing this of course, but this could very well be an app problem instead of a system problem.
Native UIKit/SwiftUI do a little bit of keyboard management for “free”, but there are many circumstances where it falls on the developer’s shoulders to do this. For cross platform frameworks, some do keyboard management others don’t even try. For web apps it’s a coin toss and depends on which of the gazillion ways the dev built their app.
It’s not actually that hard, usually just a matter of making sure that your scrolling content either resizes to match the keyboard-shrunken viewport or adding bottom padding equivalent to the height of the keyboard and then and adjusting scroll position accordingly, but it’s not unusual to see this partially or fully absent, especially on poorly built cheapest-bidder-contracted apps.
I have to agree with this, System Settings seems very inconsistent (design) and has terrible information architecture / organization.
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My group makes a custom executable to reflash a hardware device we produce. We build it for Linux and Darwin. Trying to get the program to work with our Mac users has become harder and harder. These are all internal developers. Enabling developer mode and allowing Terminal execution isn't enough. Disabling the quarantine bit works - sometimes - but now we're getting automated nastygrams from corporate IT threatening…
I understand that you're doing it on principle, but for a software development team, 99$/year is a really minuscule price to pay to be able to build / notarise / distribute software. Developers pay exorbitant amount of money for much lesser value, and the idea of putting your teammates at risk to stick it to apple is kind of sad bordering with negligence from a business POV.
The cost is far far higher than the price.
Our memory is a lot rosier than the reality.
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They need to somehow start marketing effectively to gamers, because the GPU in your M1 Max is shit. Sure, it’s fine for mostly-2D UIs and the occasional WebGL widget, but for AAA gaming it’s just dogshit.
'Gaming laptops' with more powerful GPUs are generally awful, though. Even ignoring the state of Win11. Yes, they can theoretically perform better, but only when plugged into mains power, and creating so much heat and fan noise that the experience really isn't good. Don't think there's anything out there that will outperform the GPU of an M-series Mac without consuming way more power and producing problematic levels…
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…
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…
Yeah I stopped using spotlight a few years ago. I didn't really notice that I stopped using it until recently. It just became useless. I reorganised my stuff carefully so I know where I put it. I think that turned out to be more powerful than hoping a search engine over the top would be able to sift through the nuances.