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Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by alimbada »

retired wrote: post #39

Apple needs a new CEO. Someone more visionary than Cook. The software needs more focus on making it "just work" and having significantly less bugs. The line-up needs to be cleaned up as well. Right now you have the MacBook Air 13" and 15" in 3 variants and 4 colours, that makes for a total of 24 models. M4 processors only. The MacBook Pro 14" can be purchased with the M5, M4 Pro, M4 Max in 2 colours for a total of 12…

I would expect the M4 options to be cheaper than their M5 counterparts. Given how expensive Apple products are, I appreciate them offering both options at the same time. Just because it doesn't make sense to you doesn't mean it doesn't make sense for anyone; you're obviously in the miniscule [nit-picking] minority since Apple will have done enough market research to offer the options that they do offer.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by ninkendo »

port11 wrote: post #196
ninkendo wrote: post #182

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What would the alternative be? Simply don't cache anything you get from icloud? Because even if you delete it more eagerly, that's a write cycle. In fact, avoiding deleting it in case the user gets it again, is going to put fewer write cycles on the SSD, assuming you're going to write it to the SSD at all. The only alternative I can think of is keeping everything from iCloud in RAM, but that is a pretty insane idea.…

Of course, but then iCloud might want to cache a reasonable amount of data, say, the 10% the user uses the most. Seeing iCloud caches in the 100+GB arena makes no sense to me, especially if the system isn’t rapidly releasing that storage when needed.

If the ability to release the storage on-demand works correctly (and this is a big if) there’s no reason to limit to 10%. What benefit will that have? If the system works well, deleting the data eagerly accomplishes nothing.

I think the actual system uses filesystem utilization as a form of “disk pressure”, to the point where once it’s above a certain threshold (say, 90% used), it should start evicting least-recently-used data. It doesn’t wait for 100%, because it takes some nonzero amount of time to free the cache. But limiting the cache size arbitrarily doesn’t seem useful.

It gets more complicated when there are multiple caches (maybe some third party apps has their own caches) and you need to prioritize who gets evicted, but it’s still the same thing in theory.

But yeah, if the system isn’t working right and cache isn’t seen as cache, or if it can’t evict it for some reason, then this all goes out the window. I’m only claiming it’s good in theory.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by moepstar »

seec wrote: post #198
fmajid wrote: post #191

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It's still work-in-progress: https://blog.majid.info/quit-apple/ You can copy-paste using LocalSend. Not as seamless, but it does work, including with Apple devices.

Honestly, it is so infrequently needed that just having a synced note app is good enough for the few times you need it. Apple has been focusing way too much on gimmicks like that and they don't have that much value.

I kinda agree in the way that having synced notes (a good feature in itself, also available on iPhone/Mac) would probably suffice.

Still, being able to copy and paste not only text but also images between devices seamlessly is really nice, not to mention i can open an open browser-tab (Safari, iOS) in Brave on the Mac by just clicking the icon that has a "mobile device icon" next to it and it opens the same tab on the Mac...

And yes - as i said - i agree that having a synced note app would probably enable the same usecases, but with distinctly more friction (at least in my books).

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by fmajid »

seec wrote: post #198
fmajid wrote: post #191

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It's still work-in-progress: https://blog.majid.info/quit-apple/ You can copy-paste using LocalSend. Not as seamless, but it does work, including with Apple devices.

Honestly, it is so infrequently needed that just having a synced note app is good enough for the few times you need it. Apple has been focusing way too much on gimmicks like that and they don't have that much value.

I did set up Joplin, and I also have Wiki,js.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by concinds »

port11 wrote: post #180
danhau wrote: post #163

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Curiously, since the last update I have the problem where Safari tabs go completely white after a while. Refreshing doesn‘t help. I have to copy the URL and paste it into a fresh tab.

I’ve had this one for at least a year. Suspended tabs won’t come back 1/4 of the time, and the URL is gone too; the tab is effectively gone. I’m keeping important tabs in Brave.

I was about to mention that too. A browser that loses tabs!

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by lysium »

budududuroiu wrote: post #143
lysium wrote: post #111

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How did you do this? I once tried and it seemed impossible.

icloudpd - https://github.com/icloud-photos-downloader/icloud_photos_do... for the rest of the migration I had to take it piece by piece, luckily my iPhone had enough storage, I got iCloud to download everything to my iPhone, then syncthing-ed everything to another machine. I then backed up everything that I just downloaded from iCloud to a Hetzner Storage Box via restic.

Thanks, man! Appreciated

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by seec »

moepstar wrote: post #203
seec wrote: post #198

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Honestly, it is so infrequently needed that just having a synced note app is good enough for the few times you need it. Apple has been focusing way too much on gimmicks like that and they don't have that much value.

I kinda agree in the way that having synced notes (a good feature in itself, also available on iPhone/Mac) would probably suffice. Still, being able to copy and paste not only text but also images between devices seamlessly is really nice, not to mention i can open an open browser-tab (Safari, iOS) in Brave on the Mac by just clicking the icon that has a "mobile device icon" next to it and it opens the same tab on th…

I definitely agree that it's nice but not useful enough that you could consider it a required feature. The point I'm trying to make is that Apple markets it as something that is essential and much better than what is out there, when it's really not the case.

The truth is that this is perfectly possible to do on other platforms; you just have to set it up. But most people don't since this is not needed often enough to be worth the hassle, or they just don't use computers that much. And the only reason it has to be provided by Apple is because they lock everything down.

Windows has had Clipboard Sync for a while with "Link to Windows," and there are many third-party solutions, from KDE Connect to third-party keyboards offering clipboard sharing. Nobody really cares, and in a world where you have to use the cloud to get stuff in and out of devices, it doesn't even matter. Chances are, the stuff you are trying to copy is also available on the computer.

Apple would have a lot more to stand on if they didn't go full retard with the cloud as well in order to increase service revenue. Those kinds of Apple technologies would make a lot more sense and have a lot more value if they didn't require using their cloud offering anyway. I wish Apple would go back to making personal computers with software that stands on its own and can work independently of any cloud. But they have been unable, or more likely unwilling, to figure out proper local syncing without going through their cloud, so the marketing is largely moot.

We end up with the worst combination possible: expensive hardware storage to promote cloud subscription and expensive cloud storage with weak interoperability/capacities (sharing with iCloud is a joke).

For this reason, I'm unwilling to consider any gimmicky "Continuity" feature as something inherently valuable.

Re: Apple, What Have You Done?

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Post by concinds »

port11 wrote: post #180
danhau wrote: post #163

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curiously, since the last update I have the problem where Safari tabs go completely white after a while. Refreshing doesn‘t help. I have to copy the URL and paste it into a fresh tab.

I’ve had this one for at least a year. Suspended tabs won’t come back 1/4 of the time, and the URL is gone too; the tab is effectively gone. I’m keeping important tabs in Brave.

I just found there's two separate bugs: sometimes the page goes blank but the URL stays, sometimes it loses the URL too and the back/forward button so everything's gone.
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