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macOS needs its grid back

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Post by projektfu »

xp84 wrote: post #204
projektfu wrote: post #199

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This is evidenced by the people who constantly dismissed the Wi-Fi pop-up on iOS. Which is just about everyone I know with an iPhone.

Which pop-up do you mean?

It's a setting that iPhones had for a long time, where they would prompt you to join the nearby WiFi networks. I don't currently have one, so I don't know what it's currently like, but a large number of people would pull out their phones, start doing something, dismiss the pop-up, and continue, many times in a day. Probably they almost never actually used it to join a WiFi network at all. You could turn it off in settings but they didn't.

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Post by stasomatic »

How much “tiling” and “mission controlling” do the civilians do or want to do anyway? I want to think close to zero. They are happy full-screening their Chrome on their Airs, bless their hearts, my wife included. I once attempted to demonstrate to her the brilliance of Alfred, Raycast, the new Spotlight, and she asked me if I forgot to take my meds.

The ones who do want this flexibility is also close to zero (I’m in the demographic, so not zero). Kill “Mission Control” / “Spaces”, “Stage Manager”, free up system resources and unfreeze some APIs. Win-win, Mr Turnis.

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Post by fsflover »

wolvoleo wrote: post #231
butlike wrote: post #212

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Doesn't the government already have root to whatever machine via the NSA? It's the downstream government, the state-level governments that are squeaky wheels with the age verification and other nonsense.

I'm in Europe not the US. But NSA and their likes are a very expensive resource. They're not going to use that for small fry cases. Also, any evidence they obtain is not legal for any purpose so it has limited use. And even NSA backdoors could be discovered more easily if we had full access to our phones, obviously.

You can have the full access to your phone. See: Librem 5.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by wolvoleo »

fsflover wrote: post #245
wolvoleo wrote: post #231

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I'm in Europe not the US. But NSA and their likes are a very expensive resource. They're not going to use that for small fry cases. Also, any evidence they obtain is not legal for any purpose so it has limited use. And even NSA backdoors could be discovered more easily if we had full access to our phones, obviously.

You can have the full access to your phone. See: Librem 5.

There's nothing you can do with that in daily life if you need apps. Also, purism is American.

And yeah you can root other phones too but then you end up getting blocked in apps, that's the problem. It should be none of their business that my phone is rooted.

Imagine office refusing to work on windows because I logged in with an admin account?

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Post by jmye »

KoolKat23 wrote: post #137
Moggie100 wrote: post #134

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Never underestimate the ingenuity of a motivated fool. My litmus test for this sort of thing is Excel - I think we all can agree that Excel is used for way more than it should be, and the most complicated, unhinged uses of it are done by non-technical folks looking to get a task done through desperation.

At that point it's a them problem.

*shrug* I bought my mom a specific laptop to prevent "them" problems. I'm sorry that you're mad that every laptop doesn't conform to your use case, but perhaps this is a good time to realize that not every product is for you, and not every product has to conform to your view of the world. Sometimes, you can just not buy things that don't function the way you want.

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Post by QuercusMax »

fragmede wrote: post #32
willtemperley wrote: post #30

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> rather than showing you a preview, the bar just says "Desktop 1", "Desktop 2" I never noticed that behaviour because I only use mission control in full-screen mode. If you swipe up with three (or four) fingers from a full-screen window the previews are visible immediately. I have no idea why we need a different preview for desktop vs full screen however. The part of this UX that annoys me is the spaces get re-order…

that's a setting you can turn off. settings -> desktops and spaces -> reorder spaces

that is an incredible rage-inducing default, and really makes no sense. why would i want a system that scrambles my spaces?

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by fsflover »

wolvoleo wrote: post #246
fsflover wrote: post #245

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You can have the full access to your phone. See: Librem 5.

There's nothing you can do with that in daily life if you need apps. Also, purism is American. And yeah you can root other phones too but then you end up getting blocked in apps, that's the problem. It should be none of their business that my phone is rooted. Imagine office refusing to work on windows because I logged in with an admin account?

I do use this phone as a daily driver. I can run Android apps with Waydroid, and I can run any GNU/Linux desktop app.

> Also, purism is American.

So what? The device runs an FSF-endorsed distro, and they even provide its schematics. American is not necessarily the same as evil.

> Imagine office refusing to work on windows because I logged in with an admin account?

This is exactly why I use this phone and support Purism, since they explicitly say they want the users to be in control of their devices: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24463347. And its not just empty words.

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Post by kbelder »

moduspol wrote: post #228
Wowfunhappy wrote: post #222

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> If there was a way to disable this, first thing that the grandma would do is watch a video how to disable that and lose security from then on. My grandma absolutely would not watch and follow a video on how to e.g. disable Gatekeeper, nor do I think she’d be able to if she tried. Your grandma sounds substantially more tech savvy than my grandma. Good for her, she seems to know what she wants. Grown adults should be…

She would ask a grandchild or neighborhood kid to fix it, and then it would be disabled.

Should she be allowed or forbidden from doing so?
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