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macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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Re: macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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> Golden Gate is our second consecutive release named for a body of water, following a stretch of releases named for towns/regions (Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, Sonoma, Sequoia)

Monterey is a body of water tho: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterey_Bay

So is Sonoma if you're talking about the Creek instead of the Valley surrounding the creek: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonoma_Creek https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napa_Sonoma_Marsh

Re: macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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"...Golden Gate needed a whopping 17GB more space on the M1 MacBook Air, thanks to a mandatory multi-gigabyte language model download that kicks in automatically the first time you connect a freshly restored Golden Gate Mac to the Internet." This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive i…

> when that storage is at its most expensive it's ever been.

Most expensive it's been for a handful of years.

1TB of spinny disk cost a million dollars as recently as 1994, and half a billion dollars in 1980.

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/historical-cost-of-comput...

Re: macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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"...Golden Gate needed a whopping 17GB more space on the M1 MacBook Air, thanks to a mandatory multi-gigabyte language model download that kicks in automatically the first time you connect a freshly restored Golden Gate Mac to the Internet." This is the main thing stopping me from updating iOS/macOS. It's completely unacceptable to park a bunch of space on my devices right when that storage is at its most expensive i…

Phones should have separate storage for their OS so that when you buy a specific phone with specific storage it actually is that much storage available to the user

Android used to work kinda like that. You got the system partition that's a fixed size, and that's it. You also had the data partition for apps and their data on the same internal flash. For everything else, you inserted a micro SD card. You could move some apps to the SD card as well.

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When was the last time you felt excitement for a macOS release? Me? Snow Leopard. When I transitioned to Linux I rediscovered OS excitement. I'm on KDE Plasma now and every update has exciting features that serves my interests.

If only KDE actually paid attention to UX and maybe cared about the looks and consistency a bit more. I'm sorry for being blunt but their visual design people's have no taste...

Since February I've been running CachyOS or Fedora (multiple machines) 100% at home. I only have a Windows partition on the desktop for a single game.

Gaming "just works" on Linux with one AAA exception that needs a tweak to its Steam Proton settings. The UI to me is as polished and functional as MacOS and Windows - besides a few minor things like taskbar shadows or rounded edges, a non-techie wouldn't notice the difference IMO unless they already knew it.

I've been running Linux on and off for 20 years, and KDE 6 is the most happy I've been with a user interface, with Unity being second. Everything you can possibly tweak seems to be discoverable in the UI just like Windows or Mac.

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wait so not using GenAI makes you persona non grata in "tech" now? nobody tell my boss

It is a tool in a tool box. If a technician avoided a tool outright, I would (and do) question their biases.

Some tools should be avoided outright, because they're bad tools. You can hammer nails in with a rock, making it a tool, but I wouldn't question the biases of a craftsman who avoided using rocks in their work. I use LLMs for work, but your statement here doesn't hold water at all.

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Wake me up when Apple releases Linux for Macs

You're in for a long hibernation my friend

Sadly, I know it'll never happen. I run Asahi on my old M1 MBP and it makes me sad that Apple won't contribute to the Linux use case.

Re: macOS 27 Golden Gate – Review

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The real problem with iOS is that there’s no way to clear an app’s cache without uninstalling it. Every non-indie internet-connected app on my phone has a massive and unneeded cache that consumes gigabytes of space.

Same with system cache. Why they can't have some way to clear it still confuses me.

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Why? You can type a prompt into the robots if you want their take. Where are you suppose to find out what a human thinks?

It's not to write the article. I would hope they don't do that; I wouldn't want to read it. But I do want them using it to help them research, find interesting contrary views on a subject, gut-check assertions (how many weirdly wrong statements in articles would have been caught by feeding it to an LLM and asking it to question unfounded or incorrect claims?), check technical accuracy of things outside the writer's c…

Is there anything you can point to that demonstrates how journalism has been improved by AI research?
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