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macOS Sonoma is available today

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Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by iamdamian »

dkonofalski wrote: post #38
iamdamian wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Updated to clarify. My expectation is that 1Password 7 won’t work on Sonoma. In my experience, AgileBits requires an upgrade for new versions of macOS. IIUC, 1Password 7 is also the last version that you can buy outright rather than paying for by subscription.

I reluctantly upgraded to the subscription for 1Pass after the last OS update but I'm glad I did. The features that the 1Pass team has added since then as well as the fact that the subscription includes apps for all their platforms has already paid itself off in my eyes.

I hear what you're saying, but I'm not planning to ever move to a subscription model for storing my passwords.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by derefr »

capableweb wrote: post #35

I still don't understand why Apple is so bent on coupling application updates together with OS updates. I just want the new changes to Safari and Notes while I don't care about the other changes, why not have Safari be a normal application downloaded from the App Store, like the rest of us pleebs have to do when publishing apps?

macOS is a BSD; the whole point of BSDs is that the OS and "base system" are vertically integrated (and, usually, living in a monorepo together) so that a dev can one day decide to add a new API to replace one currently used by first-party apps, by just adding the code and then doing a big Search+Replace to fix all first-party apps to use it, all in a single commit.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by speedgoose »

crazygringo wrote: post #24
spicybright wrote: post #16

FINALLY we've come full circle and can have widgets on the desktop again! It's not like a revolutionary killer feature for me, but I just always preferred having information always in my "peripheral" instead of having to actively check a separate menu.

Wait when were widgets ever available on the desktop before? Years ago they were on a separate dashboard screen but that wasn't the desktop. This seems entirely new, not any kind of full circle. Edit: just to clarify, I'm talking about on Macs, not Windows.

On Mac OS X Tiger, I remember that you could open the dashboard, drag a widget, and close the dashboard before you release the mouse and keep the widget on the desktop. But I may remember wrong.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by Hoasi »

Alex3917 wrote: post #45
tptacek wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is not the first macOS release (well, maybe the first one where they called it "macOS") where the headline feature involved screens and widgets.

I look forward to them removing all this functionality in four or five years, and then reintroducing it as a stunning new innovation in another four or five years after that.

Adobe has been famous for this annoying behavior for over a decade. Remove some cool features only to reintroduce them, sometimes years later, as a breakthrough. Annoying, but it didn't prevent them from quietly innovating.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by JoshGlazebrook »

mj4e wrote: post #26
mj4e wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks. Is it not available from Apple directly though?

It's right at the top of the Mac App Store as 'featured' with this story. Yet somehoe it doesn't include an install link! https://apps.apple.com/gb/story/id1699686314 EDIT - COMMAND + R in the settings app will reload the page

(In Settings -> Software Update) if anyone else is having issues figuring it out.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by 2big2fail_47 »

oidar wrote: post #23
webkike wrote: post #21

Please, for the love of god, add native window snapping.

I use the open source system tray app Rectangle for this.

Can confirm Rectangle works really well and consumes close to none ram or cpu. You can even disable it from the menu bar so it feels very native

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by EGreg »

What is this:

* Screen Sharing: A new high performance mode in the Screen Sharing app delivers incredibly responsive remote access over high-bandwidth connections — enabling creative professionals to accomplish their work remotely.*

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by jurgenkesker »

lxgr wrote: post #68

> The implementations of the exfat and msdos file systems on macOS have changed; these file systems are now provided by services running in user-space instead of by kernel extensions. This sounds interesting! I really wish there was a native FUSE alternative on macOS; just recently I found myself in a pickle due to not being able to mount an ext4 boot volume on an SD card on my Mac at all. (Passing through to a VM wo…

I reluctantly did buy Extfs from Paragon for this. It's too expensive I think, but there are just no free opensource solutions.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by RetpolineDrama »

Almondsetat wrote: post #12

You realize OS innovation has ground to a halt when the first feature advertised in a new version is screen savers

The new screen savers were bumped up the priority queue because Apple has a bunch of QD-OLED computers coming next year and they're worried about burn-in.
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