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macOS needs its grid back

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Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by swiftcoder »

Nursie wrote: post #82
syabro wrote: post #27

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but the damage of notifications is almost zero compared to keylogger IMHO

Depends on what you allow and what your level of sophistication is. My mother recently had "There are antivirus notifications taking over half the screen, do I need to click on them and renew Norton?" She'd been somewhere and done something that had allowed an unscrupulous site to flood her with alerts directing her to give payment information to a scam site pretending to be antivirus renewal. When I finally got over…

> As far as I'm concerned the whole 'let this website notify you' feature is an antipattern and yet another example of browser overreach.

It's a symptom of the whole "we converted our document platform into an application platform" debacle that typifies the modern web.

Notifications make no sense for the majority of websites, but if you use, say, a web-based email client, then you probably do want them.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by volemo »

deafpolygon wrote: post #86
kdheiwns wrote: post #66

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The scary thing to me is how Apple makes you jump through hoops to install or use any sort of app, but when it comes to adding items to your login items, they don't even require you to grant permission. Tried some little throwaway app and realized you don't need it? Sucks for you. It added itself to your login items and it'll start up in the background every single time you turn on your computer. And it won't even te…

I get notifications that an item has added itself to your login items.

I do as well, but no app should be able to add itself to the login items: ask me or better have me navigate to the login items settings pane and add it manually.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by zahirbmirza »

I've been using macs since the Classic. I have used macs because the OS was rarely a limiting factor in my productivity. In fact, everything has always been made unobtrusive. Presently, there is misdirected focus at Apple. Most consumers will not have known better. But, that complacency has never been the way apple managed to innovate to be so ahead.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

saila wrote: post #96
veidr wrote: post #2

This fixes a dozens-of-times-per-day annoyance for me. The grid is good, but even better is the instant virtual display switching. Nowhere is the death-by-a-thousand-paper-cuts annoyance of modern macOS worse than having to hit Ctrl→→→→→→→ and suffer those repeated animations, over and over.

You can also do Ctrl-UpArrow then click the space you want. This isn't instant, but it might be a little better than repeatedly cycling through each desktop, especially if you have a lot of them. Turning off "Automatically rearrange Spaces based on most recent use" is also a must IMO. Personally, I only open one app per desktop and just use Command-Tab. If you hold Command after Command-Tab, you can select an app wit…

> I only open one app per desktop

So what benefit do you get from multiple desktops?

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by volemo »

ileonichwiesz wrote: post #99
rmunn wrote: post #41

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See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonneville_Salt_Flats — the salt flats are extremely flat (as the name implies), and because of all the salt, no vegetation can survive. Look at the pictures: there are no trees, no grass, no hiding places at all. Anyone standing (or even lying prone) on the salt flats is visible to anyone else for miles around. GP was saying that systems should be "transparent enough that a compromi…

I don’t think the analogy was the issue. What does it mean for a system to be so transparent that it’s obvious when it’s compromised?

I can’t speak for the ancestor, but I think making every screen recording app prominently visible in the status bar would fit the bill.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by black_knight »

wpm wrote: post #68
ido wrote: post #45

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Funnily enough when Aqua was new i remember thinking Platinum looked so much better.

That is correct. Platinum still looks fantastic, carefully hewn out of the HIG. Early Aqua is a bit ostentatious and at the very least indulgent. Still better than the fucking flat-slop plus glarse vomit we have to put up with now.

We dont have to put up with it. At some point the collective “we” could consider using some other machines with other, more free, operating systems.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by multjoy »

AbuAssar wrote: post #88
ramathornn wrote: post #39

Magnet is easily one of the best mac apps i've ever purchased - makes window management so easy and it works great every time. Just Command + Shift and then you can pick any portion of the screen you want the window to go to. That paired with multiple desktops does the trick for me! Highly reccommend (not sure if it's okay to share URLs? sorry in case it's not): https://magnet.crowdcafe.com/

We can do this natively in macos, isn’t it?

No. Mac window management is inexplicably awful.

Re: macOS needs its grid back

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Post by urbandw311er »

Pxtl wrote: post #21

I don't get the use of the spatial layout here. A line may be cruder but if you're going full swordfish hackerman mode why are you caring about grid geography at all? Bind each to a hotkey. The only time you're swiping is when you're lost. Like what competitive player uses scroll wheel weapon switching in Quakelike games? Nobody

Visual memory is really powerful and maps far more easily onto human brain’s experience of navigating the world. So it’s easier for many people to imagine and organise around a grid.

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Post by meszmate »

xp84 wrote: post #9

> If they approve, the settings open, then the user has to find the specific little toggle and enable it. Another security prompt then done. Why isn’t this at most 2 prompts? Answer: Because modern-day Apple has subscribed to a particular brand of mitigation for the "noobs will always click 'Allow' especially if you ask them to first" problem. The mitigation is that Apple just dumps you on step 2 of a little 4-5 step…

It got restrictive enough that I jumped to Linux with Hyprland and just configured everything the way I actually want
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