X/Twitter running as a new "Web App" is pretty solid, and a huge upgrade from the older, unmaintained Twitter macOS app. Everything pretty much works as expected & feels native, though not sure if Dock icon badge counts are supported.
macOS Sonoma is available today
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#122You realize OS innovation has ground to a halt when the first feature advertised in a new version is screen savers
You should see the dismal state of innovation in 'innovation is dead' comments!
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#123Meanwhile Microsoft dropped their major Windows update today too, enabling me to ungroup taskbar items. Put THAT in your Apple and smoke it!
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
As long as you're comfortable self-hosting and admining, that shouldn't be a problem.
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#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
Really? "It just works" isn't something you've ever heard from someone who uses Apple products? Or "I might not be able to change X, but at least I know what's there works well"?
But it doesn't work. It isn't present. There's basically no window management.
I mean, it is present. Just because it's not as advanced as you'd like it to be, doesn't mean it's not there. You can move windows, you can cycle between different active windows, you can minimize windows and so on. That's window management.
Yes, super basic, but so is most features of Apple software. Simple, basic and without customization, just like how many Apple users like their software.
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#126FINALLY 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.
It failed before because system resources and horsepower were too low to make it work smoothly (&, let's be honest, because there were often poor UI choices going hand-in-hand with poor speed/smoothness). Plenty of ideas resurface, not because they were bad & people think they just might work, but because they weren't practical when they came up. There are plenty of faded-away applications & forgotten old OSes with i…
What? The old canvas based widgets in OSX were not performance hogs.
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#127I’ve used Nativefier for years and am excited for this new feature described in the release notes: > Web apps let you use any website like an app, complete with an icon in the Dock for faster access and a simplified toolbar for easier browsing.
Chrome has supported those PWA shortcuts in macOS at least several years...
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#128Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
You could, but I think you had to enable a hidden setting to do so.
I used to keep a few on my desktop with this.
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#129I’ve been on the release candidates and the OS is very stable and I haven’t found any major breakages or random crashes . Also, homebrew has been working great and lots of other open source software S
Good to know! I was debating whether or not I should wait for a *.1 update.
This is NEVER a bad idea.
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#130I used to love the in depth reviews of macOS from John Siracusa. They aren’t the same since then, but I still tend to look to Ars for a full review before upgrading. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/macos-14-sonoma-the-...
Since he has left his day job I was hoping he would start writing them again but that hasn't happened.