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> I’d expect this to be the tip of the spear for eventually removing all HFS support from macOS, but given the timescale of the AFP transition, I wouldn’t be too worried about it evaporating in the next year or two.
This is madness. From what I understand, APFS isn't great for spinning rust hard disks, and I'm sure some people still use those in some way, maybe as external drives.
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I'm stuck trying to figure out what new stuff they could add. Sidecar was neat, but I never need it. I'm very happy on Cinnamon on Linux, which is probably less featured than KDE (haven't daily driven it to confirm), which just confirms I don't actually need or want user-facing new features. I need stability. I think Apple realise this. There are no genuine new OS features to be added, so they just shuffle things aro…
Something to improve my mess of ~22 active terminal windows comes to mind.
how to disable gen ai features https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250012366 it used to be one toggle
I've found today after going to MacOS27 (I skipped 26 fully) that Chrome extensions don't load properly. They're super, super slow. I've found one or two other bug reports of this from older Dev builds but that's it. Bizarre. Time to flip back to Safari I suppose.
Will I get prompted to give Chrome permissions to the Local Network on every update? This is literally the one feature I'd like from Apple because I'm happy with everything else. The update looks cool, but nothing I actually want/need.
how to disable gen ai features https://discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-250012366 it used to be one toggle
Just do it 70 times, no sweat.
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.
Well, it is easy to be excited on a system that is lagging on features.
> The project’s last official update was nearly a year ago,
In fact it was last week