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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by baldfat »

roblabla wrote: post #134
raesene6 wrote: post #126

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I agree, the good thing about Apple and Microsoft is I know what they want to sell me. Apple want me to buy relatively expensive devices on a regular basis and ideally a cloud subscription. Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS. In both cases the value for them is fairly clear and they have limited incentives to do anything that might jepordise those reven…

And yet, microsoft started incorporating ads inside of windows 10. The business models helps, but if you can both sell a product and get ad revenue, why wouldn't you ? In apple's case, they have a fairly small but dedicated marketshare that cares deeply about those issue. That's why I trust them to not sabotage their product. Microsoft has a monopoly, they don't need to care.

> Microsoft has a monopoly

How so anymore? There are clear paths to NOT use anything Microsoft if you want to. Microsoft even now has Linux offerings its a new era.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by raesene6 »

roblabla wrote: post #134
raesene6 wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree, the good thing about Apple and Microsoft is I know what they want to sell me. Apple want me to buy relatively expensive devices on a regular basis and ideally a cloud subscription. Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS. In both cases the value for them is fairly clear and they have limited incentives to do anything that might jepordise those reven…

And yet, microsoft started incorporating ads inside of windows 10. The business models helps, but if you can both sell a product and get ad revenue, why wouldn't you ? In apple's case, they have a fairly small but dedicated marketshare that cares deeply about those issue. That's why I trust them to not sabotage their product. Microsoft has a monopoly, they don't need to care.

What markets is it that you feel Microsoft have a monopoly in?

Desktop/Laptops is now a 3-way split between MS, Apple and Google with chromebooks.

Mobile is a split between Apple and Google with MS out of it.

Cloud is Amazon out in front with MS in second place.

Office is the one area where MS could be considered to have a monopoly but even there I think cloud players are gaining ground and also (AFAIK) there's no advertising in paid for versions of MS Office.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by oschrenk »

What keeps me from updating that I am confused about the way forward regarding FileVault & APFS. I currently have FileVault enabled as I need my drive to be fully encrypted (liability for my clients). I want my backups to be encrypted as well.

But now APFS solves disk encryption on FS layer instead of going through CoreStorage. And I'm confused about the way forward for me.

Is there some documentation that explains 1) What happens to FileVault/Backups during initial conversion? 2) Am I better off to disable FileVault and then encrypt using APFS? 3) How does the APFS full disk encryption work? Does it have any problems, especially backup related? 4) Can I enable/disable FileVault after the conversion?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

kbart wrote: post #111
oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #87

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There definitely still is ambiguity if you're unfamiliar with the format. Show someone "2017-07-06" and they still might be unsure whether that's June or July.

I have never seen YYYY-DD-MM format, on the other hand, both DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY are equally common, that's why I always prefer YYYY-MM-DD format as it is the least ambiguous and most useful (sorting files etc., as other comments have mentioned). Feel free to prove me wrong though.

I work with non-techies. Most are totally unfamiliar with YYYY-MM-DD so weren't sure what a date that was ambiguous in that format was. I totally agree that usage of YYYY-DD-MM is rare (in my experience, anyway), but none of these formats fare particularly well when it comes to discoverability.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by walshemj »

smcleod wrote: post #57
nu11p01n73R wrote: post #51

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Took some time to realise that "Available 9.25" meant 25th September. The box looked more like a disabled button.

Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

ISO Dates would be better

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by micv »

afro88 wrote: post #119
coldtea wrote: post #76

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Have had no lag-g-g-g-g problems with iOS11. Maybe it's the device?

iOS 11 on my iPad Air 1 is laggier than iOS 10, but on my 6S is faster than iOS 10. Not sure why..

The iPad Air only has 1GB of RAM. I've always suspected it would age badly because of that.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by kbart »

robin_reala wrote: post #123
kbart wrote: post #111

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I have never seen YYYY-DD-MM format, on the other hand, both DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY are equally common, that's why I always prefer YYYY-MM-DD format as it is the least ambiguous and most useful (sorting files etc., as other comments have mentioned). Feel free to prove me wrong though.

Have you ever been to any of Kazakhstan, Latvia, Nepal or Turkmenistan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Gregorian.2C_yea...

I've been to Latvia many times in last few years, but haven't noticed YYYY-DD-MM format, maybe it's historical? It looks like DD.MM.YYYY was the most common format there (at least on posters).

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by memco »

tushar-r wrote: post #108
coldtea wrote: post #75

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I do this every 1-2 major OS releases. Copying from backup gives you a cool total defrag for system and user files, and cleans up all the BS that has accumulated (config files, stuff no longer need, use, etc). I have a script that installs all my settings, brew packages, etc, even App Store apps, from external backup disk -- I'm up and running in 2-3 hours after the base install.

Any chance you have this script on GitHub/somewhere public?

You can take a look at mine: https://github.com/memco/dotfiles. A number of other people have theirs online as well. Review default preferences and the brewfile before you run install.sh. Not updated for 10.13 yet, but most of it should remain unchanged. Having your config setup this way will save you a lot of hassle if you do find yourself having to rebuild your system. Took me about a week after having to rebuild the first time it happened and now I know it won't take more than a few hours at worst.
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