My number one bug for years that baffles me as to why Apple hasn’t fixed it: Zooming in on heavy websites or PDFs (with large images or WebGL) force closes the Safari tab. Over and over again.
Apple, What Have You Done?
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#152I have 70GB of "Messages" on my Mac because iMessage "in the cloud" still stores all your attachments locally on every device. Yes, I can set the setting to delete attachments...but I want to keep them, just not on every device locally. Just deduct them from my iCloud store if you have to.
The worst part is it can’t even show the attachments sorted by size so that one can browse and delete some large ones. Same with the Photos app on iOS. Can’t sort photos and videos by size from within the app. What’s the point of using application databases if the application cannot even query items by size and other attributes?!
> What’s the point of using application databases if the application cannot even query items by size and other attributes?!
I know that's not the solution that we want, but at least you should be able to look into the sqlite database it's using under the hood (https://github.com/RhetTbull/osxphotos/wiki/Understanding-th...)
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes! You can go to the folder ~/Library and then delete what you want. To open the folder from a terminal: cd ~/Library open . In the Finder, you can enable "Calculate all sizes" from "View options," which will calculate folder sizes to understand what to clean first. This folder contains data from all apps; sometimes it is cache, sometimes persistent data. You will find all your previous apps taking gigabytes...
~/Library/Caches - you can probably delete stuff ~/Library - definitely not
As an example, I have ~/Library/Android/sdk which takes 8 Go.
If I know I do not need the Android SDK, I can safely delete it.
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#154> "My iPhone 14 Pro has 35Gb of "system data" which has basically filled up the entire storage I had left" I occasionally use a macbook pro at £WORK for a few apple specific processes, and it currently has 188.67gb of "system data" that I have no idea how to clean up or remove. It's marked separately from the 11.01gb of macOS in the storage settings, and it constantly complains about the disk almost being full. Updat…
I am pretty sure its this /System/Volumes/Data/Users/ /Library/Containers/com.apple.Safari/Data/Library/Caches/CloudKit/ I need to `rm` it at least once a month, I ran `du -sh` and it takes 153gb on my machine
So, it’s interesting. You know how with RAM, it’s a good idea for it to be “fully utilized”, in a sense that anything apps aren’t using should be used for file system cache? And then when apps do need it, the least-recently-used cache can be freed to make room? It’s actually similar for the file system itself!
If macOS is using 153GB for iCloud cache, that’s only a bad thing if it’s not giving it back up automatically if your filesystem starts getting full. Because it means you have local copies of things that live in iCloud, making the general experience faster. In that sense, you want your filesystem to be “fully utilized”. The disk viewer in macOS that shows you filesystem utilization should even be differentiating this sort of cache from “real” utilization… this cache should (if everything is working right) should logically be considered “free space”.
Now of course, if there are bugs where the OS isn’t giving that storage back when you need it, that all goes out the window. And yeah… bugs like these happen too damned often. But I still say, the idea is actually a good one, at least in theory.
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Maybe. And then what’s battery life like - half, one 3rd?
It's better than Windows, but obviously worse than Mac (both hardware and software reasons). My laptops don't kill themselves waking up in my bags so I could argue it's at least 5x better than windows. Things moved on nicely in 20 years, you should try it for yourself.
What is the deal with waking up randomly with the lid closed on Windows?
I can't figure out why Windows has these crazy bugs that aren't addressed, aren't a huge company with almost infinite resources..?
Why can't they make Windows work properly, it's been 40 years... :-/
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> I've seen one of these posts for every single one of the ~15 years I've been using apple products Yes, one. On Tahoe there’s thirty. The scale of complaints is definitely higher this time around.
And also you are seeing serious criticism from the traditional Apple fan crowd, e.g. John Gruber has been panning it mercilessly.
It is kind of funny how most of them scapegoat that Dye guy (who was poached by Meta). As if a single person was responsible for all that bad design, and it isn't a failure of the whole organisation.
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#157Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's better than Windows, but obviously worse than Mac (both hardware and software reasons). My laptops don't kill themselves waking up in my bags so I could argue it's at least 5x better than windows. Things moved on nicely in 20 years, you should try it for yourself.
What is the deal with waking up randomly with the lid closed on Windows? I can't figure out why Windows has these crazy bugs that aren't addressed, aren't a huge company with almost infinite resources..? Why can't they make Windows work properly, it's been 40 years... :-/
AFAIK, Microsoft and/or Intel pushed to remove the usual sleep S3 state and use a less sleepy state to be able to access network and display notifications. As if it was a tablet or a Macbook.
This is (of course) badly done, and tested as well the rest of Windows, so it results in laptops waking up in bags, choking thermally, and not going back to sleep.
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#158Steve Jobs was an extremely unusual CEO. He was hands on, talked to designers, developers, and users, and actually cared about making good products. Tim Cook is more of a regular CEO that wants to make money for the shareholders. He started doing stock buybacks and in general prioritizing making money. macOS is still the best OS I'd want to use IMO--if you can manage to avoid upgrading to Tahoe--but Apple seems to de…
I believe you never worked with Steve Jobs. This is not my memory of working with him.
You believe right :-)
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
Steve Jobs was a founder of the company. He expected to remain CEO for many years (until his illness). I do not know whether he still have a large stake but its likely he did, and he certainly formed his approach when he did. That motivated him to look at the long term as he expected to benefit from increases in the value of the business over the long term. A regular CEO looks more at the short term. The value when t…
Having had to deal with Jobs, I would like to say the man was a bit of a mercurial douche trading off his reputation. That being said... he had a great ability to see what computers could be for "normal people." Instead of stealing ideas from IBM or DEC, he "stole" ideas and staff from PARC (who stole some of the staff away from SRI.) Dude was a dick, but he used his dickishness to "encourage" people in the Apple org…
I'd love to read that memoir. I feel like the NeXT era is really interesting but somewhat less covered than other periods.
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#160Apple needs a new CEO. Someone more visionary than Cook. The software needs more focus on making it "just work" and having significantly less bugs. The line-up needs to be cleaned up as well. Right now you have the MacBook Air 13" and 15" in 3 variants and 4 colours, that makes for a total of 24 models. M4 processors only. The MacBook Pro 14" can be purchased with the M5, M4 Pro, M4 Max in 2 colours for a total of 12…
I find this comment baffling. Apple needs a new CEO because their products come in lots of colors? And they have (gasps) two series of laptop chips?