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Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by nijave »

ramon156 wrote: post #26

Bit off-topic. I mostly use Linux and I'm of the opinion that it's miles better than Windows, but I don't fully understand why people say MacOS looks bad? Ignoring the current Tahoe mess, MacOS felt relatively polished. I'm purely talking about UX here, as the OS is evidently buggy. The most popular Gnome themes are a re-impl of MacOS, so I can't be the only one.

I don't know. I generally like the UX. The way full screen windows work is a bit unique but I ended up liking it once getting used to it and the related shortcuts. I don't like the lack of window tiling, though.

That said, I still prefer Linux. I think my biggest papercut there has been suspend/power management being broken in some way or another on both laptop and desktop for the last 8 years.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by bakugo »

hedora wrote: post #138
x3ro wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Source? [1] states 12% for macOS and 3% for Linux. [1]: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide...

Steam reports 3.4% for linux and 2% for macos (last montg. This month numbers are probably hit by systematic measurement errors). https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/ Also, the 16% “unknown” in the graph you linked to implies huge error bars on macos vs linux!

Steam stats aren't particularly meaningful in this context, because MacOS is largely unusable for gaming due to not being able to run most games.

Valve themselves have given up on supporting their games on Mac, likely due to the total lack of backwards compatibility.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by KennyBlanken »

alin23 wrote: post #79

macOS 26 has to be the most breaking version so far, its problems and intended breaking changes making my app dev life so hard this year. Just to name a few: - Reference Presets no longer allow setting arbitrary SDR nits, making it impossible to natively unlock 1600nits of brightness on MacBook Pros or 2000nits on Studio Display XDR which breaks my Lunar app [0] (this seems to be intended, no idea what hurt Apple tha…

> The orange microphone dot indicator and its very colored friends can no longer have their brightness changed for dimming them, which made my YellowDot app useless [1] (I guess this is for privacy

It absolutely is for privacy, to stop malware or trojan programs from obscuring their accessing the camera or microphone.

> Reference Presets no longer allow setting arbitrary SDR nits, making it impossible to natively unlock 1600nits of brightness on MacBook Pros or 2000nits on Studio Display XDR which breaks my Lunar app [0] (this seems to be intended, no idea what hurt Apple that they had to block this under SIP)

OLED displays are widely expected this year. Not wanting to have to deal with "my battery life is an hour and a half instead of 10, what's going on!? Replace my battery!" nonsense is probably the remainder.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by commandersaki »

ramon156 wrote: post #26

Bit off-topic. I mostly use Linux and I'm of the opinion that it's miles better than Windows, but I don't fully understand why people say MacOS looks bad? Ignoring the current Tahoe mess, MacOS felt relatively polished. I'm purely talking about UX here, as the OS is evidently buggy. The most popular Gnome themes are a re-impl of MacOS, so I can't be the only one.

Yeah Tahoe has been mostly fine. I have all the liquid glass stuff turned off (via reduced transparency). The grab handles for window corner is annoying, but it doesn't mean the rest of the OS is not good.

There's bugs in the OS, like pretty much every OS, but I rarely interact with them should they manifest.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by alsetmusic »

827a wrote: post #69
mrbuttons454 wrote: post #13

Papercuts like this are why I moved away from macOS. I will say, I don't love the use of LLMs to write these bug reports. It's probably fine if reviewed, but at least review for things like "worked on macOS 25", which obviously didn't exist. If that wasn't caught, how sure are you that the rest of the report is accurate? We all want the bugs fixed, but people are going to start throwing out the obviously LLM written…

Its my strong belief that using AI in any capacity which does not upfront state "the following content was generated by artificial intelligence" is never acceptable. In most situations, allowing an AI to wield your name gives off the scent of "My time is more valuable than yours, so I've automated writing to you." It is quite disgraceful. If your use-case would be materially harmed by an upfront disclosure of AI gene…

> state "the following content was generated by artificial intelligence"

"… but reviewed by a human / me for accuracy."

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by Larrikin »

827a wrote: post #69
mrbuttons454 wrote: post #13

Papercuts like this are why I moved away from macOS. I will say, I don't love the use of LLMs to write these bug reports. It's probably fine if reviewed, but at least review for things like "worked on macOS 25", which obviously didn't exist. If that wasn't caught, how sure are you that the rest of the report is accurate? We all want the bugs fixed, but people are going to start throwing out the obviously LLM written…

Its my strong belief that using AI in any capacity which does not upfront state "the following content was generated by artificial intelligence" is never acceptable. In most situations, allowing an AI to wield your name gives off the scent of "My time is more valuable than yours, so I've automated writing to you." It is quite disgraceful. If your use-case would be materially harmed by an upfront disclosure of AI gene…

I agree with you when you are talking with a human in good faith. I disagree when it comes to large corporations and government officials. Often times theres a lot of red tape you have to get through and create documents that nobody on their side is actually reading. Usually this is just to discourage people from completing the action they are trying to accomplish. LLM generated content has gotten me back improperly held taxes and generated multiple extension requests where the receiver just had to check a box that they got it.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by st3fan »

mrbuttons454 wrote: post #13

Papercuts like this are why I moved away from macOS. I will say, I don't love the use of LLMs to write these bug reports. It's probably fine if reviewed, but at least review for things like "worked on macOS 25", which obviously didn't exist. If that wasn't caught, how sure are you that the rest of the report is accurate? We all want the bugs fixed, but people are going to start throwing out the obviously LLM written…

Every OS has papercuts like this. Want me to write a story about Linux or Windows that is equally painful? Pick your poison .. i've dealt with it all.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by commandersaki »

himata4113 wrote: post #75
mikestew wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

(arguably terrible) operating system macOS has made some arguably poor design choices, but it makes it hard to take someone seriously when they state the whole OS is terrible.

It could be just me, but every time I tried to do something I sat thinking that I am not the target audience for this thing. I don't like the UI, I hate not being able to talk to the hardware the way I can on linux (uart took me way too long to get working), I am angry that I am not able to run kvm, I hate not being able to replace the desktop and fix bugs myself. That's what makes it terrible for me.

So you're upset an operating system that is called macOS is not in fact Linux. Gotcha.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by theshrike79 »

hedora wrote: post #141
whalesalad wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

macOS is not perfect but I don't think anyone could seriously argue that it is terrible.

It’s pretty bad. IPC doesn’t work reliably any more. The window manager is unusable. Spotlight misses results and also pegs the cpu, killing battery. Finder is bad enough on its own, but the 1:N mapping from logical directories to filesystem directories (like photos, home, applications, etc) makes it essentially unusable without spotlight. Notifications are flaky as hell (missing phone calls and messages from contact…

> Edit: also, compatibility with video games (even ones released for macos) is abysmal. It’s much worse than Linux’s ability to run the Windows version of MacOS native releases!

Linux can run Windows native games because Valve has shoved millions and millions into perfecting Proton.

And I still wonder why Apple hasn't just dumped a billion on Valve's door to build a similar tool for macOS.

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