Anyone know what's up with CGPDFService and why there's so many instances eating up my cpu?
macOS Sonoma is available today
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
As long as you're comfortable self-hosting and admining, that shouldn't be a problem.
It's funny because this really shouldn't be required (and isn't with 1Password standalone). But yes, I will eventually move over to BitWarden.
Yes, but 1Password standalone is missing many of the features of the subscription service that would be impossible to implement without it.
Re: macOS Sonoma is available today
#163> Keyboard: Autocorrect receives a comprehensive update with a transformer language model, a state-of-the-art on-device machine learning language model that improves accuracy. A refreshed design makes corrections easier to fix and inline predictions quickly finish sentences. Dictation brings next-level speech recognition and the ability to move fluidly between voice and typing.
duck
Interesting detail from the detailed release notes:
> Explicit language handling. The keyboard will add explicit language that you use to your personal vocabulary list and will learn this usage for each different app. Explicit language that is learned is used for autocorrect and suggestions
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
No but the desktop toys from the 90s were difficult to justify.
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#165Please, for the love of god, add native window snapping.
I moved from Fedora to MacOS a few months ago and its unbelievable the shortcuts apple added to make window management bearable and even still, it is impossible without an add-on. I refuse to believe anyone at apple thinks it is okay and is able to actually work at all.
Rectangle is one of the first things I always install when on a Mac... and yet I never use it anymore.
I remember using it a lot on Windows, but since I've switched to macOS I think I've migrated entirely to their Mission Control way of handling windows. I'm not sure why but I very rarely need to have 2 windows side by side anymore, maybe because I can just three-finger swipe to compare windows.
I still think Rectangle should be integrated as a native feature, but I think I understand why it's not.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
macOS is a BSD; the whole point of BSDs is that the OS and "base system" are vertically integrated (and, usually, living in a monorepo together) so that a dev can one day decide to add a new API to replace one currently used by first-party apps, by just adding the code and then doing a big Search+Replace to fix all first-party apps to use it, all in a single commit.
macOS is a BSD in the same way that Linux is a Unix. i.e. they may have started out that way, but almost nothing is gained thinking about this history today, despite it being factually correct.
What I mean is that:
- Darwin is developed "as" a BSD — a vertically-integrated base-system monorepo that contains the kernel, the system libraries, and the low-level userland services and software. Rather than teams working on one component that has a contractual ABI with other components, there are no real "team-shear-layer" ABIs, except at the public API level that gets presented to users; and instead, anywhere below the userland public API level, is free to be modified as part of the project of modifying system software. (Think, by analogy, the introduction of pledge(3) in OpenBSD. Apple can insert new "technologies" like that throughout every layer of the system very easily—and they often do!)
- Darwin is installed and tested like a BSD: it's a whole base-system release, containing an inseparable kernel + base system. There is no way to test individual components in isolation (without a complete mock of the rest of the base system), as the components may all have circular dependencies — the kernel can depend on the base system just as the base system can depend on the kernel, because it's all one "layer." There's no package manager; no packaging; no components with separate build artifacts that get "integrated." You just build an entire base system, and have to wholesale swap your old base-system for the new one. (In the "old days" on minicomputers, the rootfs wasn't BSD per se, but was specific to booting that machine; while /usr was a BSD on tape, direct from Berkeley. An "OS upgrade" of a BSD was a new /usr tape for you to mount on next reboot. These days, macOS uses APFS system volumes to achieve almost exactly the same thing.)
AFAIK, there's no real good name for these properties besides "a BSD" — despite these properties not really being BSD-specific. Maybe let's call this "BSD-style OS architecture"?
macOS before OSX already had BSD-style OS architecture — though it was something closer to embedded OS architecture at first, shipping OS-on-ROM in early Macs, and only evolving toward updateable on-disk kernels with System 7-or-so. But the Apple development team's BSD-style "thinking", is what made the choice of merging macOS with the Jobs' NeXT Darwin BSD base-system, an "intuitive" operation, rather than something fraught with paradigm-conflict. It's the same reason that Apple ran NetBSD on the servers they ran to back WebObjects for iTMS, back when: "BSD-style" is how Apple engineers think.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
Doesn't that require breaking glass in Secure Boot these days, just like macFUSE? I'm not really willing to install a third-party kernel extension just for a custom file system I need once every few months anymore, especially given that Apple's native exFAT drivers now apparently run in the userspace. They should just make that capability available to the actual-userspace!
> Doesn't that require breaking glass in Secure Boot these days You mean turning off system integrity protection? No. I have both ext4 and NTFS from Paragon, and didn't have to do that.
Not SIP, but you do need to reboot and change some things in recoveryOS involving Secure Boot (or however Apple's equivalent is called), right?
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/apple-silicon/inst...
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Huh. I'm using it without problems. Any chance you're using multiple Safari profiles (new feature in Sonoma) and it's not enabled in the profile you have active?
ill double check but i mentioned it on the forums and they suggested i use orion https://kagifeedback.org/d/1708-inconsistently-redirects-to-...
I love Kagi-the-search-engine, but I'm not at all surprised they recommended you switch to Orion.
If you go into Safari's extension settings, is their extension enabled for all websites?
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#169Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree, no one does it like Siracusa did. But I do quite like the MacStories reviews of macOS by John Voorhees: https://www.macstories.net/stories/macos-sonoma-the-macstori...
There is no way anyone familiar with the guy wouldn’t already know this, but his podcast Hypercritical was great and has aged well. His is 1/3rd of ATP and there is content overlap. The main problem I find is that once he has complained about something, I can’t unsee it. It’s heavily Apple focussed and gives a lightweight and often hilarious version of his old reviews. Episode 96 ‘Windows of Siracusa County’ was amaz…
Hah! Yes, I cursed him a few times for making me unable to see something slightly wrong. Like, friends don't point out kerning mistakes to friends. That stuff needed a content warning.
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#170Complete list of new features in macOS Sonoma: https://www.apple.com/macos/sonoma/pdf/macOS_All_New_Feature...
> Explicit language handling. The keyboard will add explicit language that you use to your personal vocabulary list and will learn this usage for each different app. Explicit language that is learned is used for autocorrect and suggestions This is ducking great.
> and will learn this usage for each different app.
Yes, not in Outlook, please.