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It looks like Ventura drops support for the 2nd generation (Late 2010 to 2017) MacBook Airs ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacBook_Air ). So let's figure one more year for Big Sur, then another year for (edit) Monterey, then I guess they will need to migrate to Linux.
(Concerns about potential VirtualBox issues held me back though I suppose I can/should at least upgrade to Monterey now.)
> With Continuity Camera, Mac users can leverage the powerful camera system on iPhone to unleash a groundbreaking webcam experience
I don't have the energy to parse a lot of text like this...
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- It's not required - It doesn't cost you anything
The update is cool but the update process was not. -Update available, wanna install? Sure -OK don't mind me I'm gonna need a while OK -HA HA I LIED I"M READY TO TERMINATE EVERYTHING BYEEEE WTF 5 reboots with just an Apple icon and a progress bar The progress bar also moves backwards sometimes I guess it's a metaphor for life, which is how long this seems to be taking -OK hello I am back but I need 10 minutes of alone…
Oh good. I find it by typing "settings" 100% of the time because I can never remember what it's called ("System Preferences", evidently) but that works less-well than it might since that's not the name—it doesn't fully match until I've typed the whole word.
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wow - how is this not the default? It's always the behavior that I expect to happen, and I'm pretty much always surprised and disappointed when it does a global search instead.
> how is this not the default? This is just speculation, but based on a conversation with my partner, there are two types of computer users. The first group makes use of hierarchical storage, consistent naming conventions, and other organizational tricks to give them a rough idea of where any file might be. The second group has never heard the term "file systems" and just stores everything with an arbitrary name in w…
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That said, I share your frustration, I do happen to have a cluster of PopOS machines behind me for my kids (and I am sincerely digging that OS, but it also has it's warts)
There's a few nice quality of life features in Ventura, but MacOS really seems way down Apple's priority list nowadays. They're using all software building resources for iOS and then just slap any reusable features on their desktop OS whenever possible. Great when it works for apps that are quite similar (e.g. messages), terrible for things that simply work very differently on a desktop OS (system settings, stage man…
I have a MBA M2 going USB-C -> HDMI on a 4k Dell monitor. You can open and close the laptop and it switches the external from secondary to primary and back almost instantaneously.
I'd describe this as a major improvement over every prior MacOS.
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iOS 15.7 got a bunch of security updates [1] last month; it’s still a supported operating system. There’s no reason to believe there won’t be future security updates if they’re necessary. Apple released a security update for iOS 12 a couple of months ago [2], an operating system released a little over 4 years ago. I think you’re good. [1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213445 [2]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/…
> iOS 15.7 got a bunch of security updates [1] last month And nothing this month which means it's already vulnerable to pretty much all of the vulnerabilities that got fixed. Some could be iOS 16 specific but the vast majority are not. > Apple released a security update for iOS 12 a couple of months ago And fixed a single vulnerability because it was actively exploited in the wild, leaving the OS with hundreds of oth…
The fact that there hasn’t been a second security update for iOS 15 doesn’t mean another one isn’t coming which it almost certainly is.
unless you're on the latest major version you're pretty much out of luck
As I just mentioned, iOS 12, a 4-year old operating system got updated a couple of month ago and iOS 15 will continue getting updates obviously.
To put things in perspective, updating iOS 12 means devices as old as the iPhone 5s were updated. The iPhone 5s first shipped September 2013—over 9 years ago!
I suspect Android devices released 9 years ago haven’t been updated in a long long time.
Besides, by the summer of 2023, something like 80+% of the installed base will be on iOS 16, which is what happens every year. iOS 16 is already a little ahead of where iOS 15 installs were at the same time last year [1].
[1]: https://appleinsider.com/articles/22/09/14/ios-16-adoption-s...
I can't help but wonder how Steve Jobs would have flipped out if he saw something like this on his devices. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/availability/A...