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Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by wpm »

nijave wrote: post #151
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.

Window tiling was added in Tahoe. Rectangle is also free.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by hombre_fatal »

bigyabai wrote: post #171
st3fan wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure, when was the last time a Linux update overwrote your DNS resolver settings?

A trivial search can find examples of Linux updates breaking all sorts of things, like wifi and other drivers/firmware.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by systoll »

brookst wrote: post #115
mort96 wrote: post #97

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As someone who has dealt with projects with AI-generated documentation... I can't really say I agree. Good documentation is terse, efficiently communicating the essential details. AI output is soooooooo damn verbose. What should've been a paragraph becomes a giant markdown file. I like reading human-written documentation, but AI-slop documentation is so tedious I just bounce right off. Plus, when someone wrote the do…

Classic perfect/good. The choice is not usually “have humans write amazing top notch documentation, or use an LLM”. The choice is usually “have sparse, incomplete, out-of-date documentation… or use an LLM”.

Given that people have access to LLMs themselves, publishing their output in lieu of good documentation (no matter how sparse) seems like it’s mostly downside.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by systoll »

theshrike79 wrote: post #160
hedora wrote: post #141

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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.

Apple’s ‘Game Porting Toolkit’ is basically Proton; they just haven’t made a GUI for it.

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Post by pdntspa »

bigyabai wrote: post #171
st3fan wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Sure, when was the last time a Linux update overwrote your DNS resolver settings?

Doesnt systemd fuck with resolv.conf?

Also, I have had many system updates that broke my X11 config

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by wolrah »

Larrikin wrote: post #157
827a wrote: post #69

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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…

The position I think I can most simplify my beliefs in to is "it should have taken you longer to write something than the person receiving it is going to spend reading it."

That position still fits your scenario, where if they're not actually caring enough to read it then you don't need to care enough to write it, but for something like this targeted at a technical audience it's a higher bar.

Also of course the accuracy of the writing is relevant in both cases, which is something LLMs are absolutely worse than humans at, as noted in some of the comments here this article had the LLM hallucinate the existence of macOS 25 which is a mistake no human would have made while writing such an article entirely by hand.

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by seabrookmx »

commandersaki wrote: post #169
seabrookmx wrote: post #142

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That's desktop market share. I'm sure the comment you're replying to means overall usage including mobile and server, where Linux is far and away the leader.

Why would anyone compare market share of a desktop OS and include server / mobile / embedded?

Because they want to make Linux sound good I guess?

Re: macOS 26 breaks custom DNS settings including .internal

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Post by 2postsperday »

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…

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