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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by vetinari »

wyager wrote: post #187
vetinari wrote: post #162

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The difference between Android and Google Play Services/Google Apps Suite is, that the latter use Google servers and the former does not. If removing these apps makes Android unusable for you, it means you are hooked on or locked-in to them. Asking for open-sourcing the client parts will not help you anyway, because the server parts are still running on Google servers and you won't be able to replace them.

> Asking for open-sourcing the client parts will not help you anyway, because the server parts are still running on Google servers and you won't be able to replace them. Yes I could, if the average android phone would allow me to do so. You can't go to the store, buy a phone, and remove google play services. At the very least you have to root the phone, which isn't possible on most devices.

You can also not put in username and password for a Google account. Without authenticated account, Google Play Services won't work.

What you can do, is to install apps or plugins for CalDAV/CardDAV-like services. The account system works with any generic account, not just with Google accounts; you can implement any service you want talking with any protocol you want. You don't need Google Play Services source for that.

Removing apks for android installation is cannon for sparrows. Remember, /system is not only for running the system, but also for factory reset/recovery too.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by mcjiggerlog »

tangue wrote: post #128
mullsork wrote: post #7

Sort of off topic but what has happened to the web design team at Apple? Their landing pages used to be extremely pleasant to read but by now I often struggle to read their headlines. The blurred background with text on top is not easy on my eyes at all. Perhaps my eyes are starting to go bad... Their page for the new iPhone had the same issues. In my opinion their web designs has gone down hill this year.

I had the same impression and check some older pages : https://www.apple.com/itunes/ and https://www.apple.com/final-cut-pro/ The main changes are : - JS triggered animation (webagencies do love this ). - San Francisco instead of Myriad as a font

Those pages are so much more readable and responsive. Scrolling is not smooth at all on the OP.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by geerlingguy »

nsomaru wrote: post #104
gradstudent wrote: post #81

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I remember the first time I saw Spotlight. It was magic. Then came Expose. Wireless that worked. Sleep that worked. Trivial configuration of things like sshd, apache and samba. Amazing days. Lately I only upgrade when forced. I ran 10.8 until earlier this year when I finally upgraded my machine. Then I spent a week trying to figure out how the hell to get gdb working again because binaries now require code signing an…

Remap single tap CAPS to ESC and when used in combination with another key or long-pressed - CTRL. This has changed the way I use my keyboard in vim and tmux. I'm doing this on Ubuntu, but there are ways to get it done on OSX too.

It’s even easier now; the keyboard prefs in settings allows caps to esc reassignment through the UI.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by allenbrunson »

smcleod wrote: post #57
nu11p01n73R wrote: post #51

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Took some time to realise that "Available 9.25" meant 25th September. The box looked more like a disabled button.

Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

argh! i can't believe people are still arguing about whether we should do MM/DD/YYY or DD/MM/YYYY or anything similar to that. here's how you should write a date that you are going to show to a user:

Jan 11 2016

if you accept that premise, it doesn't matter (much) what order you put the elements in, because none of them can be confused with any other. a word is a month, a one- or two-digit number is the day of the month, a four-digit number is the year.

i feel the same way about websites that expect me to input phone numbers, credit card numbers, social security numbers, etc without punctuation or spaces. why are you making this my problem? if your backend requires that, then strip out everything i typed that wasn't a digit and do your own formatting. geez.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by 4ad »

lloeki wrote: post #195
4ad wrote: post #61

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202299 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786 Some highlights: > When shared, photos taken with standard point-and-shoot cameras, SLR cameras, or iOS devices have up to 2048 pixels on the long edge. > Videos can be up to five minutes in length and are delivered at up to 720p resolution. > Maximum shared albums an owner can share: 100 > Maximum shared albums a user can subscribe to:…

> When shared, photos taken with standard point-and-shoot cameras, SLR cameras, or iOS devices have up to 2048 pixels on the long edge. Wow, what a deal breaker. I always felt like something was off quality-wise but never took the time to delve into that.

Yeah, and it doesn't make any sense as they already have the pictures in the original quality stored on their servers already.

I think (but I am not sure) you can use iCloud Photo sharing even if you don't use iCloud Photo library, but that's a special case. Then you could limit the quality of those photos, I guess. But why degrade the quality of photos that you already have? Sharing doesn't use any extra space than non-sharing. They are in the cloud anyway.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by wila »

mvdwoord wrote: post #91

Does anybody have more information on this claim of a keychain vulnerability in High Sierra... just saw it fly past on Twitter. https://twitter.com/patrickwardle/status/912254053849079808 >on High Sierra (unsigned) apps can programmatically dump & exfil keychain (w/ your plaintext passwords) vid: https://player.vimeo.com/video/235313957 #smh

There's another HN topic about that here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15329527

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by lloeki »

pazra wrote: post #67
mrmondo wrote: post #53

The biggest change I’ve noticed since testing each of the betas and now running the final release is the significant decrease in interface / UI latency, it feels significantly faster to use and is a welcome upgrade.

That'll be because Windowserver now uses Metal 2 to render UI, so if Apple's claims that it's 10x faster than Metal 1, then that's probably where the UI performance improvements have come from.

I personally own an entry-level Early 2013 Retina MacBook Pro with a i5/HD4000, and the iterative improvements they made with each major release really shine through. A machine that was previously described in every single review as underpowered on that department especially WRT Mission Control can now handle any number of windows I throw at it at a steady 60fps, including those blurs and transparencies which I previously had to disable back in the day, and even when compiling, say, GHC. As an extra bonus, the maximum video RAM on that machine was offset from 1024MB to 1536MB at some point (either Mavericks or Yosemite). Similarly, the Mid 2014 one (i7/HD5000) I use at work can handle the main display as well as external screens (including an ultrawide) without breaking a sweat. So much for planned obsolescence.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by robin_reala »

E-M wrote: post #194
robin_reala wrote: post #123

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Have you ever been to any of Kazakhstan, Latvia, Nepal or Turkmenistan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Gregorian.2C_yea...

I can assure you that Latvia does not use YYYY-DD-MM. Officially Latvia is using ISO 8601. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_8601#Usage

I’d update the Wikipedia article but don’t have time to go digging for official sources. Something you (or someone else with domain knowledge) could do?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by avian »

Tepix wrote: post #152
vetinari wrote: post #116

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In Android, it is not mandatory to use Google apps - you can use your favorite browser, mail or maps instead of the Google ones. Firefox, Nine or Here, for example.

Your typical Android phone calls home around 1200 times per day. Getting that number down to zero means making it pretty much unusable.

As a long-time Android user, I'm genuinely curious what those calls home contain. Do you have any links with more information?
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