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Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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post #151

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I wish they did something so deleting files from the bin wouldn't take millenia on my iMac Pro. Yes, it's an old computer, but shouldn't that be a solved problem?

Not a real fix but doing it from the command line is usually strikingly faster.

I think it's because for some reason they go through an first enumerate the files so they can later show you the progress. But the time spent to enumerate the files is time that could have been spent deleting?

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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post #188

So it goes... Warning: You are using macOS 11. We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version. It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version. It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow. Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew's GitHub repositories. Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated. Any opened issues will be…

These warnings keep getting longer every homebrew release. You may want to try macPorts, which goes out of their way to explicitly support releases all the way down to 10.5.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

#203
post #72

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No that is not "basically why you get Apple stuff in the first place". I have never in my life seen either Apple or its fan base market their products this way. That is a post hoc rationalisation for their operating system missing quite a basic feature.

Really? "It just works" isn't something you've ever heard from someone who uses Apple products? Or "I might not be able to change X, but at least I know what's there works well"?

What does "It just works" have to do with "primitive" (your word) things? Besides, when was the last time Apple even used that turn of phrase?

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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This and a container story are glaring holes in macOS. Instead we get widgets on the desktop like it’s 2005 again.

Good ol' Windows Vista

We were doing similar things on the Mac back then by editing plist files :)

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

#205
post #198

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But every time you opened one it would also open a separate Chrome window that you had to keep open, which made them kind of useless.

How so? I can close Chrome and any PWA application independently. None of them have to be kept open. Even for notifications, if I allow. And I just found out I can even cast the entire window to my TV, which is cool https://i.imgur.com/efF1moy.png

Total aside, but if you have a Mac laptop and an AppleTV, you can easily mirror or extend your desktop to that apple tv over wifi.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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post #198

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How so? I can close Chrome and any PWA application independently. None of them have to be kept open. Even for notifications, if I allow. And I just found out I can even cast the entire window to my TV, which is cool https://i.imgur.com/efF1moy.png

Total aside, but if you have a Mac laptop and an AppleTV, you can easily mirror or extend your desktop to that apple tv over wifi.

Yeah I've used that feature on my wife's mac, it's pretty cool.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

#207
post #107

What is this: * Screen Sharing: A new high performance mode in the Screen Sharing app delivers incredibly responsive remote access over high-bandwidth connections — enabling creative professionals to accomplish their work remotely.*

I noticed this for the first time today, despite running the betas on my laptop (you need to connect to Sonoma from Sonoma, and I don't upgrade across the board).

I suspect it's the underlying tech that streams macOS into the Vision Pro. The "High Performance" mode lets you select 1 or 2 virtual displays, and always blacks out the host machine completely.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

#208
post #188

So it goes... Warning: You are using macOS 11. We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version. It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version. It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow. Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew's GitHub repositories. Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated. Any opened issues will be…

https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-macos The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I've really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn't replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it's getting closer every day.

Yes, the Homebrew message does seem unnecessarily hostile. Not everyone can afford to buy a brand new computer every year.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

#210
post #188

So it goes... Warning: You are using macOS 11. We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version. It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version. It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow. Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew's GitHub repositories. Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated. Any opened issues will be…

"If you see a Homebrew maintainer walking down the street in your direction, find the nearest wall and bury your face in it in shame and deference until they pass."
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