Sounds about right. What would you expect from a walled garden ecosystem?
macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
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Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#222I feel like even Richard Stallman would have had a hard time imagining non-free operating systems would result in this. Use linux folks! It doesn't communicate with a third party when a process starts up!
It's just sad that we don't have the corresponding form factor in a similar laptop. The biggest draw of mac: 1. slim, light 2. long battery life. 3. track pad. That's all I want, but nobody else offers it on the same spec, the difference is even bigger with M1.
It is strange how many people will sacrifice so much for free speech and the right to bear arms (like tolerating school shootings and foreign interference in elections), but offer them the "freedom OS" and they'll pick the slightly better trackpad.
Does no one here have principles?
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#223I did experience a very strange slowdown earlier today, and other odd behavior - first, a massive slowdown and then on a reboot, the keyboard wasn't found. After some tinkering, it's all better now - though I don't know that the tinkering actually did anything.
Explanation of the keyboard behavior: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24839101
But no fix :(
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#224Update to the original tweet: https://twitter.com/michaelvillar/status/1327004693361549312... > A better fix to this is: > - Turn off Wifi (to be usable) > - Add "0.0.0.0 http://ocsp.apple.com " to `/etc/hosts` > - Turn on Wifi > This is temporary, don't forget to remove it tomorrow.
> This is temporary, don't forget to remove it tomorrow. or maybe don't depend on apple to allow you to run programs on your OWN computer. that hosts rule should stay in place...
I heard that's also the server that Apple uses for SSL cert validation, so you're going to want it again.
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#225You should never, ever, install a MacOS update the moment it comes out. There is a high chance (> 30% from my experience) that something will be wrong with it. iOS too for that matter. Wait for at least one week and check out other people's experiences first.
To elaborate on what others are saying, macOS has been doing this phone home for a while, it just looks like the server it phones home to started being _really slow_. So if you were offline, the software behaves fine, but if you're online, it blocks on getting a response.
Great example of how you should never block UX on network requests.
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#226Sincerely and without any intention to troll or be sarcastic: I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a big no-go, from a systems design point of view. Even beyond unintentional glitches at Apple, just ima…
This is a soft failure. If the computer didn't have access to the Internet, it would still open.
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#227Sincerely and without any intention to troll or be sarcastic: I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a big no-go, from a systems design point of view. Even beyond unintentional glitches at Apple, just ima…
I think the problem is that almost all the software you buy a mac for (or even things that mac users like) has this built in but calls to the developer's servers instead. Consumer and commercial software is just all bad.
Yet another reason why free software is essential for human technological freedom.
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#228I feel like even Richard Stallman would have had a hard time imagining non-free operating systems would result in this. Use linux folks! It doesn't communicate with a third party when a process starts up!
It's just sad that we don't have the corresponding form factor in a similar laptop. The biggest draw of mac: 1. slim, light 2. long battery life. 3. track pad. That's all I want, but nobody else offers it on the same spec, the difference is even bigger with M1.
You can run Linux on a Macbook.
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#229This is horrible. How can launching apps be depending on a cloud service being available...
Walled-garden strategy at the core of Apple's business.
Re: macOS unable to open any non-Apple application
#230Sincerely and without any intention to troll or be sarcastic: I'm puzzled that people are willing buy a computer/OS where (apparently) software can/will fail to launch if some central company server goes down. Maybe I'm just getting this wrong, because I can honestly not quite wrap my head around this. This is such a big no-go, from a systems design point of view. Even beyond unintentional glitches at Apple, just ima…
Apple, for some reason, didn't advertise this change very widely, so it isn't precisely an informed decision.
Like so much of the modern security activity, it doesn't seem to be fully thought out, nor was the possibility of failure considered.
Or maybe such failures were considered and then dismissed? I don't know.