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What? They just launched Apple Weather for iPad alongside this.
I didn't know that. IDK why it took Apple 12 years to add a weather app to iPad.
The same reason there’s no Apple™ calculator app for iPad?
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If you have a setup script add the following to set this automatically: defaults write com.apple.finder FXDefaultSearchScope -string "SCcf"
I'm interested in what you mean by "setup script" - I assume you have a script of some sort you run when / if you re-install the OS? I'd love to hear more about this!
Look up dotfiles on GitHub - for example https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/main/.macos
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#233Wow, clamshell to external monitor support is vastly improved. I couldn't believe it when it happened the first time. 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.
Wow! This alone is enough to convince me to upgrade.
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#234Countless person-years of engineering effort, and Spotlight is still mostly useless. All I want is to hit Command-F to quickly search the filenames in the current folder (not start a sluggish scan of my entire hard disk). There used to be workarounds for this, but then they removed "Find by Name..." from Finder just to make our lives harder. Does anyone know a workable alternative?
I still wish for something like Everything on Windows ( https://www.voidtools.com/ ) I wrote my own solution using fd + sqlite + fzf but it's nowhere as fast as Everything, and it also requires me to focus the Terminal to use it.
I continue to not understand this -- The Everything app was capable of instant search on Windows in like 2008, and yet on modern devices, with SSDs, far more RAM, and faster CPUs, I have to wait a good 2-3s for results to appear.
How did one dev managed to achieve what, apparently, no corporate entity ever has?
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#235The 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…
I did the upgrade without issues but when it rebooted the final time it signed me on and automatically started everything I had running before and I didn't even realize it had completed until I checked the OS version in the about. Probably the least noticeable difference in OS upgrades in a while.
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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…
Funny enough, I'm in the first group but prefer Finder's default behavior for the second group.
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#238The 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…
I got a Windows PC for the first time in over a decade recently and I cannot understand why MacOS updates are so damned slow
There doesn't seem to be a good reason for the slowness, but a reasonably good technical write-up on the update mechanism is available at [0]. The time spent rebooting does seem excessive, especially when using image-based updates.
[0] https://eclecticlight.co/2022/03/19/explainer-macos-updaters...
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#239Very curious to know if Venture + VM + Linux + Steam is a setup that'll work with the new VM support. I kind of want to play some old school windows games, but I don't want to pay for parallels.
Try UTM https://mac.getutm.app
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What? They just launched Apple Weather for iPad alongside this.
I didn't know that. IDK why it took Apple 12 years to add a weather app to iPad.
I hear you that it took forever, they did a really good job with the dark sky acquisition and building a high quality app though. I find the new weather app more compelling than third party apps. Nice snappy radar, surprisingly good rain push notifications (I’ve gotten 5+ accurate push notifications for some unexpected San Diego rain this week!) and the air quality integration is far better than I would have anticipated!