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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by beached_whale »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

Prior to Big Sur I found that it stuttered one sites with scrolling, like Twitter. I would like to use it, but it got too annoying, Firefox is fine. This is on a 16" MB Pro with i9 and lots of ram.

We'll see after I upgrade

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by nunodonato »

Is it just me that was immediately put off by looking at the first screenshot? The UI is so unappealing, way too many colors, its kind of a plastic junk...

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by vlunkr »

numpad0 wrote: post #238
enriquto wrote: post #183

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session This is horrifying! How do you get to have one hundred tabs, or worse, a few hundred ?

It’s ADHD/online vocal minority thing. Either you have it or not, there’s no fixing or accidentally contracting it. Go ahead and label them insane and call yourself sane/normal, if that is comforting for you, for being a boring person.

I was with you until the ad hominem

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by sudoankit »

egypturnash wrote: post #209

Man I still haven't even left Mojave for Catalina. I don't think I'm gonna be changing OSs until I buy a second or third generation ARM Air that comes with whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS.

Same but instead of Air I’ll get the 13” ARM Pro with sufficient RAM and hopefully more ports.

Mojave on my 13” MBP 2015 is still fantastic. Great OS, great keyboard, USB ports, MagSafe, etc.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by snazz »

brundolf wrote: post #196
sgt wrote: post #13

Will iTunes disappear in Big Sur - is the alternative equally good? I originally put off installing Catalina because I didn't want to lose iTunes.

Apple Music the service is fine. Apple Music the macOS app is shamefully bad. Never in my life have I used a piece of software from a major tech company that's so totally bug-ridden. It's shocking. Honestly, this may be an excellent use-case for the ability to run native iOS apps :P

The big memory leak where https://sb.music.apple.com (the web frame part of the Apple Music desktop app) would use multiple gigabytes of memory seems to have been fixed, either in 10.15.7 or the following Supplemental Update. That was my primary issue with it.

Still, the iOS app is way smoother. I would appreciate if they would bring the iPad version to the Mac and add Genius Playlists.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by zepto »

jferge wrote: post #12
gazelleeatslion wrote: post #9

The best thing about this is being able to run natively iOS apps (with new chips). I'll probably never open another Electron app on desktop again. Wonder how the file management works.

electron -> react native ;) javascript is eating the world.

Eating the world’s ram, you mean.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by nojito »

pishpash wrote: post #250
layoutIfNeeded wrote: post #214

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

It's actually abnormal to actively throw away things. It's not how the brain works. Do you actively try to "forget" things? Very rarely. We only need to throw away physical objects due to space constraints and rearrangement/search cost. Mental and virtual objects can decay away and there is no rearrangement cost when they are already organized by relevance.

>It's not how the brain works.

It actually does...which is how we are able to specialize our knowledge

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by srgpqt »

ed25519FUUU wrote: post #212
amativos wrote: post #137

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A few things that kept me from using Safari full time (instead of Chrome) last time I tried it: - On my 15" Macbook Pro (mid 2014), when you speed up videos in Safari the sound is distorted and weird, while in Chrome it sounds properly sped up. I use this a lot when watching educational videos. - Youtube videos max out at 1080p. - While there are decent ad blocking extensions, they're not as good as uBlock Origin. -…

Loss of ublock orgin is the real dagger for me. I haven't found another adblocking software (apart from maybe DNS adblocking via pihole) that I trust the same as ublock origin.

I use ublock origin when I can, but on safari (ios and mac) I use Wipr. Doesn't have much in the way of configurability, but it works well enough as-is, even blocking "annoyances", which ublock origin does not block by default (must be configured).

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by damnyou »

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

* no tab syncing with Android or Windows or Linux

* no uBlock Origin

* further deepening an abusive relationship

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by reaperducer »

talentedcoin wrote: post #226

Confetti in Messages? Branded guides in Maps? This is for a .. (checks notes) “OS upgrade”? I guess updating Misson Control is good but other than that (and the M1 chip itself of course which seems quite impressive) who really gets excited about stuff like this? No thanks. Don’t want it, don’t need it. Given all the pain that was involved with Catalina I’m holding off for a bit.

Confetti in Messages?

This has been a thing for years.

This is for a .. (checks notes) “OS upgrade”?

This is for consumers. Average consumers. The people that Apple is targeting. Not the L337 haxxors posturing on HN.

Don’t want it, don’t need it.

No problem. Don't upgrade. I have a computer still running Snow Leopard. Apple doesn't come to your house and force you to install its newest operating system at gunpoint.

Given all the pain that was involved with Catalina I’m holding off for a bit.

For me, the Catalina upgrade was flawless, even on a 2012 Air.

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