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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by thefreeman »

Sean1708 wrote: post #172
raesene6 wrote: post #143

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What markets is it that you feel Microsoft have a monopoly in? Desktop/Laptops is now a 3-way split between MS, Apple and Google with chromebooks. Mobile is a split between Apple and Google with MS out of it. Cloud is Amazon out in front with MS in second place. Office is the one area where MS could be considered to have a monopoly but even there I think cloud players are gaining ground and also (AFAIK) there's no ad…

Wikipedia says that Windows accounts for well over 70% of all desktop use[0], I personally wouldn't call that a 3-way split. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_syste...

News flash, desktops aren't anywhere near the most dominant computing platform anymore.

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Post by mmarks »

4ad wrote: post #229
coldtea wrote: post #71

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Photos will never be a viable replacement for the full Aperture professional use cases -- they have different goals. Aperture might or might not run on HS (not sure), but holding to it until Photos catches up is not very good strategy, at some point it will just stop working (and it's not getting any new fixes, updates, etc). Better move to Lightroom or something similar.

> Better move to Lightroom or something similar. I don't want to rent software, and I don't want to install the dreaded Adobe installer. What other good alternatives are there? Darktable doesn't pass the test.

Capture One is an alternative, common with those using Sony Alpha

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by lern_too_spel »

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.

Getting your iPhone to stop calling Apple and Google would make it unusable as well. The difference is that it's actually impossible to do on an iPhone.

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Post by amckinlay »

Are there any improvements to the Dock? Apple really needs to open up an API for Spaces so we can have a proper tiling window manager that works across Spaces without buggy hacks.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by rkuykendall-com »

4ad wrote: post #229
coldtea wrote: post #71

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Photos will never be a viable replacement for the full Aperture professional use cases -- they have different goals. Aperture might or might not run on HS (not sure), but holding to it until Photos catches up is not very good strategy, at some point it will just stop working (and it's not getting any new fixes, updates, etc). Better move to Lightroom or something similar.

> Better move to Lightroom or something similar. I don't want to rent software, and I don't want to install the dreaded Adobe installer. What other good alternatives are there? Darktable doesn't pass the test.

I was an big Aperture user too, and put off the move a long time. I installed and edited the same photos in everything.

You either take the feature-set hit and switch to Apple Photos ( which does a great job with basic tweaks ), or you switch to Lightroom. Everything else is way below par. Your photos just won't anywhere near as good.

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Post by gglitch »

petercooper wrote: post #60
smcleod wrote: post #57

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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.

I hope we'd all standardize on the opposite: 2017-09-25.. it sorts properly when used in file and document names :-)

And it can be extended down to arbitrary units.

2017-09-25

2017-09-25-0929

2017-09-25-09290000000000

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Post by stephenr »

4ad wrote: post #165
davidbalbert wrote: post #155

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I had similar problems on my iPhone 7 when I upgraded to iOS 11. This included apps totally freezing, sometimes for what felt like a minute, with very laggy input, as well as other issues, like not displaying the playing podcast controls for Overcast on the lock screen or in control center. Yesterday I did a fresh install of iOS 11 and then restored from a backup and my problems seem to have gone away. At least for m…

Hmm, that means redownloading 50 GB of photos, but I guess I could try it. Do you know if you could force download all the iCloud Photos library instead of having it load on demand? Even with Settings -> Photos -> Download and Keep Originals it seems old photos (from before the device was installed) are only downloaded on-demand. I want them all offline. I'm having this problem on both my iPad (which is newer than my…

Don't choose "optimise storage" and it will try to keep all photos locally.

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Post by fhood »

pwdisswordfish wrote: post #231
roblabla wrote: post #134

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And yet, microsoft started incorporating ads inside of windows 10. The business models helps, but if you can both sell a product and get ad revenue, why wouldn't you ? In apple's case, they have a fairly small but dedicated marketshare that cares deeply about those issue. That's why I trust them to not sabotage their product. Microsoft has a monopoly, they don't need to care.

> And yet, microsoft started incorporating ads inside of windows 10. Using daily, only thing I've seen - notification about Edge (which came with the OS). what?

Candy crush showed up in my windows menu every day for a while.

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Post by debaserab2 »

Gaelan wrote: post #246
baldfat wrote: post #199

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You mean the monopoly is due to Office and DirectX? There are plenty of alternatives still. I only use Outlook due to work but I could also get around that through several ways. Maybe we just have a different definition of monopoly? Definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly 1 :exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action 2 :exclusive possession or control n…

I haven’t used OpenOffice much? But it feels much less polished than Office or iWork. I guess there’s Google Docs, but even that’s limited compared to even iWork. Is there anything actually decent that can be used for “Office” stuff on Linux?

GDocs has been the primary office tool for the past several jobs I've had across the entire staff.

What can it not do that office can do?

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Post by bitmapbrother »

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.

>Your typical Android phone calls home around 1200 times per day

Do you have any proof to back up the claim?

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