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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by eviks »

ethersteeds wrote: post #232
ryandrake wrote: post #108

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The principle is what matters. The amount is not the issue. The issue is that there is a cost at all. "It's so cheap" is never an excuse for charging for something that should be free. In this case, running software you have no intent to charge for, on your computer. It's as if someone started charging $0.01/month for breathable air. "But $0.01 is trivial," would not excuse it.

It costs money, and isn't free, for a reason you're not acknowledging. I don't think it's a major profit center for Apple. It's about setting a higher floor for malicious actors than "random botnet residential IP + a captcha solving service". It's about proving some semblance of identity through a card number and a transaction that goes through without a chargeback. As the case upthread shows, there's plenty to disli…

> But it still ought be acknowledged that the motivations are closer to the reason

Since this isn't true, no acknowledgement required, it doesn't need to be a "major" profit center to magically become a benevolent feature

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by mdaniel »

Lammy wrote: post #263
thr0w wrote: post #229

What Apple needs, is to fix that weird bug where my mouse cursor stops responding to what it's hovering over. How does something so fundamentally broken make its way into an OS?

I like how my cursor randomly enlarges itself for like it's moving between a high-DPI and low-DPI mode despite being entirely on one display and nowhere near the edge between my internal and external. It gets big for maybe 1 second and goes back to normal.

> It gets big for maybe 1 second and goes back to normal.

That sounds like the "shake to locate" behavior and I would be totally lost(heh) without it since I have 2 4K monitors plus the onboard display, and that black cursor gets lost very easily. Shake the mouse, get big cursor, find cursor, be happy

It appears that one can disable it if it bothers you enough to comment about it: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/make-the-pointer-ea...

And while there, I learned that I can change the pointer color, so hopefully everyone has learned something valuable today :-D

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by yyyk »

nextos wrote: post #215
MichaelZuo wrote: post #196

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What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities? Because right now it’s clearly so far down, beneath dozens of other priorities, that expecting it to just happen one day seems futile.

IMHO, Mac OS X contributed decisively towards making Apple cool, which was followed by lots of boutique apps and the success of iOS. Loosing that critical mass of developers, even if it's a tiny userbase, would worry me if I was a top leader of Apple.

Apple has had a contemptuous attitude towards developers since.. the App Store? when the iPhone was out? The last two decades? They don't seem to care about this.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by Lammy »

mdaniel wrote: post #272
Lammy wrote: post #263

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I like how my cursor randomly enlarges itself for like it's moving between a high-DPI and low-DPI mode despite being entirely on one display and nowhere near the edge between my internal and external. It gets big for maybe 1 second and goes back to normal.

> It gets big for maybe 1 second and goes back to normal. That sounds like the "shake to locate" behavior and I would be totally lost(heh) without it since I have 2 4K monitors plus the onboard display, and that black cursor gets lost very easily. Shake the mouse, get big cursor, find cursor, be happy It appears that one can disable it if it bothers you enough to comment about it: https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-…

Oh, neat. I had no idea it was intentional but I can see how that would be a useful feature. It felt like a bug to me because it felt disconnected from any intentional cursor movement on my part.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by GCUMstlyHarmls »

gonzalohm wrote: post #191
rcarmo wrote: post #125

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I use Bluefin-dx as well, but pointed out Bazzite due to the mention of gaming. It's been rock solid for me for that use case.

Is it comparable to gaming on Windows? Last time I tried the performance wasn't as good for some games (Deadlock) and it took ages to compile shader (it takes 30 seconds on Windows with the same specs)

I saw long shader compile times for at least one game last month, might have been Deadlock. I have a Radeon RX 7600 & Ryzen 9 7900X3D for reference.

There is mention on the arch wiki about enabling multi-threaded compiles, but also I have read you perhaps dont even need to precompile them now and possibly get better performance as the JIT compiles via a different vulkan framework (VK_EXT_graphics_pipeline_library).

I disabled pre-caching (which effects the compile too afaict) and never noticed any stuttering, possibly past some level of compute it's inconsequential. I also noticed that sometimes the launcher would say "pre-compiling" but actually be downloading the cache which was a lot slower on my internet.

Certainly on my (very) old intel system with a GTX1060, Sekiro would try to recompile shaders every launch, pegging my system at 99% and running for an hour. I just started skipping it and never really felt it was an issue, Sekiro still ran fine.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by fumufumufumu »

wpm wrote: post #184
epolanski wrote: post #65

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I use both Mac and windows extensively and I'm not sure what are you referring to. You can access most settings by Windows + "yourquery".

Using search as a UI is admitting the UI sucks. It is indicative of a failure, not a solution in and of itself.

then Mac fails as hard as windows. there’s a reason search exists in the settings app on both MacOS and iOS. and there are plenty of settings that require “default write …” or editing some plist file or worse

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by eviks »

quitit wrote: post #106
asadotzler wrote: post #2

I don't think that's quite right. Snow Leopard was a lot of changes to a lot of the OS code base and wasn't great out of the gate, taking multiple dot releases, like all large-scale software updates do, to stabilize and bugfix enough to be "good." There is no silver bullet, just a lot of lead ones and the answer to Apple's quality problem is to begin baking QA back into the process in a meaningful way after letting i…

I think some people would be surprised how effective reaching out to apple is for squashing bugs. Three times now I've been assigned an engineer to pin point the bug I was experiencing, after which it was fixed in the next dot release. By all means people should complain on forums (why not?), but a forum post complaining about some years-old bug isn't going to be anywhere near as effective as contacting apple's suppo…

They would be surprised because it's not true, those years-old bugs in the forums have been reported many times to the official bug tracker, with reference number sometimes posted in those very forums.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by sneilan1 »

Can a publicly traded company be sued if they allocate more resources to QA? Could an activist investor argue that cleaning up Mac OSX is a waste of time because people will buy the computer anyway?

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by canpan »

adastra22 wrote: post #270
canpan wrote: post #251

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Currently also looking at Framework+AMD. I want Mac hardware but Linux software. The other makers build quality is horrendous. Especially in the 13inch segment which is my favorite. Using a pretty old laptop because there is no replacement right now. The new Ryzen AI looks really interesting! Sadly there is no Framework shop for me to look at it and they not ship to Japan..

Asahi?

Yeah, I heard good things about it. I do a lot of gamey development stuff and x64 makes that easier. But Asahi seems to be catching up a lot recently, maybe I should look at it again! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41799068

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by JeremyHerrman »

tonymet wrote: post #101

Apple needs to restore primacy to the UI. MacOS and iOS used to feel non-blocking with a UI that would always respond regardless of how long a remote or long-running background task required. Now iOS and MacOS feel sluggish and slothlike, waiting on IO, typically from a remote call. The webdevs have taken over. Yes they need to remove cruft, and also re-hire the ruthless UI Nazis who would enforce 120hz responsivenes…

Couldn't agree more. Moving a file from one folder to another has a huge delay. Dragging files for spring loaded folders doesn't work well anymore.

As a user since System 7 it's so sad to see.

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