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I can't help but wonder how Steve Jobs would have flipped out if he saw something like this on his devices. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/images/product/availability/A...
wtf is this foto, like how is this iphone half the size of the mac? also, is it taped to the mac? I bet it would actually just drag the lid down with its weight. so it stands on something?
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I’ve been using Rectangle for window management. Works well for my workflow since I’ll usually just pin two apps side by side, and jump them around different screens. It would be nice to have this feature natively though. https://rectangleapp.com/
Yeah I have been using Magnet since longer than I can remember. It is limited though. It's fine for basic snapping side by side or in quads but can't do multi-resizing (i.e. resizing two windows snapped side by side that are not fullscreen), doesn't have layouts, can't place a window when it is opened (e.g. auto snap terminal to bottom left if first Terminal window opened), etc. I would love to see a full manual or d…
https://eclecticlight.co/2022/10/04/how-to-keep-monterey-whe...
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Given that Steve Jobs actively colluded with Eric Schmidt to depress worker wages, maybe he was just a bad person and should be memory-holed. We can build a better world without him. https://www.google.com/amp/s/time.com/42322/steve-jobs-chill...
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When will Safari include Push Notifications on iOS? This SEEMS to say iOS 16.1 will, but I am not sure https://webkit.org/blog/13399/webkit-features-in-safari-16-1...
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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
My previous experience with Windows (~3 years ago) was that every single update took ~2 hours to complete, and they were asking to update weekly. I used to game weekly with my friends, and because of the above problem, I would have to turn on my computer the night before and start the update so I would be able to reliably play a game the following day - otherwise, there was an extremely good chance that they would st…
Unless you manually seek preview updates, Windows gets updates once per month, on Patch Tuesday (a twenty-year tradition now).
Two hours for "every single update" sounds implausible for Windows 10 because Microsoft has implemented changes to minimize the "offline phase" of the updates to mere minutes - even on HDDs.
Which brings to my last point. If updates were taking long, then your OS was most certainly installed on a HDD. Everyone knows HDDs are slow as hell.
Seriously, what was the point of replying with complaints about Windows on slow hardware and comparing it to mac OS on fast hardware? It almost feels dishonest.
And for the record, Ventura is installing on the Mac as I type this on my Windows machine. The 22H2 update for Windows 11 had an offline phase of under 10 minutes and I have a non-NMVe SSD here. The Mac has already been down for about 15 and it's not even done yet.
"We've been putting the same 720p webcam in our laptops for 10 years so just go ahead and use your phone instead"
"We could increase the BOM cost putting a bigger camera in but the thickness of the laptop lid is so thin it would never be as good as the phone you most likely already own, so we made it easer for you to use that". It's all a matter of perspective. :) I love the ability to use my phone as a webcam.
Very excited about the ability to run x86 VMs through Rosetta. This will make x86 virtualization a lot more straightforward on Apple Silicon (no more reliance on qemu).
I thought it was only able to run ARM VMs which can _utilize_ rosetta to run x86 code?
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/run...
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> iOS 15.7 got a bunch of security updates [1] last month And nothing this month which means it's already vulnerable to pretty much all of the vulnerabilities that got fixed. Some could be iOS 16 specific but the vast majority are not. > Apple released a security update for iOS 12 a couple of months ago And fixed a single vulnerability because it was actively exploited in the wild, leaving the OS with hundreds of oth…
And nothing this month which means it's already vulnerable to pretty much all of the vulnerabilities that got fixed. Some could be iOS 16 specific but the vast majority are not. The fact that there hasn’t been a second security update for iOS 15 doesn’t mean another one isn’t coming which it almost certainly is. unless you're on the latest major version you're pretty much out of luck As I just mentioned, iOS 12, a 4-…
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213428
Depending on your Android version the equivalent is either webview or Chrome.
The requirements for which are Android 5 and Android 4 respectively (according to a 3rd party website I found- the play store annoyingly doesn't list system requirements).
These were released 2014 and 2011.
Sometimes I think Google should be more in your face about app updates, especially ones that would be considered part of the operating system in other ecosystems.
Countless 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?
The only way to fix it is to do some command line mumbo jumbo like rebuilding the Spotlight index and deleting index folders.