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"We've been putting the same 720p webcam in our laptops for 10 years so just go ahead and use your phone instead"
Now that we are all on video calls all day, the lower rez the laptop camera the better. Nobody uses their laptop camera for anything else.
To switch to another window, we already had Command-Tab, Mission Control, Expose (now part of Mission Control if I understand correctly), and also clicking on the icons in the Dock. And now we have Stage Manager. I had to use Windows 10 as my main workstation for a few weeks at work, and I'm starting to think windows management is – perhaps – one of the rare things Windows does better than macOS. But of course I shou…
I disagree. Nothing beats macOS's multiple desktops that you can swap between by swiping with three fingers. I know exactly where my windows are, exactly how to get to them from anywhere, and their order is never changed. Leagues better than alt+tab.
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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…
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).
Wow, 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.
I think this is an Apple Silicon feature. Did this _not_ work on the same M2 laptop while on Monterey? (I've had this on Monterey from the beginning on M1 MacBook Pro)
Have no idea about ventura, will not update before first patch, I guess.
I'm surprised they released this. I try to participate in every macOS beta I can. This is by far the most unstable release I've experienced. - Settings app has a lot of weird bugs and performance issues. After a restart I have to wait a few minutes before the Settings app actually functions. Overall the Settings app has felt like a step back in terms of UX and performance - Lots of weird issues with Docker (might be…
Also, it seems to think - for a few moments after every restart - that my Wifi connection is to a hidden network, when it actually isn't. Welp.
And the legions of System Settings, Control Center, and Share Panel accessibility problems remain intact. I don't even understand the point of filing bugs during these betas anymore; macOS seems destined to be an unusable quagmire. This stuff was noticed months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31669950
Some bugs probably will be fixed in the upcoming patches. Some will not.
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...
Web Push won't come to iOS until a mid-cycle release, probably by March, maybe a bit sooner.
Personally I hope they have some sort of scoring to alert people if they are subscribed to notifications that others have reported as being scammy. They hopefully learned from the Calendar spam problems.
It's listed on this page (search for "2023"): https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-16/features/
The 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