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Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by mitchell209 »

pdpi wrote: post #162
nothrabannosir wrote: post #143

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Tip: in accessibility , enable High Contrast and disable transparency. Optionally disable animations. Decent experience imo. I can now see what areas are clickable.

I did basically that on my iPhone. My laptop was needing a cleanup, so I just wiped it and re-installed Sequoia. the Mac Studio never got the upgrade at all. If at some point I find there's something in Tahoe that I particularly need, I'll revisit upgrading.

Doing a fresh install of Sequoia was the best move for me, too. I had an unnecessary amount of third party apps installed for no reason. I don't even use Ice for the menu bar anymore, I realized the icons that I had hidden I didn't need in the first place so I completely disabled them, in whichever apps it's possible.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by jakeydus »

hagbard_c wrote: post #291
jakeydus wrote: post #251

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> a new Dell isn’t that bloated. At least a new Mac doesn’t try to serve you ads in the app launcher.

A new ${computer_brand} with Linux doesn't show you any ads, doesn't add more bloat than you let it, doesn't insist on you creating any iCloudy or Microsofty accounts, doesn't try to police what software you run on the thing, doesn't try to upsell you to some ${precious_metal} plan, doesn't insist your 5 year new computer is obsolete, doesn't spy on you, etcetera. What are you waiting for?

Oh I 100% agree, but what consumer-grade Dell comes with Linux out of the box?

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Post by jasonvorhe »

encom wrote: post #226
egypturnash wrote: post #10

I just hope that my current Mac keeps being usable long enough that Liquid Glass has been fixed or replaced entirely by the time I'm forced to upgrade to whatever's shipping on my next computer.

Just keep giving Apple more money. That'll show them!

How is using an already paid for computer giving more money to Apple?

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

nothrabannosir wrote: post #183
MagicMoonlight wrote: post #44

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Grandparents also said it about a lot of technologies that actually were worse and didn’t survive. Those are just not around anymore to be the subject of survivorship bias. I’m not sure when we’re started dismissing the elderly’s advice as “just complaining because they’re old” but it seems we’re hell bent on reinventing the wheel of misfortune with every generation. If old people complain about something, maybe they…

If they're still complaining about something that's around, do they have a point? How do we know? What things have survived the fires of testing and should just be accepted, and what things can be groused about as bad?

ps. I am a grandparent, on the edge of elderly.

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Post by jakeydus »

muro wrote: post #268
jakeydus wrote: post #251

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> a new Dell isn’t that bloated. At least a new Mac doesn’t try to serve you ads in the app launcher.

what about iCloud and News?

I was specifically referring to ads for third party applications in the start menu, so you’re technically correct and I should have been more specific. I’d argue that those are upsells for the OS to enhance existing apps and systems. Not my favorite, but preferable to windows telling me to install candy crush in the start menu.

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Post by PaulDavisThe1st »

stefanfisk wrote: post #152
dijksterhuis wrote: post #26

> Maybe this is because I’m getting older, but that gives me the benefit of having experienced Apple’s older interfaces, with their exceptional quality and functionality. i really missed snow leopard for about 10 years all the way up to when i moved on from my macbook circa 5 years ago.

I feel so old saying this, but back in the days both Apple and third party developers would follow the HIG closely enough that something felt off right away when an app wasn't behaving 100% native. Running something like a Java app was jarring to say the least even if they were supposedly using a "cross platform" UI library. But then Gruber said that the HIG was dead and the decline gained more and more momentum...

> back in the days both Apple and third party developers would follow the HIG closely enough that something felt off right away when an app wasn't behaving 100% native.

That's only true for desktop productivity apps and widgets. Apple and 3rd party "creativity" apps never followed the HIG religiously, if at all.

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Post by mitchell209 »

keyshapegeo99 wrote: post #258
jwlake wrote: post #5

its very odd that apparently everyone working in Apple software dev either refuses to dogfood this stuff or just uses iPads for everything.

iPadOS 26 is an even bigger F-up than macOS 26, though It's hugely embarrassing how they've had to perform a screeching U-turn in bringing back Slide Over and dock-launchable Split View with the .1 and .2 updates - lest graphic artists and others who depended upon these features left their platform in droves. This is essentially an admission that iPadOS 26's touch-based UX had precisely zero thought put into it. They…

For years I was begging to get better multitasking and more powerful apps, especially after they introduced the magic keyboard. They can take it all back now. I'd rather they stick with 0 multitasking, if this is the best they can do.

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Post by zdragnar »

eviks wrote: post #208
jjice wrote: post #43

I don't mind how Liquid Glass looks at all. It's just insane how buggy the system has become. Even Messages will bug out, like deleting my first word if I type too fast after opening a conversation or auto scrolling and not letting me scroll down until I exit and re-enter. Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for. I hope they get their shit together and…

> Unacceptable for the premium you pay for Apple software. Unacceptable for any software one is paying for. You don't pay anything for the software, so the quality matches

Funny, last time I used macos there were so many annoyances and every suggestion was to use some paid third party app. I finally caved and used hammerspoon to write everything I needed myself.

You pay for it in lots of ways, including an obscene premium on minor hardware upgrades, not to mention you have to buy their hardware to even use the software itself.

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Post by torben-friis »

concinds wrote: post #289
kibwen wrote: post #123

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Using Dye as a scapegoat feels like cope. The rest of the executives were fully content with this effort, and in the end he wasn't even forced out. There's no evidence that Apple will correct its course without him.

> The rest of the executives were fully content with this effort, and in the end he wasn't even forced out Tim Cook, by all accounts, can be very micromanaging and demanding when it comes to logistics underlings, but has been extremely hands-off with all his other underlings, doesn't insert himself into their loops or require his approval, doesn't decide by decree like Jobs which forces underlings to fight the bureau…

Such laissez-faire attitude should lead to teams that feel something’s great but it doesn’t connect. Like a product that’s an amazing feat of engineering but feels convoluted to the end user.

The thing is, when glass was presented the very first to cry in disbelief were designers. It is very much at odds with many industry standards.

So I really have nothing on how this came to pass. At this point, the tinfoil hat view that this design was a resource hogger as a feature for obsolescence sounds reasonable. At least there would be a method to the madness.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

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Post by hagbard_c »

dundundundun wrote: post #298
hagbard_c wrote: post #291

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A new ${computer_brand} with Linux doesn't show you any ads, doesn't add more bloat than you let it, doesn't insist on you creating any iCloudy or Microsofty accounts, doesn't try to police what software you run on the thing, doesn't try to upsell you to some ${precious_metal} plan, doesn't insist your 5 year new computer is obsolete, doesn't spy on you, etcetera. What are you waiting for?

Proper sleep.

Works fine for me, on Fruit Factory hardware even. Close the thing, it goes to sleep. Open it, it wakes up. Leave it closed for a very very long time and it hibernates. Open it again and it comes back to life. Your experience may vary depending on what hardware you run it on but for me it works fine on the mentioned machines, on a HP Spectre 360, another HP Elitebook and on a really ancient Toshiba Satellite. I've had problems with sleep on a Thinkpad P50 with a discrete NVidia Quattro GPU, it goes to sleep but won't wake up so I have that machine set to hibernate as soon as the lid is closed. This takes a bit longer (but not that long, SSD is fast) but it would have been more pleasant to use if normal sleep worked as intended.
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