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Post by mcv »

tomsmeding wrote: post #255
mcv wrote: post #253

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And yet, Apple has been pushing me in a direction I don't want to go with their recent OS X versions. I paid a lot of money for my mackbook and was quite happy with Lion, but was recently forced to upgrade because apparently Lion is way too out of date. So now I'm on Sierra, and I absolutely hate it. I thought it'd mostly just be uglier, but it bugs me with updates I don't want or need but am not allowed to ignore. A…

Which notifications are you talking about? I have no such experience using Sierra.

Notifications at the top-right, covering the top-right of whichever window is active. Fortunately most of them can be dismissed, but those concerning updates cannot, which is extremely annoying. I've once already accidentally triggered a 15 minute update, which can be extremely inconvenient when it happens at the wrong time.

I've found a way to get rid of the update notifications, though: click "details", which opens the app store with a list of your pending updates. As long as you leave that open, the notification won't reappear.

Still annoying, though.

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Post by narkee »

nsomaru wrote: post #104
gradstudent wrote: post #81

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I remember the first time I saw Spotlight. It was magic. Then came Expose. Wireless that worked. Sleep that worked. Trivial configuration of things like sshd, apache and samba. Amazing days. Lately I only upgrade when forced. I ran 10.8 until earlier this year when I finally upgraded my machine. Then I spent a week trying to figure out how the hell to get gdb working again because binaries now require code signing an…

Remap single tap CAPS to ESC and when used in combination with another key or long-pressed - CTRL. This has changed the way I use my keyboard in vim and tmux. I'm doing this on Ubuntu, but there are ways to get it done on OSX too.

Do you have any hints on how one might implement this on mac OS? I'd love to have my keyboard configured like this...

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Post by wmeredith »

nu11p01n73R wrote: post #51
mullsork wrote: post #7

Sort of off topic but what has happened to the web design team at Apple? Their landing pages used to be extremely pleasant to read but by now I often struggle to read their headlines. The blurred background with text on top is not easy on my eyes at all. Perhaps my eyes are starting to go bad... Their page for the new iPhone had the same issues. In my opinion their web designs has gone down hill this year.

Took some time to realise that "Available 9.25" meant 25th September. The box looked more like a disabled button.

I agree. The faux-button is a pretty inexcusable piece of interaction design. It's like underlining for emphasis on the web. Don't do it.

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Post by raindev »

kiliankoe wrote: post #303
fairview14 wrote: post #299

> Apple File System. > Your data is under new management. Ok, should I expect it now finally to be case sensitive? Or is that still science fiction for MacOS?

Apfs ist case-insensitive by default, probably due to legacy reasons.

I've tried to use macOS with case sensitive filesystem for some time (before APFS). Works mostly fine but there're applications that break (Steam and Intellij IDEA are the two I remember).

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Post by otterpro »

kbd wrote: post #185

I still haven't updated to Sierra because I depend on Karabiner. Just tried the newest version of Karabiner-Elements and it still doesn't do everything I need.

I regretted upgrading to Sierra because I lost my favorite functionality of Karabiner. But I got most of the features back when I started using Hammerspoon. It's not GUI friendly, but it's doable and there's a lot of scripts available. It's similar to Window's Autohotkey which I use at work, but Hammerspoon has a sane, real language (Lua).

My other suggestion is to actually replace keyboard. ErgoDox EZ and Ultimate Hacking Keyboard have almost all the features I need from Karabiner, but is saved to the firmware, so I can take the keyboard anywhere and it just works. Also, they're mechanical keyboard, so it's nice to type on.

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Post by coldtea »

seanmcdirmid wrote: post #297
coldtea wrote: post #163

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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 In the US maybe (and I doubt even there). In the rest of the world it's 90% windows machines.

You just mean desktop computers right? Because browser share polling shows that windows use is way down across the world, at least to browse the web. The most popular alas inChina, for example, is by far Android.

Yes, desktop/laptops (as per the parent).

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Post by euyyn »

larkost wrote: post #292
bitmapbrother wrote: post #266

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Google doesn't sell user information. Also, Microsoft also has a search engine and ad business that do the exact same thing and just because it isn't successful that doesn't allow you to give them a free pass. Additionally, they preinstall third party bloatware on their OS and send tremendous amounts of telemetry back to their servers.

Google absolutely sells access to "digested" user information. While your first sentence is technically correct since they don't directly give anyone the data, it is misleading at best. Google is in the business of selling selective eyeballs to advertisers, and has been a pioneer in using user data to try and target those add impressions.

Google doesn't sell access to user information either, digested or not. I think it's misleading to say they do, "digestedly", or indirectly, or whatever.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by coldtea »

raesene6 wrote: post #175
coldtea wrote: post #163

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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 In the US maybe (and I doubt even there). In the rest of the world it's 90% windows machines.

In Europe Windows is down to 83% of desktop class machines http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/europe and in overall "computing devices" including mobile it's down to 47% http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/europe In certain markets like schools, windows is down to 22% in the US and 65% Worldwide ( https://9to5mac.com/2017/03/02/apple-ios-market-share-k-12-e... ) These don't really feel like m…

>In Europe Windows is down to 83% of desktop class machines http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/europe and in overall "computing devices" including mobile it's down to 47% http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/all/europe*

Yes, speaking of desktop/laptop machines. It's Windows, OS X around 12 or so and the others closer to statistical noise.

Those even the 12% for OS X is in Western/Northern Europe mostly -- anywhere else it's closer to 95% Windows.

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Post by jtth »

AHTERIX5000 wrote: post #239
feelix wrote: post #120

When installing a major OS update it's often worthwhile to do a clean install. As a shameless plug of some free software I made, Install Disk Creator will make you a bootable USB installer out of any USB disk you have laying around made from the macOS installer that you download from Apple.

I'm curious about recommending clean installations. What kind of issues people usually encounter with macOS upgrades?

It used to be a thing but really isn't anymore.

It's only an opportunity to re-evaluate what autoruns at startup and what you want running in the background. This means people feel faster once they delete all of those things. You'd do just as well by removing them yourself.

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