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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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oneeyedpigeon wrote: post #145
kbart wrote: post #111

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I have never seen YYYY-DD-MM format, on the other hand, both DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY are equally common, that's why I always prefer YYYY-MM-DD format as it is the least ambiguous and most useful (sorting files etc., as other comments have mentioned). Feel free to prove me wrong though.

I work with non-techies. Most are totally unfamiliar with YYYY-MM-DD so weren't sure what a date that was ambiguous in that format was. I totally agree that usage of YYYY-DD-MM is rare (in my experience, anyway), but none of these formats fare particularly well when it comes to discoverability.

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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by tomp »

canes123456 wrote: post #326
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

You are right that the product comes from the business model. You are however completely wrong about what Google should do. Advertising is not an evil thing that needs to be eliminated. It is a much better revenue source for building services compared to selling hardware. Apple organization is fundamentally built around selling hardware and software as a package for an upfront cost. The organization is design to perf…

> This is 100% at odds with what you need to do with services. You need to iterate all the time and not be trying to perfect something for the new iOS release.

This sounds like it _should_ be true, but unfortunately, Apple has a much much better track record of supporting its old devices that Google. So, yeah, the "service" might work, but what help is that if my 3-year old Android phone was hacked yesterday because Google (or OEMs) don't bother patching it any more?

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Post by pteredactyl »

tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

Unless they mask your IP address I don't see how this removes cross-site tracking.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by godzillabrennus »

AsyncAwait wrote: post #287
oschrenk wrote: post #144

What keeps me from updating that I am confused about the way forward regarding FileVault & APFS. I currently have FileVault enabled as I need my drive to be fully encrypted (liability for my clients). I want my backups to be encrypted as well. But now APFS solves disk encryption on FS layer instead of going through CoreStorage. And I'm confused about the way forward for me. Is there some documentation that explains 1…

Like the other commenters here, I can confirm that the FileVault -> APFS transition went smoothly.

Anyone know how the APFS conversion goes if you have hardware RAID setup?

I’m sporting a Mac Pro mid-2010 and have a RAID-5 array that’ll need to upgrade.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by debaserab2 »

deong wrote: post #300
debaserab2 wrote: post #279

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GDocs has been the primary office tool for the past several jobs I've had across the entire staff. What can it not do that office can do?

Within large organizations, I don't think there's any replacement for Excel. Google docs are great as a Word replacement, but Google's spreadsheet offering is a spreadsheet. Excel is an extremely sophisticated development environment.

I hear this argument a lot and I still don't buy it. I use more advanced functionality than 90% of my coleagues and I don't find google spreadsheet stops me in any way.

Tell me something excel can do that Google spreadsheet can't.

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Post by mixmastamyk »

robin_reala wrote: post #123
kbart wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have never seen YYYY-DD-MM format, on the other hand, both DD/MM/YY and MM/DD/YY are equally common, that's why I always prefer YYYY-MM-DD format as it is the least ambiguous and most useful (sorting files etc., as other comments have mentioned). Feel free to prove me wrong though.

Have you ever been to any of Kazakhstan, Latvia, Nepal or Turkmenistan? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendar_date#Gregorian.2C_yea...

Japan and Denmark use this format.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by kiliankoe »

raindev wrote: post #314
kiliankoe wrote: post #303

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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).

Adobe apps are another known candidate for breakage on case-sensitive filesystems.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by shaggerty »

Gaelan wrote: post #246
baldfat wrote: post #199

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You mean the monopoly is due to Office and DirectX? There are plenty of alternatives still. I only use Outlook due to work but I could also get around that through several ways. Maybe we just have a different definition of monopoly? Definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/monopoly 1 :exclusive ownership through legal privilege, command of supply, or concerted action 2 :exclusive possession or control n…

I haven’t used OpenOffice much? But it feels much less polished than Office or iWork. I guess there’s Google Docs, but even that’s limited compared to even iWork. Is there anything actually decent that can be used for “Office” stuff on Linux?

OpenOffice stopped being supported in 2011. Most distros use LibreOffice.

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Post by jasonmaydie »

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.

They succumbed to the insidious parallax scrolling website syndrome that has been plaguing almost all the corporate website these days
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