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Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by tekknik »

Scharkenberg wrote: post #286
ar_lan wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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. 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" o…

If you don’t use windows for your daily driver, then you absolutely get into this situation. Even on NVMe, rarely is a windows 10 update (still running it here) less than an hour. Then there’s connection speed. Even on a gig line you won’t get gig speeds. And again, if you’re not on it everyday then you may have to update multiple drivers and other windows updates.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by unilynx »

anigbrowl wrote: post #167

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…

5 reboots to update?

So that’s why parallels kept throwing up the password screen while updating the last beta. I guess the VM can’t autologin and I was about to give up thinking it was permanently stuck in reboot

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by kaba0 »

wingworks wrote: post #339
derefr wrote: post #256

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That doesn't imply it should be slow; that should imply it should be fast . At least, given that macOS is using a copy-on-write filesystem such that you can share blocks between multiple volumes/snapshots — which it is; and that the OS base-image is a sealed "everyone has the same cryptographic checksum" volume — which it is; and that Apple are using a binary-diff-based "create aside" OS-image update process, like Ch…

"when you reboot, it'll be into the new OS." Oh man, wouldn't that be amazing!

NixOS then lives in the future, as that is exactly what it does!

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by dwaite »

zestyping wrote: post #16

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?

One trick is to know that spotlight indexes content and metadata separately, and most search interfaces default to content. Typing in "README.md" in system spotlight will look for documents that contain a reference to that name, while "name:README.MD" will look for ones marked as _having_ that name.

The search interface in finder has a builder for predicates (start a search then hit the plus on the right side of the search bar). There you can start to see some of the friendly prefixes for filesystem items such as extension:, kind:, date:, tag:.

You can also see the mass of file specific metadata - like width, audio bit rate, city, genre.

I have not, however, found a handy way to translate between English description, friendly prefix, and the internal query names like kMDItemContentType.

Fun aside - some of these used to work in the Mac app store - for instance, you could search for listed applications which could open exotic document types.

The "uselessness" IMHO is mostly in that it exposes the most simplistic interface possible, and people just don't know where to go from there (other than terminal users going `man mdfind` I suppose). That gap is only widened by how different it is from other filesystem-based mechanisms for power users, which have more established commonalities like regex and filesystem globbing.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by dereg »

kccqzy wrote: post #133
cstuder wrote: post #7

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The Ars Technica reviews are always pretty thorough: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/10/macos-13-ventura-the...

They stopped being thorough after John Siracusa stopped writing them. Seriously, back in the days John Siracusa would dive into internal details. For example in 10.7 Lion (in 2011) Apple introduced full disk encryption. John didn't just stop at the usual description of the functionality, screenshots and performance metrics. He described Apple's then-new logical volume manager implementation to get this feature to wor…

John is in the pantheon for my favorite people that I do not know. I hope he never tires of sharing things with us via podcast or writing.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by anigbrowl »

Yhippa wrote: post #347
anigbrowl wrote: post #167

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…

This is one of the finest comments I've ever read on HN.

Sometimes technology, procrastination, and caffeine combine in a perfect storm.

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by skohan »

Maarius wrote: post #312
insane_dreamer wrote: post #118

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Agreed. Its an embarrasment. Use Alfred; I've been using it for years (10 maybe?) -- solves this problem and is extremely useful in general

Alfred ( https://www.alfredapp.com/ ) and BetterTouchTool ( https://folivora.ai/ ) really are two of the must-haves for every mac.

> BetterTouchTool

Physical function keys are a must-have for every mac imo

Re: macOS Ventura is now available

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Post by skohan »

justinator wrote: post #64

macOS Ventura takes the Mac experience to a whole new level with groundbreaking capabilities that help users achieve more than ever. Now there's a nothing burger sentence to start us off.

This is like a placeholder sentence which should have been replaced with actual content.
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