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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by jpk »

noisy_boy wrote: post #333
canpan wrote: post #251

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Currently also looking at Framework+AMD. I want Mac hardware but Linux software. The other makers build quality is horrendous. Especially in the 13inch segment which is my favorite. Using a pretty old laptop because there is no replacement right now. The new Ryzen AI looks really interesting! Sadly there is no Framework shop for me to look at it and they not ship to Japan..

The biggest issue Framework have right now is shipping. I can order a ThinkPad practically anywhere. No so with Framework - they are literally leaving money on the table from what I would assume their core segment: affluent tech savvy users trying to get off the planned obsolescence cycle.

I'm not sure I follow. Your complaint is that Framework only sells direct and not through retailers?

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by detourdog »

flenserboy wrote: post #316
detourdog wrote: post #115

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I have been using a Mac since the 128k came out. System 7.5.3 and Snow Leopard 10.6.8 are in my opinion the high water mark for both OS’s. I still have some 10.6.8 install media for both server and client. Truly loved them both.

Interesting that you think that of 7.5.3 — it worked , sure, but it could be painfully slow. System 6 was preferable as an OS — MultiFinder was better than 7, at least in the first couple iterations — but much of the software I needed demanded 7. 7.6.x was the first bright spot since 7.1 fixed much of what went wrong in 7.0, & there was a ton of waiting after that. 9 just chugged along for me, for the most part, whic…

System 7 was better for me due to AppleTalk file sharing. System 6 was confined to LocalTalk or printer sharing.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by miiiiiike »

I have two Apple TV 4Ks and both started dropping Bluetooth connections every minute or so after a recent upgrade.

My headphones will cut out and when I go to pause the video I’ll be clicking frantically because the remote isn’t working either. Or I’ll be in the menu and the remote will pin to the left or right and scroll to the end of some massive YouTube list.

Reboots, resets, nothing fixes it.

My Apple Watch regularly has a glitched Home Screen too.

I defended Apple’s quality recently, right before everything started breaking for me.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by DidYaWipe »

phony-account wrote: post #305
DidYaWipe wrote: post #293

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Spotlight was never useful, because of an absurd and glaring design defect: It doesn't show you WHERE it found stuff. There's no path shown with hits. Same blunder in Finder's search, and you can't even optionally add "path" as a column. WTF. So... when the hits include six identically-named files, you can't eliminate ones that you know are wrong (on a backup volume or whatever). The level of stupidity here is just m…

> There's no path shown with hits I guess you do know the path is shown at the bottom of the window if you select the filename in the list of results?

Yep, but that's totally unacceptable because you have to tediously select every entry, one at a time, and peer at the status bar.

It also doesn't allow you to sort results by location, as you could if it were a column.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by DidYaWipe »

toomim wrote: post #317
DidYaWipe wrote: post #293

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Spotlight was never useful, because of an absurd and glaring design defect: It doesn't show you WHERE it found stuff. There's no path shown with hits. Same blunder in Finder's search, and you can't even optionally add "path" as a column. WTF. So... when the hits include six identically-named files, you can't eliminate ones that you know are wrong (on a backup volume or whatever). The level of stupidity here is just m…

You hold down command to see the path.

Where? And how is that option displayed to the user?

I also just tried it in Spotlight and Finder, and it did nothing. Which I consider a relief, because undiscoverable bullshit is worse than the feature not existing.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by DidYaWipe »

Reason077 wrote: post #338
pickdan wrote: post #319

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In all fairness, you do need to hold down the command key to show the file location in Sequoia. It is an interesting default behavior to pretend the files location doesn't exist, mobile-centric.

No you don’t. In Finder search results, the path is always shown at the bottom. For regular Finder windows, you can optionally show the path with “View -> Show Path Bar”

Not a solution, because, again, you have to click on every single entry one at a time, and you can't sort by it.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by lloeki »

toomim wrote: post #317
DidYaWipe wrote: post #293

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spotlight was never useful, because of an absurd and glaring design defect: It doesn't show you WHERE it found stuff. There's no path shown with hits. Same blunder in Finder's search, and you can't even optionally add "path" as a column. WTF. So... when the hits include six identically-named files, you can't eliminate ones that you know are wrong (on a backup volume or whatever). The level of stupidity here is just m…

You hold down command to see the path.

And press command+return to open the location in Finder (and the item selected)

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by echohack5 »

rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

Honestly yeah, Raycast is the replacement I'd recommend these days for spotlight.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by DidYaWipe »

pickdan wrote: post #319
phony-account wrote: post #305

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> There's no path shown with hits I guess you do know the path is shown at the bottom of the window if you select the filename in the list of results?

In all fairness, you do need to hold down the command key to show the file location in Sequoia. It is an interesting default behavior to pretend the files location doesn't exist, mobile-centric.

In all fairness, secret hotkey BS may as well not exist. Are you supposed to mash every modifier key and every combination thereof on every screen and in every menu, looking for hidden goodies?

Absurd.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by mschnell »

donatj wrote: post #340
rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

> no longer any way to effectively prioritize the results I want (apps, not internet garbage) FWIW you can massively improve things by just disabling the internet results. It's easily done in the System Preferences

I would much prefer if you could change the order so that _local_ results come first, web results after — not possible (anymore). Sad.
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