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Any of the awful UX functions been rolled back? Notifications and the bluetooth menus are an abomination.
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I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…
> Well a few months ago I needed to fill out customs form 5106. This form uses some kind of proprietary Adobe PDF form creation software thing PSA in case anyone doesn't know this: the built-in Preview app on MacOS can be used to fill in any PDF form. You can type into text boxes on some forms. But even if they're not there, you can add text anywhere on a pdf. You just have to drag your own text boxes to wherever you…
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I need this so badly. True story: I've been eagerly awaiting a new Macbook to completely rid myself of Adobe software. Over the past decade I've considered installing Adobe software but always held back because of how intrusive and shady the software is (I checked on friends' computers). I've been able to work around having to edit PDFs and used Figma in place of Photoshop for my very basic graphical needs. Well a fe…
Totally agree, Creative Cloud by now is really one of the worst pieces of software ever created. Because we are on this topic - what is a great alternative to Photoshop that uses mostly similar concepts? I’ve tried Affinity Photo but simply doing some photo cropping worked completely differently than PS and took me a long time to figure out. My main use case is having a photo, doing a selection overlay and running „c…
If any apple product managers are reading this, the biggest thing holding MacOS back is that it global searches when you search a folder. I know there's a config setting for it, but dammit I want the default to be local file name search and full text search should be an off-by-default option, and search the whole hard drive should be a different also off by default option.
For those who are wondering what the config setting is: Finder -> Preferences -> Advanced -> When performing search: Search the current folder
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I've never seen this before, and I've been using the Preview method described above for 15+ years. I have also never installed an Adobe product on a mac, ever. Do you have a link to a file that can produce this error in Mac Preview? It would be fun to learn how to bypass that.
All / most PDF forms used by the Australian Defence Force are like this - I suspect it’s because it’s all tied into the identity / ability to digitally sign the forms. It’s very frustrating when you send someone (externally) a PDF and it required them to install Acrobat. Or maybe it’s just Adobe trying to take the P out of PDF…
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I dunno if this is “the biggest thing” but I will concur that it is really annoying. I almost always want to search for a file name, somewhere in the folder I’m looking at or it’s sub folders. I wish I could change the default to be that.
Finder Preferences → Advanced → When performing search: Search the Current Folder.
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No idea if this is a hardware issue, but this approach (underclocking and permanent low power modes) is historically how Apple have "fixed" other hardware flaws - cough - nvidia - cough - After you've experienced it you tend to not buy macs any more.
Some reports in the MacRumors thread [0] suggest the problem doesn't happen on Windows, which suggests a driver issue. I haven't tested that myself though. [0] https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/16-is-hot-noisy-with-an...
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What do you want from an ‘official’ package manager?
For one, it would at least solve the issue of MacOS' coreutils being perpetually outdated. Secondly, it would be a nice way for developers to skip the burning dumpster fire otherwise known as the App Store when distributing basic apps, without having to download untrusted third-party software. As for specific features, I'd really like to see a list of all the different MacOS components so I can remove the things I do…
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If they used an XPS people might accidentally realize that you don't need a notch to put a camera at the top of your screen.
Man. The screen was not cut by a notch, rather it grow to envelope the camera. Compare the top bezel in a pre-notch mac book and you will see that the camera is basically on the same place as before, but the bezel is now smaller.