For those with download issues, developer.apple.com is timing out currently. Appears Apple is having system issues (and I'd link to the developer status page, but it's down too. All other Apple services appear to be up).
not exactly auspicious lol
macOS Big Sur
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Re: macOS Big Sur
#382Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I…
I wonder if any game (or other) developers are going to have major heartburn over this. "Woah, pricing/releasing this game this way was part of our mobile strategy, not our desktop strategy - how dare you run that game on a computer!" I know not all iOS apps target all devices - some are iPad only, etc. Is Apple allowing developers to arbitrarily prevent their apps from running on Macs? Can an app tell it's running o…
I‘m sure audio software developers will love it. FabFilter Pro Q costs 149€ on Mac and 33€ iOS, probably because they assume you can‘t really use it in a studio, which you suddenly could.
I‘m sure most developers will opt out soon enough though and who knows if it even works for Audio Units.
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#383Man I still haven't even left Mojave for Catalina. I don't think I'm gonna be changing OSs until I buy a second or third generation ARM Air that comes with whatever they're calling the 2022 Mac OS.
32-bit apps. I have 32-bit apps where the developer is either gone or will not update, thus if I wish to keep using these I have to stay on Mojava. This applies to four Macs which will likely never move away from Mojava.
Out of curiosity, what apps are those?
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#384I have Catalina on my work machine and Sierra on my personal one. Using Catalina at work hasn't really shown me any compelling reason to upgrade my personal machine, but it has given me several reasons not too (general stability, poor handling of external monitors, lack of forwards compatibility for apps I care about, etc)
Definitely added some stability problems for me.
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#385The look and feel of Big Sur is like a breath of fresh air. It definitely feels related to iPadOS with the colors and buttons that seem destined for a touchscreen but as somebody who uses multiple Apple devices it was comforting rather than annoying. There are ongoing issues with Apple locking down potential security problems and this makes some people unhappy. Carbon Copy Cloner didn't work with creating a bootable…
Apple is rumored to have fixed the ASR issues blocking bootable backups in the very last release candidate, though I don’t have a solid confirmation of that yet.
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#386PSA: Big Sur forgets where apps' windows are when plugging back into an external display https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/651131?answerId=64... https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jt0gjk/big_sur_forge... I've been on the public beta of Big Sur for months (and issued Feedback Assistant bug reports on this). As of 11.0.1, there's still a dealbreaker bug for people who use external monitors. If you unplug a…
If you're a stickler for keeping your windows neat and orderly like I am, you may want to check out Yabai (+ skhd): https://github.com/koekeishiya/yabai I used to use BetterTouchTool and Stay to do this, but after a co-worker tipped me off on yabai+skhd, I've been extremely pleased and rarely have to think about window placement (took me a while to get the config "just right", of course). I haven't tried it on Big Su…
I use a combo of phoenix [0] and displayplacer [1]. displayplacer is used for making sure my monitors are arranged correctly and I wrote a small script in phoenix (that I bind to a hotkey) that moves all my windows into the right spot, as well as keybinds to resize my windows for tiling purposes.
It's not perfect but it works pretty well for me, I'll have to look into yabai some more, it seems interesting.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#387If anyone is having trouble downloading the installer, check out this tool: https://github.com/corpnewt/gibMacOS
It's command line driven and will download a full installer.
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#388Earlier quoted context omitted.
> - Actually decent dev tools (used to be terrible) As a daily user of Safari, I can't let you say that. The devtools suck. The network tools suck (why is it so hard to find the request payload??), the elements tools suck, there are basically no extensions (React, Redux, etc.). They are just horrible. As much as I try to use only Safari, I still fallback on Firefox Dev when I need some real devtools. I use it for the…
> consistent rendering issues This is because lazy/incompetent web developers make their sites in Chrome and don’t bother testing other browsers. You could have said the same about any browser that wasn’t IE a decade ago.
I think you're probably right, but if the site doesn't work in Safari that's a problem for Safari users regardless of whose fault it is.
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#389Earlier quoted context omitted.
Some people use tabs the same way others use bookmarks My wife does this on her phone. I find it maddening, and tell her to just bookmark her sites. But that's just not how her brain works. Fortunately, even between iOS updates, Safari remembers all of her old tabs.
Genuinely curious, why do you find it maddening? Is it just the feeling that it’s somehow messy? Wouldn’t bookmarking every page be a lot worse?
I find it maddening too, but hey, it’s her phone. It’s only maddening in a “I wouldn’t personally do it that way” sense, so I don’t sweat it.
My wife even does it more extremely: when she opens a web site, she opens it in another tab, even if she already has that web site in an existing tab. So she ends up with hundreds of Facebook tabs, hundreds of shopping tabs at the same store, thousands overall. I don’t think she has ever deliberately closed a tab, and might not even know how. Safari’s UI makes it totally non-obvious how to do it, like how Apple makes it non-obvious how to kill apps.
Re: macOS Big Sur
#390Twice bitten, thrice shy. Every MacOS upgrade for the past 5+ years has been a bag of hurt: regressions in functionality and stability, annoying "features" like Notification Center and Catalina warning nags, various PITAs on fixing UNIX/dev toolchains, all for little to no benefit. I've stopped upgrading all my machines (other than security updates), unless forced by a mission-critical app or a new machine.
Unfortunately for me, Xcode is mission critical, and Apple always restricts updates to it about 6 months into any new OS.