Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

eclecticlight.co

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

411–420 of 432 posts

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#411

Post by runjake »

wltr wrote: post #368
runjake wrote: post #335

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it were my choice…

How is it you could reinstall Windows, but not Linux? Or is it just mandatory to run Windows, but nobody cares if you reinstall it? My wife’s Windows laptop won’t allow me to even run Logitech Connect Utility, to reconnect some devices (pair a keyboard to the mouse). It surely won’t allow the full reinstall, it’s locked entirely. Hence, I’m curious what’s up with your work (I assume) laptop.

Mandatory to run Windows for this device as it was going to a C-level person.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#412

Post by vor_ »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #44
emchammer wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t want to wear one of those things on my face. I want a high-quality computer and phone. Apple executives are out to lunch.

[flagged]

That's an amusing comment because there's a migration happening toward flip phones with physical keyboards (https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/that-qwerty-tapping-sou...).

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#413

Post by vor_ »

DrProtic wrote: post #320

I was about to upgrade my MacBook but instead booted up Linux on my dust collecting desktop, all because liquid glass. They managed to break so many things, they even managed to mess up the volume slider. Instead of showing up across the screen now it’s tucked away to the top right. What the hell.

That's one of the changes I like. Instead of getting a huge volume indicator in the center of a video you're watching, it's a small slider that's off to the corner where I'd prefer it to remain.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#414

Post by vor_ »

virgil_disgr4ce wrote: post #170

Just as a datapoint: Not only do I actually like Liquid Glass, I don't have any errors or bugs on my MBP or my iPhone EXCEPT for the audio scratching sometimes on macos. Which alone is flatly unacceptable.

If you're experiencing crackling under high system load, try connecting external speakers or headphones. It's weird, but it seems to mitigate or even eliminate the issue.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#415

Post by jama211 »

bigyabai wrote: post #367
jama211 wrote: post #344

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just did my yearly attempt at this again, and unfortunately I ran into multiple issues - aside from issues I had during dual boot setup which is still WAY too user unfriendly, the driver recommended for my video card breaks the standard resolution on my main monitor, downgrading the version fixed it but it took me an hour of hacking with console commands to work this out, and reading forum posts where I watched peo…

> And it won’t be until the community recognises it has a problem, but all I see is denial. Well, that's not fair to the community or yourself. You didn't outline your yearly install process whatsoever, for all we know you're installing Hannah Montana Linux and throwing in the towel. You can get a SteamOS-style environment on whatever Linux device you want, you just need to copy Valve's steps. Additionally, you have…

You saying pebcak only reinforces my point.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#416

Post by wltr »

jama211 wrote: post #415
bigyabai wrote: post #367

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> And it won’t be until the community recognises it has a problem, but all I see is denial. Well, that's not fair to the community or yourself. You didn't outline your yearly install process whatsoever, for all we know you're installing Hannah Montana Linux and throwing in the towel. You can get a SteamOS-style environment on whatever Linux device you want, you just need to copy Valve's steps. Additionally, you have…

You saying pebcak only reinforces my point.

Pebcak it is then.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#417

Post by trinix912 »

jessegrosjean wrote: post #247

I dislike Liquid Glass. At the same time I make Mac apps and I've got to adopt liquid glass to keep my apps looking alive/updated. How to do this without making my apps UI worse? I would love to see some "how to fix Liquid Glass" type articles. List out the problems, list out potential solutions. Anyone run across articles like this? Please share relevant links.

For iOS, I guess if you just update the bottom navbar (if you're using it) and use the fancy new glass back buttons that should be enough to keep them looking updated without breaking the UI in major ways.

For macOS maybe keep original toolbars (instead of the new floating-inside-a-floating-box ones) or make a custom UIView that emulates what's currently on Sequoia. Same for sidebars. Those two alone would IMO make it better than the built in apps on Tahoe.

And a design classic, an inner rounded rectangle should have a smaller corner radius (less rounding) than the outer one AND the inner rectangle should maintain significant margin between itself and the outer rectangle's borders. This is why the new Finder sidebar looks so tacky, they got the first part (corner radiuses) right but since the two elements are so close to each other there's still a visual clash between them. How to avoid it? Use a flat sidebar with a border only on the right.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#418

Post by seec »

concinds wrote: post #317
torben-friis wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Such laissez-faire attitude should lead to teams that feel something’s great but it doesn’t connect. Like a product that’s an amazing feat of engineering but feels convoluted to the end user. The thing is, when glass was presented the very first to cry in disbelief were designers. It is very much at odds with many industry standards. So I really have nothing on how this came to pass. At this point, the tinfoil hat vi…

Corporations are more boring than that. Reportedly, Jony Ive (who was given oversight of Apple's UIs), in turn put Dye in charge of the iOS 7 redesign. Dye and Ive then presented it internally. Here's how journalist Tripp Mickle reported it back in 2022, long before Liquid Glass came about: > Ive’s focus on visual styling vexed the software design team. Though they obsessed over colors and shapes, they prioritized ho…

Cook is just a major idiot. It's actually surprising he didn't completly fuck everything over. But it just shows how strong the fondation and initial strategy was.

I'm always annoyed by random idiots arguing that since Cook made Apple a shit ton of money, he must be good. By the same standard, cartel head drug dealers are extremely good and an asshole who inerhit a business with a captive market and just manages to make more money by raising price is just as good.

Outside of Apple Silicon, much of what Apple has produced in the last 10 years isn't really good. And even Apple Silicon has major tradeoffs that do not look like they'll improve meaningfully.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#419

Post by seec »

mort96 wrote: post #332
manoDev wrote: post #229

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Swift was the worst thing that happened to Mac OS, because we’re now suffering second system syndrome.

I think it's worse than that: we're now suffering being a "supported but deprioritised platform" for a cross platform GUI. AppKit was developed for the Mac from the ground up. All effort that went into it was to make the Mac as good as possible. Experience from that went into making UIKit, which was made to be as good as possible for iPhone. Focus on iPhone made the Mac suffer somewhat from a lack of resources, but A…

I still don't understand who actually use iOS/iPadOS apps heavily.

Everyone I know just try to do stuff with them and at some point go find a computer to actually get shit done, frustrated with how backward everything is on those platforms.

Now they want to make the Mac the same. What the fuck.

Re: Last Year on My Mac: Look Back in Disbelief

#420

Post by seec »

eoskx wrote: post #158
phantasmish wrote: post #153

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There are like a half-dozen blatant bugs I encounter between daily and weekly in Safari. Text input and textarea editing is buggy in a couple ways, Apple Pay has a positioning bug where sometimes its bottom button is about 1/3 off the screen, certain elements on a couple pages smear when I scroll (but only sometimes). Not even counting ways the keyboard itself is worse now. I haven’t seen browsing this buggy outside…

My issues with Safari have mostly been iCloud-related. The latest one being the iCloud tabs SQLlite database getting corrupted constantly and keeping stale tabs around that I have long closed. 26.2 seems to have fixed it, but it was around at least since Sonoma. I've had similar issues with Reading List, where again, the database gets corrupted and changes that I've made to Reading List get reverted. It is just littl…

I have had Safari syncing bugs since basically 2016. But now I can't be bothered to even use it, no matter how good it gets.

Chrome extensions, functionning ad blocking (without having to pay for a stupid Apple blessed extension) and just generally more usefull feature set is the real reason Google is winning.

Apple can't even be bothered to try making a cross platform browser, because he would cost them too much money or whatever (not that the pile of cash they are sitting on is getting a lot of valuable use).

Post reply on HN