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If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

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Post by vsareto »

Arrath wrote: post #151
dharmon wrote: post #143

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This is great! Thanks! I am forced to use a Windows machine sometimes for work, and to me the unpardonable sin is that Windows seems to randomly reboot _without asking me_! I come to my office and all my open sessions are gone. How do you turn this off?! I try turning off the setting but it randomly turns itself back on. Also, how do people set up a reasonable dev environment not built around Visual Studio? On my Mac…

> I am forced to use a Windows machine sometimes for work, and to me the unpardonable sin is that Windows seems to randomly reboot _without asking me_! I come to my office and all my open sessions are gone. How do you turn this off?! That's the neat part, you don't! Windows loves to revert those settings after every major update, even if you dig into the registry and scheduler and change the settings at the source. I…

Tell your browser to reopen the tabs it had when it exits. Try looking into these settings as well: https://www.windowsdigitals.com/windows-10-reopen-applicatio...

Re: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

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Post by rootusrootus »

freediver wrote: post #18

Yesterday I prepared a few years old Windows laptop for my daughter to use in school. It took me a few hours just to install updates, remove bloatware (my oh my, the amount is staggering!) and fix privacy settings. And this was for Windows 10 which I hear is a mild version of a mess that Windows 11 is. I was instantly reminded why I appreciate Apple software more.

There was a time when a fresh install of Windows required over a day to bring up to current, if you didn't have install media with the latest service pack already applied.

MacOS updates are fairly slow, though, so I don't know if it's a clear win. But I also don't think anything has gotten significantly worse in recent years; there have always been good parts & bad parts.

Re: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

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Post by Turing_Machine »

chrisweekly wrote: post #438
Turing_Machine wrote: post #431

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> I will high five the person who tells me how that feature exists and I’ve just missed it. Yeah, same here.

I'm probably missing context (skimmed comments quickly on phone after a long day), but just in case it helps: on iOS, swipe straight down from the very top to access Notification Center. IME, on iOS, it's a reliable way to access them.

Thanks --- I did know about that. For whatever reason, though, that doesn't appear to reliably bring back all notifications, only some of them. While I definitely could be wrong, I'm just about 100% certain that I've had notifications come and go that aren't to be found in the Notification Center afterward.

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Post by chrisdhoover »

notpachet wrote: post #347
CamperBob2 wrote: post #289

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What? No. Not if people used those features and found them valuable.

You're right. Dead or dying features that were bloating up the rest of the codebase, I should say.

I made a career of fixing broken things.

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Post by lotsofpulp »

easton wrote: post #428
lotsofpulp wrote: post #365

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The home networking scene is so bad. I had a Time Machine and and Airport Extreme, but it was not capable of PPPoE login to Centurylink's network, and I wanted to get rid of the Zyxel router that Centurylink provided. I ended up getting a Linksys Velop MX8400C 2 pack from Costco for $230, since that was the lowest price I could find for something that did PPPoE login and could be hardwired together. I wanted the abil…

Most people will just bridge mode the modem from the ISP to their router so that the router itself doesn't have to authenticate, which is probably why most home routers don't have PPPoE.

Actually, I miswrote, it is PPPoE login with VLAN tagging that you need to login to Centurylink’s fiber network.

I guess the apple time capsule and airports were too old to get that VLAN capability, since they stopped being made 5+ years ago.

A lot of the new home routers have the ability to PPPoE with VLAN tagging though.

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Post by gord288 »

SkyPuncher wrote: post #433
noneeeed wrote: post #231

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The current UX of notifications is terrible . After months of using it I still don't understand the mental model. A notification comes up, I hover and wait for the cross to appear and click it. But then some time later I unlock my machine or something happens and apparantly all my notifications are still there for some reason and I have to clear them again, only this time they are in groups and I have to clear multip…

I know it's minor, but managing virtual desktops is infuriating . There after I take the two steps necessary to manage virtual desktops (swipe four fingers up and move the mouse to the top of the screen). There are exactly 4 actions I want to take: * Select a desktop (even this is questionable as an action) * Re-arrange a desktop * Add a desktop * Remove a desktop ---- Nearly all of the time, I want to remove a deskt…

Possibly this is the "Automatically rearrange Spaces..." setting in the Mission Control prefPane?

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Post by WalterBright »

acdha wrote: post #440
WalterBright wrote: post #439

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It doesn't work when I try it. It just scrolls the screen.

It might be the tap-then-drag delay — I've been using this process for a few years so I know it works but I haven't seen it documented anywhere by Apple so I'm probably using different terminology. https://www.idownloadblog.com/2019/12/02/two-finger-tap-ipho...

That didn't work, either :-(

The whole screen just scrolls.

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Post by telcy »

Using the Mail app (macOS) with a Gmail Account and pressing the refresh button, makes the app hang in "Checking for Mail..." for 20-30+ seconds. It is faster quitting and opening the Mail app to check for new mails.

There is a memory leak down the network stack (probably within security library/ TLS layer) that has been reported over 6 months ago but has yet to be fixed. Depending on the app's network usage this is leading to several GBs of leaked memory per day.

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Post by 1123581321 »

WalterBright wrote: post #437
1123581321 wrote: post #338

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In the Mail app, tap Edit, then select the empty checkbox to the left of the top email, then drag from the second email down to the bottom of the view (it'll autoscroll.) Then you can move or trash the emails all at once.

I tried this many times, it scrolls the whole screen down but does not select the emails.

Are you tapping and swiping down on the unchecked circles on the left? It scrolls the screen down if you swipe on the preview of the emails, but not the circles you see after you tap Edit int he upper right.

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Post by stillblue »

perryizgr8 wrote: post #417

This looks like an appropriate thread to post my safari rant. Here goes. I've been trying to use safari on my laptop ever since I found out that it enables much better battery life compared to chrome (almost 2x). But there are just so many stupid annoyances. The address bar is non-deterministic. I enter first three letters of a site I visit very often, and press enter. In chrome, it always takes me to my site. In saf…

Is this on an M1 Mac? Is the difference in battery usage enough to shift to safari? I quit safari a while back cos it did some very weird things and I've been using Chrome but it is very heavy on memory and battery life.
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