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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by snuxoll »

gumby wrote: post #217
4ad wrote: post #61

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202299 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786 Some highlights: > When shared, photos taken with standard point-and-shoot cameras, SLR cameras, or iOS devices have up to 2048 pixels on the long edge. > Videos can be up to five minutes in length and are delivered at up to 720p resolution. > Maximum shared albums an owner can share: 100 > Maximum shared albums a user can subscribe to:…

That’s dreadful! I had assumed that iCloud (rather than Dropbox) sharing would share the original as that is already in the cloud anyway. It would just be a pointer or DB entry I was horrified when I learned that Google wasn’t going to save full resolution by default. Had no idea Apple would do something similar.

That's what I thought myself, but then I realized pictures put into shared albums are actually copied - you can delete the original and it's still available in the shared album, at 0 cost to your iCloud storage.

It's kind of a nice feature, but at the same time it makes doing things like collecting photos from my wife for a photo book annoying.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by maxxxxx »

ethbro wrote: post #448
maxxxxx wrote: post #438

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It's always interesting how they implement security features. With Vista MS introduced UAC which is a major headache if you develop any automated tools. But most users I have observed will always press "Yes" automatically because they have no idea what the message really means. The result is that life got worse for developers often forcing them to do less secure hacks and overall no gain in security.

MS + Google (via only recently more finely-grained Android permissions) It amazes me at the arrogance in assuming users are idiots, so it's not worth engineering features for them. "Warning: This installer is attempting to replace core Windows files. Do you want to allow it to do this?" isn't hard but gives substantially more useful information than "Do you want to allow this installer to do stuff?" (Current UAC)

"Warning: This installer is attempting to replace core Windows files. Do you want to allow it to do this?"

This better but in reality most users will still have no clue what it means.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by mcv »

kemayo wrote: post #416
siidooloo wrote: post #395

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Notifications are on the top right of the screen. They don't cover the active window? It sounds like something strange is wrong with your system. I also never get notifications about updates. No workarounds needed.

To be fair, if you're on a laptop or are just regularly using full-screen apps, top-right notifications are going to cover a chunk of your screen which you might be using. Of course, so would notifications absolutely-anywhere in that situation.

I've got a tiny corner to the left or right of my dock that they're free to use.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by ethbro »

RandVal30142 wrote: post #415
Aaargh20318 wrote: post #375

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> There are clear paths to NOT use anything Microsoft if you want to. For a lot of people there isn't. Take my dad for example. He sells weight scales for retail (think butchers, greengrocers, cheese shops, etc). Those scales are pretty much embedded PC's nowadays, they connect to the internet and can be remotely accessed to update product prices, promotions, get the daily sales numbers but also things like changing…

But all of that is not a monopoly by any stretch of the imagination. It speaks less of Microsoft and more of the vendors who find no need to change their ways. Yes it really is all held together with spit and tape, but nothing has forced them to change from it.

It's a monopoly for those users * innumerable_similar_niches.

Which translates into a pretty large part of the small business market that doesn't have any de facto choice.

And WINE et al. aren't a scalable solution because invariably these things depend on odd Windows quirks and/or are generally terrible from a code/standards quality perspective. And there's functionally no way to address that because the historical-Windows-in-fact API is "every odd behavior every release of Windows has had over the years."

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by snuxoll »

mrmondo wrote: post #53

The biggest change I’ve noticed since testing each of the betas and now running the final release is the significant decrease in interface / UI latency, it feels significantly faster to use and is a welcome upgrade.

Expose (or whatever the hell it's called now) is significantly faster on my 2015 5K iMac, the animation used to lag with as little as 6 windows on my workspace, I've seen it handle around 24 now without dropping frames. The upgrade to Metal 2 for WindowServer is a pretty nice performance boost.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by empyrical »

lvillani wrote: post #110
johnbellone wrote: post #77

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I am very skeptical of a new filesystem that is going out to users that fast. I haven’t tested the beta yet, but I would imagine we still have the option of using HFS+? Otherwise I’ll wait six months or more to even attempt it.

If you have an all-SSD Mac, the file-system will get converted during the upgrade. I think you still have the option to choose HFS+ when you perform a clean install. Anyway: I installed the GM with an HFS+ boot volume that would fail an `fsck_hfs` (and when attempting to fix inconsistencies, it would get stuck indefinitely). Given the amount of bitrot I experience with HFS+ I welcomed the in-place conversion to somet…

If I'd like to stick with HFS+ for now, do I have the option to during the upgrade? I dual boot with Windows and I'm worried about something getting messed up and am not sure if there's a way to read APFS from Windows yet (I back up of course, but want to avoid potential issues)

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by dingdingdang »

4ad wrote: post #229
coldtea wrote: post #71

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Photos will never be a viable replacement for the full Aperture professional use cases -- they have different goals. Aperture might or might not run on HS (not sure), but holding to it until Photos catches up is not very good strategy, at some point it will just stop working (and it's not getting any new fixes, updates, etc). Better move to Lightroom or something similar.

> Better move to Lightroom or something similar. I don't want to rent software, and I don't want to install the dreaded Adobe installer. What other good alternatives are there? Darktable doesn't pass the test.

Do think Darktable is the best bet unfortunately - donate/contribute/cross-fingers-hope-for-the-best!?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by epicide »

jclardy wrote: post #423
manmal wrote: post #369

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Look at the iPhone for planned obsolescence.

The iPhone 5s is still supported on the latest OS released last week. I guess 4-5 years of software support isn't enough?

To add to this: the Nexus 5 was released a month after the 5S. That phone got its last official update last year, I believe. It was also discontinued a full year before the 5S.

Granted, the 5S started at 4GB for 500 USD and the Nexus 5 started at 16GB for 350 USD.

Still, it's hard to support the "planned obsolescence" argument.

Edit: grammar.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by hmage »

gumby wrote: post #217
4ad wrote: post #61

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https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202299 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202786 Some highlights: > When shared, photos taken with standard point-and-shoot cameras, SLR cameras, or iOS devices have up to 2048 pixels on the long edge. > Videos can be up to five minutes in length and are delivered at up to 720p resolution. > Maximum shared albums an owner can share: 100 > Maximum shared albums a user can subscribe to:…

That’s dreadful! I had assumed that iCloud (rather than Dropbox) sharing would share the original as that is already in the cloud anyway. It would just be a pointer or DB entry I was horrified when I learned that Google wasn’t going to save full resolution by default. Had no idea Apple would do something similar.

Don't confuse storage and sharing.

You still have full resolution originals without any recompression in iCloud Photo Library.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by wlesieutre »

wlesieutre wrote: post #432
dkersten wrote: post #394

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I do have an iPad on which I've been using the 11 beta for the past few months and I love the new multitasking support, but is it really big enough to warrant a major version bump? You already could run two apps side by side in iOS 10 (I was a pretty heavy user of that feature, which is incidentally also the primary reason I opted into the beta), it just wasn't quite as flexible. Drag and drop is new, for sure. I sup…

Everything Apple has done since iOS was first introduced (or arguably the initial iPad support in iOS 3.2 ) has been incremental improvements. But drag and drop is one of the bigger ones, IMO on-par with the initial multitasking support which incidentally was the update that finally convinced me to buy an iPad. For an example of where this smooths things out, I've been using Readdle's Documents as an approximation of…

Addendum on spring-loaded folders, you can even swipe up from the bottom to open the dock and then spring open another app. If you open Mail you can tap the new message button while still dragging the data, and then drop it into the new message popover. So splitscreen and slide over multitasking aren't even required to use drag and drop.
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