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Post by saagarjha »

renaudg wrote: post #300
snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

> - So what happens is that you’re working on a product that’s part of another product but you never talked to any other teams or orgs on how to make your product fit in I'm surprised to read this, because I've always thought tight integration and clever synergies between product lines were precisely one of the things Apple excelled at. And I was wondering how exactly they managed to make that happen in such a famous…

> How do pictures of unreleased Airpods end up in recent iOS beta releases ?

By the OS Mastering team dropping the ball…

Re: Broken

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Post by whoisthisguy »

dTal wrote: post #370
blunte wrote: post #203

It's all very depressing. Like most of us here, I have become increasingly frustrated with the state of Mac (touch bar, bad keyboards, odd choices that fit neither creators nor developers well, and so on). No point rehashing it all. But where does that leave us? I spent a year on Windows 10 not so long ago, on upper end laptop hardware with HiDPI screen, and it was less fun and more problem prone than macOS - especia…

> Getting and keeping a Linux Desktop in good working order is harder than it should be at this age of Linux. Maybe because all the developers ran away to Macs, instead of sticking around dogfooding and fixing bugs? Free software is a collaborative social enterprise - it's not really anyone's job to make free stuff for you to use. If, as a developer, you've taken the easy path of proprietary software for years, and n…

I would be very happy to pay $140 one-time price for a fully functional, working Linux desktop environment. Even if it's limited to way fewer hw configurations than a Windows OS. Btw. $140 is the cost of Win 10 Pro.

Re: Broken

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Post by Seirdy »

dTal wrote: post #370
blunte wrote: post #203

It's all very depressing. Like most of us here, I have become increasingly frustrated with the state of Mac (touch bar, bad keyboards, odd choices that fit neither creators nor developers well, and so on). No point rehashing it all. But where does that leave us? I spent a year on Windows 10 not so long ago, on upper end laptop hardware with HiDPI screen, and it was less fun and more problem prone than macOS - especia…

> Getting and keeping a Linux Desktop in good working order is harder than it should be at this age of Linux. Maybe because all the developers ran away to Macs, instead of sticking around dogfooding and fixing bugs? Free software is a collaborative social enterprise - it's not really anyone's job to make free stuff for you to use. If, as a developer, you've taken the easy path of proprietary software for years, and n…

A thousand times this. Desktop Linux is the smoothest and most user-friendly computing I've ever experienced.

Also, to those who didn't get the reference: https://xkcd.com/743/

Re: Broken

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Post by saagarjha »

eanzenberg wrote: post #323
snapples wrote: post #131

Things are so broken here at Apple. I joined about 4 years ago. I am awed by the fact that we manage to release any software at all, let alone functional software. The biggest problem is communication. No one fucking communicates. - No communication between orgs. Tons of bureaucratic tape to cut through just to get a hand on someone working on a different product - Barely any communication between teams. Literally ev…

You are probably segregated away from where the real work is happening. This is by design, because you haven't proven yourself yet or they don't trust you yet. Good work is being done in Apple every day. You're just not a part of it and are not seeing it.

There might be teams working on "secret" things that are better, but as far as I can tell the "we don't trust you yet so you can't work on anything until you do" is largely a myth.

Re: Broken

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Post by edwinyzh »

mherrmann wrote: post #22

Can I just say how happy I am with Xfce. It's a Linux desktop environment that looks like in the early 2000s. It's fast. There are no unnecessary frills. It just gets the job done. Its release cycles are measured in several years, and keep it minimal. I used to be on Windows, then macOS, then Ubuntu and now this. As a developer with soon to be 20 years of experience, it's the best environment I've had.

What are the language and dev tools that you use that allowed you to freely transit from one OS to another again and again? Thanks.

Re: Broken

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Post by jonahss »

Gorbzel wrote: post #139

Why does what seems likes every commenter / blogger on this site feel the need to write a think piece about how they no longer trust Apple and all those other times they weren't the one complaining? (Hint: they were.) It's always the same – this time out: • Guy installed beta software and it was buggy. STOP THE PRESSES!!!! • "I'm a pro user, I've functionally given escalated privs to apps that steal my data, every El…

The author seems to do a lot of unusual and roundabout things with the software on their personal mac. It's cool to see somebody fully exploring personal software and customization, but what they're doing sounds weird to me.

From another post[0] on their blog:

>You’ll be able to upgrade to version 2.0 for a one-time purchase of $6.99 – no subscriptions here!

No subscriptions here, just me rewriting the app and deciding to charge for the new version every so often.

[0] https://tyler.io/reviving-an-old-mac-app/

Re: Broken

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Post by Seirdy »

rtempaccount1 wrote: post #43

It's interesting to see this from a MacOS release and the security complaints are similar to what's been seen about recent versions of Windows. To me, both are a manifestation of the idea that these two Operating Systems are moving in the direction of being safer for "ordinary users" at the expense of annoying more technical users who want to do less common things which can be dangerous if you're not careful (like ru…

Safety on Linux is arguably better; with sandboxing utilities like SELinux, AppArmor, bubblewrap and Flatpak, as well as being the platform receiving the most containerization efforts (Docker, Podman, LXC), Linux is arguably more secure. This is especially true if you use an immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue, where everything is sandboxed or containerized by default.

Re: Broken

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Post by OrderlyTiamat »

Bendingo wrote: post #423
dTal wrote: post #370

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Getting and keeping a Linux Desktop in good working order is harder than it should be at this age of Linux. Maybe because all the developers ran away to Macs, instead of sticking around dogfooding and fixing bugs? Free software is a collaborative social enterprise - it's not really anyone's job to make free stuff for you to use. If, as a developer, you've taken the easy path of proprietary software for years, and n…

> then I'm afraid you are rather entitled, and deserve a serenading by the world's tiniest open source violin. This comment is unnecessarily belligerent; parent was stating facts. not complaining. Your attempt to guilt or shame them is completely unjustified.

And just to make this more salient, I think comments like that are part of the reason why some people don't contribute.

Re: Broken

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Post by f1refly »

chapati23 wrote: post #302

Apple fanboy and software developer here. Also disappointed with the Catalina release. Had do an NV RAM reset, boot into safe mode, talk to Apple support to solve iCloud issues, and also click away dozens of privacy notifications. But I still really don’t consider windows or Linux as legitimate alternatives because of the ecosystem log in. Yes, macOS has its downsides. But what keeps me from even thinking about Linux…

Those features are in no way exclusive. The clipboard sync? KDE connect does that for me between my phone, my laptop and my desktop (even though I use gtk desktops). All my files are in my pocket with syncthing, updated in real time through the filesystem watcher. Tab sync? Just log into Firefox, boom, done. All those things are set and forget - enable once, never think of them again. And they just work and keep on working.

Re: Broken

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Post by dcow »

ekianjo wrote: post #313
dcow wrote: post #299

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Suspend/hibernate works on thinkpads with a moderately recent Linux kernel and a bios toggle.

Source about the BIOS part? I own many thinkpads and use them at work too and never had to do anything with BIOS settings.

Some thinkpad models (e.g. 6th gen x1 carbon) didn't ship with bios support for the s3 sleep state. It was added later. Even the ones that were shipped with an updated bios did not have the option enabled (because windows uses "modern sleep"). I don't have a source listing all the lenovo hardware that needs to be configured for proper linux sleep.
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