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Clicking on folders that you have put in Finders sidebar - It will not display the folder with the view settings set for that folder, but instead the last folder you clicked in the sidebar. It seems to happen clicking from top to bottom vs bottom to top. You just cant make this sh*t up it's so bad. Example sidebar: Applications - Always shows as icons Documents - Shows as icons if you last clicked on Applications. Sh…
Had the pleasure of making an Apple account to join our company's developer team. I filled out the form on the website 7 times: Edge on Windows, Edge on macOS, Safari on macOS, using 2 different phone numbers. No matter what, Apple just refused to send the verification code to me. It only worked after I remember Apple is a dick to the web platform, then I managed to create one from the popup in the App Store.
Trying to type this comment on an iPhone and that very last issue, text selection, is so so real. It’s probably the single biggest thing I hate about this phone that makes me consider switching back to Android (I was on Android for 12 years before trying out an iPhone for 3 years atm, and in general, on average, I can’t tell the difference… they both have strengths and flaws. Text selection is a pretty massive flaw o…
This is missing the most annoying one for me: when I type a search term into safari and it randomly interprets it as an address that it can’t resolve. E.g. “how to bake cookies” gets resolved to how%20to%20bake%20cookies (which safari tries to resolve via DNS or whatever instead of piping it to the search provider). Even better, it’s entirely nondeterministic, though it does seem to be due to some race condition with…
It's really staggering how much impact one engineer can have when working on a product used by billions of people. Fixing just one of these issues would instantly be the most valuable thing that person ever does in their life by orders of magnitude. We have incredible leverage in the software world.
The AirDrop randomly not working one is really manifesting at the most inconvenient times. Apple simply won't fix it.
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This used to be possible, I remember that I replaced Finder with some other app many years ago. I strongly assume that this doesn't work any more, though.
Yeah. Path Finder was a common power user tool. I recall you used to be able to flip some bit somewhere to allow you to Quit the Finder, but I assume that's disappeared inside the encrypted and signed partition where Apple keeps all the things us stupid users shouldn't be allowed to touch. But even then, you'd want more than just that, as when you tell the OS to "Reveal" a file or open a folder, that's the associatio…
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Yeah. Path Finder was a common power user tool. I recall you used to be able to flip some bit somewhere to allow you to Quit the Finder, but I assume that's disappeared inside the encrypted and signed partition where Apple keeps all the things us stupid users shouldn't be allowed to touch. But even then, you'd want more than just that, as when you tell the OS to "Reveal" a file or open a folder, that's the associatio…
> I recall you used to be able to flip some bit somewhere to allow you to Quit the Finder you can still do this with a hidden preference using command line: defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true; killall Finder [0] https://www.defaults-write.com/adding-quit-option-to-os-x-fi... > But even then, you'd want more than just that, as when you tell the OS to "Reveal" a file or open a folder, that's the as…
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> I recall you used to be able to flip some bit somewhere to allow you to Quit the Finder you can still do this with a hidden preference using command line: defaults write com.apple.finder QuitMenuItem -bool true; killall Finder [0] https://www.defaults-write.com/adding-quit-option-to-os-x-fi... > But even then, you'd want more than just that, as when you tell the OS to "Reveal" a file or open a folder, that's the as…
TinkerTool is a nice GUI app for this setting and a few others, see https://www.bresink.com/osx/TinkerTool.html