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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by debaserab2 »

MrZipf wrote: post #436
debaserab2 wrote: post #279

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GDocs has been the primary office tool for the past several jobs I've had across the entire staff. What can it not do that office can do?

It doesn't take 10 minutes for a LaTeX or Word user to get frustrated with docs. What doesn't it do: 1. user defined style definitions 2. citations / bibliography 3. anchoring There are plugins that can help, but at least where I work using these is often banned to avoid the risk of leaking corp info.

I'm going to go out on a limb and say that if you're a LaTeX user, your needs are specialized beyond what the average office worker needs out of a word processor. Point taken though.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by endemic »

ksk wrote: post #363
kartickv wrote: post #264

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Does it collect personally-identifiable Information? Suppose, for sake of discussion, they collect something inoocuous, like whether you prefer to maximise windows. Say a single bit of information. True or false. Would you still be opposed to the telemetry? I’m trying to understand if the objection is about specific data being collected, or to the idea at all.

The problem is _not_ collecting telemetry on users is a business disadvantage, in todays world. Whether you're a webapp or an OS. I would be willing to send MS that information, but only as an opt-in.

Right, no one would care about telemetry if you could turn it off. MS could have it turned on by default, even. I'm sure the amount of data they would miss would be minuscule in comparison to the amount of negative press they've received about this topic.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by coldtea »

4ad wrote: post #440
coldtea wrote: post #393

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Which presents an opportunity for someone like Pixelmator or Affinity to make a photo management app + their photo editing tools.

Personally, I don't want a "photo management" app, I want an app that is very good at batch processing, works over NFS drives, and doesn't use "projects" and "libraries". Basically I want a GUI version of ImageMagick.

Usually after one uses non-destructive editing (a la Aperture and Lightroom) everything else is like medieval times.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by cuckcuckspruce »

dawnerd wrote: post #370
feelix wrote: post #120

When installing a major OS update it's often worthwhile to do a clean install. As a shameless plug of some free software I made, Install Disk Creator will make you a bootable USB installer out of any USB disk you have laying around made from the macOS installer that you download from Apple.

Since when have you needed a usb installer for macOS (besides hackintosh)?

If you have more than one Mac you might want to create a USB install stick so that you only need to download the installer once, on a Mac that you'll upgrade later.

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Post by manmal »

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?

Sure, it’s supported, but performance has suffered with every major version bump. iOS dev here btw.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by manmal »

epicide wrote: post #458
jclardy wrote: post #423

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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.

How does your argument about Android vs iPhone affect my Mac vs iPhone argument? Macs have taken a performance hit with Yosemite, but have improved ever since, while old iPhones become more sluggish with every release.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by debaserab2 »

dragonwriter wrote: post #496
debaserab2 wrote: post #491

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Again, I have to ask, what sophistication does Excel have that Google spreadsheet does not also offer? COM and VBA scripting? Access database sourcing? Google spreadsheets even has analogies to this functionality (albeit in Google flavors). It's certainly not the formula and pivot table capabilities which Google spreadsheets has pretty good parity with. At one point in time you could argue that excel handled larger f…

> Again, I have to ask, what sophistication does Excel have that Google spreadsheet does not also offer? PowerPivot. Database Access (JDBC to a handful of DBs isn't anywhere close to what Excel offers.)

All the strong arguments for keeping excel usually boil down to "well, we built this giant thing using proprietary MS scripting/plugins/db access that we're too entrenched in it so it won't work on Google (and should probably be done in an actual programming language anyways)"

I don't agree that deep integration is the same as sophisticated features. As a base product without the extras, excel has no advantage over google sheets. You could equally build your stack to the same degree of sophistication on proprietary google tech.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by valuearb »

hungerstrike wrote: post #382
dep_b wrote: post #379

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A part is removable, the rest you can hide. The ones you cannot remove are usually the ones the iOS SDK's are built on top of like Map Views or Web Views.

Try clicking a hyperlink from Messages. You’re forced to use Safari. Try clicking an address in your contacts. You’re forced to use Apple Maps. Try replacing either one of them. You cannot.

No, your not. Try copying the link and opening it in your preferred maps app and browsers.

And what does that have to do with ads?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by eridius »

SkyMarshal wrote: post #481

*>Reader. Always on. Automatically use Safari Reader for every web article that supports it, so you can view websites without ads, navigation, and other distractions. This is interesting, how does a website signal that it's ok for you to block all its ads?

It doesn't. Safari auto-detects when to offer Reader mode, and what's new in Safari 11 is you can then configure the website to automatically start in Reader (you can do this through Safari preferences, or by right-clicking on the URL bar).

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by eridius »

fred256 wrote: post #290
messe wrote: post #113

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I have `jk` mapped to ESC in spacemacs, zsh and anything else I can set up to use vi keybindings. `jk` is essentially a no-op in vi, so rebinding it doesn't cause any issues while carrying the advantage that my fingers never have to leave the home row.

Out of curiosity, how do you type "Dijkstra" in that case?

I've never typed Dijkstra in Vim, but if I had to, there are two reasonable options:

1. Wait a half-second after typing the "j". That causes the mapping to time out and you can type the "k" without a problem.

2. Type something like Dijjkstra.

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