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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by tomsmeding »

deong wrote: post #305
tomsmeding wrote: post #255

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Which notifications are you talking about? I have no such experience using Sierra.

"Hey, have you tried Safari? It's pretty great. Why don't you give it a try?" "Umm, hey there...me again. You still haven't tried Safari? What's wrong? Want me to launch it for you?" "Ok, this is getting a little awkward. We worked pretty hard making Safari, and you won't even try it? I'm trying to not be insulted here, but you're not making it easy." "Listen motherfucker. You know that Keychain thing that you don't…

I don't use Safari, I use Chrome normally but Firefox sometimes. Never seen notifications like that, to be honest. Like the sibling comment, I wonder what the criteria for that nagging is. Maybe it's A/B testing, and you fell in the unlucky category?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by eridius »

empyrical wrote: post #456
lvillani wrote: post #110

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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)

There is not any way to read APFS from Windows.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by krisdol »

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?

cmd+opt+i, select the ad element, delete it. What the website considers "OK" is never a factor as to whether your browser can block an ad.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by greggh »

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.

Wrong? I have it opening in Opera just fine?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by gr3yh47 »

raesene6 wrote: post #126
tomp wrote: post #103

> Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind. > Safari now uses machine learning to identify advertisers and others who track your online behavior, and removes the cross‑site tracking data they leave behind I'm starting to like the business model of buying the product more and more. There was a recent t…

I agree, the good thing about Apple and Microsoft is I know what they want to sell me. Apple want me to buy relatively expensive devices on a regular basis and ideally a cloud subscription. Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS. In both cases the value for them is fairly clear and they have limited incentives to do anything that might jepordise those reven…

> Microsoft want me to buy subscriptions to their cloud services and ideally devices running their OS.

Microsoft pretty clearly wants 100% telemetry about everything you do on your computer - to the point where they will explicitly override user settings to the contrary - so you are underestimating the scope of their motivation

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Post by godzillabrennus »

robin_reala wrote: post #344
godzillabrennus wrote: post #335

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Anyone know how the APFS conversion goes if you have hardware RAID setup? I’m sporting a Mac Pro mid-2010 and have a RAID-5 array that’ll need to upgrade.

I’m guessing that’s a spinning rust array? If so it won’t be converted: APFS only gets applied to pure flash setups.

It’s an all Intel ssd array. Not supported by Apple in any way though. I guess it’ll be skipped.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by rkuykendall-com »

coldtea wrote: post #393
rkuykendall-com wrote: post #275

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I was an big Aperture user too, and put off the move a long time. I installed and edited the same photos in everything. You either take the feature-set hit and switch to Apple Photos ( which does a great job with basic tweaks ), or you switch to Lightroom. Everything else is way below par. Your photos just won't anywhere near as good.

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

Sadly, I don't think the market is that big. I think Lightroom is going to monopolize it unless they get really lazy.

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Post by k-mcgrady »

s73ver_ wrote: post #412
dnautics wrote: post #389

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What is 'actual' value and who gets to decide?

Something that actually benefits society. Something that pushes it forward. You're gonna have to do a pretty amazing job to convince people that ad tech qualifies as that.

I had ads but playing devils advocate they have given a huge number of people access to technologies they never would have had access to otherwise. They have made entire businesses viable that wouldn’t be as good otherwise.

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Post by dragonwriter »

debaserab2 wrote: post #507
dragonwriter wrote: post #496

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> 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 g…

> I don't agree that deep integration is the same as sophisticated features.

PowerPivot is a sophisticated set of features.

> As a base product without the extras, excel has no advantage over google sheets.

Sure, if you define all the very real advantages Excel has as “extras”, that's true. It's also not meaningful in the real world where the artificial distinction between “base product” and “extras” has no meaning; the actual product of Excel that businesses get has features for which Google Sheets has no equivalent.

> You could equally build your stack to the same degree of sophistication on proprietary google tech.

You could, if Google offered equivalent proprietary tech for the purpose, which it doesn't.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by e40 »

eridius wrote: post #446
feelin_googley wrote: post #397

"Conclusion In this blog post, we briefly discussed High Sierra's "Secure Kernel Extension Loading" (SKEL) and demonstrated a new 0day vulnerability that can be exploited to fully bypass this new `security' feature. Unfortunately when such `security' features are introduced - even if done so with the noblest of intentions - they often just complicate the lives of 3rd-party developers and users without affecting the b…

It's unfortunate that there is an alleged 0day in this functionality. I don't know why the author is trying to accuse Apple of having the real goal of "wrestl[ing] control of the system away from it users". SKEL looks like a very good idea to me, and the presence of a bug does not make it any less of a good idea. It's also unclear in what way SKEL is supposed to be taking control away from Apple's users anyway. If an…

Try making a change to the /usr filesystem, for example. It's very hard in recent versions of macOS. It sounds like this type of thing is going to be harder in the future, and that's what the GP is talking about, I believe.
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