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If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter

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Post by concinds »

dreamcompiler wrote: post #313
AlexandrB wrote: post #88

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Time Machine has been neglected for so long . The UI was never great for power users, but at least it worked. For a novice computer user it was a pretty good "set it and forget it" experience. In the last 3 years it has become so unreliable (every time it tries to backup it claims the backup is corrupted and needs to be re-created) that I've given up and switched to Carbon Copy Cloner.

Same here. CCC is several orders of magnitude faster than Time Machine and it just works. I stopped using Time Machine years ago when they started using hidden permissions on Time Machine backups that made it impossible to "garden" my family's backups on the network backup drive. Even as root, you couldn't delete old backups -- you had to log in to the particular user's computer to delete old backups. And then they c…

> I stopped using Time Machine years ago when they started using hidden permissions on Time Machine backups that made it impossible to "garden" my family's backups on the network backup drive. Even as root, you couldn't delete old backups -- you had to log in to the particular user's computer to delete old backups.

You can no longer do that, AFAIK. Not even from the same user account or from root, since TM volumes are set by APFS as read-only except to Time Machine itself.

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Post by drcongo »

gcanyon wrote: post #474
asteiger wrote: post #451

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In the notifications settings/preferences, on a per-app basis, you can set whether notifications are displayed to allow banners, badges, and sounds. And you can turn on/off whether the notification posts to the lock screen, or stay in the notification center (swipe down on iOS, click the clock in the menu bar on OSX)

I'll have to look into this, but my experience has been that Notification Center: doesn't display everything; loses things on a whim; gives no way of recovering things, or displaying all things.

It definitely does. One reliable way I've noticed for this to happen is if you have the app that caused the notification open on another device. Presumably that app is then saying to the notifications system "don't worry, I've got this", but then that notification disappears on all devices.

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Post by john_minsk »

Sad, but true.

I'm watching very closely at the issue, that with iTunes I was able to sync files to iphone/ipod/ipad and SEE THE PROGRESS BAR. Since iTunes was discontinued and we were forced to use Finder for the same task - you no longer see any progress bar when syncing files to one of the apps on your device.

From 0 to 10, what would HN rate this UX mistake?

Here is a thread on Apple forums: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/130051

Here is Apple's official guidelines: https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guideline...

"Don’t make people sit around staring at a static screen waiting for your app to load content or perform lengthy data processing operations. Use progress indicators to let people know your app hasn't stalled and to give them some idea of how long they’ll be waiting."

Go figure.

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Post by FDSGSG »

lowercased wrote: post #229
Tagbert wrote: post #223

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Not sure where you are. In the US Apple stores are open and doing support. You just need to schedule a session.

which... may be days or a week away, if there's anything remotely close to you. FWIW, I've usually been able to get something 'same day', but not always, and often it's "hey, there's a slot in 2 hours, and the next one is in 6 days".

> may be days or a week away, if there's anything remotely close to you

That's the cost of not living in a big city. Life is full of choices.

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Post by [deleted] »

FDSGSG wrote: post #514
lowercased wrote: post #229

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which... may be days or a week away, if there's anything remotely close to you. FWIW, I've usually been able to get something 'same day', but not always, and often it's "hey, there's a slot in 2 hours, and the next one is in 6 days".

> may be days or a week away, if there's anything remotely close to you That's the cost of not living in a big city. Life is full of choices.

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Post by WalterBright »

sobani wrote: post #498
WalterBright wrote: post #477

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I put two fingers on a message. The message shades slightly. I slide down. The shading goes away, and the screen slides down. It does not slide right, it does not collect $200.

When I put two fingers at the same time on a message, the checkboxes immediately appear. If I'm even slightly off, the checkboxes never appear and instead I get to see the contents of the message when I let go.

I tried this again and again.

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Post by jaywalk »

onemoresoop wrote: post #290
jaywalk wrote: post #249

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Sounds like you're just using the basic toggle switch to "disable" Wi-Fi when that's not really the purpose of the switch. If you actually want the Wi-Fi disabled, you have to do it right. Do it in the UEFI menu, or disable it in Device Manager if that option isn't available. It won't get re-enabled if you do it right.

You're absolutely right if I wanted to disable Wi-Fi permanently. The problem is that I want it enabled at times without rebooting the system.

So that rules out the UEFI method, but you can enable and disable in Device Manager without a reboot.

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Post by jjice »

warning26 wrote: post #283
jjice wrote: post #282

I use MacOS for work - I think it's a fine OS. Biggest thing for me is that it's UNIX based. I wouldn't use a MacBook myself though. They certainly are damn fine machines for the price (M1), but I really don't like MacOS having a bunch of stuff I don't need, like Garage Band. I know Windows has a ton of bloat as well, and MacOS's bloat is more useful, generally speaking. It's not for most people, but any popular user…

I mean, you can uninstall Garageband. If you do a clean MacOS install, Garageband isn't even included (you have to download it separately).

This was a brand new machine sent to me by my company and it was preinstalled. Is it not bundled with a fresh install, but with a newly sold device?

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Post by jjice »

lostgame wrote: post #344
jjice wrote: post #282

I use MacOS for work - I think it's a fine OS. Biggest thing for me is that it's UNIX based. I wouldn't use a MacBook myself though. They certainly are damn fine machines for the price (M1), but I really don't like MacOS having a bunch of stuff I don't need, like Garage Band. I know Windows has a ton of bloat as well, and MacOS's bloat is more useful, generally speaking. It's not for most people, but any popular user…

GarageBand doesn’t come pre installed with a Mac, hasn’t for years; and only came pre installed for a very brief couple years.

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/built-in-apps-mchl1...

It's on this list from Apple, but the additional comment in the table row makes it sound like it had been gone for a bit and now it's default again? This was a store-new machine and it was installed on there - don't know why it would be there otherwise.

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Post by op12op12 »

latexr wrote: post #501
riversflow wrote: post #470

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> important enough to do a notification, it’s important enough to keep in a notification log that I can go through chronologically, search, group, sort, etc. In light of a grandchild comment to this one about notification center on iPhone, I'll offer that on Mac you can do a two-finger swipe from the right side of the touch pad to get notification center. It doesn't have search, but they are grouped in stacks chronol…

> on Mac you can do a two-finger swipe from the right side of the touch pad to get notification center. Or click the clock.

Which kind of goes back to the earlier point:

> I don't understand what I'm supposed to do to make it behave in a way that makes sense.

There used to be an actual icon for it to the right of the clock. Why would someone think to click on the clock to access their notifications? This apparently also led to the clock becoming mandatory instead of being able to hide it if you wanted to use different options.

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