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OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by panglott »

StevePerkins wrote: post #194
zymhan wrote: post #67

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You can't really replace the underlying tools, you'd want to install the new versions in a different folder and update your Environment to point to those executables. EDIT: I'm wrong, didn't realize homebrew-dupes actually is meant to replace the OS X utils.

So effectively, it's only one step better than installing Cygwin on a Windows machine? Can someone please remind me again why the MacBook is such a preffered machine for software development? For years I've been told, " You get a shell! ", and " It's UNIX under the covers ", etc. Except that the shell userspace is antiquated, and the UNIX flavor is BSD rather than Linux. Meaning that I'm just as out-of-sync with my t…

If your complaint is that the UNIX layer of Mac OS X isn't ~exactly~ like Linux, then the only way you're going to solve that problem is by running Linux instead.

It's easy to get more up-to-date software with package managers.

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Post by dilap »

Razengan wrote: post #57
bigdubs wrote: post #22

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https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-dupes is your friend.

Some may prefer Nix: http://nixos.org/nix/

nix seems really interesting & the 'right way' to do things. but strangely, i don't really* have problems with homebrew -- maybe because it has the luxury of being built on top of a stable, known system.

*i have had problems with python. i always have problems with python.

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Post by rahoulb »

thothamon wrote: post #366
spilk wrote: post #42

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I think clipboard permissions for applications is going to become an issue with features like this. I may be incorrect but I'm pretty sure that clipboard access is unrestricted on both OS X (ugh, macOS) and iOS.

I think I'm gonna stick with calling it OS X, marketers be d *ed.

It was called Mac OS for years (1)

I also remember when it was just called "System"

(1) Yeah yeah I know all about NeXT, but OS X isn't NeXT as anyone who used Rhapsody will remember

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by fredoliveira »

izacus wrote: post #188
mayoff wrote: post #175

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To be fair (regarding "closed tech"), Apple was hardly the only one to release a propriety Vulkan alternative (there's also Mantle and DX12) and Apple released Metal to developers almost two years before Vulkan 1.0 was released.

Hmm, what does "to be fair" mean in this context? That it's ok because other people did a shitty move as well?

It feels like you're completely ignoring the second part of his sentence.

Re: OS X is now macOS and gets support for Siri, auto unlock

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Post by mikegerwitz »

prirun wrote: post #511
mikegerwitz wrote: post #303

Can I swipe someone's phone, walk over to their Mac, and have it unlock? Or is there something else going on that doesn't make this a really bad idea?

You mean like, the cops, FBI, or TSA take your iphone, put it close to your laptop, and then have access to everything, probably including your encrypted hard drive? Yeah, I'd say that's a pretty bad idea.

That too.

I was referring to just your average person---be it a friend, spouse, coworker, or someone who just happens to be near you.

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Post by rsync »

bane wrote: post #493
matt4077 wrote: post #473

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brew install . I have about 100 packages installed and haven't had a problem in months. Anything somewhat popular is updated within day. But I don't get the complaint about multiple screens either. It's always been plug in -> desktop extended. I wouldn't even know what to get wrong.

Only since maybe Yosemite has multi monitor support been what I'd call well modeled and decent. It's quite often been plug in -> useless grey screen on the other monitor you can't use, or some other nonsense. It took, what 3 entire revisions of the OS just for that not to happen? For a while, I had apps where I couldn't put different windows of the same app on different monitors, or one of the windows would randomly…

"Fundamentally it came down to issues with Apple's way of thinking about workspaces, monitors, desktops, applications and windows. Even now I still have to spend far too much time hunting down things across multiple desktops and monitors. It seemed like Apple was dancing around what should probably just happen in an effort not to too closely mimic Microsoft."

Everything you need to know can be summed up in the fact that, in OSX, you can click the green button with a '+' in it, and that window can get smaller.

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Post by agret »

Adverblessly wrote: post #330
TazeTSchnitzel wrote: post #307

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Huh? Apple lets me use my own email address, unlike say, Google.

I'm not sure if you'll find that helpful, but you can create a Google account with a non-gmail email. When you create your account, below the username textbox is a blue "I prefer to use my current email address". Never tried it myself though..

They've changed it now so if you want to signup for a Google account it asks for your existing email and has a text link to signup for a gmail. If you are on the gmail landing page and hit sign up then it's how you stated though.

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Post by terrywilcox »

Ezhik wrote: post #142

I thought I had at least 20 years before being scared of new technology. Still sitting on OS X 10.10 scared to update, and completely disinterested in most cloud stuff except for my OneDrive folder. Time to look into Linux, I suppose, since I'm about to become one of those people.

So nothing in Linux is new technology?

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Post by tehabe »

jaxondu wrote: post #237
pilif wrote: post #213

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They did introduce a new file system - it just wasn't part of the keynote.

The doc https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/content/docum...

I finally understand a bug on OSX which bugged me for a long time. When I stored a file with the name äöü on and HFS+ volume and wanted to access this file via ä[tab] is would work. It was eventually fixed.

But know I know why this happened. HFS+ normalise the letter and ä becomes two characters, the a and the umlaut dots. And bash didn't know that or didn't care, so it so no file with an ä but with an a at the beginning.

Is this analysis correct? I so hope that APFS will be a little bit more sane.

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Post by Someone »

ioquatix wrote: post #513
chc wrote: post #244

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Vulkan is based on Mantle, and DX12 can coexist with Vulkan because Microsoft doesn't take responsibility for all of Windows' OpenGL and Vulkan support. In this area at least, Apple really is doubling down on proprietary technology where others aren't so much.

One aspect of their decision to run with Metal that surprises me, is that they decided the cost of developing and maintaining an API of that level of complexity was worth it. I'd like to know what they were thinking.

I think they looked at how 'well' third parties developed Mac OS X drivers for OpenGL, and figured that wouldn't get better.

Assuming they knew about Vulkan in time (Vulkan was announced at SigGraph 2014, about a year before Metal's _release_, so that may have been tight), I guess they assumed things wouldn't get better if they replaced OpenGL with another open technology.

Also, from what I read, Vulkan doesn't do anything implicitly, OpenGL does lots of things implicitly. They may have thought that the optimum API lies between the two.

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