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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by grzm »

therealdrag0 wrote: post #523

I wish the Finder didn't suck so badly. Maybe they'll update that someday...

Have you tried any of the Finder alternatives, such as Path Finder[0]? I'm not sure if it's a result of me adapting my workflow to the environment, but I find I don't actually use the Finder very much. Between ⇧⌘G (Go to Folder) and Launch Bar[1] (the first thing I install on a new system), actual Finder browsing is pretty rare for me. Of course, different people have different workflows and needs, and I can understand people who might want an alternative.

What do you personally find lacking or inefficient? What changes would you like to see?

[0]: https://cocoatech.com/#/

[1]: https://obdev.at/products/launchbar/index.html

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by debaserab2 »

dragonwriter wrote: post #519
debaserab2 wrote: post #507

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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;…

> 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.

The distinction isn't artificial: you can build upon excel as if it's a programming platform, but that doesn't make excel itself more powerful - all you've done is built yourself into a proprietary tech stack. With enough time you could do the same thing in Google sheets with Google's proprietary scripting interface. Comparing the two apps at baseline there is no difference in sophisticated features. PowerPivot is a plugin.

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

Yeah, actually it does - you just won't be solving everything with an xls file and you might actually be using a more appropriate tool for the problem, but I guarantee Google has an equivalent offering.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by cpr »

feelin_googley wrote: post #530

https://eclecticlight.co/2017/09/24/high-sierra-automaticall... Posted to HN over the weekend so few have probably seen it. One user referred to this "feature" as "beyond creepy". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15326924 Tweets from the developer were quickly removed from Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20170924180858/https://twitter.c... "1. Xeno Kovah( A design requirement we were given early on by Privac…

Why do you call it data collection?

It's simply ensuring the firmware (which is really part of the hardware--though nothing's "hard" until you get down to the microcode interpreter on the CPU) hasn't been altered.

The only "data" collected is: Has this Mac been compromised?

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by scarlac »

AhtiK wrote: post #138

Does not mention official eGPU support -- any ideas if it's included and how stable?

An in-depth review was posted here on HackerNews. It's not considered ready for consumers yet, and was announced for developers to try it out.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by wlesieutre »

wlesieutre wrote: post #380
baby wrote: post #139

I love that they feature the HTC Vive for Virtual Reality. Looks like they understood what was the best headset :) I've been actively looking into developing games for the Vive, anyone has tried doing that on a macbook pro?

It would work fine, but compile times are obvious slower than a desktop with a better CPU. High Sierra adds official support for external GPUs on thunderbolt and you'll definitely need one. Apple sells an enclosure (Sonnet's) with an RX 580. I thought this also came with a $100 Vive discount, but that promo must have ended. https://developer.apple.com/development-kit/external-graphic...

Also note that Metal has less CPU overhead than OpenGL. Beyond the compile times, you'll be more likely to run into CPU bottlenecks while running games/applications that are OpenGL based.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by reggieband »

e40 wrote: post #520
eridius wrote: post #446

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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.

When this first came out I had some troubles with it. I guess since then homebrew and others have caught up to the changes. It hasn't been a problem for many months.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by s73ver_ »

k-mcgrady wrote: post #518
s73ver_ wrote: post #412

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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.

Ads themselves, sure. Ad tracking tech, not so much.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by wstrange »

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…

> Personally I prefer to pay someone for a product/service directly.

You can.

Gapps for business. $5 a month. No scanning of your email, etc.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by 4ad »

Terretta wrote: post #529
4ad wrote: post #447

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> FWIW, all these reasons are why I pay Flickr. I am very happy to pay someone to take care of my problems and I am a big fan in general of paying for software and services. Not sure exactly how Flickr would help me though, but I will take a look at Flickr. Does it integrate with the iOS/macOS photo library? Basically if I make an album in Photos on an iPhone, does it get synced up as an album by the flickr app, or d…

> haven't seem a wrong time on a mobile device in probably over a decade. Not talking about mobile devices. Talking about cameras. A dozen of us from work flew to have lunch at Noma in Denmark. We combined pictures after. There were nearly as many wrong times as there were people in the group. No software could have machine sorted these. > Flickr Flickr integrates with camera roll to upload originals in background bu…

Ah, of course that cameras always have time set wrong!

Personally I use cloud services like iCloud only for my iPhone pictures. For my "real" photography I just keep files on a NFS server (and Lightroom is a pain with NFS...), I don't import then in cloud services.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by burnte »

cpr wrote: post #533
feelin_googley wrote: post #530

https://eclecticlight.co/2017/09/24/high-sierra-automaticall... Posted to HN over the weekend so few have probably seen it. One user referred to this "feature" as "beyond creepy". https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15326924 Tweets from the developer were quickly removed from Twitter. https://web.archive.org/web/20170924180858/https://twitter.c... "1. Xeno Kovah( A design requirement we were given early on by Privac…

Why do you call it data collection? It's simply ensuring the firmware (which is really part of the hardware--though nothing's "hard" until you get down to the microcode interpreter on the CPU) hasn't been altered. The only "data" collected is: Has this Mac been compromised?

It's being called data collection to be alarmist. It's the same thing as the iTerm bug last week. There's a genuine issue that is blown out of proportion by the network-Temperence movement. I agree that this should be an opt-in or at least opt-out thing, collecting anonymous checksums to start to watch for EFI vulnerabilities is a little different form sending Apple your DNA profile to be sold on the human clone black market.
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