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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Hammershaft » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:10 PM UTC

btown wrote: post #204

haunter wrote: post #123

Running iOS apps on the M1 Macs feels like such a game changer. Literally too cause a lot of games have been ported to iOS and now you can easily run them on Macs that were not possible before (Final Fantasy franchise for example). People can now play PUBG (although the mobile version but still). Fortnite (which have been removed but if you have downloaded it before you can still play it). And so many other games. I…

Genshin Impact, which made $100mm in its first two weeks as a free-to-play game simultaneously released on iOS, Android, Windows, and PS4, is remarkably important in this context. If Apple can ride the "convergence of console gaming and mobile gaming" wave that Genshin has shown to be a path to massive profitability for AAA game studios, it can suddenly become a relevant platform for the next generation of games, whi…

I can't help but games that straddle the fidelity of the AAA space with the exploitative and all consuming monetization endemic to iOS are really the worst that gaming has to offer as a medium.

While there are plenty of impressive perks M1 has to offer elsewhere, trading OpenGL and 32-bit support for Arm & Metal means trading access from the most creative and innovative sector of the gaming industry (the indie & AA market) for the most derivative and exploitative (mobile titles).

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by cutehax » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

I rolled back from Big Sur beta to Catalina purely as the kext blocks killed my Docker, Vagrant and virtual box. Is it better now? Big Sur looks pretty but under the hood much change there is.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by saagarjha » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:11 PM UTC

coliveira wrote: post #464

lilyball wrote: post #411

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Cmd doesn't do anything. The preview shows up on hover after a second.

Cmd allows you to close the tab without activating it.

You should be able to do that too without holding down command.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by spurgu » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:13 PM UTC

vr46 wrote: post #519

gnachman wrote: post #347

I released iTerm2 version 3.4.0 this morning with Big Sur support. Please update because 3.3 has various issues with it.

Thanks. iTerm2 has probably stopped me from moving to Linux and an ordinary laptop so Apple should be giving you a bonus loyalty royalty.

Yeah iTerm2 and Alfred for me.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Liskni_si » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

SaulOfTheJungle wrote: post #424

ksec wrote: post #159

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It is great, but: 1. Just lost a few hundred Tabs from last session. Not the first time this has happened to me on Safari. ( Firefox used to have this problem as well, they implemented multiple LastSession.json to combat the problem and it is basically a thing of the past. ) 2. Fav Icons meant they are no longer showing the Tab Description once you have a dozen tabs as they will shrink to Icons Size. So you either ha…

I can confirm point 4. I have a small, open-source Chrome/Firefox extension that has about 260 active users. I was considering porting it to Safari, but I can't justify the $99/year fee for it.

Same here. My extension these days approaches 3000 users across Chrome/Firefox, but only a fraction of those visit the donations link and send something. It just makes no sense to pay $99 to maybe get a few donations. I don't want to make this a paid extension and then spend time and money on marketing and hope that maybe I will one day break even. I just want the extension to be available to users, that's all!

Is that too much to ask?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by acchow » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:14 PM UTC

jkelleyrtp wrote: post #18

Just want to put here that if you're using a Mac and haven't tried Safari recently, you're missing out. A few things: - Battery life is fantastic compared to Chrome/FF - Privacy seems to be top-notch - The tab ordering situation is now chrome-like (my biggest gripe in older versions of safari) - Experimental features are 1 click away, easily enable/disable WebGL2 - Support for the WebExtensions standard means addons…

Does one crashing tab crash them all?

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by vel0city » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:15 PM UTC

pishpash wrote: post #250

layoutIfNeeded wrote: post #214

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compulsive_hoarding

It's actually abnormal to actively throw away things. It's not how the brain works. Do you actively try to "forget" things? Very rarely. We only need to throw away physical objects due to space constraints and rearrangement/search cost. Mental and virtual objects can decay away and there is no rearrangement cost when they are already organized by relevance.

My brain is constantly forgetting things. How many steps did it take you to go from your bed to your desk? What was the color of the car you last saw driving down the street? How many times have you blinked this last hour? What did you have for lunch on March 23rd? Its constantly filtering out things it doesn't think are interesting or important to me anymore, and it disappears from my consciousness.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by geuis » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:15 PM UTC

I'm still getting used to Catalina (and not happy with some changes from the prior version). Catalina may be my last major version upgrade for a few years.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by twistiti » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:17 PM UTC

saagarjha wrote: post #152

therealmarv wrote: post #136

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try Adguard. It's the best one for this Apple interface for adblocking.

…which requires an Electron app to constantly be running for it to really work. Not great.

Untrue in my understanding.

The Electron app needs to run to set options or to force filters update, not the rest of the time. It's still an annoyance but it's better than nothing.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by mr_toad » Thu, Nov 12, 2020, 10:19 PM UTC

tobr wrote: post #337

dntrkv wrote: post #265

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People need to learn to let go and just close tabs. It's freeing. If you need the info again, typing some related words into the address bar will usually surface the results from your history. If it doesn't, no big deal. The benefits of not lugging around that baggage outweighs the potentially tiny productivity hit you take to look up the info again.

It’s funny how there’s a borderline moral judgement about things like this. It’s as if having many files on your desktop, emails in your inbox, unnamed layers in photoshop, or open windows or tabs or apps or whatever would say something about your character. No, to the extent that these things are even a problem at all, that’s a consequence of a design that fails to take actual human factors into account.

> It’s as if having many files on your desktop, emails in your inbox

Not really. Desktop icons and email are persisted to non volatile storage.

Expecting windows and tabs to persist in the exact state you left them as if they were real world objects is just not how computers work.