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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by ErneX »

cypherpunks01 wrote: post #247

Speaking of, I just bought a brand new M4 Air. The thing is amazing, except I swear that Command-Tab does not work consistently sometimes, it just does nothing and I have to press it again. It's baffling, has anyone had this before? Never had this issue on any computer in the past 20 years, it's strange.

I noticed that too, seems that since Sequoia a slight delay was introduced, so you need to wait a bit after pressing alt before pressing tab.

No idea if it’s related to the new double tapping of alt to open the siri text input.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by JSR_FDED »

rcarmo wrote: post #363
JSR_FDED wrote: post #282

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Open Settings, scroll down to Spotlight. Unselect the things you don’t want. You’re welcome :-)

Like I pointed out elsewhere, it doesn’t stick for me.

I've found that kind of thing is often caused by a damaged preferences file. The easy way to check that is to make another user account, and see if it happens there too.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by mythz »

troupo wrote: post #526
mythz wrote: post #483

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Weird flex, most commands, utilities, server software and remote tools are going to be run are going to be from the command-line. All our System Administration of remote servers uses the command-line as well since exclusively deploying to Linux for 10+ years. Sure you can happily avoid the command-line with a Linux Desktop and GUI Apps, although as a developer I don't see how I could avoid using the terminal. Even on…

> Weird flex, most commands, utilities, server software and remote tools are going to be run are going to be from the command-line. It's not a weird flex. Weird flex is this: "The command-line is also super charged in Linux starting with a GPU-accelerated Gnome terminal/ptyxis and Ghostty running Oh My Zsh" and then listing a bunch of obscure personal preference tools that follow trends du jour.

That’s not a flex, it requires no skill to install software, they’re just some of the better tools you can install to boost productivity in Linux terminals. I doubt they’re obscure to any Linux CLI user who spent time on improving the default OOB UX of bash terminals.

And you just alias them, so you can keep using the core utility names to use them.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by Aaargh20318 »

sofixa wrote: post #414
DidYaWipe wrote: post #355

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Where? And how is that option displayed to the user? I also just tried it in Spotlight and Finder, and it did nothing. Which I consider a relief, because undiscoverable bullshit is worse than the feature not existing.

macOS and iPadOS are full of those undiscoverable "if you do this combination of buttons/swipes while at full moon, something happens". As a Mac user not by choice (work issued) I hate how impossible to discover these are.

As a Mac/iOS/iPadOS user it seems that it’s almost mandatory to watch each Keynote / product announcement video if you want to keep up with new features. Lots of cool features that I only knew about by watching those videos that are completely undiscoverable otherwise.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by Khaine »

It absolutely does. There are so man quality of life issues that plague the platform that don't get addressed year after year. I'm sick of albums syncing to my phone losing their artwork. With Sequoia, I'm sick of running multiple network extensions (you know like Tailscale and Little Snitch) causing network issues.

I'm sick of the random Safari crashes.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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microtonal wrote: post #390
rcarmo wrote: post #10

There are some factual "gaps" there about how good Snow Leopard was, but I understand the sentiment. As someone who's been a Mac user since System 6 and has been consistently using Macs alongside PCs _daily_ for over 20 years I can say that Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased. It's just that me and other old-time switchers have stopped complaining about it and…

Apple's software quality (either in terms of polish or just plain QA) has steadily decreased I think the decline of software went hand-in-hand with the decline of the native indie Mac app. They still exist, but when I started with the Mac (2007), there was a very rich ecosystem of native Mac apps. Most stood head and shoulders above their Linux and Windows counterparts. Apple has nearly destroyed that ecosystem with:…

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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by latexr »

grishka wrote: post #529

> Apple’s iMessage and SMS tool is an essential app for communication for me and, I suspect, the vast majority of Apple users. For the majority American Apple users, sure. But I myself hardly ever remember that this app exists. The thing that drove me nuts in particular in Sonoma though, is their "improved" text fields. Where it would show the stupid little popup with the active keyboard layout icon next to the curso…

> But I myself hardly ever remember that this app exists.

As a counterpoint, I myself use it everyday. I’m not American and most people I know don’t have iMessage. I still prefer it to using SMS from the phone. And yes, I do agree with the author that the app is buggy.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by natnat »

hamstergene wrote: post #375

I keep being tempted to write same post but named "Does all software work like shit now?", because I swear, this is not just Apple. Software in general feels more bugged as a new norm. Most websites have an element that won't load on the first try, or a button that sometimes needs to be clicked twice because the first click did nothing. Amazon shopping app needs two clicks every now and then, because the first one di…

I remember software working really badly in the early 2000s, when Microsoft had an unassailable monopoly over everything. Then there were a bunch of changes: Windows started getting better with Windows 7, Firefox and then Chrome started being usable instead of IE, and Google and Apple products were generally a huge breath of fresh air.

Since then, Google and Apple products have become just as bad as Microsoft's. I think this is because the industry has moved towards an oligopoly where no one is really challenging the big players anymore, just like Microsoft in the late 1990s. The big companies compete with each other, but in oblique ways that go after revenue not users.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by miiiiiike »

miiiiiike wrote: post #353

I have two Apple TV 4Ks and both started dropping Bluetooth connections every minute or so after a recent upgrade. My headphones will cut out and when I go to pause the video I’ll be clicking frantically because the remote isn’t working either. Or I’ll be in the menu and the remote will pin to the left or right and scroll to the end of some massive YouTube list. Reboots, resets, nothing fixes it. My Apple Watch regul…

Oh! And the web version of the Podcast app hasn't been display or toggling "Saved" state correctly for awhile now.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

Starting to really look like building different enough to be incompatible OSes for each of your products was a bad idea.

Do we really need MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, WatchOS, TVOS, VisionOS, does maintaining all this make the product better kind term.

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