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Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by grishka »

latexr wrote: post #557
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.

Well, I use an Android phone :D

But I also never chat over SMS with actual people. It's just not done any more by anyone I know. The last time I sent an SMS was probably several years ago. It's 99.9% various confirmation codes and other notifications for me.

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Post by api »

travisgriggs wrote: post #206
nextos wrote: post #167

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Linux power management is pretty good. The problem is that defaults favor desktop and server performance. On a MacBook Air 11, my custom Linux setup and Mac OS had the same battery autonomy, despite Safari being much more energy efficient. The real problem is that, just like the grandparent post pointed out, Apple's software quality has been declining. The Tiger to Snow Leopard epoch was incredible. Apps were simple,…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Pournelle#Pournelle's_ir...

The iron law of bureaucracy happens because humans have a finite amount of time to spend doing things. Those dedicated to bureaucratic politics spend their time doing that, so they excel at that, while those dedicated to doing the work have no time for bureaucratic politics.

It's related to why companies with great marketing and fund raising but mediocre or off-the-shelf technology often win over companies with deeper and better tech that's really innovative. Innovation and polishing takes work that subtracts from the time available for fund raising and marketing.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by paradite »

latexr wrote: post #549
paradite wrote: post #350

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As someone who actually signs, notorizes and distributes desktop apps for macOS, I can safely say their documentation is less than ideal. Maybe because I'm using Electron framework which makes things more complicated, but I don't really understand why there's is a difference between different types of certificates (Developer ID, Apple distribution, macOS distribution) and I had to guess which one to use everytime I s…

> Also why is notorization a completely different process from code signing Because they do completely different things. Signing is a proof that you were the one to write and package that software; notarisation is an online security check for malware. If I recall, you still sign but do not notarise when distributing to the Mac App Store.

Ok, so the certificate used to sign the package is generated by Apple, why can't I just use that to prove my identity for notarization?

Or maybe simpler, why can't Apple just do code sign and notarization with one single cli call, with one set of credentials?

Google Play does this under the hook, I don't even think about it. iOS is similar, Transponder app does everything in one go.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by atombender »

lobsterthief wrote: post #260
atombender wrote: post #94

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Regarding Spotlight, one thing that started happening for me on Sequioa was that Finder and other apps started getting very slow to react to file changes. For example, I can save a new file to a directory, and the Finder window takes maybe 10-20 seconds before the file shows up in the list. If I navigate to a different folder and then back, the file is there. I notice the same delay in apps like IntelliJ. I could be…

I highly recommend using Alfred. I’ve been using it since before Spotlight came out, tried and then disabled Spotlight, and went back to Alfred. It’s extremely configurable but highly usable out of the box. Sort of like creating your own CLI shortcuts to open files, apps, copy things to the clipboard, etc. https://www.alfredapp.com/

Alfred is nice. I use Raycast these days: https://www.raycast.com/.

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Post by rollcat »

NavinF wrote: post #523
nextos wrote: post #167

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Linux power management is pretty good. The problem is that defaults favor desktop and server performance. On a MacBook Air 11, my custom Linux setup and Mac OS had the same battery autonomy, despite Safari being much more energy efficient. The real problem is that, just like the grandparent post pointed out, Apple's software quality has been declining. The Tiger to Snow Leopard epoch was incredible. Apps were simple,…

> Linux power management is pretty good > defaults favor desktop and server performance Desktops are in S3 half the day consuming ~0 power. During use, electricity costs are so much lower than hardware costs that approximately nobody cares about or even measures the former. Servers have background tasks running at idle priority all day so the power consumption is effectively constant. Laptop and phone are the only pl…

My Mac mini (M1) sips ~6W idle and is completely inaudible. It acts as a desktop whenever I need it to, and as a server 24/7. I only power up my NAS (WoL) for daily backups. The rest of the homelab is for fun and experiments, but mostly gone.

"Idle" x86-64 SOHO servers still eat ~30W with carefully selected parts and when correctly tuned, >60W if you just put together random junk. "Cloud" works because of economies of scale. If there's a future where people own their stuff, minimising power draw is a key step.

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Post by vvillena »

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.

These kinds of shortcuts are part of Apple software as a whole, and apparently have been a thing since at least OSX. These behaviors were supposed to be covered in the documentation, but I don't know how true this is nowadays.

Special mention to all text input fields in macOS having Emacs-style shortcuts.

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Post by api »

briandear wrote: post #419
syeare wrote: post #343

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The actual argument would be people voting with their wallets and moving away from the Apple ecosystem, but this something impossible at least in the USA due to these bullshit "blue bubbles"

How do blue bubbles make any difference?

For most of the people here they don't. In popular culture and especially among teens and non-technical twenty-somethings there's this absurd "eww green text!" thing. A blue bubble is a status symbol for some reason, even though there's lots of Android phones that cost as much as iPhones.

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Post by api »

andrepd wrote: post #519
whstl wrote: post #416

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Apple is addicted to growth. It is as big as it should be, but it acts like an early stage startup always trying to build some new flashy thing to attract the next customer.

It's not Apple, it's capitalism. "Unlimited growth is the ideology of the cancer cell", yet for Apple (or any corporation), it's not good enough to sell 100,000,000 phones. Next year you must sell 105,000,000. And the year after 112,000,000 (not even 110 or your growth is stagnating). So you get rid of removable batteries so customers have to toss their phones away more often, you gimp other feature, you spend more m…

Do you want to retire?

Capitalism works this way because its customers, the investors, want it to work this way, because growth is how you get compound interest. Investors include anyone with an interest bearing bank deposit, a 401k, stocks, bonds, etc.

No growth means it would no longer be possible for an investment to appreciate.

I think of a similar thing when I see people complaining about how companies don't want to pay good wages. When you go shopping do you buy the $10 product or the $5 essentially equivalent alternative? Most people will buy the $5 one. If you do that, you're putting downward pressure on wages.

It's in your (purely economic) best interest for your wages to be high but everyone else's to be low. That's because when you're a worker you are a seller of labor, while when you're a customer you are an (indirect) buyer of labor.

Everything in economics is like this. Everything is a paradox. Everything is a feedback loop. Every transaction has two parties, and in some cases you are both parties depending on what "hat" you are wearing at the moment.

Re: Apple needs a Snow Sequoia

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Post by chrizel »

drunner wrote: post #265

Absolutely drives me nuts that I can't remove the music icon from the systray in Mac. And ditto on all the spotlight issues. Also, why does it take 10 seconds for activity monitor to show information? The list goes on. If only Mac hardware officially supported Linux, I would never touch that macOS again.

> Also, why does it take 10 seconds for activity monitor to show information? The list goes on.

That's not a bug, but a feature. Under View -> Update Frequency, you can change it.

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Post by rollcat »

latexr wrote: post #535
MichaelZuo wrote: post #196

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What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities? Because right now it’s clearly so far down, beneath dozens of other priorities, that expecting it to just happen one day seems futile.

> What’s the actual argument that will credibly convince the top leaders of Apple, to push fixing MacOS up the list of priorities? Unrelenting bad press. People talking about nothing else but the decline of their software quality. We can already see that with the recent debacle which caused executive shuffling at the top of the company.

That shuffling was caused by Apple utterly failing to deliver a major feature, that was a key selling point for the latest generation of their hardware.

"Bad press" for their declining software quality is like people complaining there's no iPhone mini/SE anymore. Apple just doesn't give a fuck. They've joined the rest of the flock at chasing fads and quarterly bottom lines.

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