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Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by FullyFunctional »

ViViDboarder wrote: post #383
FullyFunctional wrote: post #342

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32-bit apps. I have 32-bit apps where the developer is either gone or will not update, thus if I wish to keep using these I have to stay on Mojava. This applies to four Macs which will likely never move away from Mojava.

Out of curiosity, what apps are those?

Of the top of my head:

- software for a "smart pen" where the company went out of business

- some label printing software

- some Steam games

- some games from GOG

Even if I don't run these daily, I don't like to be cut off from my past.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by rch »

fsflover wrote: post #509
rch wrote: post #329

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What's the best ~15" Linux laptop to ask for as a new hire these days?

https://puri.sm/products/

I think one of those or system76 will be my next personal laptop, but I hadn't seen any around the office yet (back when that was a possibility).

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by jlokier »

tobr wrote: post #552
jlokier wrote: post #477

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It's completely, totally and utterly different from browser history! If I visit HN, browse a bunch of comment threads, and find something I want to come back to later, that's 1 tab but 20 history entries. Same if I searched for something on Google and eventually found something I want to come back to later. Except that's 1 tab and 50 history entries. To recover that state via history is practically impossible. It's a…

I would propose that the issue is that browser history navigation is generally poorly designed, at least if you want to do something more sophisticated than hit “back” or search it as a set of URLs. It should be richer and store much more details about each entry.

I'm not sure how to improve history navigation to help with this, as the browser doesn't know which 1 in 20 history entries are worth finding again, and which are junk traversed on the way to something worth finding.

It can't figure it out from content search, because the junk is often the stuff that resulted from useful searches and was assessed by the user as not worth keeping. Keeping tabs is a signal from the user about which entries were useful. A form of curation. Without that signal, what is there?

However, I think bookmarks would be profoundly transformed from nearly useless to better than tabs by improvements to bookmark navigation, UX and a little extra context.

So I have to give credit to you for the idea - history navigation improvements might be transformative in a similar way.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by pishpash »

vel0city wrote: post #537
pishpash wrote: post #250

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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.

That's exactly my point, it happens automatically by relevance ("how many times did it get recently refreshed"). It's not you going in to actively close out memory "tabs". All your "tabs" are open.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by mokus »

ellis0n wrote: post #523
spenvo wrote: post #249

PSA: Big Sur forgets where apps' windows are when plugging back into an external display https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/651131?answerId=64... https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/jt0gjk/big_sur_forge... I've been on the public beta of Big Sur for months (and issued Feedback Assistant bug reports on this). As of 11.0.1, there's still a dealbreaker bug for people who use external monitors. If you unplug a…

Yes, the biggest surreal challenge of the 20th century is screen rotation and a second monitor, because that's not part of the original OS design. I am having similar problems while developing my phone operating system and one audio channel for multiple events in the same time like call ringtone, alarm clock, speakerphone, recorder. Every early version of android / ios did not work properly with sound and it took yea…

I’m not sure exactly what you mean so maybe I’m missing the point, but pre-NeXT Mac software handled multiple monitors back in at least the early 90’s, maybe even the 80’s. A friend of mine had 4 displays on his Power Mac 8600 for example. I wouldn’t call this a new challenge (for Apple at least), but rather a disappointing regression.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by pishpash »

justinator wrote: post #350
pishpash wrote: post #250

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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.

There’s literally a movement of affluent people to move into tiny houses. It may seem strange to some but maybe what’s abnormal is all this want for more more more is just marketing and one has to admit that they’ve fallen prey to it. I don’t like stuff and I loathe acquiring things. Getting rid of a car, for example changed my life for the better. Needing one in the future leads me anxious, no matter how much money…

Acquiring fewer things is not mutually exclusive with not discarding things. They may even be positively correlated.

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by rdruxn »

skuthus wrote: post #562

As of now it says the issue is 'resolved' for users failing update, but none of my macs attempting to upgrade agree with that status.

Same, yet Apple's System Status still has marked the software update issue as resolved

Re: macOS Big Sur

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Post by Exuma »

makecheck wrote: post #311

Not a great download experience so far. It has already failed twice partway through (2nd time after 9.0 GB out of 12.0 GB). And since this is Apple, who has somehow never figured out how to implement resumable downloads, it just starts from scratch again.

DUDE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Holy shit I was losing my god damn mind. I thought my new mac was dead, i was trying to debug using console/activity monitor/disk debug and didnt see any problems. WOW thank god it was this
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