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Shame that APFS will not be available for fusion drives, :( Many millions of those devices out there. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT208018
At least not on release of High Sierra. We'll probably see it later, but I haven't seen a clear statement either way.
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I worked in ads company. I understood that I was producing waste. But I treated it as a puzzle. Tasks were really challenging and salary was more than average.
how wasteful would your work have to be before the personal satisfaction wasn't enough to outweigh the drain on society as a whole? i'm genuinely asking, because i'm genuinely curious. i'm lucky enough to get paid decently to work at a job that i believe in, and that's been true of the vast majority of my employment history. but i can think of an e-commerce gig i took that i did not particularly believe in (though i…
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One third of the games I've purchased on Steam are available on Linux. I guess the perception of whether or not Microsoft effectively has a monopoly in the gaming PC market segment really centers around the games you play.
1/3 is pretty poor coverage. State it this way: "In order to play 2/3 of available video games, you must have Windows."
I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. :)
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Incorrect. There are in fact three ways to completely disable it. You can get the Enterprise edition [0] or modify your registry configuration [1] or by a third party tool [2]. Even if you don't want to do any of those for some reason, reading about the Basic level of telemetry - it's nothing. At least it's nothing that I care about. [0] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsforbusiness/try [1] https://winaero.com/b…
Enterprise edition is not available to non-volume accounts. I.e. not for home machines, not for small businesses. The registry edit is specifically not honored for non-enteprise SKUs.
Yes it is. I have multiple copies of it available to me with my MSDN subscription which only costs me about $800 per year.
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1/3 is pretty poor coverage. State it this way: "In order to play 2/3 of available video games, you must have Windows."
Poor coverage? For an operating system that has single digit desktop market share? I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. :)
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Have you found the Notifications preference pane, which allows you to control notifications including turning them off completely if you like?
Here's the funny thing about that notifications preference pane: I can tweak the way any kind of notification is displayed, except for updates. There the only options are: update now or pretend to update now.
(It's my least favourite notification too.)
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I made a list about a year ago, but some things that come to mind: - No cut (to paste) (so I have to have two windows open or go back and forth to perform a cut?) - In tree view, pasting pastes to root folder, not selected folder. - I think `enter/return` to `rename` instead of `open` is absurd. - Have to memorize shortcut to open 'go to folder' path field, instead of toggling always enabling path field. (Grew up usi…
- No cut (to paste) (so I have to have two windows open or go back and forth to perform a cut?) Paste: Cmd + Alt + V - In tree view, pasting pastes to root folder, not selected folder. Hold the item over the folder and drop it after the folder is selected. - I think `enter/return` to `rename` instead of `open` is absurd. On the other hand it's easier to avoid accidentally opening thousands of files.
Huh. I know I googled this before and I just remember people saying that `cut` was jut not part of the mac philosophy. Thanks.
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1/3 is pretty poor coverage. State it this way: "In order to play 2/3 of available video games, you must have Windows."
Poor coverage? For an operating system that has single digit desktop market share? I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. :)
Fortunately there's been a lot of great games coming out for Linux too recently, mostly thanks to cross-system frameworks like Unity, I assume. And that's great, but not really enough to threaten Windows' position in the PC game market.
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I develop against the deployment environment run in virtual machines for two reasons. 1) Too many packages/servers/etc. I've tried to install under OS X over the years just didn't quite work right. That's probably not the case so much any more, but I have experienced it recently. 2) Developing against a macOS localhost can mask problems associated with my code running in the deployment environment. So to avoid those…
Re: #1 that’s been generally smooth for me since Homebrew stabilized but I think your second point is key: it’s faster to develop locally but you definitely want to have some regular test that you’re in sync with the actual deployment environment. Docker has made that pretty easy now that the Mac Docker app is solid.
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You are right that the product comes from the business model. You are however completely wrong about what Google should do. Advertising is not an evil thing that needs to be eliminated. It is a much better revenue source for building services compared to selling hardware. Apple organization is fundamentally built around selling hardware and software as a package for an upfront cost. The organization is design to perf…
> This is 100% at odds with what you need to do with services. You need to iterate all the time and not be trying to perfect something for the new iOS release. This sounds like it _should_ be true, but unfortunately, Apple has a much much better track record of supporting its old devices that Google. So, yeah, the "service" might work, but what help is that if my 3-year old Android phone was hacked yesterday because…