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Years ago, I developed the muscle memory of copying links from outlook and pasting them into a browser rather than clicking on them directly. This was to avoid various "helpful" things Microsoft insists of doing. Now, that habit will pay off in spades.
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That’s a configurable suggestion in Safari. Go to Settings > Safari and turn off ‘Safari suggestions’
A non-dark-pattern for that would be a button on the first suggestion that lets you disable the suggestion permanently.
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I came to assume the battery only exists to act as an uninterruptible power supply as I travel to the next power outlet ;) It feels like over the past 10y Linux only went from 2h to 3h of battery life. While MacBook went from 3h to 13h.
Battery life of hackintoshes never was that impressive or was it? But if you want apples to oranges instead, then even in its very basic, hacky state linux on that macbook gets 8-10 hours: https://twitter.com/AsahiLinux/status/1500039345142923269?la...
Its getting worse everywhere: some things I've noticed: Mobil Safari seems to be using the search bar to hijack my google search (Particularly for locations which open in apple maps) Although I'm mostly linux these days I went to install an alternative browser on a windows machine (using edge to download). I mentioned this in another post, but edge seems to watch for "chrome" or "firefox" downloads and politely remin…
Apple are experts are experts at creating these patterns that fall just at the edge of being classified as anti-consumer, to the point where you frequently find heated discussions about whether they are. Battery throtteling on the iPhone 6s; The sandboxing / sideloading discussion; The no-iCloud experience; The way that regular bluetooth headsets work fine, but AirPods work even better; How unauthorized Apps on MacOS…
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I wonder why in these threads nobody ever says to just pirate Windows. It's not hard to do. Sometimes people will float security concerns but it's a safe process if you just load an official ISO and then crack it, and even if it were questionable on the security front it's not like you're doing anything that really needs that sort of security if you're just playing video games. If Windows is going to make itself mand…
> Sometimes people will float security concerns but it's a safe process if you just load an official ISO and then crack it, What makes you think the crack you apply to your official ISO isn't compromising your OS? > even if it were questionable on the security front it's not like you're doing anything that really needs that sort of security If you're going to install steam on your PC, then you'd be giving an attacker…
I guess the crack being FOSS with readable source code helps. It's a 9000 line cmd file with insane Windows-y things everywhere that make it hard to read, but being open at all and with that many users gives me quite a bit of confidence in it.
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also denying full access to pencil api so that 3rd party pencils cannot compete with the official ones. and lack of user profiles on ipads so they cannot be easily shared among family.
What parts of the API? I've never used a first party one, but the generic $10 one I got on aliexpress worked fine on an ipad6.
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It may just be that I happen to have my reading glasses on right now, but both of those are easy to read. But let's run with that for a moment, and assume many people do in fact find that more difficult to read. I still have trouble calling that particularly hostile given that it's sent messages, received ones are the same color no matter what. I'm more open to the green vs blue argument than the old-green vs new-gre…
I caution against relying on your own senses when designing for accessibility. I can tell the red and green buttons apart just fine, but I'm not colorblind. And even if I were, there's multiple kinds of colorblindness - and of vision disabilities in general, from dyslexia to astigmatism. For small developers there's checker tools and simulators, but Apple is huge and has a responsibility to get this right.
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> Sometimes people will float security concerns but it's a safe process if you just load an official ISO and then crack it, What makes you think the crack you apply to your official ISO isn't compromising your OS? > even if it were questionable on the security front it's not like you're doing anything that really needs that sort of security If you're going to install steam on your PC, then you'd be giving an attacker…
> What makes you think the crack you apply to your official ISO isn't compromising your OS? I guess the crack being FOSS with readable source code helps. It's a 9000 line cmd file with insane Windows-y things everywhere that make it hard to read, but being open at all and with that many users gives me quite a bit of confidence in it. https://github.com/massgravel/Microsoft-Activation-Scripts