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Post by lxgr »

mediaserf wrote: post #299
lxgr wrote: post #68

> The implementations of the exfat and msdos file systems on macOS have changed; these file systems are now provided by services running in user-space instead of by kernel extensions. This sounds interesting! I really wish there was a native FUSE alternative on macOS; just recently I found myself in a pickle due to not being able to mount an ext4 boot volume on an SD card on my Mac at all. (Passing through to a VM wo…

macFUSE - https://osxfuse.github.io/

Yes – I mean a native alternative to this (or even an implementation of it!) which does not need a third-party kernel extension.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by astrange »

beowulfey wrote: post #282
astrange wrote: post #213

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Once again a good time to remember that there were multiple perfectly good package managers available when Homebrew was invented, they were more future-proof (by eg not putting files in /usr/local), and everyone only switched to it because for some reason Ruby programmers wanted all of their tools to be written in Ruby (and possibly by people with waxed mustaches.)

It works well now though—do you prefer any of the other package managers still?

I ended up having far less use for one, and the tools I do use come from cross-platform package managers like cpan and pip.

…Like I said, language X developers want all their tools to be written in language X, and their package systems too.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by adastra22 »

pxc wrote: post #635
adastra22 wrote: post #515

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https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/fsseq2/comment/f...

Yes, I agree with that post that the USian pronunciation as given there is better than the British one. But Jobs' rendering of the American pronunciation also sounds wrong to me because the final syllable doesn't generally rhyme with 'wire' as I've heard most Americans pronounce the word.

It may be regional. Jobs grew up in Mountain View and I grew up in Santa Clara, just a few miles down the road. My parents and teachers always said something resembling "jag-wire" in pronunciation.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by ask_b123 »

johnwalkr wrote: post #284
movedx wrote: post #248

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I can't use Keychain on Windows, I assume?

As others said, you can in chrome, but it's not as smooth as in iOS and MacOS as it only works in Chrome, and doesn't work in apps (like steam or other game launchers).

Wait, using it on a Mac let's it fill passwords from apps like Steam?

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Post by johnklos »

bshacklett wrote: post #240
n8henrie wrote: post #197

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https://nixos.org/download.html#nix-install-macos The homebrew team seems incredibly burnt-out, to the point of hostility. I've really enjoyed the nixpkgs community so far and encourage others to check it out; it hasn't replaced homebrew entirely for me (yet), but it's getting closer every day.

My issue with Nix is that you are forced to install packages in a global location. Why is it that every package manager assumes I’m an administrator on my machine? Even if I am, how does it make sense to take over a global directory as a single user?

Try pkgsrc. You can run it wherever you like, as an unprivileged user.

Re: macOS Sonoma is available today

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Post by Cub3 »

cglong wrote: post #188

So it goes... Warning: You are using macOS 11. We (and Apple) do not provide support for this old version. It is expected behaviour that some formulae will fail to build in this old version. It is expected behaviour that Homebrew will be buggy and slow. Do not create any issues about this on Homebrew's GitHub repositories. Do not create any issues even if you think this message is unrelated. Any opened issues will be…

You get what you pay for

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Post by FullyFunctional »

handsclean wrote: post #478
FullyFunctional wrote: post #340

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I wonder how atypical I am as there was literally nothing in the list I cared about. In particular the widgets seems unfathomably pointless. I don't even use them on the phone, but at least there I can kind of see the point. Meanwhile there's still no support for AV1.

This release does add AV1 support, just only for devices with hardware decoding support [1]. I’m not entirely sure that restriction applies to desktop as well as mobile, it doesn’t work on my Mac without hardware support even after enabling the disabled feature flags, but I only upgraded Safari, not macOS. Hardware-only is the right move IMO. Literally earlier today I was dealing with stuttering video that turned out…

That's not a macOS update, but a Safari update, and it wasn't there when I wrote that

Wow, that's actually great news. It's the first I have seen of Apple actually supporting it in any way (despite being a member of the consortium that created it).

I don't disagree wrt. phones and tablets, but my MBP laughs at decoding AV1 videos; it's really not that taxing for an M2. Anyway, the more important story here is that A17 (based on this) appears to have AV1 hardware. That's an important first step.

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Post by jcoletti »

spartanatreyu wrote: post #338
jcoletti wrote: post #121

X/Twitter running as a new "Web App" is pretty solid, and a huge upgrade from the older, unmaintained Twitter macOS app. Everything pretty much works as expected & feels native, though not sure if Dock icon badge counts are supported.

I prefer mastodon.social, and nitter.net (for when I need to see something on the old site)

Didn't know about nitter, thanks for that.

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Post by Tagbert »

MichaelZuo wrote: post #572
cztomsik wrote: post #432

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I have similar feelings. Apple did a wonderful job with M1/M2, but on the software side, I have mixed feelings. Xcode is a mess, and Swift UI is not a complete replacement for Cocoa. And on the OS side, I feel like Apple is creating features that I instantly disable because they do the exact opposite of what I want.

Is SwiftUI supposed to be a complete replacement of Cocoa in 2023? I thought that was a nebulous goal for the distant future?

It is not, yet, a full replacement. You can use Swift UI for some kinds of apps but there are UIs that are still harder in it. Apple acknolwedges that some people still need to use Appkit. It’s clear that their long term plan is to build out Swift UI to be enough to fully replace the older libraries.

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Post by rpgbr »

pedalpete wrote: post #422
rpgbr wrote: post #330

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Have you been following Windows 10/11 versions? macOS’ naming scheme is a breeze in comparison.

How do you figure? Windows had 7, 8, skipped 9, 10, 11, and now 12 is coming. Windows thought they'd never do a major update again, and tried to hold on to the 10 label, but then realized that wouldn't work. So 11 is a bit of a branding stumble, but we know, it came after 10.

You’re ignoring all yearly updates to Windows 10 and 11, most of them with news features enough that would be a major version if they were on macOS.

I mean[1]:

>As announced in July, the Windows 11 2023 Update (version 23H2) will be released in the fourth quarter of 2023. This new update will have the same servicing branch and code base as Windows 11, version 22H2 and will be cumulative with all the newly announced features. For devices on version 22H2, the 2023 Update will be delivered via a small enablement package (eKB)7. This continues the annual feature update cadence, with new feature updates released in the second half of the calendar year. This new version resets the 24 months of support for Home and Pro editions and 36 months of support for Enterprise and Education editions.

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2023/09/26/how-t...

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