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Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by gradstudent »

petercooper wrote: post #58
aneidon wrote: post #39

The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album. Currently they’re all but useless for something like a shared album from a vacation, because it groups photos by when family members upload them. I tend to upload photos at the end of each day, but other family members who were shooting on a normal camera waited until the end o…

The biggest change I’m hoping for (but not expecting) is the ability to sort shared iCloud albums by time taken, not time added to the album. This isn't a criticism of you, but when a major OS update comes down to trivia like this, it seems a bit of a shame to me. I remember the 10.2-10.6 releases and just how significant they were and it feels like rearranging deck chairs in comparison nowadays.

I remember the first time I saw Spotlight. It was magic. Then came Expose. Wireless that worked. Sleep that worked. Trivial configuration of things like sshd, apache and samba.

Amazing days.

Lately I only upgrade when forced. I ran 10.8 until earlier this year when I finally upgraded my machine. Then I spent a week trying to figure out how the hell to get gdb working again because binaries now require code signing and there's this horrible new thing called System Integrity Protection that tries to protect me from myself. They also took away my Escape key and replaced it with this TouchBar nonsens just because I wanted an i7 CPU. To put this into perspective: I practically live inside vim.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by rbanffy »

petercooper wrote: post #60
smcleod wrote: post #57

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Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

I hope we'd all standardize on the opposite: 2017-09-25.. it sorts properly when used in file and document names :-)

And all on UTC, please. End this timezone and daylight saving nightmare.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by petercooper »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #78
petercooper wrote: post #60

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I hope we'd all standardize on the opposite: 2017-09-25.. it sorts properly when used in file and document names :-)

and there is no ambiguity, does 6/7/2017 mean 6th July or 7th June?

Yeah, I thought about that as I was writing my comment and realized that's why I always write "back to front dates" with dashes instead of slashes. I think it's probably because I always use that format in filenames and slashes feel like a very bad idea there ;-)

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by alainchabat »

mullsork wrote: post #7

Sort of off topic but what has happened to the web design team at Apple? Their landing pages used to be extremely pleasant to read but by now I often struggle to read their headlines. The blurred background with text on top is not easy on my eyes at all. Perhaps my eyes are starting to go bad... Their page for the new iPhone had the same issues. In my opinion their web designs has gone down hill this year.

It looks like a theme from themeforest. They must have had a tight deadline

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

smcleod wrote: post #57
nu11p01n73R wrote: post #51

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Took some time to realise that "Available 9.25" meant 25th September. The box looked more like a disabled button.

Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

Or just use an unambiguous format especially when writing normal copy. It would only take a few extra characters to write it as "25th Sep" or "Sep 25".

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #78
petercooper wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope we'd all standardize on the opposite: 2017-09-25.. it sorts properly when used in file and document names :-)

and there is no ambiguity, does 6/7/2017 mean 6th July or 7th June?

There definitely still is ambiguity if you're unfamiliar with the format. Show someone "2017-07-06" and they still might be unsure whether that's June or July.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by AsyncAwait »

johnbellone wrote: post #77
coldtea wrote: post #63

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> This isn't a criticism of you, but when a major OS update comes down to trivia like this, it seems a bit of a shame to me. There's a whole new FS that went into production in something like 4-5 years (unheard of) among lots of over things...

I am very skeptical of a new filesystem that is going out to users that fast. I haven’t tested the beta yet, but I would imagine we still have the option of using HFS+? Otherwise I’ll wait six months or more to even attempt it.

I hear you, but the FS has been silently deployed to millions of iOS devices already, so I'd imagine it's pretty well tested for them to bet customer data on it. I also haven't had any issues with APFS on 10.13 beta, but I haven't used it in any fancy way yet.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by oneeyedpigeon »

nu11p01n73R wrote: post #74
smcleod wrote: post #57

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, American dates are confusing and illogical at the best of times, I wish America would standardise on the international ascending order date style of 25/09/2017.

I am not sure if its the American date format or the way they choose to write them (with the . instead of - or /) made it confusing to me. On Indian website it is written "Available 26.9"

That's a great point; I get the appropriate date formats whether I look at the default site or the UK 'mirror'.

Re: MacOS High Sierra

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Post by luigi23 »

4ad wrote: post #42
Tehnix wrote: post #21

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You have problems with iOS 11? Anyways, it's definitely stable, honestly I feel like it's the most stable .0 release I've been on (have been going beta -> GM on almost all releases).

I experience lagging on iOS 11 on both iPhone 7 and the 10.5 inch iPad Pro. There was no lagging on iOS 10. Basic things like swiping across home screens lags and feel jittery. Also when you unlock and the apps come into view it's annoying laggy.

Same here. On 6S animations lags very often, on iPad Pro 10.5 swiping window to multitasking causes dropping frames.
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