Forget about new features, I just want all the old features to stop breaking. It sucks having to buy new software every X years. At least with Windows, I can run old business stuff with no problems. Good luck on Mac.
If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
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Re: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
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Yeah that sucks, but on OSX side I have to restart my computer every week or so because of forced updates. Restarting really is a big deal for me as my workspace consists of several dozen open windows, some of them I have to login, navigate to a particular place, etc... also you lose your train of thought. It has gotten that bad for me, that I have to take screenshots before restarting every time, so I don't lose tra…
MacOS Monterey added an option to disable automatic updates. It's been the biggest annoyance for years, now it's just a checkbox in settings.
> MacOS Monterey added an option to disable automatic updates. It's been the biggest annoyance for years, now it's just a checkbox in settings
The ability to disable automatic updates goes back far more years than I can remember - possibly even a decade.
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The difference is that none of that stuff is running in the background when you aren't using it. Maps doesn't take up a global menu slot. Apple Music doesn't open unless you explicitly open it (unless you happen to hit an Apple Music URL on the web). You can ignore it and it doesn't bother you. Whereas on Windows, bloatware tends to add a Start menu icon, tray icon, background process, startup item, etc. And Apple's…
I never found a way of disabling the automatic starting of iTunes when you press the play/pause button on the keyboard. How do I choose my own music player app? And my new Mac has things like (can't remember exactly) 'musiccreationd'. These count as 'startup items' to me.
If you're running a non-iTunes music app (including web pages, on newer versions of macOS), the play/pause button goes to whichever one last grabbed the audio. So if you start VLC (or whatever) first thing (or add it to the auto-start items), then the play/pause button will always go there.
Re: If Apple keeps letting its software slip, the next big thing won’t matter
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Since Internet Explorer is not supported anymore by most websites Safari has become the new worst browser in regards to having really bad CSS and Web API Support.
Yeah maybe you as a developer want some fancy CSS and bleeding fresh Web API but I as a user don't. The web is too bloated as it is, I feel that Apple is on my side putting a damper on that. Safari is powerful enough as it is. You want voip, notifications, codecs and so on - do the work and learn to write a native app. I'd rather pay for that than paying with my attention to ads in your "free" web app.
Well I as a developer just want a browser which doesn't break existing features: localstorage, indexeddb were completely broken for months this year.
Like CSS containment is feature that was shipped in Chrome in 2016, Firefox 2019 so how many years have to pass for Safari to implement it so it isn't just 'some new shiny' feature anymore?
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#96Apple's new Music app absolutely ruined my entire local music collection one day, when updating from macOS 11.4 to 11.5 (I think).
My music collection traveled with me from OS update to OS update for about 13 years with no problem. And now pretty much everything is broken, some files can not be played even though they are on disk, half of the album covers are gone, syncing with the phone gives a ton of errors. What happened to this app and why - I have no idea. It was my worst day as a long-time Apple user and needless to say how maddening it was. Oh, the backups don't help, the new app does the same thing to the backup copy too.
Seems like Apple doesn't care about your local music collection anymore, nobody even bothered to test.
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Not having web push is a feature. They're the 3rd party toolbar or BonziBuddy of the modern web—often enabled, but rarely wanted—however nice an idea they were in theory.
The push API is supported by every major browser except Safari. Just because you find them annoying is no excuse for not supporting them. If by chance Apple agrees with your stance, a Safari config that disables them is the proper solution, not dragging their feet.
It's a pure loss for non-geek users. It should be disabled—no dialog allowed, even—by default, if the feature's gonna exist. That hitting "allow" on a pane that pops up on a site—something users are conditioned to do without thinking by all kinds of shitty but extremely common web patterns—affects something outside the current site's browser window is unexpected and unwanted by normal users. Cases where it's easy for sites to affect the behavior of a machine, or of the browser, outside the current session on that site, have historically been a big problem for non-geeks, and this is no exception.
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Care to elaborate?
For iPad oh boy they sure added new niceties such as: - Not being able to click a tab unless you drag it to the center of the tab bar - Make a "drag a link/anchor into a new window" feature; except it triggers way too easily from ordinary scrolling, forcing you to spend the next 15-30 seconds figuring out how the FUCK do you close it with an non-obvious swipe gesture. Apparently buttons with "Close" or a big X are to…
Oh my god the inadvertent link drag to new window (or just overwrite current window) has been killing me, glad I’m not the only one, means there’s a chance it gets addressed.
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> Yeah that sucks, but on OSX side I have to restart my computer every week or so because of forced updates. Huh? I think I restart my Mac for updates perhaps quarterly , and I can't recall it ever being forced.
Perhaps we live in different realities that happen to be connected through Hacker News. In my timeline, Apple users have to deal with this -> https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222
But you don't have to update. The consequence is that every day you have to choose "Ask me later" on the notification that pops up once a day, but that's a lot easier than restoring everything I have open. I only update when I have to reboot for some reason.
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I can't tell if this is a defense or outrage? 1st party seems worse as, depending on the purpose, it might be harder to remove.
Last I checked even server focused Linux distros ship with a firewall. Bash? Fucking savages! Zsh or gtfo Not everyone has time to memorize Linux From Scratch and git commit a CI/CD pipeline towards the perfect distro Maybe if programmers were interested in teaching versus making bank at big corp.
Need big bank to support the home loan and childcare.