4 ms·
Scripting and generic IPC hooks are one of the coolest things computers can do, and they're more and more limited as time goes on. Just this morning I tried wri
by sdegutis 6y ago
Scripting and generic IPC hooks are one of the coolest things computers can do, and they're more and more limited as time goes on. Just this morning I tried writing a Dark Mode menu bar app for OSX (I'm aware of NightOwl) and it's literally 5 lines of code, but I can't get it running because of sandbox headaches. Looked up all the combinations of solutions but couldn't figure it out after 30 minutes. All sorts of automation and inter-app use-cases are basically dead. All in the name of greater security, except that it can still be done with a good security model. It's possible, it's just that that's not anybody's use-case for computers anymore, except for power users who know how to use Linux, so it's been downgraded to "unsupported". (And Linux is just generally not compatible with rMBP hardware afaik.) Reading what you said about OS/2 sounds like it was a lot closer to this ideal.