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I would say the artist formerly known as OS X has never been good. It literally started its life as a half-assed NeXT attempt and has only gone downhill from th
by slowin 2mo ago
I would say the artist formerly known as OS X has never been good. It literally started its life as a half-assed NeXT attempt and has only gone downhill from there. There's still a "Services" entry in the file menu. .DS_Store files are an abomination. Mac OS thinks it knows better than I do about which software I'd like to install. Plist insanity that makes the Windows registry look pristine. GUI inconsistencies across every surface area... I'm curious what you like about it, because other than font rendering (which it does well), I can't think of anything positive.
- icedchai 2mo agoIn almost 20 years of using Mac OS I can count on one hand the time I've used the "Services" menu, and that was mostly by accident...
- slowin 2mo agoNo one has ever used it. It's one of those NeXTSTEP things that was copied over. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services_menu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services_menu
- icedchai 2mo agoI'm sure there are some die hard users out there. Speak up!
- heddhunter 2mo agoI love it! I write my own services for it all the time. You can assign global hotkeys to them as well which makes it crazy convenient to be able to select text, a file, etc and invoke some script you wrote on them.
- nxobject 2mo agoThere used to be – pre-LLM days – a "Summarize" service that "summarized" prose to a length of your choice by deleting sentences. I'm sure it was once someone's pride and joy.