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by jwells89 2y ago
It’s more difficult to distinguish if an app is Flutter or some other cross platform framework, but “native or not” is very easy on iOS. Even React Native, which is the least foreign, has tells. On Android it’s more difficult, partially bec
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by jwells89 2y ago
Not all non-native-looking apps are badly implemented, but a huge number of apps that use cross-platform frameworks do so primarily as a means to cut costs because the goal is to make development as cheap as possible, and that shows in othe
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by jwells89 2y ago
The two things that stick out the most to me are navigation behavior and text fields. Cross platform frameworks seldom get either right, with react native being particularly bad on the navigation front. There are variances between Apple’s a
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by jwells89 2y ago
Of course, but those cables (or more likely, just one cable) can be stashed away in a drawer 99% of the time. The bundled keyboard and mouse/trackpad can go months between recharges, especially with lighter less frequent use that somet
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by jwells89 2y ago
The Samsung model has a well-known issue with severe coil whine. Not a dealbreaker for everybody but worth taking into account.
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by jwells89 2y ago
I'm happy with mine too. It has a few upsides that don't get written about often, compared to other monitors: - Apple is extremely picky about panel QC, making things like dead pixels and patchy backlights much less common - Its d
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by jwells89 2y ago
Low number of cables has also been one of the points of appeal for the iMac, to the point that it was a focal point of marketing for the original model. For the average person's setup the current model only needs a power cable.
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by jwells89 2y ago
In my mind, QuickLook on macOS is probably the closest thing we have to document-centrism in a modern mainstream OS, with how the OS discovers QuickLook extensions in app bundles and uses them to make QuickLook capable of understanding more
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by jwells89 2y ago
I still use mine for the things I watch by myself (with TV filling its usual role for social watches). I want to try it for other purposes but keep forgetting to.
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It's also nice that the cash back is actually cash which can be automatically directed into the accompanying savings account, where it accrues 4.10% APY interest. None of the usual funny business with points with shifting valuations,
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by jwells89 2y ago
I may be misinterpreting, but I think that what the quoted post is talking about is probably independent from the kind of development you’ve mentioned. For instance, while the person who never moved from their hometown might’ve been able to
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by jwells89 2y ago
A bit of extra verbosity as added by static typing can also be immensely helpful for trawling through and/or learning an unfamiliar codebase, especially in the absence of an IDE or debugging environment (e.g. browsing code on GitHub or
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by jwells89 2y ago
That preference is totally legitimate. There are however many types of power users, including those who extensively customize and augment their desktops and sync their dotfiles, as well as those who know all the key shortcuts, tips and tric
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by jwells89 2y ago
macOS has plenty of power user affordances, they're just Apple/NeXT-flavored rather than Windows/Linux-flavored and might not be as immediately obvious to users coming from other platforms.
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by jwells89 2y ago
As noted in another comment thread, there's a setting to disable margins when tiling so that's probably not an issue. IIRC Microsoft and Apple have a patent-sharing agreement (which is why MS Surface products have MagSafe-cousin p
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by jwells89 2y ago
Music on macOS is really weird architecturally. Parts are native, parts are WebViews, and I wouldn't be surprised if there's even still some bits of code leftover from the days Music/iTunes was still known as SoundJam MP. The
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by jwells89 2y ago
Another vote for Moom here. By default it doesn't have any Aero Snap style drag zones and only presents itself as a hover-popover attached to the green button, which is perfect for my use of snapping which is only occasional. Its abili
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by jwells89 2y ago
Spinning up a VPS for things like this is tempting to me too, but not having done significant backend work in over a decade my worry would be with administering it — namely keeping it up to date, secure, and configured correctly (initial se
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by jwells89 2y ago
That's a great point and I agree, but it'd be nice if it weren't necessary to pop the hood to debug garden variety issues. The simplicity of UIKit in that regard is hard to beat.
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by jwells89 2y ago
Unfortunately debugging challenges aren't unique to SwiftUI. Having having your application code get buried underneath miles of framework magic in stack traces can also be experienced with Jetpack Compose.
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by jwells89 2y ago
In my experience, when filetype associations change under macOS it’s because some app I’ve used recently has made those changes without asking me. I know some people are tired of all the prompts but I don’t think apps should be able to chan
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by jwells89 2y ago
I’m very confident that it’s either this or the restore-after-crash feature that OP is seeing. I don’t think it’s anything specific to Safari, because I have never seen Safari opened before login when it’s not my default browser. That said,
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by jwells89 2y ago
The other big downside is a dependency tree that is better described as a rainforest with all of the third party widgets that you'll likely be importing, each of which comes with is own set of quirks, shortcomings, level of QA and main
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by jwells89 2y ago
At the moment, no not really. Some of the other options improve on Qt’s weaknesses, but only at the cost of its strengths (for example, if you want a tableview/datagrid with sortable, rearrangable columns like is standard in Qt Widgets
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by jwells89 2y ago
With a disclaimer that I'm not an expert on Qt: - Qt Widgets has a selection of controls that falls a bit short of that of AppKit and doesn't receive much attention any more - Qt Quick/QML seems more mobile-oriented and web-s
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by jwells89 2y ago
In my opinion, what desktop Linux needs to attract the the sort of developers that create the high-polish third party software that macOS is known is a combination DE and UI toolkit that provides the same breadth and depth that's found
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by jwells89 2y ago
HHKBs themselves are great but for me the main point of attraction is the layout. It takes a bit to get used to, but it works very well for me. Especially on macOS with its system wide text nav key shortcuts, it allows just about everything
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by jwells89 2y ago
Niche might make a difference too, with demand and supply levels varying between them. Don’t know what the current market is like but in the past my experience has been that niches with higher barriers to entry see significantly fewer appli
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by jwells89 2y ago
Perhaps. In my case bookmarks tend to be append-only because going through and reviewing them for relevance, link rot, etc is tedious, which then makes finding bookmarks later more difficult, particularly when it’s been long enough to not r
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by jwells89 2y ago
I appreciate how universal and decoupled this approach is, but it doesn’t fix my main problem with browser bookmarks which is that management overhead gets to be problematic and makes me want to not bookmark things unless there’s adequate “

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