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by jwells89 3y ago
My first contact with Objective-C and Cocoa was somewhere around 2001 or 2002 when I decided to tinker with the contents of the developer disc included in the OS X retail box, and while I toyed with Interface Builder (which resembled REALBa
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The main things holding back Signal usage in my case is practically nobody in my social circle using it and the desktop client not being as nice as that of Messages or Telegram, the latter being particularly relevant for myself and contacts
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by jwells89 3y ago
Have you updated its firmware? Looks like there’s a new update available as of September 2023, which I haven’t installed yet but I’ve installed a couple before this one. Not quite LineageOS for TVs but it’s something. https://www
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by jwells89 3y ago
Yeah Vision Pro strikes me as typical Apple first gen more than anything. It might in reality be a flop, but I’d wait a few hardware generations before declaring as such with any level of certainty.
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SwiftUI definitely needs more time in the oven, but I’ve found it ok for bite-sized bits of UI where with UIKit boilerplate is as large or larger than the UI code and for screens that aren’t doing anything too interesting (e.g. a typical Se
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by jwells89 3y ago
I do, but not often. Got my start in Objective-C back in the 2000s tinkering with OS X apps and used it at work for writing iOS apps from 2015-2017, but I embraced Swift pretty quickly (IIRC I started to take it seriously around 2.x). It re
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Owner of an X900F here who has been similarly happy. Great picture with excellent color, contrast, and uniformity that has stayed as good as it was on day one for the past 6 years through probably thousands of hours of usage. (As it turns o
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Particularly with Blink being entirely reliant on Chromium for multiprocess, whereas WebKit handles multiprocess itself. This was actually one of the issues that spurred Blink’s forking and entails significantly different architectures.
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There’s more tooling for non-professionals to keep a leash on desktop app network usage, too, like LuLu[0] and OpenSnitch[1]. There’s ways around these tools as there is with anything else, but it raises the bar a bit since the user is unli
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by jwells89 3y ago
I think there’s room for better bookmarks, but they have to be a part of the browser proper… third party apps and even browser extensions can never be integrated to the required extent, but none of the big browser makers have iterated in
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There’s savings to be had over time on Steam sales too, where even AAA titles eventually become dirt cheap. With new games now costing $70, it doesn’t take long for the price difference between a Deck and a Portal (or other similar streamin
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Not quite, in Firefox the downloads popover and downloads window are totally separate from each other with different UIs that can both be open simultaneously. In Safari the window and popup are one in the same, with the user being able to c
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Yeah, not having bookmarks is probably Arc’s biggest weakness. I find bookmarks useful too, but only add them when I know I’m going to keep them around for a while. Tags might work well but the friction involved is likely too high for me to
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by jwells89 3y ago
The 13” Macbook Air is advertised to get 15-18h and 14” MBP 15-22h, and real world numbers with light-to-midweight usage is pretty close to that. My work/personal 16” M1 Pro/Max MBPs can end a day of work in Xcode and/or Andr
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by jwells89 3y ago
Really curious to see the efficiency on the mobile CPUs from this gen. Been looking to replace a Tiger Lake ultraportable which despite being a good laptop otherwise is terrible in terms of battery life and heat, but have been waiting to pu
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I wouldn’t say they bother me per se, but they don’t exactly feel right either. They’re incongruent without good reason.
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> chrome was made for small screen laptop users Makes sense if one considers how many 13” Macbooks and original MacBook Airs were likely being toted around the Google campus in the late 2000s, with Macs being the predominant development
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I think it’s fine for some things to have a popover and window, but it needs to be implemented intelligently. Like in Safari, downloads are a popover by default, but the popover can be “torn off” to become a window. Use cases for both are s
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by jwells89 3y ago
Bookmarks have received woefully little attention in all browsers for reasons unknown to me. If one pulls up a browser from 20 years ago, bookmark management is basically identical or even slightly better in some circumstances. I guess maki
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Fan of vertical tabs here, it’s a major boon for how I browse, which tends to involve a number of long-running tasks. Tabs work better than this than bookmarks, because cleaning out bookmarks sucks with how undeveloped all browser bookmark
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by jwells89 3y ago
Usually when people call a feature bloat it’s because its presence, resource consumption, etc is too great relative to its value and utility to users or it’s not particularly relevant. I’d hesitate to call something like optional compact UI
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by jwells89 3y ago
Whitespace can be a good thing as you note, but thoughtful allocation distribution is critical, particularly on desktop operating systems. Firefox default isn’t the worst here but it’s also far from the best.
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Sometimes it’s actually speed that’s the issue (when e.g. opening massive text files) but usually “speed” is more about responsiveness in editing, text navigation, etc, which some people are very sensitive to. The time between action and re
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by jwells89 3y ago
It’s cool as is, but I think it’s one case of a web app that’d genuinely benefit from having an Electron app that can do things like use the global menubar on macOS and have more robust filesystem access.
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by jwells89 3y ago
I use Signal with a couple people but it’s not really set up for mass traction so I don’t expect it to become my primary messenger any time soon. If I were to switch streaming services, Spotify would be dead last on my list, because they’re
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by jwells89 3y ago
Surprisingly, iOS is a bit more popular in Japan than it is in the US, where it has ~68% marketshare. That market usually favors local manufacturers (Sony among other local companies still make Android phones), but that for some reason does
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Windows and the popular Linux DEs leave chrome of maximized windows in place as well. The only place you won’t find this is in niche window managers.
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In that case, there’s ⌥⌘W which will close all windows (works in other apps too). You can also use a defaults command to add Quit to the Finder’s menu (I do this to be able to easily temporarily hide desktop icons).
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by jwells89 3y ago
From personal experience, SPM is much smoother in moderately complex projects. Gradle (and to a lesser extent, Android Studio) drives me a special kind of crazy, especially when a project has sat for a while and Gradle updates have accumula
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Virtual desktops on Windows still feel pretty hacked on, don’t they? Hopefully that’s a focus point for Windows 12.

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