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by sbuk 2y ago
> Thinking of it I suppose I expected MacOS to be as intuitive as iOS... It is intuitive, but by the sounds of things you have several years, or decades of Windows muscle memory and experience. If you fight against the way the OS works b
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by sbuk 2y ago
Google provides a client and infrastructure, which they sell to carriers and which has a number of proprietary extensions, including E2EE if the message is Google to Google. If a carrier does not provide Universal Profile, Google provid
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by sbuk 2y ago
As someone with strong deuteranopia (I struggle to differentiate shades of green and darker bluey-reds), I am extremely sceptical about that claim too. For what it's worth, I've never had a problem reading the white-on-green bubbl
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by sbuk 2y ago
Arguably, that's more to do with the standard and Google's proprietary extensions. The colors thing has been discussed ad nauseum. SMS messages have been green from day one - see https://youtu.be/G8d7E26WLsY?t=1723
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by sbuk 2y ago
It's equally disingenuous to compare them to "general purpose computers" too, in that case. A primary computing device doesn't have to be a "general purpose computer".
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by sbuk 2y ago
RCS is supported per the standard . Google's implementation uses proprietary extensions. It's not the ivory tower you seem to think it is.
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by sbuk 2y ago
The texture in the title bars was definitely there as a visual cue, as much as to alert the user to the fact that the window beneath it was active. The title bars on inactive windows were unfilled.
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by sbuk 2y ago
I'd argue it was a reaction to "rich Corinthian leather", yellow-lined notepads and green baize, which only appeared in Lion and Mountain Lion. The more subtle use of skeuomorphic elements (aqua buttons, brushed aluminum, etc
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by sbuk 2y ago
Not the Orange Site bubble...
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by sbuk 2y ago
Apple OS. Indeed.
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by sbuk 2y ago
> - Why when I drag the Safari window up to go full screen with the tiling manager does it leave a large gap around the window? When I double click the top bar it aligns the top and bottom with the edges but still leaves a gap on the sid
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by sbuk 2y ago
"when it is in fact the worst" That's very subjective. As a near 40-year user of Mac's, the consistency is quite remarkable. Mac OS 9 -> X was the biggest change, and even that was pretty consistent given just how d
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by sbuk 2y ago
Rubbish. You Linux-only guys post this nonsense on any thread criticising competing OSs thinking the rest of us have no experience using them. I daily-drive older hardware (Xeon E5 with 16GB RAM and GTX 1080 ti), which is essentially all mi
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by sbuk 2y ago
Whenever I read comments like this, I know that it is someone that has switched from another OS. macOS is neither Windows, KDE or Gnome. An awful lot of the functionality that you deem 'nonsense' comes from the days of classic Mac
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by sbuk 2y ago
The App Exposé gesture works really well for that purpose. It's gesture-based, but you can configure a hot corner to trigger it too.
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by sbuk 2y ago
Depends on what it is. Apps absolutely shouldn't be geo-blocked. While I agree that other media shouldn't be geo-blocked, it's more to do with distribution rights and licensing deals and isn't really something Apple can
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by sbuk 2y ago
Reading techical documentation is a skill. It's one that is sorely lacking in IT from develpers to ops. RTFM when learning is a valid lesson in and of itself.
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by sbuk 2y ago
You don't even need an app for Invites.
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by sbuk 2y ago
So, explain exactly who Google is collaborating with by offering support for Jibe exclusively for certified Android devices with Google Play Services and only available through their proprietary messaging app. > That said, if the p
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by sbuk 2y ago
The only implementation of E2E RCS is Google's Jibe, which is a proprietary, non-standard version. There is no mention of encryption in the spec other than to say that it's up to carriers to determine. Apple, in contrast to Go
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by sbuk 2y ago
You can subscribe to Apple TV+ directly through Amazon Prime.
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by sbuk 2y ago
It's still active. The last stable release was August/September last year.
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by sbuk 2y ago
And yet there has been plenty of high-quality, useful software developed on Apple's platform over the last 15 years, and there continues to be.
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by sbuk 2y ago
I apologise, I didn't fully read your original article as I find that your writing is prone to exaggeration. I've reread it a few times now and I stand by what I said. You mention homomorphic encryption only in a quoted piece of t
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by sbuk 2y ago
No, but there are bank accounts that are app only. Monzo in the UK is a popular example.
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by sbuk 2y ago
> If someone demands that you trust them blindly and unconditionally, that's actually a sign you shouldn't trust them. That's certainly a take, which you're clearly entitled to take. I don't disagree with the poi
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by sbuk 2y ago
I do agree that everything is politicized. I'd have liked to have seen an explanation for laypeople and perhaps the option being opt-in. To me, there is some merit in that stance. It is a side-note. It is a shame that we can't tal
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by sbuk 2y ago
*Homomorphically encrypted. Be precise. Deliberately handwaving it away as "mere" encryption paints a worse picture than it actually is. Yes, possibly should have been opt-in, and a more human-friendly explanation of how it works
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by sbuk 2y ago
They are alluding to the fact that the implementation is closed source, and therefore "untrustworthy". It's a trite point, of course, but not without some merit.

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