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by wpm 2y ago
Both Windows 11 and modern macOS are slow as shit now. The other day I clicked the Notifications settings in the outhouse they call a Settings app on my Mac and it took a solid 3 seconds to render the UI. And behind me, was a G4 Cube that c
872.
by wpm 2y ago
I'm all for anti-trust and anti-monopoly but christ alive an operating system vendor gatekeeping their kernel is literally the whole point of being an operating system vendor. Braindead regulation.
873.
by wpm 2y ago
I think a lot of people who use "a unix" just use "a linux"
874.
by wpm 2y ago
Preview can no longer directly open .ps files. For shorter man pages, I use the Terminal apps "Man Page" profile which you can get to by right clicking the command name, and selecting "View man page". Then, scroll to the
875.
by wpm 2y ago
Or just half height the left and right keys? It’s what Apple used to do before they tried this crap design on the touchbar MacBooks, then went to after they realized their mistake.
876.
by wpm 2y ago
We’re stuck with plenty of non-optimal stuff because of path dependency and historical baggage. So what? Propose something better. Show that the benefits of following the happy path of historical baggage don’t outweigh the outrageously “arc
877.
by wpm 2y ago
Jobs initially did not want to come back to Apple. Apple bought NeXTSTEP because between it and BeOS, Jean-Louis Gassee overplayed his hand and was asking way too much money for the acquisition. Apple then defaulted to NeXT. Jobs thought
878.
by wpm 2y ago
I have my notifications for Slack and Outlook turned off. I get a Dock tile badge, and Slack does ping my wrist via smartwatch, but not much else. Most emails I get are not vitally important, nor do most of the things I get on Slack immedia
879.
by wpm 2y ago
Jonathan Levin’s three part series “*OS Internals” is that update, but they stopped working on and writing about Darwin around Catalina.
880.
by wpm 2y ago
Around the time of Snow Leopard, it was rumored. I assume the Oracle buyout of Sun around the same time had a big part in killing that particular idea.
881.
by wpm 2y ago
Note that the "I" in the title is not "me", this came across my YT feed.
882.
I Ported Windows XP to the Original Apple TV [video](youtube.com)
3 points by wpm 2y ago|1 comments
883.
by wpm 2y ago
Launchd 2.0 changed the syntax for the launchctl commands (and made it closed source as it now heavily relies on XPC.Framework). The man page for launchctl lays it all out. Load and unload became "bootstrap" and "bootout&quot
884.
by wpm 2y ago
Don't worry, there's `launchctl error` where you can get oh goddamn it it just prints the same useless fucking error
885.
by wpm 2y ago
I'll take the well documented (man launchd.plist) XML property list (well, XML rendered, they're usually in binary) any day over some flat unstructured nonsense. I loathe INI syntax.
886.
by wpm 2y ago
Apparently the flex on the 16 is bad enough that the pogo pin connector for the keyboard deck loses contact every time you pick the laptop up.
887.
by wpm 2y ago
The arrow key layout makes Framework a non-starter for me. Full height L and R keys sucked shit on the touchbar MacBook Pros so bad that even Apple acquiesced to common sense and went back to the inverted T.
888.
by wpm 2y ago
Kagi was not, to my memory, positioned this way early on when I started paying for it. It was "search but not dogshit because we're not being sponsored by the search results". If I want a factoid on a website, I want to see i
889.
by wpm 2y ago
Providing my own hardware does not equal "manage my own network". It usually does mean "my network works better".
890.
by wpm 2y ago
I'd much rather work with plain-text human readable property list files with straightforward `defaults` commands than the hive of Hell called the registry.
891.
by wpm 2y ago
There is a checkbox for file extensions and a View menu item for full paths. Hidden files is still not surfaced in the GUI, but is persistent.
892.
by wpm 2y ago
Right click the window title and you get a drop down navigation menu of every folder in the hierarchy up to the "/Volumes/$VOLUME" the folder is on. I'd kill for this on Windows or any mainstream Linux DE.
893.
by wpm 2y ago
I don't care. We don't have to wait for Apple to show they're untrustworthy before we hold them at arm's length like we hold any other app developer or advertiser. Apple has convinced a lot of people through sheer PR for
894.
by wpm 2y ago
Every ISP should be required upon request to provide the necessary hardware to provide a single IP address on a single copper cable. If some dumb bozo wants to get the ISP deluxe package of gateway/router/DNS sniffer/shit-tie
895.
by wpm 2y ago
I should be able to go into my settings and just say “don’t ever show me AI search results unless I ask, which doesn’t mean using a normal, commonplace punctuation mark”. It’s very frustrating that “turn it off” is a fucking afterthought to
896.
by wpm 2y ago
Hey man what’s your problem?
897.
by wpm 2y ago
Most Mac admins might disagree. I had to hear those goddamn songs so many times, often all at the same time. I'm weird though, and never stopped liking it. Doo-do-doo-doo-do...
898.
by wpm 2y ago
Is Bertrand still kickin? Can Apple poach him for a few years to clean house? I miss the days when he was running the software division at Apple.
899.
by wpm 2y ago
It's what they have available in the SwiftUI toolbox of "shitty widgets from mobile operating systems" though. Thankfully, that is also somehow the future of UI frameworks on all of their platforms!
900.
by wpm 2y ago
Using search as a UI is admitting the UI sucks. It is indicative of a failure, not a solution in and of itself.

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