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by zapzupnz 7y ago
It's still two devices, one of which having a feature that depends on another device. The Android and Windows stories are different, those are about one device.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
At least those all have the decency to be prefixes. Those are much easier to parse.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Not really comparable. A Windows 10 device can be both a notebook and tablet. iPads running the Sidecar app are still just iPads — they can't magically be used in a desktop mode, they're only providing a secondary display to a Mac
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> why I'd want to map my MacOS desktop onto the background of my iOS tablet That's not what Sidecar is. Where did you get that impression? Sidecar is just a means to use an iPad as a secondary display for a Mac — it's an a
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I don't know how you extrapolated that conclusion from Sidecar. Sidecar is a remote screen technology; it happens to let you use the secondary screen as a drawing tablet, but only as drawing tablet — you need to use Apple Pencil. It
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> I don't think a single blog in the world… Well, yeah, you don't typically print blogs. Remember that academic publications are still printed, and columnar presentation can be very useful for annotation.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> because that's what everyone has always done And we still print them out. People still prefer to read on paper. This doesn't change no matter how much the digital revolution wages on.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> It sounds like you are just looking for an excuse to hate on Python. That's a big claim to make based on a couple of assertions that are neither about the quality of Python as a language nor the quality of its standard library, me
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I think there are just a lot of people here getting touchy and defensive because other people aren't automatically leaping to false conclusions from this article's data, preferring to imagine that the article validates their perso
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I don't use Photoshop.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> for following an expected workflow Practically every image editor on the planet split saving in the application's native file format and exporting to foreign file formats. Hell, even document editors do this. The expected workflow
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> on several versions of Windows and Ubuntu This discussion is about performance of the macOS client. Saying that clients for other OS work well doesn't really contribute to it.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
C compatibility is one of the original design goals for Swift and is used extensively for the Linux version, for making Swift wrappers around existing libraries, and the Objective-C bridge on macOS. If using Xcode, one would use a bridging
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
What a confusing website. The main components are … a login screen! A desktop! A means to switch applications! Well done, we've never had those on computers ever before.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Cross-platform stuff is mainly non-GUI since the main thrust of the cross-platform scene seems to be server-side Swift, and most of the GUI stuff is targeted to iOS (although with Project Catalyst, that's all implicitly valid macOS cod
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Your name looks Dutch or maybe Afrikaans. I could imagine that in some places, the 'Mozilla' brand takes precedent for one reason or another. In the majority of the world, it's very clearly Firefox — when people install it, t
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
> Swift: Apple lock-in. Swift runs on Linux and has done since it was made open source in 2015, a year after its initial announcement. Windows support is being worked on but, for the time being, it runs fine in WSL. No lock in.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
The "you're a fanboy, your opinion isn't valid" approach to discourse is needlessly dismissive. > the hand position on any trackpad isn't great Seems fine to me on my Magic Trackpad 2.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I use gestures all the time on my Magic Trackpad 2. Let's say I'm just surfing the web on my iMac. I might use: - two-finger swipe left and right to go back and forwards - two-finger double tap to zoom in and out - pinch to zoom i
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
I appreciate a combination of the two approaches, tiles and overlapping windows, so that I don't feel limited by constraints imposed upon me nor need to manage minutiae like this through endless configuration. > I really don&#x2
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
The strength of macOS' menu bar is that the menus it contains are static — an application shows all options at all times, greying out the ones that aren't currently available, as a means to enabling all functions to be discoverabl
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
GP wasn't saying Firefox is difficult. GP gave a specific example of how it's easy to install an ad blocker on a system that's already running Chrome for someone else ; no need to convince them to change browser, no need to
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
To clarify: this applies to a Mac that has been locked. That is, if the Mac is locked with Activation Lock, it wouldn't be possible to install another OS; the firmware itself will lock the user out of the computer entirely until the ma
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
It's not just the mobile UI. It's awful on desktop as well.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
So just embed a video within the article, or stick it at the top.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
My university didn't officially track attendance, but lecturers did track it nonetheless. Poor attendance was used as a metric when deciding whether somebody deserves a late submission, resubmission, or aegrotat.
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
That's a feature of Find My, and has been for years on iOS. They're bringing it to macOS this year for devices with a T2 chip (the newer MacBooks, basically).
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Bad example. Yes, the core gameplay doesn't work, but the app still allows you to log in, manage your account mess with your existing Pokémon and items, move those Pokémon into Pokémon Let's Go's Go Park on the Nintendo Switc
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
Not that I'm providing any citations myself, but I'd like to see some evidence that macOS is losing mindshare because it doesn't bundle this, that, or the other by default anymore. macOS will remain a consistent UNIX out of t
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by zapzupnz 7y ago
You do realise that the reason these things are being stripped out is because macOS includes hideously old versions for backwards compatibility with older software that depended on them, right? There is no real loss here; no sane users wo

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