aptgetrekt

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by aptgetrekt 2y ago
Phones are tools so why is it that whenever those tools are used in a way where money changes hands, the maker of that tool gets some of the revenue? Imagine a tool company demanding a cut of the revenue a building generates because their t
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by aptgetrekt 2y ago
Yeah that's true. Microsoft really needs to push forward with a new architecture at the core of windows. Stuff like what has happened today is inevitable under the current model where so much stuff has kernel level access. I just expec
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by aptgetrekt 2y ago
As far as I understand, yes. It's kind of astounding to me that the world has self-inflicted what is essentially a cyber attack trying to protect a poorly architected OS from actual cyber attacks when a much better architected OS is kn
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by aptgetrekt 2y ago
*Cydia was the first app store [on iPhones]
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by aptgetrekt 3y ago
Does it seem like this was the plan all along to anyone else? Apple gave us the worst possible outcome so that this now seems like a win.
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by aptgetrekt 3y ago
Does anyone else think that this was the plan all along? Apple gave us the worst possible outcome so that this now seems like a win.
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by aptgetrekt 5y ago
I make a free mac utility and would be fine with notarizing it if it wasn't $100 a year. I don't want to pay $100 a year to give away something for free. And the message that pops up telling users to "contact the developer&qu
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
I know it's unrelated. I have a Mac and was unable to do any work for around an hour, had no idea why. Windows has smart screen, but if the service is unreachable you get a popup. This is just completely unacceptable, if it's poss
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
There goes any temptation I had to buy an M1 Mac. Thanks for the warning Apple!
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
Lets say theoretically PC gaming didn't exist. If the only way to play games was with a console from Sony, Microsoft, or Nintendo do you really think they would be selling consoles at a loss[1]? PC gaming is what keeps consoles priced
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
Yes exactly. From the perspective of the user, macOS treats you fairly. Apple carefully words everything to shift the blame to developers for things like notarization. The message that appears when apps aren't notarized puts the blame
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
Microsoft isn't the only provider of certificates. It's more like the web where there are many authorities, not just one. If Epic were getting their cert from Microsoft and Microsoft retaliated to something Epic did with Fortnite
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
I made a Mac app a few weeks ago that got to the front page here on HN[1]. It isn't notarized by Apple since I don't want to pay Apple just so I can give my work away for free that fixes something that shouldn't be an issue i
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
Exactly! Ars Technica usually does a pretty good job.
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
That's actually where I got the idea from! My app works the same way except uses Swift instead of Objective C.
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
Looks like it, yes. I don't use any special private APIs, just the public ones that you can use in apps on the app store. They need the accessibility permission to "Control your computer". Apps like BetterSnapTool/Magnet
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
I think the magic mouse is treated like a trackpad under the hood so all the gestures work. If someone with a magic mouse tried to uncheck the natural scrolling box under mouse they'd be confused as to why it didn't change so that
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
I don't know much about macOS development, 72 hours ago I had never done any at all! But as far as I can tell anything you could do in Objective C you can also do in Swift. I would have made a preference pane and would prefer it myself
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
This is actually Apple's fault more than anyone. I was originally planning to release on the App Store but decided not to after thinking about the $100 a year fee to be in the developer program and the 30% cut Apple would take if it we
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
You can actually change the scroll direction of a mouse in Windows with a registry edit: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10...
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
I could probably get used to it if I used only macOS, but I use Linux and Windows most of the time and switching scroll directions when I use macOS gets frustrating. That and physical scroll wheels scrolling "unnaturally" is what
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
You're welcome! Scroll Reverser no longer working well in Catalina is one of the main reasons that led me to create my own solution to the problem.
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
Yeah I think the exact same way! The top of the physical wheel spins the opposite direction of the bottom of the wheel which would be "touching" the page/content. Originally I was going to just make a background script to aut
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Show HN: UnnaturalScrollWheels – Better scroll wheel settings for macOS(github.com)
176 points by aptgetrekt 6y ago|86 comments
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by aptgetrekt 6y ago
I've always used WinAeroTweaker. I like it more than all these other ones because for each tweak it does it also gives you a way to manually enable or disable the tweak in the registry or in the group policy editor. Windows 10 2004 see