galad87

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by galad87 1mo ago
Apple's Weather app has an animated background, glassy views, and nice animations like water droplets on the glassy views when it's raining. So rendering all that on a 4k or more display at 10bit depth is going to consume a bit of
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by galad87 2mo ago
Snow Leopard shipped a new 64-bit Cocoa Finder too, but no one noticed because it was almost a pixel perfect and behaviour perfect copy of the previous one.
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by galad87 3mo ago
Of course, but that works only if the files are already in the same partition. A dmg is a virtual image, even if it's stored in the same partition, once mounted it acts like another partition.
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by galad87 3mo ago
Tahoe can't ramp up the GPU frequency fast enough, and many animation like the QuickLook one often run at less than 30 fps. So much fun.
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by galad87 4mo ago
Games are an almost perfect type of software to be run in a sandbox. The question is, why aren't they already run in a sandbox?
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by galad87 5mo ago
Long press is a shortcut, the longer way is to click on the icon beside the url and tap/click the enormous "reader mode" button.
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by galad87 5mo ago
TCC is a leaky shoot at limiting non-sandboxed apps permissions. The actual macOS sandbox is a different thing. I would say that TCC is working as intended, unfortunately, with many obscure behaviors to avoid breaking existing apps. It&#x27
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by galad87 5mo ago
TCC is a different thing. Sandboxed apps work differently and won't need those TCC dialogs.
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by galad87 6mo ago
Safari, or better, macOS and iOS include a software AV1 decoder (libdav1d), but it's used only to decode avif, and to generate file previews in Finder.
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by galad87 6mo ago
It's missing the double click on a number feature from minesweeper.
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by galad87 6mo ago
To align the window corner radius to the window close/minimize/resize buttons distance from the edge of the window.
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by galad87 6mo ago
Because that's by design. The windows are meant to have different corner radius, they even explained it at WWDC. Then people forgot and rediscovered it again, like it was some new thing. I am not saying that it's a good idea to ha
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by galad87 7mo ago
It broke some NSWindow styles: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/814798
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by galad87 7mo ago
Every device compatible with the Matter standard[1] can be used with Apple Home (and with every other solution that supports Matter, like Google and Amazon ones), so almost everything is compatible with everything out there. 1. https:&#x2F
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by galad87 9mo ago
It should be based on the app size, so maybe developers will stop shipping apps with a single feature and one button that takes 700 MB because of random bloated third-party SDKs that aren't even used.
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by galad87 10mo ago
All I read about is that it's less hardware friendly than H.264 and HEVC, and they were all complaining about it. AV2 should be better in this regard. Where did you read that it was designed to make creating an hardware decoder easier?
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by galad87 10mo ago
I assume there is a reason for leaving out Windows Me.
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by galad87 10mo ago
web.whatsapp.com is still going to use more RAM than the old native version.
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by galad87 10mo ago
The macOS app is the iOS app running on macOS thanks to Catalyst, hopefully they won't replace it with that Electron/WebViewOfTheDay crap.
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by galad87 11mo ago
Nowadays it's all AppKit/UIKit/SwiftUI. It's no longer a webview.
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by galad87 11mo ago
DVD-Video subtitles are often only bitmaps, and the AppleTV can handle only text subtitles. HandBrake can't OCR bitmaps at the moment.
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by galad87 11mo ago
But there is already a "1-button magicbrake" mode, or maybe two buttons: 1. Open a file; 2. Click the start button in the toolbar.
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by galad87 11mo ago
Paralles x86_64 emulation doesn't depend on Rosetta.
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by galad87 11mo ago
Yup, just right in the upper half of the page there is a big search box and an "sort by" popup button.
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by galad87 11mo ago
Game developers make most of the money shortly after a game release, so having a 15 years old game not working anymore shouldn't make much difference in term of revenues. Anyway, the whole situation was quite bad. Many games were still
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by galad87 11mo ago
That wouldn't scale well, something like .av1opusflacwebvtt?
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by galad87 1y ago
The difference is that you need a Microsoft account to login in your computer. On macOS an Apple account is require for some services, not to manage the computer user login.
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by galad87 1y ago
Yes, almost everything out there supports at least H.265, H.264, VP9, and AV1 in hardware.
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by galad87 1y ago
Actually lately iPadOS is the one getting most of its features from macOS. iPadOS 26 introduced a menu bar, just like macOS, and a new windows manager that's just the same as macOS.
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by galad87 1y ago
As I wrote above, use Accessibility Inspector to inspect the UI.

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