isametry

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by isametry 3mo ago
I wonder if SwiftDefaultApps might yield different results compared to the Cmd+I menu? It's a crude-yet-still-working preference pane for setting default apps in System Settings, rather than using example files: https://gith
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by isametry 3mo ago
You're probably right, just add it to the collection of "not-quite-window floating thingies", accompanied by Quick Notes, Stickies, Special Character Picker, Color Picker, Font Picker… Sigh , I wish we could stop re-inventin
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by isametry 3mo ago
The “window” also doesn’t belong to an app! His menu bar continued to show Finder as the active app, not Siri. Which means, if shipped like this, the Siri dialog will be a poor excuse for a window with: - no Cmd+Tab, no Cmd+` - no minimize?
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by isametry 5mo ago
Well at least the metal part of any type-C plug will inherently be more fragile due to the hollow design and manufacturing by stamping out of sheet metal. Whereas for Lightning, it’s a solid machined part. But as soon as you get to the chip
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by isametry 5mo ago
>chrome/webkit and Firefox duopoly Blink (Chrome) is not WebKit. If anything, the duopoly is Blink and WebKit at places 1 and 2 respectively. Firefox is at around 3% market share. There’s no “-poly” to Gecko at all.
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by isametry 6mo ago
A kid raised on an animal sounds toy keyboard might also expect the computer to go “moo” when pressing the “M” key, but that doesn’t mean Apple should build that in. Expectations from previous platforms sometimes don’t fit others, and can b
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by isametry 6mo ago
Nope, no bad faith here, I’d genuinely like to hear your use cases for the touchscreen. I just hope you could exclude speculative new interfaces and gestures in future macOS that straight-up cannot be done with a mouse. In which case, yea
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by isametry 6mo ago
I’d even say pipe dream of just Apple commentators and pundits. I’ve yet to hear from a normal, real-life Mac user who legitimately wishes for a touchscreen MacBook.
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by isametry 7mo ago
This isn’t heavily censored social media, you can say Pornhub.
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by isametry 7mo ago
The status bar – as in: the area where the clock, battery and signal strength are shown – is absolutely always at the top of the screen on iOS.
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by isametry 7mo ago
The Circle (2017) is by no means a perfect movie, based on a 2013 book which I’m told is only marginally better. But it did do a surprisingly accurate job of depicting pretty much this exact scenario, 9 (13) years in advance. As in: sleek
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by isametry 8mo ago
> my own CLI browser but is more graphical So based on the first paragraph, I would’ve assumed “CLI” and “graphical” were mutually exclusive? Did you in fact mean to type “TUI” here? Or is your program something like a hybrid between com
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by isametry 9mo ago
As a non-native speaker, TIL that "magnifying glass" and "loupe" are not synonyms. According to Wikipedia: > [Loupes] generally have higher magnification than a magnifying glass, and are designed to be held or worn cl
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by isametry 1y ago
When you say "Apple's dominance", are you referring to a potential dominance? Because in terms of actual dominance, Apple is far from that in laptops. Lenovo, HP and Dell each sell more laptops than Apple, and those three a
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by isametry 1y ago
Even funnier is, it was obscenely bad for years, and then it made a sudden jump to “pretty darn good”. My headcanon is that someone high-up at Apple tried to search for a message, noticed how broken it was, and then assigned an entire engin
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by isametry 1y ago
I'm in the same boat. It seems like the mindset for consumer-grade hubs is to provide support for as many old, legacy devices as possible, rather than a higher number of new devices. Another problem is that USB-A ports are dirt cheap
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by isametry 1y ago
Correction: Apple neither uses nor contributes to Chromium. They have WebKit, which Chromium (Blink) was forked from in 2013.
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by isametry 1y ago
Trains are expensive upfront, which might favor buses when expanding into new areas. But if the infrastructure is already there, a train line will always be more economical in the long run than the equivalent bus line. So ripping out exis
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by isametry 2y ago
See also: the plot of Cars 2. I’m only semi-joking. https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Allinol
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by isametry 2y ago
Worth mentioning that Orion is fully based on WebKit. Calling it a “Safari wrapper” would be unfair, but it’s also not extremely far from that either.
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by isametry 2y ago
(This is probably terribly obvious, but should be mentioned anyway: that's 1.4% Mac and 2.06% Linux users of Steam . Not users in general.)
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by isametry 2y ago
> exactly one data Datum :)
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by isametry 2y ago
The minimum number of platforms for “cross-platform” software is by definition two (2).
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by isametry 2y ago
…and macOS. Sandboxed Mac apps get their own little home directory in `~/Library/Containers/`. To access anything else, they need to ask through system APIs.
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by isametry 2y ago
> I have access to all of them on my phone via Files app and the iCloud sync TIL that "unsaved" TextEdit files automatically go to the iCloud/TextEdit folder! That changes things for sure. (It also means that there is no s
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by isametry 2y ago
Have you given Stickies.app a try? It is designed exactly around this model (notes are never "saved" in a true sense, they just live all over your desktop, what you can do is export / import text however). Although I'd b
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by isametry 2y ago
Indeed. Realistically if anything, one should consider the “physical world” hassles with permanent external storage arguably more than performance ones: • Risk of accidental unplugging. • Contacts may become wonky over time → see above. • T
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by isametry 2y ago
Basically operating at standard pre-Retina Mac DPI levels. The 27" Apple Cinema Display had exactly this resolution, as well as the 27" iMac before it went to 5K. I agree, it works… fine. But sadly more and more elements of modern
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by isametry 2y ago
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast?
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by isametry 2y ago
> which by its whole design and intention is supposed to be written before the number (€50,00) What makes you think that? The intention of the € symbol is to be used exactly like other currency notations before it in each respective lang

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