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Data Graham posted:Lol this seems like a real dumb name for a flag yeah they’re going to add more things to newcursor.dylib all controlled behind that flag and there will no longer be a good choice
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Wild EEPROM posted:Whats the software to disable trackpad acceleration? the anaswer to this question was cursorsense. Yeah its  but it's real good aand worth it for that single feature
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FMguru posted:5pm PT is an odd time for a product announcement. 1700 PT equals 0200 CEST. Whoever picked it wants to send a message to APAC and ignore EMEA.
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SlowBloke posted:1700 PT equals 0200 CEST. Whoever picked it wants to send a message to APAC and ignore EMEA. New macbooks that charge from a lightning port
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Oct 25, 2023 13:47
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Hey thanks for all the recommendations for search stuff. I like Find Any File and it saved my rear end during class the other day.
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Oct 25, 2023 13:57
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Grassy Knowles posted:New macbooks that charge from a lightning port New macbooks with only ADB and ADC ports.
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Oct 25, 2023 14:25
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lord funk posted:Hey thanks for all the recommendations for search stuff. I like Find Any File and it saved my rear end during class the other day. Cool, it’s a nice little program and wasn’t expensive at all IIRC.
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 Sonoma 14.1, Ventura 13.6.1, Monterey 12.7.1 have dropped The release build is exactly one number higher than the RC on Sonoma so it's worth it to install.
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After a brief fling with a MacBook Air around 2014 I’m back using an M2 16/512 Air and adore it. Currently my plan is also to get a baseline M2 Studio before long, which is likely to be delightfully more than I need for at least five years. But I’ll confess: I’ve been using Windows since 3.1 and have been handy with Linux for nearly a quarter of a century, but most of my in-depth experience with macOS has been in academic setting or is so old it doesn’t reflect anything contemporary. So what are some apps and tools I should familiarize myself with, the things that really play to the platform’s strengths? I’ve been pretty happy cobbling together a workflow that’s mostly platform-agnostic on the Air, but the Studio’s beefy enough that I don’t wanna miss something cool if I haven’t heard about it.
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Oct 26, 2023 01:00
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It's insane to me that even after a new version number release of macOS it still has this dumb "Login Item Added" notification showing up every single time I login.
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Hasturtium posted:After a brief fling with a MacBook Air around 2014 I’m back using an M2 16/512 Air and adore it. Currently my plan is also to get a baseline M2 Studio before long, which is likely to be delightfully more than I need for at least five years. But I’ll confess: I’ve been using Windows since 3.1 and have been handy with Linux for nearly a quarter of a century, but most of my in-depth experience with macOS has been in academic setting or is so old it doesn’t reflect anything contemporary. Honestly the real strength of the OS is how well integrated all the bundled apps are. If there's a specific app you are using, it might be worth giving the Apple version a go and seeing if it better fits in with how you work. Obviously, this is the opposite of platform-agnostic. But if you have other apple gadgets, especially the phone, then using those native apps can be a real joy. In that same sense, most of the cool things that really differentiate it are more to do with hardware. Things like airpods or apple TV all play really nice. That said, Arc browser is currently mac only and is really, really good. It had a lot of problems with battery consumption but those seem mostly solved. It fundamentally changes the way you use the internet, for the better, imo.
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What's the current recommended copy and paste app? I have a few things that I know I always want to keep in 'storage' to paste onto documents when I use them a few times per month but I don't want to open Notes or TextEdit and go searching for them.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:What's the current recommended copy and paste app? I have a few things that I know I always want to keep in 'storage' to paste onto documents when I use them a few times per month but I don't want to open Notes or TextEdit and go searching for them. I just use text replacements since I don't have a lot of them and it's already built into the os this is also how I got it to stop replacing loving with ducking
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I moved to alfred since built-in snippets don’t support line breaks (at least as of my version of MacOS)
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Grassy Knowles posted:I moved to alfred since built-in snippets don’t support line breaks (at least as of my version of MacOS) yeah that's fair. if you're doing anything with really long multi-paragraph text it's not good for that.
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Oct 27, 2023 20:49
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:What's the current recommended copy and paste app? I have a few things that I know I always want to keep in 'storage' to paste onto documents when I use them a few times per month but I don't want to open Notes or TextEdit and go searching for them. I use stickies for this.
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Oct 27, 2023 20:55
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Cold on a Cob posted:yeah that's fair. if you're doing anything with really long multi-paragraph text it's not good for that. you have galtspeech too
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Grassy Knowles posted:you have galtspeech too just the first paragraph 
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Grassy Knowles posted:I moved to alfred since built-in snippets don’t support line breaks (at least as of my version of MacOS) Alfred like the old Sherlock alternative? The search engine thing?
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Oct 27, 2023 21:27
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:Alfred like the old Sherlock alternative? The search engine thing? Yeah it got snippets somewhere between v2 and v4 and I have the lifetime license, otherwise I’d be using atext.
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Oct 27, 2023 21:40
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:What's the current recommended copy and paste app? I have a few things that I know I always want to keep in 'storage' to paste onto documents when I use them a few times per month but I don't want to open Notes or TextEdit and go searching for them. Alfred has a clipboard history which is awesome because you never have to worry about pasting somewhere else, it's just always there in your history. To see your history, you just do "CMD+SHIFT+C" and you can scroll through the list.
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GATOS Y VATOS posted:What's the current recommended copy and paste app? I have a few things that I know I always want to keep in 'storage' to paste onto documents when I use them a few times per month but I don't want to open Notes or TextEdit and go searching for them. The app "Tot" is a little text editor designed to do pretty much what you're describing. You get seven buffers and that's it.
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Clark Nova posted:The app "Tot" is a little text editor designed to do pretty much what you're describing. You get seven buffers and that's it. Seconding Tot. Also a great place to drop text you want to strip formatting from.
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Yeah Alfred and Raycast both have really great clipboard managers that it seems unnecessary to reach for anything else since you should already be using one of those anyway. I use Keyboard Maestro for my snippets since I'm already using that for other things anyway, but I know Raycast at least has them for free if you don't want to pay for an Alfred licence (I also think Raycast is just better nowadays)
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I’ve got some snippets setup in macOS natively (great since it syncs across your devices, convert things like “cmd” to ⌘, (r) to ®), some in Alfred (current date, email addresses), and long form templates and markdown + bbcode snippets in Snippety, since it lets me do more advanced things like setup cover letters and automatically replace variables with a company’s name and such.
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Was looking at trying Safari as my web browser again, but does anyone have a solution (that isn't disabling them) for Twitter/X embeds losing your position on the page once they load? It's maddening. I know SALR has settings that help with this but afaik there hasn't been a Safari version of that in about a decade.
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101 posted:Was looking at trying Safari as my web browser again, but does anyone have a solution (that isn't disabling them) for Twitter/X embeds losing your position on the page once they load? It's maddening. Greasemonkey? Well tampermonkey for Mac.
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I know you’ve all been wondering but I think I’ve finally figured out my beef with Apple. The software peaked years ago. MacOS peaked years ago. Like maybe 10.6 even. There hasn’t been a huge cool new thing added in forever. We have so much hardware power now, but the software side is just a complete snooze. The best example is porting the unusable nightmare of Settings from iOS to MacOS. Maybe that’s the issue, the iOS team is running all the software development so it’s just generally poorly aimed dogshit. Just wish the software and hardware cycles aligned. Id like to see what Snow Leopards dev team could do with this much juice.
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Are you saying that the operating system is a piece of poo poo?
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I mean go use windows for a week and come back and tell me how you feel (especially if you use edge). Sometimes restraint can be a good thing.
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Honestly there's a lot of issues with Windows, but I wouldn't say current Edge is really one of them...
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I alternate between Mac and Windows on a daily basis at home and Windows just feels like a mishmash of things into one thing that doesn't exactly work very well. And this Windows 11. I had Windows update on its own because I wasn't using it for literally five minutes. Then it wanted me to make Edge my default browser when it finally finished with a window that you could not close or minimize until you made a decision. Copilot is interesting for like a good 30 minutes though. I'm glad they finally updated how File Explorer uses tabs and lets you rearrange them now. The Mac is just...there. You put your programs on it and it doesn't bother you. Unless you don't have Time Machine set up properly and then it'll give you a notification about how long you've gone without backing up. I'm wondering when they'll just drop Time Machine and let you back your Mac up directly to iCloud+ since they have up to 12TB of storage now. I do not like Finder though.
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AlternateAccount posted:I know you’ve all been wondering but I think I’ve finally figured out my beef with Apple. I never had a mac before they changed the settings so I guess I don't really know what I'm missing on that front, but 'unusable nightmare' seems like a very goonesque exaggeration. It's.. fine? But yeah to me after being a lifelong Windows user it does feel a bit more focused. I think it's aligned with iOS in that it's always basically been just a tasteful looking app launcher - just now all those apps have the same icons as the apps on your phone. I don't really know what constitutes poorly-aimed dogshit. I really like all its gesture-based stuff, how close hardware and software feel to one another, and how fast even the new base model air (which is what I have) is. Also - and I know this isn't purely software but it is a combination of software and hardware - I use my laptop all day every day for work, and I only have to plug it into a wall every two days, which is just the greatest. I don't know whether more software bloat would diminish that?
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Canned Sunshine posted:Honestly there's a lot of issues with Windows, but I wouldn't say current Edge is really one of them... when was the last time you used it? It’s godawful. It has poo poo everywhere. Unless you go to a lot of trouble disabling poo poo it’s like being in 2006 again and dealing with your grandma’s toolbar ridden IE6
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I swear iCloud’s spam filtering has been not existent.
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The Lord Bude posted:when was the last time you used it? It’s godawful. It has poo poo everywhere. Unless you go to a lot of trouble disabling poo poo it’s like being in 2006 again and dealing with your grandma’s toolbar ridden IE6 I used it today. It's fine. This isn't a ton of stuff to have visible: 
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The operating system is there so you can get your work done, it doesn't need new bells and whistles every six weeks. MacOS is unobtrusive and that's fine.
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I've been monkeying around in Windows 11 for the first time in ages thanks to a new gig, and I really miss MacOS's top menubar the most. Every app's UI is different, there's no consistency, no easy way to quickly review keyboard shortcuts. Microsoft PowerToys gets me halfway to where I need to be on a Windows device, but it's just not the same. Funny how the Windows start menubar has slowly transformed into looking exactly like the MacOS dock over the last decade.
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The Lord Bude posted:when was the last time you used it? It’s godawful. It has poo poo everywhere. Unless you go to a lot of trouble disabling poo poo it’s like being in 2006 again and dealing with your grandma’s toolbar ridden IE6 I use it every single day for work. It's fine. Basically: Kibner posted:I used it today. It's fine. This isn't a ton of stuff to have visible: I still prefer Safari by quite a bit, and I honestly prefer Firefox over Safari, but Edge is fine.
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