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Bob Morales posted:I thought safari was dogshit, but it was the new adblockers making it slow So what’s the best thing to do about ad blocking? I’m currently using ublock because I’m used to using it with chrome/firefox, but it comes with a “this will slow down your browser” warning, though it seems to run fine.
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Generic Monk posted:i think 'will slow down your web browsing' is a bit of a misnomer, it should really be 'may slow down your web browsing'. like afaik ublock and all the non-content blocker api blockers do the blocking through javascript, which is going to add some CPU and RAM overhead. makes sense why they don't support this on ios. in practice though i'm using a tower mac pro with 6 cores and 16gb RAM; safari's resource usage has never really been a problem and likely isn't a problem until you get into like 12" macbook territory. Yeah, I figured the slowdown warning was about Apple deprecating the old plugin API or whatever, not ublock actually being slow. It actually runs pretty fast on a 12" macbook so I'll probably just stay with it.
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Boris Galerkin posted:Nah, people won’t be happy unless the app is free and there are free updates forever, and also a weekly blog post with status updates of new features and a timeline for said features with release dates that you will 100% always meet no matter what. Conversely, software developers won't be happy until you're paying them an ever-increasing monthly fee for updates that come with the frequency and quality of latter ASOIAF novels 
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Last Chance posted:html emails and word docs are formatted documents and what you're seeing represents how others without the satan-blessed dark mode will see them Yup, no amount of dankness will save you from office boomers and their purple papyrus
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tankadillo posted:For as much as people are congratulating MS Office for adding some new Mac features, it still doesn't auto-save*, and you have to "Save As" instead of "Duplicate." Also it still uses the freaken' floppy save icon lmao. You could also view this as a tacit admission that OS X is less likely than windows to crash or automatically reboot itself for updates at an inopportune moment 
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Dec 18, 2018 00:54
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IUG posted:Ah, I did a search for uBlock (lot of scammy looking sites got returned by DuckDuckGo), and it pointed me to a Git that hasn't been updated in forever. The App Store version was updated 6 months ago at least. I'll install that one, thanks. Give lowtax his five dollars to block forums ads
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FCKGW posted:Yeah, real bummer that Apple is trying to greatly expand their platform and increase the number of apps available to all users. Really gonna miss the days having to buy the same app twice on two platforms. Shame. Yeah, but lol if you don't think developers will still be able to charge one price for iphones, a higher price for ipads and an even higher price for OS X. I don't think it's anything to worry about in and of itself but the mac platform is dead to me if they ever eliminate the ability to install apps from outside the store altogether
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Feb 20, 2019 18:05
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Data Graham posted:Tell me how to make it so when you click a backgrounded window in Windows, it doesn't pass that click through to whatever widget in that application happened to be under your pointer but you couldn't see because it was in the background, and it'll change my life. Use alt+tab, win+tab, click the title bar or the program's icon in the taskbar to switch apps without clicking anything in the app itself
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Feb 20, 2019 19:22
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I found their first paragraph harder than normal to read
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ItBreathes posted:That hurts to look at. The built-in iCloud/keychain password management. I also use keepassx for cross-platform compatibility, but it honestly looks stupid on OS X, with a bunch of full screen dialogs and wonky ui stuff going on
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Apr 25, 2019 22:17
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Weedle posted:I still use uBlock Origin. Seems to work fine. Yeah, it works for now but they are allegedly going to deprecate it at some point. Did Catalina kill it off?
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Jul 4, 2019 00:28
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Yeah, I can see the rationale for not wanting to give anything the ability to reach in over the network and alter your keychain without direct user interaction
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Aug 22, 2019 16:45
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scorched earth would've been not enabling youtube's "pay us money to run audio in the background" scheme on iOS
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Looks like Microsoft killed off cheap copies of Office in their Home Use program, replacing it with a discount on the subscription service.  There are also cheap keys on eBay, which are apparently legal to resell in the EU
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Sep 10, 2019 16:44
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you forgot to cross out sleep tracking 
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RIP safari ublock 
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Sep 20, 2019 04:02
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Just an FYI - clicking the page number dropdown in one of those threads with like 5000 pages freezes safari on my machine. Starting to wish I'd held off on updating it e: same goes for this thread lol e2: nah, it's any thread 
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Sep 27, 2019 03:39
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lol would not have if I were smart and didn't just assume my macbook would get sidecar
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If you're looking at the mac app store, you'll have to buy the app separately on that platform
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I find catalina (or maybe just safari 13) to be a little slower than mojave but not enough that I've given serious thought to trying to downgrade, and it may all be in my head anyway. I haven't actually encountered any of the myriad bugs everyone else has had (probably because I don't use the mail app).
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Mar 25, 2020 22:42
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240GB is fine. They're still selling (or were a week ago?) systems with a 128GB SSD
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It works for me on Catalina. You do have to go in and gently caress with the security settings and click through several incredibly scary "the dev didn't pay us" warnings e: I can't vouch for 100% of functionality but it does the "scroll wheel go one way, trackpad go the other way" thing very well and I haven't had to touch it since I installed it and set it up Clark Nova fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Apr 8, 2020 |
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Malcolm XML posted:apples charging cables are usb 2.0 which is a really cheapass move Yeah, this sucks but it’s something you have to watch out for in general. You’d really expect Apple to be better about it than a random-vowels-and-consonants Chinese vendor on Amazon, though
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Make sure you keep your laptop in the menstruation hut for a week so that it can be ritualistically and spiritually purified after you uninstall itunes
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No, I’m gently mocking you for being afraid to install the vendor’s tool for flashing firmware on the phone. iTunes installs and uninstalls fine
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Shaocaholica posted:Ha try servicing one. How do you think that cat hair is going to get out of the chassis? I was briefly considering getting a used or refurb iMac and replacing the slow, terrible 5400rpm drive with a big cheap SSD, then i looked up a video on how to get the hard drive out 
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May 6, 2020 19:14
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Wifi 6 would be a good point to jump back in because the other vendors currently have very few options and they're all like $300+ each
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May 11, 2020 16:11
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A wifi router is nothing more than a ball of terrible software that has transubstantiated into a plastic lump
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May 12, 2020 00:22
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At least they all know why she’s marrying that stupid rear end in a top hat now
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May 26, 2020 00:16
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In iOS you can set up a shortcut to auto-pause when you connect to a particular device. Are they porting shortcuts over to Mac in Big Sur?
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Jul 24, 2020 04:33
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Proteus Jones posted:I'm locked in the last version of PDF Expert because last I looked either the entire next version or a feature set I use went subscription based. LMAO they forgot the entire point of the exercise is to suck less than acrobat reader
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Jul 27, 2020 20:54
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That definitely sounds like a loose monitor cable inside the laptop. I'm not sure how hard that is to reconnect or replace in a mac. You should probably ask again in the mac hardware thread
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SeANMcBAY posted:What the gently caress, why is this? It looks like they're going to cover more demanding usage cases (multiple displays, more ram, more thunderbolt ports, 10g ethernet, etc.) later on, if ever. Is anyone going to install big slur on day 1? The public beta I tried a few months ago ran terribly
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It sounds like the dev has to explicitly allow the app to run on mac os, so older games might not get it even if all they'd have to do is go in and check a checkbox in xcode
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well, I installed big sur (because I am a masochist) and it really doesn't seem any slower than catalina was, and I'm on a 2015 macbook 12, which is probably the wimpiest computer that got the update. No bugs so far.
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Binary Badger posted:Apple finally gets around to updating Apple Remote Desktop, but now it requires Big Sur. Yeesh. lol why is this still eighty dollars in tyool 2020?
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Nov 19, 2020 18:23
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 and even if the dots go away you can use command+tab to find open apps that are windowless
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Binary Badger posted:If anyone's interested.. an article that tells you how to install homebrew on your ARM Mac.. Thanks. I did a migration and the few brew programs I had on the previous laptop (mostly htop and mosh) work fine but when I try to run brew upgrade or install anything it yells at me
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Binary Badger posted:Didja at least install Command Line Tools v.12.2 from the Apple Developer site? yeah, turns out I just have to prefix the brew upgrade/install commands with "arch -x86_64" to get them to work
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Empress Brosephine posted:are there any good iOS apps I should use on a MacBook Pro now either for fun or use Overcast if you listen to podcasts
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