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Posted by speckx 2 days ago

Make macOS consistently bad unironically(lr0.org)
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lucasay 2 days ago|
The pill tabs are what get me too. I can ignore most visual changes after a while, but those somehow manage to feel both more distracting and less informative at the same time.
zeroq 2 days ago||
Reminds me of Adobe Gripes (https://www.tumblr.com/adobegripes).

When Adobe suite was de facto standard for designing and coding interfaces (you know, Flash) their own software was so immensely bad that there was enough material for a guy to make fun of them on a daily basis for a good couple of years.

hmokiguess 2 days ago||
I use this https://github.com/FelixKratz/JankyBorders to try and have a consistent feel to it, but I wish I could make it less rounded
ddtaylor 2 days ago||
I have never been happier to be a long time Linux user. Our systems are working significantly better than ever before and I have personally converted more people to Linux in the last year than the 15 years before that.
noisy_boy 2 days ago|
Particularly KDE. They have had some ups and downs but finally they have built a great foundation with Plasma and Plasma dark mode with Breeze is such a great balance of flexibility and fairly consistent look and feel. I stuck around with Gnome for too long in the name of simplicity but once you appreciate that Plasma gets out of your way once things are exactly how you want it, I have come to appreciate not having to install extensions for everyday "normal" things a lot more.
_kidlike 2 days ago||
Plasma has been a bit buggy since v6 :(

they tried to do something with remembering "how you left things" between sessions, and even when disabled things are still weird...

Also some power management related hooks are not working as well as before. Like if you put the computer to sleep at night, and wake it up in the morning, the automatic dark-to-light theme switch doesn't trigger. at least not always.

Still the best system to work with though!

varispeed 2 days ago||
I've been running Sonoma and it's going to stay that way for foreseeable future.
rc_kas 2 days ago|
wish I did that :(
josteink 1 day ago||
I held out until my work MacBook got force-upgraded by IT.

I've never used my Linux ThinkPad more than after my MacBook got macOS 26.

technical_sway 2 days ago||
I'm sure they'll try to market this as a feature so you can see how many windows you have open
alzar 2 days ago||
great catch on the corner inconsistency. hadnt noticed until reading this now i cant unsee it.

this is actually one of the reasons i ended up going all in on a tiling wm (aerospace). once youre tiling, windows are edge to edge so the corner radius thing mostly disappears. the trade off is giving up floating windows,

the DYLD_INSERT_LIBRARIES approach is clever though. making everything consistently rounded is way more pragmatic than fighting apples design decisions or disabling SIP.

dcrazy 2 days ago||
FYI, the article incorrectly claims that SIP just controls write access to /. It does way more than that.
lapcat 2 days ago|
I don't see where it says that. Can you provide a direct quote?
dcrazy 2 days ago||
Footnote 2.
lapcat 2 days ago||
The footnote 2 link doesn't actually work for me, for whatever reason.

What does it say?

rzzzt 2 days ago|||
"Arguable, since you just loose security over /root, which is not a big deal if someone already gained access to your machine, at least for me."

It doesn't render for me either, but is in the HTML at path...

.../html/body/div/div/main/div[3]/div[6]/div/div[2]/div/p

Edit: SIP has a series of control bits for a diverse set of protections. You can see what these control (and which bits "csrutil disable" toggles) in this include file: https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/xnu/blob/f6217f89...

dcrazy 1 day ago||
The link or the footnote itself doesn’t render for you? It renders on mobile Safari, just by scrolling to the bottom of the page.
rzzzt 1 day ago||
The footnotes appear to the left of the main body of text around the position they appear in (viewing in a desktop browser). The article has grown a third note in the meantime and these are all visible now.
gnarlouse 2 days ago|
One of my claude code projects was going to be "theghostofsteve", a social media platform where people post things they love and hate about appleOS things. Likes/Dislikes would be "genius/it's shit". And in all likelihood, the platform would surface that most users think "it's shit."

The platform would aggregate by major/minor version, and you could see in totality whether the current version of macOS/iOS would make Steve proud of miserable.

Ultimately I decided against it, for defamation/cease-and-desist reasons, and not wanting to find out. But it needs to exist.

Joel_Mckay 2 days ago||
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak were a team, and Jobs would regularly tell people their work was "shit" if it didn't make sense.

Apple traditionally burned out its talent, and is no longer structured to follow Jobs original vision. There is a lot of goodwill with the users, but just like Sony/HP/IBM/Microsoft/Sun it can't last forever. The process-people entrench themselves, and ruin everything... just as Jobs predicted. =3

gnarlouse 1 day ago||
What does Woz have to do with it
Joel_Mckay 1 day ago||
Jobs often set project goals well beyond current technology, and the people around him were responsible for actually getting product out the door.

Naively asserting stuff is "Shit" and firing people that disagree with you on superficial deliverables is not a difficult role. However, teams pushing new technology out to the general public is challenging, and even Apple gambled on the wrong product at times.

Jobs was right about a lot of marketing trends, but also was a controversial character. I would recommend watching the classic interview just prior to his return to Apple, as it aged well... =3

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRZAJY23xio

ykl 2 days ago||
Wouldn’t “insanely great”/“it’s shit” be more Steve than “genius”/“it’s shit”?
gnarlouse 23 hours ago||
Sure, you could use whatever binarism you want
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