On a somewhat unrelated note, I remember Nuance used to be quite litigious, using its deep patent collection to sue startups and competitors. I'm not sure if this is still the case now that they're owned by Microsoft, but you may want to look into that.
For me, I hate having the extra mental overhead of thinking "am I switching windows between apps or in the same app"? I just want to switch windows. I often pick the wrong shortcut.
When you start "hating" additional functionality, that might be a moment to think about whether it's really the service's fault or if you're curmudgeoning it a bit.
I think it's more likely you're an Apple hater, considering I use Windows and macOS daily (and Linux too I guess if you want to count the EC2s I have to SSH to now and then).
Uh... I understand that as an Apple Fanboi you're required blame the user if they don't like Steve Jobs immaculate creation. But as it turns out, I am a user with very basic requirements for my MBP: if an external monitor is plugged in, use it; if a wired ethernet dongle is plugged in, make it available for use without having to set too many defaults; if I hit the power key on an external keyboard, turn on. These are all things I've seen other macs do.
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But you're right. I'm a hater for wanting my MBP to boot and use external monitors.
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Those things are already true for macs generally, your issues notwithstanding (though you seem to flit between criticizing the hardware and the OS, not sure you even know why your issue is happening), and if you think you wouldn't have these issues with Windows, why use an MBP at all? Surely the mighty Bill Gates will save you from your troubles, yeah?
And not for nothing, but Steve Jobs was a prodigiously arrogant asshole who had very little (if anything at all) to do with the Apple of today, and nearly nothing at all to do with how macOS functions now. The man literally killed himself with his own hubris.
Also... as much as I have asked, Bill Gates doesn't come over to my house to help me edit my registry.
(Though in all fairness, I haven't had to do too much registry surgery since Windows 7)
If you read the thread, you'll discover two things:
1. The MBP is a work laptop given to me by a customer to do development on. I would never pick a Mac to develop Linux code, but that's what my customer has done.
2. I'm not a windows user. Or rather, I have used windows at work, but prefer Linux or BSD systems at home.
Additionally... I can assure you Steve Jobs was a prodigious arrogant asshole who has an awful lot to do with Apple.
I'm mostly criticizing the OS. When it sounds like I'm criticizing the hardware, I'm probably criticizing the company's inability to ship hardware with an OS that has drivers that work with that hardware (especially considering they control both the hardware and the OS.)
Why do I need to download a kext and monkey with defaults to make the charger work? This was the kind of thing Macs were supposed to free me from.
You don't, is the point. The fact that you have to do those things (and not a meaningful number of others) make it clear it's a you issue, not a macOS issue.
Again. When you tell me I don't understand my own requirements and that I'm clearly hating on a platform because of course it is the best thing in the world and I just don't understand how good it is... well... that's not a way to influence others.
I am happy that macOS works for you. But I am not you and I have different requirements. Requirements that macOS does not fulfill.
Ok, it's obviously exaggeration. It's a frequent source of annoyance, not hatred.
It is also true that I am a curmudgeon.
I use both macOS and Windows. I think they are both fine operating systems, each has its own annoyances, but I agree with most of the article's points.
I use both, about 50/50. I have a windows desktop and a mac laptop. Perhaps that's why I have difficulty adjusting because I am switching between the two. But I find the windows approach more intuitive since I use a combination of chrome web apps in separate browser windows and desktop apps, I don't like having to think about what type of windows switching I need to do, I just want to switch windows.
You find simpler more intuitive, I get that, but can you understand the possibility here that the more granular control is, in general, an advantage to most folks?
After reading it, I realized that having overhead led lights in our home were possibly contributing to my worsening sleep and general tiredness over the past few years. Granted, we used 4100k lights which are much bluer than 2700k.
We swapped all our leds back to incandescents and halogens (which were a bit tricky to find, but not impossible). Anecdotally, I've been sleeping so much better since, finally feeling well rested and far less stressed. I just feel a tremendous amount of relief after not sleeping well for years.
Also, while we had leds, I had to replace a surprising number of them for burnout/failure, and also experienced flickering, dimming issues, buzzing and more.
> Granted, we used 4100k lights which are much bluer than 2700k.
You had this realization and yet still went the route of switching back to all incandescents?
It's trivially-easy to find 2700K LED bulbs. The ones I have look just as good as the old incandescent. And despite the article making it sound like you need a PhD to sort it out, you don't: most medium-end 60W-equivalent, 2700K LED bulbs look good and are easily available in any hardware store.
I've set up Kelvin[1] to lower the colour temperature of my LED bulbs in the evening, and reduce their brightness. In fact, they end up pretty deep red when doing middle of the night bathroom runs.
The light temperature plays a lot into it. It's why those industrial edison bulbs are so trendy and popular. The warmer the light, the cozier at night. Warm being color and not tempurature. 2700k being the ideal.
Compared to other OSes people update iPhones really fast. Apple really encourages updates (new emojis!), including automatically updating things unless you stop it.
Given this is public beta one we may see the release near end of March (total guess on my part). Point releases don’t tend to have too many betas. And Apple ID itching yo get the HomeKit new architecture bug fixed soon and that’s in 16.4.
How does one find a good tax accountant? I used to use one who cost around $1200/yr, but I lost trust in him for various reasons, so I do my own with TurboTax Home & Business. Probably not a good use of my time (takes 1-2 days per year), moderately complex taxes with multiple K-1s, LLC filings, home office deduction, but otherwise normal stuff like W-2s/1099s/standard deduction (not itemized).
When I search google or yelp results, it's hard for me to judge who is going to be competent and also reasonabily priced.
Found one at a conference for small business, used him for a few years, then switched to another that came and did a small presentation/Q&A at our local coworking space. Couple of us switched to him and his firm has been fine.
Word of mouth recommendations from colleagues helps, but I would assume you've asked around some already?
"The American crayfish was introduced in the '20s. A guest, if you like. And like most guests having a good time, they didn't wanna leave. Next 50 years, they consumed all the local crayfish, wiped them out. And then, they started eating each other. That's the thing about greed, Arch. It's blind. And it doesn't know when to stop." - Lenny Cole, from Rocknrolla
Has Qt improved its aethetics/appearance? My experience with Qt apps is that they have a distinctive non-native look and feel that's a bit off-putting to me.
What does look like the native UI? I'm not a Mac user so maybe that platform has some uniformity? Windows is a total mish-mash and just about every app and utility for the past 20 years (even MS Office) has had its own "skin". On Linux, Gnome and KDE constantly redesign things, and every distro is different, so there isn't really a standard. The only things I can think of that are consistent are the utilities that come with the DE, but most of the apps I use on Linux are either browsers or IDEs, each with their own style, or console stuff (and even then, the UX varies!)
I'm a bit bewildered by these memory complaints. RAM usage on desktop applications hasn't been an issue for 20ish years. Open up your process manager once in a while.
It is an issue on machines with 2GB of ram or lower.
And there is no good reason we should throw away those perfectly working machines just because devs are lazy waste creators and global warming mothafokers.
While I prefer native apps, I’m fine with electron and web apps as long as the ui is good to use and to look at.
Some electron apps are great to use, many have terrible UIs. But in my experience all Qt apps are ugly. I was wondering if Qt has been working on improving that.
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