It is - some bullshit statement from a developer about having to carry the screen pixel geometry up through multiple layers of abstraction being unworkable - except if you use a terminal command it’s right there still, for about 70% of text rendering.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Tuesday, 25 September 2018 09:13 (five years ago) link
No more model for sale with a headphone jack, so I guess the 6s is my last iphone, unless I decide it's worth it to spring for a nice lightning DAC and to deal with the bulk (their adapter sucks).― Fedora Dostoyevsky (man alive), Wednesday, September 12, 2018 9:38 PM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
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― Lee626, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 11:32 (five years ago) link
Mojave is the most useless OS update yet.
― akm, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:06 (five years ago) link
dark mode is idiotic. who likes this shit? turned that off right away.
― akm, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:07 (five years ago) link
urgh having a nightmare with Photos on iOS 12 - the picture library appearing in my Photo app now seem frozen - new shots taken will not be saved to the photo library and I can't delete any older pictures
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Wednesday, 26 September 2018 14:58 (five years ago) link
I don’t understand people’s fascination with dark mode either. It always looks worse to me, less readable.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:02 (five years ago) link
i dunno i like having a break from ALL THE LIGHTS but it's not consistent right now and there are some things like i dunno browser windows that are constantly full of non-darkened content
― j., Wednesday, 26 September 2018 16:07 (five years ago) link
https://infinitediaries.net/os-x-choose-between-the-character-accents-popup-and-key-repeat-when-holding-down-a-key/
huh, maybe this was happening when i was running high sierra but i didn't notice it until mojave
what's the point of the key repeat rate and delay preferences if they are made to only apply to space, arrow, return keys etc?
― j., Thursday, 27 September 2018 21:02 (five years ago) link
Well space and return are often held down to control where text appears in e.g. a text document. And arrow keys make sense to keep going if you hold them down, whereas I can imagine that more people would like easy access to ü than wish to type uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu on the regular.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 27 September 2018 23:07 (five years ago) link
To be fair most of the people who type ü on the reg are using a keyboard layout that allows them to type it more quickly than holding the key down.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Thursday, 27 September 2018 23:32 (five years ago) link
it breaks the USER EXPERIENCE of using a keyboard, for which keypress = type, key hold = tttttttttttttttttt, uh except for the modifier keys and
it seems punctuation still repeats, tho (((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
look i just wanna be able to type a lotta letters in a row really fast a lot of the time okkkkkkk
― j., Thursday, 27 September 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
ök
― the late great, Friday, 28 September 2018 00:47 (five years ago) link
I never knew I needed dark mode until I was working in the studio.
Useful article on how to toggle it via keyboard: https://appleinsider.com/articles/18/06/14/how-to-toggle-dark-mode-with-a-keyboard-shortcut-or-the-touch-bar
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 28 September 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Love dark mode and it should only get better.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 28 September 2018 01:24 (five years ago) link
xxp well I suppose the real answer is convergence of the macOS and iOS UIs.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 28 September 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
i am not like ú
i have REAL KEYS
i am in touch with my physicality
i am an embodied computer user with a connection to the wørld
― j., Friday, 28 September 2018 02:23 (five years ago) link
elvis, it seems that solution doesn't quite work as-is on the full mojave release (i notice the names of the categories in automator hadn't caught up to 'quick actions' yet). the automator script needs to be added to accessibility to access 'system events'. but apparently giving it a global key shortcut is not enough to make the script executions truly global? because it behaves differently from within an accessibility-authorized app (i added the finder) and a non-authorized one (say, safari), from which it's forced to beg for separate access to 'system events'.
hm.
― j., Friday, 28 September 2018 05:44 (five years ago) link
aha https://latenightsw.com/mojave-brings-in-big-security-changes/
― j., Friday, 28 September 2018 05:57 (five years ago) link
still haven't upgrade because i fear APFS. is it all settled and good now?
― 龜, Friday, 28 September 2018 11:52 (five years ago) link
If you have High Sierra and an SSD, you're already on it. Zero issues for me. However the almighty Disk Warrior doesn't speak APFS yet.
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Friday, 28 September 2018 12:34 (five years ago) link
i never upgraded from sierra
― 龜, Friday, 28 September 2018 15:00 (five years ago) link
i did sierra -> mojave last night. omnifocus required it and i haven't heard much for a while. i do wish they tested their software though.
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 September 2018 17:32 (five years ago) link
i downloaded 2 days ago and it froze at 80% progress for 12 hours. Spend 5 hours at the apple store yesterday and had to wipe my drive and start clean... other than that it's nice enough so far.
― Machine Gunk Jelly (Spottie), Friday, 28 September 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
plz let us know how the sierra -> mojave ends up working out for you. I'm still on sierra and had pretty much intended to stay until my hardware dies
― Dan I., Friday, 28 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
No problem w mojave yet on my 2015 mbp
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 28 September 2018 18:09 (five years ago) link
sierra->mojave is fine for me so far fwiw. i've been doing some pretty wacky unixy stuff so far this morning without problems, which has been a problem on previous upgrades.
the upgrade was smoothish. about half way through i got a message saying my disk could not be repaired and that the install would roll back to sierra. which seemed ominous. but it rebooted and then the installation continued fine. so i guess the error was a false alarm?
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 28 September 2018 18:13 (five years ago) link
i was only running high sierra for a month or so when i upgraded and everything is basically fine so the most noticeable change is that they seem to have knocked all the UI polish off their mature release and things are a little more hinky, which is not ideal
but maybe it will improve with minor updates so i can bask in it
― j., Friday, 28 September 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
I like dark mode idk
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 28 September 2018 19:13 (five years ago) link
I want dark mode for preview tho
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 28 September 2018 19:14 (five years ago) link
Dark mode makes sense for writing code, when you need the ability to distinguish text in lots of different colors. In every other context it's masturbatory, imo
― Dan I., Friday, 28 September 2018 20:04 (five years ago) link
you got a problem w/ masturbation???
― j., Friday, 28 September 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
lol last year or so I decided I had had it with black terminal backgrounds and colorful syntax highlighting. Now I have a light background and a shades-of-grey color scheme.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 28 September 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
yeah it’s nice for writing in latex and I like to work in the dark so it’s nice on my eyes
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 28 September 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
i'm running mojave on a 2014 macbook pro retina and it's fine. useless update IMO, but fine.
― akm, Friday, 28 September 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
I like bright white. Always and 4ever.
― Jeff, Saturday, 29 September 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
i don't (and can't) have mojave but i love dark schemes, so much easier for my eyeballs
― gbx, Saturday, 29 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
I switched to dark mode on twitter and zing about two years ago and can’t imagine going back so yeah sucks my MacBook is too old for dark mode os-wide
― Clay, Saturday, 29 September 2018 20:20 (five years ago) link
I bought a new phone - it's running 12.0. My old phone is running 12.0.1. What a complete clusterfuck of a switch over. Everything seems great until it isn't.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 October 2018 01:56 (five years ago) link
what went wrong? i'm due to do this in a few days
― Nhex, Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:43 (five years ago) link
Elvis All you have to do is choose to restore an iCloud backup and iOS will download the update and then restore the backup
― calstars, Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
Or set it up as a new phone, update, then restore
― calstars, Thursday, 11 October 2018 02:58 (five years ago) link
Set up as new, nuke it, and restore is what I had to do. The installer still doesn't back out of this gracefully if your previous OS was newer.
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 11 October 2018 06:05 (five years ago) link
Still not getting Shortcuts. I’m trying to set up something like « shuffle from downloaded songs on iPhone » but can’t figure it out
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 11 October 2018 06:27 (five years ago) link
There doesn’t seem to be an exact filter for that. But “Find Music Where” “Is not cloud item”|V“Play Music”“Shuffle songs”Seems to be doing the right thing.
― stet, Thursday, 11 October 2018 06:51 (five years ago) link
thanks, that seems to work!
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Thursday, 11 October 2018 08:05 (five years ago) link
anybody having problems with itunes screen redraws after a mojave upgrade? if i delete several highlighted items in a playlist the new display of the playlist doesn't update all at once, only line-by-line as i scroll past now-deleted items.
― j., Friday, 12 October 2018 18:25 (five years ago) link
YES. Had that happen to me last night.
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:24 (five years ago) link
like you delete an item and nothing changes then you click down and it's there twice until you click past it
― dan selzer, Friday, 12 October 2018 19:25 (five years ago) link
I'm having that issue too. Already filed a bug report on it.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:05 (five years ago) link
Anyway, new phone issues sorted out. The Xs is damn impressive - loving the new camera.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 12 October 2018 20:09 (five years ago) link