I HATE APPLE

Mojave is the most useless OS update yet.

dark mode is idiotic. who likes this shit? turned that off right away.

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

I don’t understand people’s fascination with dark mode either. It always looks worse to me, less readable.

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

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?

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.

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.

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

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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

Love dark mode and it should only get better.

xxp well I suppose the real answer is convergence of the macOS and iOS UIs.

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

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.

aha https://latenightsw.com/mojave-brings-in-big-security-changes/

still haven't upgrade because i fear APFS. is it all settled and good now?

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.

i never upgraded from sierra

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.

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.

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

No problem w mojave yet on my 2015 mbp

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?

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

I like dark mode idk

I want dark mode for preview tho

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

you got a problem w/ masturbation???

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.

yeah it’s nice for writing in latex and I like to work in the dark so it’s nice on my eyes

i'm running mojave on a 2014 macbook pro retina and it's fine. useless update IMO, but fine.

I like bright white. Always and 4ever.

i don't (and can't) have mojave but i love dark schemes, so much easier for my eyeballs

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

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.

what went wrong? i'm due to do this in a few days

Elvis All you have to do is choose to restore an iCloud backup and iOS will download the update and then restore the backup

Or set it up as a new phone, update, then restore

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.

Still not getting Shortcuts. I’m trying to set up something like « shuffle from downloaded songs on iPhone » but can’t figure it out

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.

thanks, that seems to work!

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.

YES. Had that happen to me last night.

like you delete an item and nothing changes then you click down and it's there twice until you click past it

I'm having that issue too. Already filed a bug report on it.

Anyway, new phone issues sorted out. The Xs is damn impressive - loving the new camera.

xp i could't find anyone complaining about it on the internet (elusive search terms) and then the bug report form was such a pain i just thought i might wait it out until they fix

apple music deleted all my downloaded music (70+ gb) off my phone without telling me. three years on and it's still a hulking piece of shit.