I feel my control over my mac is slowly being eroded as steve jobs stamps on my face with his white new balance 991s forever
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:33 (twelve years ago) link
have had very few problems with lion
― markers, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:35 (twelve years ago) link
I'm still struggling to think of one single thing about Lion that made it worth upgrading from SL.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:36 (twelve years ago) link
new mail app
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
mission control is kind of bogus as is launchpad which is dashboard for apps? didn't notice anything else tbh except that I can't put lion on any physical media that I own
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
waiting for the ars review
it's already out?
― caek, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
High-resolution cursorIn Lion, the cursor is crisp and sharp at larger sizes.
cool, Apple
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2011/07/mac-os-x-10-7.ars
oh neat ty
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
Yearless birthdaysYou can now add birthdays to your contacts without including a year.
! fuck yes
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
didn't notice anything else tbh except that I can't put lion on any physical media that I own
You can:
http://mashable.com/2011/07/20/lion-clean-install-guide/
I haven't installed Lion yet but I like the sound of revision histories and not having to tell TextEdit et al whether I want to save each goddam file when I close the app/shut down.
― Alba, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
dayo, Apple just updated its support page with some thing that lets you create an external recovery disk for Lion: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1433
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 01:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but it still doesn't let me upgrade sl on this mbp to the lion of our new imac, the stingy fuckers
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:11 (twelve years ago) link
ugh
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 02:13 (twelve years ago) link
Update on my "flash issue," here is a 53 page (and counting) thread on my exact issue:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3194165?start=0&tstart=0
Its not just limited to Flash either, any type of video AT ALL. Brand new comp and cant watch any type of video, awesome!
Lion sucks.
― streetball technician in the flesh (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 07:28 (twelve years ago) link
does rkaufmann eventually concede that there's a real problem?
― koogs, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 08:33 (twelve years ago) link
that sounds a lot like what I encountered yesterday xp. thinking seriously about downgrading to SL
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 10:29 (twelve years ago) link
cool http://9to5mac.com/2011/07/28/users-report-video-related-freezes-in-lion/
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
I had the login freeze at the weekend.
This will probably be fixed in the next few days, if it's affecting that many people.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 10:43 (twelve years ago) link
yeah likely, but I dunno if I should downgrade to SL permanently or just ride it out.
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
effort involved in downgrading to sl v waiting a few days for lion patch
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:12 (twelve years ago) link
otoh
effort involved in putting up with unuseable lion v using an operating system that works
Aperture has basically been unusable for me since upgrading to Lion. It's opened up a severe memory leak or performance bug somewhere, and the system crawls if I try to do anything.
― Millsner, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:23 (twelve years ago) link
stable release > new release w/ unknown quantity of bugs
only thing is, if I make a boot volume from lion I dunno what would happen if I tried to install it over SL in case I wanted to upgrade in the future.
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
Wrong time to say this but THIS is why jumping to a new major release is the worst idea ever.
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
fwiw i upgraded to lion a few weeks ago and havent had any problems at all. tho i dont do much but ride the information superhighway & use photoshop
― max, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
The only issue ("issue") I've had is that Starcraft 2 seems to grind a bit after first loading, probably because the system isn't allocating enough memory and it's having to dump apps out of the cache. Who knows, maybe because of more innocuous reasons.
I really like all the gestures and stuff? I'm probably in the "this is a good awesome release" minority.
― mh, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
No issues here either. I'm on a MBP 17" from a couple of years back, with 4 gigs of RAM. I've held off on upgrading my iMac since it's a 2007 model with only 2 gigs of RAM & I'm not sure how it will do.
― Euler, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Can you really still not get a Macbook Air with more than 4GB of memory? Seems ridiculous.
― mh, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://9to5mac.com/2011/08/09/turn-off-irritating-changes-in-lion-with-lion-tweaks/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+9To5Mac-MacAllDay+%289+to+5+Mac+-+Apple+Intelligence%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
haven't updated yet, last I checked some of my software isn't compatible, though I'm sure it will be soon. I don't mind waiting till more kinks are worked out.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
the ars review isn't as overall positive as the SL one was, but I guess there are enough new 'innovations' to keep it around til they fix it
resolution independence... around the corner maybe? seems it's just a matter of updating all the little bitmaps
guess I'll use the 'workaround' which is to tell the imac to never sleep and to just turn it on/off when not in use
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
i upgraded because i figured the iOS 5 upgrade would be a must and i figured there might be a bunch of lion-only stuff?
― moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:35 (twelve years ago) link
best part of iOS 5 is you never have to connect it to a computer again!
― mh, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:38 (twelve years ago) link
ok, I just tried out screen sharing via iChat and holy shit that was simple and cool and awesome for tech support in the future
― dayo, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:47 (twelve years ago) link
apparently you can't (or couldn't) copy to usb drives in lion? has this bug been fixed yet? cuz that is fucking lame.
I'm not bothering with this upgrade until i0S5 forces me to (like, if cloud storage for itunes doesn't work in snow leopard)
― akm, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
so I got an iPhone 4 and "restored" from iTunes. and now I don't have apps like FaceTime? how do I shot that?
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
the restore was from a pre-FaceTime restore backed up to iTunes? You should be able to access all the apps in iTunes and transfer them to the iPhone.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:11 (twelve years ago) link
Am I right that my original MacBook won't run Lion?
― schwantz, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
ive copied to usb drives a bunch of times since i installed lion
― max, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
I had the copying problem... restarted the finder and its been fine since
― sofatruck, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
What the hell are you talking about? Facetime isn't a standalone app on the iPhone, it's rolled into Contacts or Phone app.
― Your Favorite Album in the Cutout Bin, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 20:56 (twelve years ago) link
(go into your phone settings and enable FaceTime)
― CLUB PISCOPO (DJP), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
couldn't figure out how to downgrade lion to SL via usb stick
lion v.sluggish on bidey in's 2006 macbook
― nh (cozen), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:05 (twelve years ago) link
"apparently you can't (or couldn't) copy to usb drives in lion? has this bug been fixed yet? cuz that is fucking lame."
OH, wow, ya noticed this yesterday I could 'read only' my externals and couldn't change any access privileges! So this is a thing then huh?
― streetball technician in the flesh (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:06 (twelve years ago) link
thanks djp
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 21:10 (twelve years ago) link
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/apple-most-valuable-company/#more-71241?pagewanted=all
― Once Were Moderators (DG), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
"apparently you can't (or couldn't) copy to usb drives in lion? has this bug been fixed yet? cuz that is fucking lame."OH, wow, ya noticed this yesterday I could 'read only' my externals and couldn't change any access privileges! So this is a thing then huh?
Just as another data point, I read/write to a couple of USB drives in Lion daily and haven't had any issues. (both are formatted with Mac partitions FWIW)
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:27 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, yesterday and Monday I filled two 2 TB ext drives with no issues so
― Autumn Almanac, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 23:30 (twelve years ago) link
When it happened to me I couldn't move or copy anything... external devices or even to other folders on the internal drive. Drove me mad for about 15 minutes but then I found some talk on a forum about it and restarting the finder seems to have solved it since.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link