@gruber

[Perfect image in original post that demonstrates how unreadable Liquid Glass in #Tahoe can be.]

Thank you for posting this! Blinding. Literally. I am mildly visually impaired (#dyslexia & old age). Until there is a transparency slider that can be set to 100% opaque (why doesn't that exist?), #Apple 26.x operating systems are no longer visually accessible. Worse, the read screen options fail to read some websites or just quit intermittently. Does Apple have anyone eating their own dog food (testing accessibility features) any more? I am sure the OS doesn't pass #ADA guidelines necessary for government contracts. Sheesh. So disappointed!

#liquidglass #macos #accessibility #disability

borgbackup 1.4.4 was just released!

Some important fixes, a few small new features, check the change log please!

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/1.4.4

#borgbackup #backup #linux #macos #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd

Good timezone Fedi - what desktop environment or window manager do you use and why? If you could recommend it in a 1 sentence, what it would be?

#wm #de #xorg #x11 #wayland #linux #macos #windows #dos #haikuos #plan9 #freebsd #runbsd #openbsd #netbsd #dragonlfybsd #linux

#Linux experts (#Mint #Debian):

Who has recommendations for...

(1) Graphical #cron-job editor
(2) Graphical #Systemd editor - specifically timers
(3) Graphical file-share / #Samba configurator
(4) Graphical File transfer client (SFTP/S3), like Cyberduck
(5) Video editor (similar to #FinalCutPro on #MacOS)
(6) Easy to use vector drawing tool (Simpler and easier than #inkscape )
(7) Simple document editor (I used to like #AbiWord back in the day - #LibreWriter feels very complicated to me)

Has anyone made a self contained Time Machine backup server (that runs on FreeBSD)? It looks like the old ways of backing up over the network finally broke, and I can't fool MacOS anymore by using a sparse disk image like I have for years.

I don't want to have to configure and install samba, I just want something that works and is small and self contained.

#Apple #Backups #MacOS

@siracusa What do you think Photos for macOS is doing when it's "Preparing for cleanup..." when you want to do photo cleanup? Every time.

Initially it quite surprisingly had to download some component the first time cleanup was used, now it just "prepares" for about 10 seconds - and this is on a Mac Studio M1 Max with 32GB RAM.

#ATPPodcast #macOS #Mac

Discovered an unexpected benefit of daily-driving a CLI-capable text editor like Emacs:

Instead of sitting with my expensive M5 MacBook Pro while dog-sitting my Mum's very active 6-month-old dog, I can SSH into it using a spare 1-core 1-thread shitbook NetBSD and work through that.

Just developed a fixed version of a very old and broken package recipe using only this of workflow.

#SSH #emacs #NetBSD #macOS #SoftwareDevelopment

borgbackup 2.0.0 beta 21 was just released!

Please help testing!

https://github.com/borgbackup/borg/releases/tag/2.0.0b21

#borgbackup #linux #macos #freebsd #openbsd #netbsd #omniOS #haikuOS #windows #backup

#NetBSD #Linux #windows7 #macos

@geerlingguy I never had one of them fancy rack mounted jobs, but I did run my website on a G4 Cube on my desk for many years (running Mac OS X Server 10.4).

I too liked that era of Mac OS X. I miss it.

#Apple #Macintosh #G4 #G4Cube #MacOS #MacOSX #OSX #Toaster

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Ad for the Apple G4 Cube including the cool little computer, keyboard, round speakers, mouse and monitor. It was a slick machine back in the day!

1. You have a Mac laptop with an outboard Bluetooth keyboard. It’s asleep.
2. You wake up the Mac by hitting the Touch ID on the laptop keyboard.
3. The Mac is annoyingly slow at starting to respond to keystrokes on the outboard. Several seconds, sometimes.

How to fix:

1. Hit any key on the BT keyboard. The Mac will start waking up.
2. Now hit the TouchID to get signed in.
3. Hey presto, the Mac is already listening to the BT.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

#macos

ahahah til that not only does Pangea Software still exist, but that @jorio source ported Nanosaur to modern MacOS and it works *great*

play here:
https://jorio.itch.io/nanosaur

pangeasoft:
https://www.pangeasoft.net/nano/screenshots.html

#macos #retrogaming #dinosaurs

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A screenshot of Nanosaur Extreme running on a modern version of macOS. It shows a raptor with a jetpack and lasers running away from a t-rex.

Run this random script in the terminal to block Apple’s macOS Tahoe update notification spam

Are you not at all interested in upgrading to macOS Tahoe, and getting annoyed at the relentless notification spam from Apple trying to trick you into upgrading?

The secret? Using device management profiles, which let you enforce policies on Macs in

https://www.osnews.com/story/144511/run-this-random-script-in-the-terminal-to-block-apples-macos-tahoe-update-notification-spam/

#macOS

@glyph @xgranade Hard booting has always been possible, so far. Sometimes the audio test dialogue just refuses to go into background and prevents me from doing anything on the machine. Latest #macos, 2022 hardware, latest Zoom.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/116140431530202122

give @glyph cash

ignore tags

#mutualaid #fediverse #selfhosting #retroComputing #python #dev #indiedev #foss #hosting #mastodon #activitypub #joinIn #video #software #politics #windows #linux #macos #ios #android #fedi #support #help #patreon #indieweb #internet #webDev #homelab #diy #maker #charity #donations #money #rant #writing #writingcommunity #drawing #dragons #furry #furryart #anime #art #server #education #absurdAmountOfTags #humor #satire #meme #joke #pol #lifestyle #give #today #fyp

I will be streaming on Twitch at https://www.twitch.tv/glyph_official/ in a bit over 18 hours; i.e. at 10AM US/Pacific. Writing some more #Python code, talking about #Emacs, and doing some #macOS development. Or maybe other stuff, if folks have questions.

Exosphere:

― aggregated patch and security update reporting
― basic system status across multiple Unix-like hosts via SSH

<https://exosphere.readthedocs.io/> | <https://github.com/mrdaemon/exosphere>

<https://untrusted.website/@mr_daemon/114980024541462116> @mr_daemon

<https://mastodon.social/@terminaltrove/114977286773333343> @terminaltrove

#Unix #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #Debian #Ubuntu #RedHat #macOS #Windows #SSH

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A frame from the animated demo at the Welcome page.

#macos life hacks: rm ~/Library/CoreFollowUp/items.db; pkill followupd deletes a bunch of the annoying-ass naggy shit in macos 14 and up

In my completely vibe based unscientific opinion Tahoe 26.3 seems to hammer my battery slightly less

#MacOS

What are some good resources for getting my head around MacOS internals?

#MacOS #macos

I spent a fair amount of time today converting a bunch of my #ZFS datasets to encrypted ones. Since I can't convert in place (#macOS for the win there!), this involved making snapshots and using zfs send/recv pairs. This was very slow. Also, my server is about 5,000 miles away from me, which made it extra fun, since I had to do it in single-user mode. Yay HTML5 KVM!

I discovered that it doesn't like having /foo/bar/baz unencrypted while /foo is.

I’ve uploaded the Apple Silicon build of #mame 0.285 for #macos so all us old folks can emulate & relive the relic computers we grew up using on our fancy new computers. Or even play games we were too poor to get thru in the arcades. (Using sdl2 framework, of course). https://sdlmame.lngn.net/

Its also mirrored on github somewhere, but me no link to them here. Intel builds will follow later on.

New Vivaldi release for Windows, Mac & Linux. We got some cool stuff for you and we avoided AI, so enjoy!

#Windows #Macos #Linux #Browser #Vivaldi #Computer #AI

https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-7-8-launches-with-message-to-big-tech-humans-dont-need-ai-babysitters/

Comparing the toolbars between Pages 15 (15.1?) and Pages 14:

Why is this a unified toolbar? You can barely see any of the title. Sure, you can expand the window but sometimes you just don’t have the space. The fat toolbar items are just so space inefficient.

Oh and it gets worse if you show the labels (as the default used to be).

Apps just tend to get more and more user hostile and I'm really trying to understand why?

#macOS #LiquidGlass #CreatorStudio #iWork

So it seems #macos #tahoe is super stable as an OS but super flaky as an _upgrade_, which will be most people's experience of it.

I've been routinely updating my M1 Max MBP since 2021 and Tahoe is the first time core apps (Mail, Calendar, even Finder!) have been crashing 'unexpectedly' and restarting. I bit the bullet and wiped and reinstalled my Mac (blog post with checklist might follow) and everything seems snappier and more stable. Nothing has crashed yet (day 2).

Can you slim macOS down?

Howard Oakley answers a very interesting question - is it possible to slim macOS down by turning off unneeded services and similar tricks? The answer is obviously no, you cannot.

Classic Mac OS was more modular, with optional installs that the user could pick and choose, as shown above in Mac OS 9.1. These days with the SSV, choice is more limited from the start, with the only real op

https://www.osnews.com/story/144240/can-you-slim-macos-down/

#macOS

A recent comment on one of my videos reminded me that some people think switching from Windows to Mac is somehow escaping their masters.

You are leaving one cage for another.

The Mac experience is great until you want to do something Apple has not pre-approved. True freedom is not just about a stable UI. It is about hardware repairability and software sovereignty, two things Apple has always fought against.

As Benjamin Franklin said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

Don't trade your sovereignty for convenience.

#WindowsExodus #RightToRepair #GNULinux #GNU #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #TechFreedom #TerminalTilt #Liberty #Freedom #Apple #Mac #MacOS

At Vivaldi we continue to make choices that are different from our competitors. We have chosen to not integrate AI or crypto, but instead we integrate a wealth of other features, based on the wishes of our users.

We are a European company with most of the team based in Norway and Iceland, a few around Europe and a couple in the US.

Our servers are based in Iceland.

If you want to get away from Big Tech, maybe give us a try? If you are already using Vivaldi, maybe introduce your friends?

Have a nice day!

https://vivaldi.com

#Vivaldi #Browser #Windows #Macos #Linux #AI #Europa #Technology #EU #UK #Germany #France #Poland #Denmark #Norway #Iceland #Greenland

@cstross

#MacOS has been like this for more than a decade. There used to be a fairly decent manual page set on-line, much like what the BSDs and Illumos have to this day. But they all got deleted after lying unmaintained, and it became apparent years ago what Apple's attitude to doco was.

https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/239484/18044

@kithrup
#Apple #ManualPages #NextSTEP

I’m deceased 💀🪦🤣 #LiquidGlass #macOS

Just upgraded for #macOS 26. The UI reminds me of the period around 2002 when teenagers would create 'cool' GNOME and KDE themes with zero reference to usability. Except with more transparency. So like some of the early Compiz stuff, which was far more about 'the technology allows this' than wondering whether anyone would actually want it.

Safari windows are all totally different colours based on the background colour for the page. And they've lost the app icon in the bar (you know, the thing that's really important for Mac apps because it's the file proxy that lets you do direct manipulation?), so recognising them is hard.

It's a mess. Apple needs to seriously think about how they ever promoted people to leadership rôles the UI group when they were so clearly unqualified.

EDIT: People always complain about new macOS / OS X. I've been using OS X since 10.1, and written two books about Cocoa programming. I assumed the complaints were overblown. If anything, they're understated. It's so bad in a bunch of totally avoidable rookie errors that anyone who has done one undergraduate HCI course would know to avoid.

#LiquidAss

RE: https://wien.rocks/@noheger/115877698373215218

ugh this is one of the things that drives me most insane in #macOSTahoe. Basic desktop-isms are just so broken. I fear that more and more folks who don't understand the history of the desktop are running the show at Apple. I hope I am wrong but then what explains this mess?

#AppKit #macOS

is there a macOS application that can do basic audio routing/mixing? e.g., mix these inputs and send the audio to this output, then send this other input to a different output. something like Cantabile (for Windows), if anyone knows that.

at the moment i use Logic to do this, but it's rather overkill for something this basic.

#macos #audio

I probably should upgrade from macOS 14, but apparently 15 removes Secure Note support from Keychain and that's where I store a load of recovery codes and things like answers to stupid recovery questions (which I never answer with real data, since that's trivial to harvest). Some recommendation says to move to locked notes in the Notes app, but others seem to imply security there is weak. Any recommendations?

It's very disappointing for Apple to silently remove useful functionality that's been there since 1.0 and not provide any documented migration path, but I guess that's the New Apple way.

#macOS #keychain