I’m deceased 💀🪦🤣 #LiquidGlass #macOS

@david_chisnall You know it's crazy world when you install #GNOME and out of the box it has better usability and design than #macOS. What a crazy time to be alive.

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

With the following code, any detected software platform other than #Linux, #iOS, #Windows, or #macOS will be represented with the name "Other" instead. However, a more granular approach may also be possible utilizing the #BSD systems, such as #NetBSD, #OpenBSD, or #FreeBSD.

Okay, NOW we are cooking. #wayland #macos #libkrun

(I should really start upstreaming these hacks... )

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

Running out of disk space on your Linux, macOS, BSD, or Unix-like OS? Or perhaps you're hitting the classic disk quota limits set by your sysadmin? Fear not. Run `du -sh * | sort -h` command to get a sorted list of your directory sizes so you can remove or compress unwanted files. Here is another useful shell alias:
```
alias ducks='du -cks -- * | sort -rn | head'
ducks
```

See https://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/how-do-i-find-the-largest-filesdirectories-on-a-linuxunixbsd-filesystem/ for more info.
#unix #linux #macos

/me opens reddit… oh #mame 0.284 released 20 mins ago. Ok, click, clack, poof. Apple Silicon build now live https://sdlmame.lngn.net #macos

Woo-hoo! Found a bug in #macOS 26 (Tahoe) Mail.app with TLS 1.3: if you set up your IMAP server to only speak TLS 1.3 then Mail on macOS 26 just hangs whereas it works fine on iOS 26…

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There is an (old) discussion from 2022 which was replied to by an idiot saying "Apple says it does, so it must be true."¹ ​

The fact that exactly the same Dovecot server works fine with TLS 1.3 enforced against iOS 26 w/ Mail but does not against macOS 26 Tahoe w/ Mail is pretty damning to me...
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¹ https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254448705?sortBy=rank

Every year I end up revisiting the fact that #Apple #Photos has absolutely crap exporting and archiving features, so this year I decided to rewrite my #macOS #export scripts in #Swift:

https://github.com/rcarmo/PhotosExport

MacOS/Linux: Amifuse for using Amiga file systems
As the name suggests, Amifuse allows you to mount Amiga file systems on MacOS and Linux using FUSE. To achieve this, the original driver for the respective file system is used via 68k emulation.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-12-00092-EN.html

#macOS #Linux #Amiga #AmiFuse #FUSE

What fresh homebrew hell?!

15:55:17 Compiling /…/macos/build/src/couch/priv/couch_ejson_compare/couch_ejson_compare.c
15:55:17 clang: error: no such file or directory: 'JSON'
15:55:17 clang: error: no such file or directory: 'API'
15:55:17 clang: error: no such file or directory: 'formula_tap_migrations.jws.json'

Has anyone seen anything like this? #macos #homebrew

Additional curse: only fails in a jenkins agent, manually is fine.

I have it running on #NetBSD, #FreeBSD, #OpenBSD, #Linux, #MacOS, #IllumOS, #iOS, and have a user on the legacy #Android OS. That's basically everything that matters.

Did you know that the #XLibre #X11 server is now built on 7 different operating system environments including #mingw, #macOS, #FreeBSD, #DragonflyBSD, and #NetBSD? Thanks
@XLibreDev. This is what "actively maintained" looks to me.

Does anyone know why alt-2 doesn't work in #WINE on #macOS? alt-1 to alt-0 all work except alt-2. Is something else capturing it?

EDIT: Ooops, I meant control, not alt.

#apple #LiquidGlass #UI #design #AlanDye #designer #MacOS #iOS #iPadOS #fail #fun #dunny #humor #humour

Alt...

Funny X post. The text says "To commemorate Alan Dye moving from Apple to Meta, here's one of his best quotes: 'Design is not just what it looks… Design is how it…'" Parts of the text are unreadable because of Apple's Liquid Glass UI design, lead by Alan Dye.

MacOS: losing confidence

It's always a bit sad and a little awkward when reality starts hitting long-time fans and users of an operating system, isn't it? I feel like I'm at least fifteen years ahead of everyone else when it comes to macOS, at least.

Over the last few weeks I’ve been discovering problems that have been eroding confidence in macOS. From text files that simply won’t show up in Spotlight search,

https://www.osnews.com/story/143948/macos-losing-confidence/

#macOS

System 7 natively boots on the Mac Mini G4

Only a few weeks ago, the CHRP variants of Mac OS 7.6 and 8 were discovered and uploaded to the internet for posterity, but we're already seeing the positive results of this event unfold: Mac OS 7.x can now run on the Mac Mini G4 - natively.

The very short of it is as follows. First, the CHRP release of Mac OS 8 contains a ROM file that allows Mac O

https://www.osnews.com/story/143926/system-7-natively-boots-on-the-mac-mini-g4/

#macOS

#POLL Results:

44 people are in deep denial about their existential dread, and should consult a counselor and read #Kierkegaard immediately 😁
139 people like teh pretty tings, and can't be bothered
188 people have started down the path towards enlightment
354 people are cool_kids
92 people are very_cool_kids
55 people laugh at your inadequate security model
27 people can run a server on a bit of bailing wire and a microcontroller from 1987 — fear them.
26 people are keeping Gassée's dream alive, and are plenny cool in my book
4 people are totally cool, and totally in a class by themselves
and 21 people kinda scare me, but I'd like to know more. 🤣

#humor #humour #houmor #houmour

#Windows #MacOS #Linux #CommandLine #BSD #RunBSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #AmigaOS #Plan9 #9Front #TempleOS

P.S., wherever you find yourself, you're awesome. This is all for fun.

#UnplugTrump und das aus DE FreeOffice ist kostenlos und kommt vom #Softmaker Offce aus #Nürnberg Voll kompatible zu #Microsoft #Office und fast identischen Funktionen & Menüs, machen den Umstieg sehr leicht. www.freeoffice.com/de/ #GoEuropean #Windows #Mac #MacOS #iOS #Android #iPhone #iPad

#macOS developers: is there a way to get a *raw*, unprocessed video stream for just getting the pixels out of a camera? No Center Stage, no Reactions, no background replacement, and no interaction from the user to allow enabling any of that. Like if I wanted to set up a telescope for astrophotography, weather monitoring, security surveillance, or literally any use case which isn't "pointing the camera at my face for a video call". Is AVFoundation too high-level for this?

@morgant

#MacOS has now overtaken #FreeBSD

#EVIL

#Poll #LiveTooting

#hashtags for exposure:

#windows #MacOS #Linux #BSD #FreeBSD #OpenBSD #NetBSD #Haiku #HaikuOS #BeOS #Amiga #Workbench #AROS #TempleOS #Boost #BoostsAppreciated #BoostPlease #PleaseBoost

Ok, sorry for all that. 😂

@stefano The *perception* that #Linux is anti- #Windows or #MacOS was understandable back in the day when Steve Ballmer was running the show and #Microsoft pumped out no shortage of anti-Linux FUD and propaganda.

It's also important to note at that time the OS landscape was very different.

I need some tips or advice.

I would like to reimage my (Intel) MacBook Pro.
The reason is that i suspect some low level third party drivers are messing up my power management (therefore i don't want to restore from the Time Machine backup)

In the (distant) past I dinos replaced the ssd but this isn't possible.

So my question, what is the best way to create an (ideally bootable) disk image of my #MacOS installation?

#Boost #FediPower

Been living with the #MacOS Tahoe update for a few weeks now, and it's mostly inoffensive, with one exception:

I hate, **HATE** that they made the change-of-volume alert become this tiny little update in the corner that's easily missed instead of the nice comfy screen overlay that made it quick and easy to see volume and any other special-button-related-changes.

Design has improved our lives in many ways, but this constant need for "change it just because it's been a while" is not the best look.

well, I think it’s more or less OK to release. you may have issues on your hardware, but these patched TBXIs at least try to boot whatever you throw at it, 7.5 onwards up to whatever it’s supposed to boot…

very hacky and your mileage may vary, but now you too can try to boot 7.5 or 7.6 or 8.1 on stuff that wasn’t ever meant to run it, without it instantly crashing due to its boot wanting some function or interface that got stripped out the tree…

https://github.com/Wack0/universal-tbxi-patchset/releases/tag/v20251115

#MacOS #ClassicMacOS