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“Browser apps were a mistake” is all I’m seeing
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Sep 9, 2020 03:36
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Data Graham posted:It's also super painful trying to use Safari with the GSuite apps, like for work, because they insist on being wormed all the way into your browser for their ungodly SSO poo poo. I haven't been able to use Safari for work since they locked it all down. Google gets super pissy at Apple, too.. in Big Sur Beta 5, Apple somehow slipped in hardware acceleration in Safari for up to 8K videos on machines as ancient as 2013 models, you could play 8K videos in Safari without much trouble. Google got wind of this somehow and by the time Big Sur beta 6 came out, they reprogrammed the YouTube servers first to refuse to serve up 8K to Mac Safari platforms (but you could still select 4K res,) then as far as I can figure, they disabled serving VP9 to Macs altogether, now you're lucky if you get an AVC1 codec.. You can still get 8K to show up as an available resolution if you use, yup, Google Chrome, but it is heavily buffered and plays with a lot more frames dropped than Safari did back when people could get away with it.
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Sep 9, 2020 04:43
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Oh yeah, that reminds me, trying to use Google Meet in Safari (before they made it impossible to use any work platform stuff without GSuite SSO) was an exercise in frustration. Video quality was choppy and CPU was pegged, and audio kept stuttering. Do it in Chrome and it's silky smooth. I would have boofed my last remote interview if I hadn't switched on the spot to Chrome If I hadn't gone almost 100% telepresence a year ago covid would have been the breaking point for me with Safari.
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Sep 9, 2020 04:51
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Fallom posted:“Browser apps were a mistake” is all I’m seeing Not that you’re wrong, but I’m also seeing “gently caress google forever because they will constantly break their sites to force you to use chrome”. It’s the primary reason that Microsoft gave up an entire browser codebase and switched to a chromium-based one, because google kept throwing in changes for no reason other than to gently caress with your experience on other browsers.
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Sep 9, 2020 06:40
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That must have been an interesting and novel experience for Microsoft
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Sep 9, 2020 11:53
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Firefox with NoScript has been fine for me. 
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Sep 9, 2020 12:18
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Yeah really not getting the FF hate. I use Safari 75% of the time for work poo poo including heaps of google meet. Works fine. Then Firefox for anything not work related. It’s also fine? If anything lamo that you’d use a browser built by an advertising company.
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Sep 9, 2020 12:34
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i use safari most of the time, but once you start getting into the media sites like HBO Max's website, Kanopy, and other weird half baked streaming sites, it's clear they only really want to support Chrome. E: Also Spotify
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Sep 9, 2020 14:42
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Looked back a couple pages, but may have missed: Has anyone else had issues with Mission Control since updating to 10.15.6? Specifically, triggering "Mission Control" (the function which previously showed all my open windows regardless of application) now just shows a blank desktop. Through Googling, I was able to find a several different posts suggesting solutions, none of which have been effective:
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Sep 9, 2020 15:12
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Krakkles posted:Looked back a couple pages, but may have missed: Has anyone else had issues with Mission Control since updating to 10.15.6? Specifically, triggering "Mission Control" (the function which previously showed all my open windows regardless of application) now just shows a blank desktop. Through Googling, I was able to find a several different posts suggesting solutions, none of which have been effective: I’ve had issues with the delta updates (the ones from the App Store only install changes since your previous OS version) that I’ve been able to fix previously by reinstalling the combo update (which loads on all of the files that have been changed since the 10.x.0 patch) over the top of the current install. If you’ve already installed the supplementary update to 10.15.6 that might not work since it’ll be a different build. Also, if you haven’t installed it yet go ahead and install the supplementary update as that might help.
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Sep 9, 2020 23:04
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Mercurius posted:Did you install the update through the App Store/system prefs updates or did you load it on via the combo update? It doesn't appear to offer any other updates, so this might be a "back everything up and reinstall" kind of situation. Which I'm not looking forward to, but I do miss MC.
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Sep 9, 2020 23:50
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Last Chance posted:i use safari most of the time, but once you start getting into the media sites like HBO Max's website, Kanopy, and other weird half baked streaming sites, it's clear they only really want to support Chrome. I'm in a design class and we started basic web coding recently, they're all about Chrome cause it supports whatever crap...which kinda goes against the "mobile first!" emphasis with much of the class using iPhones stuck w/Safari's renderer. But it's sort of the same thing on phones I guess, instead of forcing you to Chrome it's mobile apps. And maybe soon enough they'll be pushing you to download the iOS app on ARM Macs  . Course that might not always be bad depending on the quality of some of these sites vs their apps.
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Sep 10, 2020 01:00
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I like Safari but i split my time between windows and mac, so Firefox's syncing works well for me. I use Chrome for my work (web dev) but do not like their intrusive, ad-focused ecosystem for personal use. Chrome has, by far, the best dev tools, but Safari is necessary for doing anything Apple. Firefox's performance is a lot better than I'd expect and their dev tools are probably in the #2 spot. It's a good browser.
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Sep 10, 2020 07:10
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Is it possible to use a wired internet connection to my laptop but still use my Apple TV as a second monitor through airplay? I'm streaming meetings but I find airplay eats up some bandwidth but I don't want to run so many cables around the place.
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Sep 10, 2020 14:08
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I think this is more of a mac question than an iPhone question so this seems like the right place to put it. I used to have an iPhone, which I backed up manually to my High Sierra running Mac. Since then I broke my iPhone, switched to android, upgraded my mac to Catalina, and now I'd like to get some data out of my old backup files, images, message history, etc. I moved all my backups from ~/Library/Application Support/MobileSync/Backup across to my new mac, but iTunes is now depreciated and finder isn't showing me any way to access them, I can't find the "manage backups" option anywhere. Additionally, if I just navigate to the backups location they're all encrypted, though I obviously know the password. Googling mainly just leads to companies trying to sell you their software, but is there a good way to access the data in my backups or am I going to have to pay one of these companies for some software to access them?
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Sep 10, 2020 14:13
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On the Safari vs. Everything Else debate, I really like the containerization options in Firefox. Safari has their "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" by default, is that functionally the same thing?
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Sep 10, 2020 21:23
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AlternateAccount posted:On the Safari vs. Everything Else debate, I really like the containerization options in Firefox. Safari has their "Intelligent Tracking Prevention" by default, is that functionally the same thing? No, the ITP stuff isn’t as complete AIUI. The Firefox containers are almost exactly what I want, if they had better tab management stuff.
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Sep 10, 2020 21:29
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DJ Burette posted:I think this is more of a mac question than an iPhone question so this seems like the right place to put it. You could also switch back to an iPhone ya dingus
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Sep 10, 2020 22:24
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Krakkles posted:I think the former - Apple Menu, About This Mac, Software Update?
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Sep 10, 2020 22:50
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Fallom posted:“Browser apps were a mistake” is all I’m seeing Im very much in the "death to all one-page-apps" camp, alas its not a healthy attitude in my field (software dev). Regarding browser choices. im mostly a chrome person these days, but man does this browser kick my rear end sometimes. So much bloat.. Embrace diversity, imho. The last time we had a near monoculture, MS tried to kill off apple by withdrawing from developing IE for the mac around the time netscape was in the throws on bleeding out. duck monster fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Sep 11, 2020 |
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Sep 11, 2020 04:01
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Housh posted:Is it possible to use a wired internet connection to my laptop but still use my Apple TV as a second monitor through airplay? AirPlay is just streaming video, nothing to do with WiFi despite the name. Just make sure the aTV and the laptop are on the same Ethernet network.
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Sep 11, 2020 04:11
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duck monster posted:Im very much in the "death to all one-page-apps" camp, alas its not a healthy attitude in my field (software dev). 100% this. just look at the loving madness of the slack ui when you are trying to keep up with multiple threads. imagine if we could just pop a loving window out to keep track of multiple things rather than relying on this one-window bullshit, but that's literally impossible because we've forgotten how to make native apps
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Sep 11, 2020 14:07
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don't call me out like that
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Sep 11, 2020 14:33
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Granite Octopus posted:we've forgotten how to make native apps I'm the idiot that learned how to build UI components from X11 primitives in Uni, and loved WPF. One day someone will need me to do that! One day.
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Sep 11, 2020 17:22
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Binary Badger posted:Google gets super pissy at Apple, too.. in Big Sur Beta 5, Apple somehow slipped in hardware acceleration in Safari for up to 8K videos on machines as ancient as 2013 models, you could play 8K videos in Safari without much trouble. .... vp9 is not efficient enough for 8k on a bandwidth basis this is on Apple for dragging their feet for years on accelerated VP9 Could they keep sending VP9 to apple devices? Sure, but the bandwidth cost would be enormous for what prior to big sur was a tech demo. It's not really worth the $ to serve 8k inefficiently to millions of devices. If it takes apple another 5 years to get hw accelerated AV1 that's on Apple.
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Sep 12, 2020 01:09
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I'm not not sure I'm missing a beat here, but every guide/manual I've looked at doesn't match up with the app and make me feel like I'm on crazy pills. So there seems to be a bug/missing feature on MS Outlook where if you're a delegate for someone's calendar you should be able to freely accept and edit any meeting invites for them, however I've got this one person who's migrated from Windows to Mac OS and they just get the error "To manage events on behalf of XXX you must configure your delegation settings". Now I've never heard of this before as Outlook/Exchange just figures itself when the permissions are in place, I've read there's supposed to be a client settings option for "People I am a delegate for" but I sure haven't seen it. Outlook online works fine for them so I pretty much said you'll just have to use that as I don't know why the app isn't playing ball
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Sep 14, 2020 10:10
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Super Slash posted:I'm not not sure I'm missing a beat here, but every guide/manual I've looked at doesn't match up with the app and make me feel like I'm on crazy pills. I'm assuming O365, but what happens when they try using the web client? That should help narrow down whether it's a permissions issues (or other server side problem) or if it resides with the local Mac client.
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Sep 14, 2020 17:25
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Yep it is O365 and when they use the web client it works totally fine, it just seems somehow the Mac client doesn't pick up on the delegated permissions.
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Sep 15, 2020 16:31
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I’m selling a macbook air that wont power on, for parts. I dont wanna give my password to the buyer if they are able to fix it. Is it possible I can change the password for it online? But if it turns out the motherboard is dead, than it wouldn’t matter right? I’m assuming an icloud lock is tied to the mobo and not the data on the hdd?
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Sep 15, 2020 21:39
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ChocNitty posted:I’m selling a macbook air that wont power on, for parts. I dont wanna give my password to the buyer if they are able to fix it. Is it possible I can change the password for it online? But if it turns out the motherboard is dead, than it wouldn’t matter right? I’m assuming an icloud lock is tied to the mobo and not the data on the hdd? If someone is skilled enough to bring your laptop back from the dead they're more than likely skilled enough to perform an internet recovery or USB OS install and won't need your password anyways.
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Sep 15, 2020 23:11
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ChocNitty posted:I’m selling a macbook air that wont power on, for parts. I dont wanna give my password to the buyer if they are able to fix it. Is it possible I can change the password for it online? But if it turns out the motherboard is dead, than it wouldn’t matter right? I’m assuming an icloud lock is tied to the mobo and not the data on the hdd? I believe that if the computer doesn't have a T2 chip, any sort of lock is just on the HDD, so if it was wiped it wouldn't matter. If it has a T2 chip it has a true activation lock like phones.
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Sep 16, 2020 00:58
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Not that anyone gives a poo poo, but Apple is pushing the Safari 14.0 update on Mojave and Catalina. Not much to say about it but it removes Flash support completely. If you have anything that somehow depends on Flash (and why in God's name would you) then don't upgrade.
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Sep 17, 2020 00:55
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Binary Badger posted:Not that anyone gives a poo poo, but Apple is pushing the Safari 14.0 update on Mojave and Catalina. Appreciate that since my Mac will be stuck on Catalina. It seems a lot better than 13 performance wise. I was having issues with it this year.
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Sep 17, 2020 01:14
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Binary Badger posted:Not that anyone gives a poo poo, but Apple is pushing the Safari 14.0 update on Mojave and Catalina. My government's tax return filing site requires flash...
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Sep 17, 2020 08:56
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So, does Preview just lie about the size of images? Here I've got Firefox and Preview both displaying the same image at 100%. E: I think the screenshot tool captures the state of the physical pixels in the monitor, with the result that all my screenshots are scaled up 2x? Quite a pain for doing screenshot LP work. I just got the Display Menu app, and it seems to fix my issue okay. So Math fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Sep 17, 2020 |
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Sep 17, 2020 12:09
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That's a retina display thing.
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Sep 17, 2020 13:10
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How do tb3 hosts work? Can I plug an egpu into the downstream port on like a ts3plus and will it work
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Sep 17, 2020 19:46
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The safari update has broken practically every other site I visit with "A problem repeatedly occurred with goatse.cx" messages.
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Sep 18, 2020 08:00
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Guess that's why Apple updated the Safari in Big Sur dev Beta 7 to 14.0.1. Apple appears to have disabled the VP9 hardware acceleration framework (it's available in Develop > Experimental Features, but only on Big Sur natch) There's a toggle for VP9 via software but it uses up CPU where previously it was all directed to the GPU..
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Sep 18, 2020 18:54
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Binary Badger posted:
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