Comment by deathanatos | Hacker News Reader

Comment by deathanatos | Hacker News Reader

The emoji search box's search bar sometimes will just stop working, usually after a {input, erase input, new input} sequence. No idea why. Dismiss picker, try again.

Sometimes the picker just refuses to be summoned.

Bluetooth is a mess. File transfers will fail, who knows why? Certainly not macOS. Often I'll just punt to GoogleDrive-TP.

Really random screen wakes.

Left macOS alone for 5s? All your windows have decided to start playing a game of musical desktop, and need 10s to re-arrange themselves back into place, also while sometimes displaying their contents at 2x.

Slack has any number of these; e.g., emoji inside codeblocks are simply corrupted. A number of odd corner cases in URLs will corrupt, and each edit of the message will further corrupt it.

So much of the web is plagued by some framework that, upon any JS exception, will destroy the entire DOM (idk maybe defunct page > no page at all?) and leave you only with "ApplicationError: …".

At this point I'd add "is a motorcycle a car? Is a pedestrian signal a stop light?!" CAPTCHAKCAS to this list, but those are a "feature".

If we're doing "features": password fields with no option to view the plaintext value? I use long passwords, and if I'm in a safe place, I would much rather see what I'm typing and correct any typos I make along the way than have to retype the same password multiple times with long delays between each attempt.

Also, once a day my Touch ID stops working and I need to log in with my password again. That's fine, the passwordless access expires after 24 hours or so, fair enough. But I turn my laptop on fresh every morning and have to also put my password in then. If I do that, I at least expect to be and to use my fingerprint until the end of the day.

Ugh this is the worst. It’s topped by password fields that don’t work with a password manager.

The wombo combo is field that doesn't allow pasting (???) plus app that forgets where you are. So you can't paste, so you type the first few characters, dismiss the app to look at what the field should be, come back and boom - it's cleared out or, worse, you're on the home page. For some reason banks LOVE this.

The emoji picker refusing to be summoned drives me up the wall. There's a dedicated key for it! And yet...

> The emoji search box's search bar sometimes will just stop working,

No joke, this pissed me off so much. I made a silly emoji search to use instead!

https://emojistime.com

Why can't I disable MacOS "start every app I can think of" when you restart the laptop?

No, I don't want to launch Word, Excel, Sheets, and System Monitor when I reboot. They weren't even running when I restarted, and I unticked the launch apps on restart. Every. Damn. Time.

In the shutdown / restart confirmation dialog there’s a checkbox to reopen apps at login. If there’s a bug with it I haven’t noticed it. You can also run

defaults write com.apple.loginwindow LoginwindowLaunchesRelaunchApps -bool false

> and I unticked the launch apps on restart.

I do untick it. It's a bug that happens with every restart.

I'll have a go with setting the defaults, I'm wondering if there was a file it writes out open applications to (to trigger on restart) that has somehow become corrupted and therefore doesn't get cleared.

Do you know where MacOS stores the list to reopen?

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