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SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Yeah it's no secret, it was just a visual glitch that shouldn't have been visible to the end user. All NS* references can be traced back to NeXTSTEP
SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
I'll grant you that!
SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
I doubt it. That was when starting an audio recording. When starting a video recording, it's off-centre in the other direction, despite the UI being largely the same!
SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Interesting, someone else said they couldn't reproduce that either, but a quick search when I wrote it confirmed I was not the only one.

On reflection it does sound like I'm implying most things in this post are universal. I, of course, would have no way to verify that. Perhaps I should've taken greater pains to note that YMMV. Thanks for that.

SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
To be fair I think most self-aware Apple fans would agree they're pretentious and hyper fixate on things
SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Papercuts, that's a neat way of describing them. Thanks for that!
SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Funnily enough that was one of the things Golden Gate fixed, at least for me on my M1.
SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Thank you, I'm stealing this
SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Yeah but the outer bit is still circular!
SquareOrbits··on macOS Golden Gate Is a Buggy Mess
Oh, hyperbole and a half. It's a useable OS.

- Centring _is_ important! How dare you!

- Same for me now. Wasn't when I used it a few days ago.

- ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

- Very pedantic, I know. But look at some of the other icons close up, lots contain tiny details very few ever see (try the Mail app, the icon of a text file, or the loupe on the old Preview icon). That obsessive attention to detail feels like it's now in the past.

- Yeah could well be Firefox's fault. But it surfaced in Golden Gate, so I included it.

- You can trace anything NS* back to NeXTSTEP

- Not for me!

- :)