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I want a hot bath after a long day. I don't have one at home so you best believe I'm having one when I'm travelling.

All of that is cool, but can this help get iOS 18 back on supported devices that have upgraded to 26? That'd be magical.

The best way I've heard this described today is "he's high on his own supply".

The article never once says "public locker room", it merely says "locker room". These are, presumably, parts of private establishments such as pools, saunas, gyms, etc. That is, one has to make the conscious choice to enter such an establishment.

Even if it's a publicly-funded establishment such as, say, a municipal swimming pool, the conscious choice to enter into such a place versus walking through an open street aren't comparable.

> Nobody wants to change in a locker where they might be stared at as objects of sexual interest. I would not want to be nude in a changing room with homosexual men or women.

That sounds like a you problem.

Plenty of people around the world getting in the nuddy just fine, not thinking about such thing, not nearly as repressed as your post or tone.

This isn't to dispute your assertion, but I think things are still quite a bit different. A lot of things provided by Foundation on macOS are still not available in Linux's Foundation, nor CoreFoundation, so one has to defer to something like Glibc — which, then again, is not available to the static Linux distro. On Windows, it's useful to use WinSDK to do things that Foundation would normally do.

There's all sorts of little things that Swift on non-Apple platforms just don't have yet. Little footguns because the Swift rewrite of Foundation isn't quite equivalent yet.

Why not? Why wouldn't an open source project want their increasingly platform-agnostic language to be supported on as many platforms as possible?

Swift on Apple and Swift on literally-everything-else are very different stories at the moment.

> is it easier in theory to port swift to freebsd rather than linux? the facts that macOs has shared history with freebsd tells me yes

That shared history goes back a LONG way. The base components from FreeBSD that are in macOS are absolutely ancient. I think the most modern shared components are just the userland tools.

So I don't think it would make much difference at all.

Providing a translation in English so people stop downvoting:

Writing programmes in Malayalam is something I've always wanted to do. I know that programming is primarily the language of mathematics, and it's just expressed in English. However, I've felt that seeing it in Malayalam would help in understanding things a bit more easily. At the very least, the documentation would be easier to read. There's no need to use Malayalam script for writing the programme; writing it in Manglish using Latin script would suffice. Only the description needs to be in Malayalam. That way, the problem of changing keyboards would be solved.

> How long have you been using computers?

Since the 1990s, and I've never used an autosave system that worked that way.

Vista, or rather Aero, never looked anything like this. It's glassy and translucent but that's where the similarity ends. The way the translucency itself is used is vastly different.

But also, yes, I agree. It didn't need to make a comeback. And even if it did, since iOS and macOS were already fairly translucent, it didn't need to be like this.

I’ve never used an autosave system for general software like that, overwriting the file but keeping no history, before. Which one behaves like that?

I generally agree with your points (and love TDE) but

> I don't use autosave either. I don't want the computer to assume when I want to save a file. The computer is too stupid to know that.

That’s why, with auto save systems, you flag/name a version as your canonical save point.

Rather like a video game, I’d rather have the autosaves and not need them, because I generally save the game myself, than not have them at all.

A computer can be helpful and obedient at the same time, when it’s done correctly and puts the user in control.

So, if you have sufficient influence, you can get things moving.

What about those of us nobodies with no influence?

> That’s the idea behind the new PostHog.com. You can multitask, open a few articles simultaneously, and move them around as you please.

No, I can't, because the way I please is to use Swish (https://highlyopinionated.co/swish/) to move windows around with trackpad gestures. Can't do that on your website.

It's already on the App Store and meets all their criteria for a development app, so I can't see any reason why it would be blocked.

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> because they dont want people to brick their phone on accident

Or worse, blow them up.

Not everything is for everyone. Y'all are criticising this project's bean soup because you don't like beans.

> It's a product whose largest cohort is designers or design-minded people.

Those people are not clamouring for another Arial.

Yep, that's the one I was thinking of. Still, I wonder if the platform's networking could just be added in ex-post facto (disclaimer: never actually touched this, just looked at it)

Not even by compiling Go to WASM, then transpiling WASM to C++, then building the resulting C++ with Tiger's GCC?

It seems almost hostile to users. Why should I need to use some third party tool to find your thing? If you're paying for a domain anyway, pay for a meaningful one.

… Well, I guess that's what they've done. Surely nobody could ever have been this naïve, though; it's not as though Google massaging results into unusable mess is anything new.

> If it's just AppleMusic player.

Well, considering it's an Apple Music frontend… that's really the point, isn't it?

The name seems awfully close to QuickTune, another frontend to Apple Music.

https://marioaguzman.github.io/quicktune/

Professionals use macOS. They also use iOS and iPadOS. I think Apple's success is their own poison in that the definition of who or what a professional is has expanded with their market share.

Yet, in their eagerness to transition their newer fanbase of loyal bicycle riders to the Mac mega-truck, they didn't so much as add oomph to the bike as attach pedals to a lorry.

I have a C4 OLED and I thought what you said was also true for me until I figured out what settings I needed to change on my TV to match my console (Nintendo Switch 2). Had to turn on HGiG, manually adjust the peak brightness level on the console itself, and suddenly things looked great.

Not that many games on the console that take advantage of it, mind you. More testing needed.

Only ping me if it's in the next five years, which was the claim from the other poster. ;-)

We have until 2030!

That said, if macOS continues to receive such shoddy treatment from its design team, I may not be using macOS by then to even care if it's going out the door. I may already be gone.

> Have you seen the settings in the new Xcode? This iPad-ass crap keeps infesting various apps.

Yes, and I agree that it's bad. Though, I did say the System Settings app was crap, and it's taken a leaf from that.

To be honest, I think that Apple could do this split view settings window well in macOS. Other operating systems have had something like it for years. Apple just shits the bed repeatedly here for some reason.

> Overall, the current Apple seems to be very scared to lay things out in two dimensions.

I'll grant you this to be true. Though, I noticed this a much longer time ago than just now. Specifically, the way that they removed the context-sensitive toolbar in Pages, Keynote, and Numbers '09 and shoved it all into the sidebar. When they revealed the iPad and web interfaces, though they look similar, much of the mobile interface is actually radically different from the macOS design.

> The combined title bars and toolbars that were introduced in Big Sur are not an aesthetic change. It's a very visible downgrade.

I'm not sure that those are particularly iPad or iOS inspired, though. That feels more like Dye doing his "trying to get rid of the UI" thing rather than anything indicating a platform merge.

That said, I'm a bit scared we'll get the iPadOS '26 traffic light window controls (that are tiny until you hover them) in macOS…

I take your point that this change was functional, not just aesthetic, but I still don't see it as part of any conspiracy to displace the Mac. Just a lack of care.

> That is a welcome change. But that's about the only one.

Ironically, it's one I can't stand! I missed being able to do the pinch gesture to bring up Launchpad and then find my app icons without having to type or scroll a ridiculously long list in a teeny tiny window.

Launchpad made sense to me, but it should've had an option to automatically sort or tidy up the icons in the style of the App Library or the new Spotlight-based interface.