lupinglade

Apple has been going down hill at an exponential rate since the loss of Steve (and subsequently just about all real engineers at Apple).

Swift is turning into a mess and SwiftUI is complete, utter garbage. Tahoe’s UI is unbearable.

The problem is there is no real alternative - Linux is the closest thing (but has its issues).

Tahoe’s UI is a disaster. Giant buggy controls. Sad to see where macOS has ended up. Apple used to have so much attention to detail in their UI design - now it looks like it’s “anything goes”.

And Canada too.

Pathetic.

Human accelerated change is the concern.

I long for a modern NeXTStep-like OS. A polished, consistent, solid operating system that is lean, clean and simply focused on getting things done. It should be predictable in every way and never get in your way. None of this SwiftUI bullshit, Animoji, AI or blurry UI. sigh

Use it every day and still no idea where anything really is in there. What a shitshow.

Not sure.

This might be the main issue with software at Apple getting so much worse. Bertrand knew what he was doing. Apple's (and NeXT's) OS used to be an OS, not a collection of toy apps.

The problem is the materials used. Greedy developers building junk homes and making bank. People in those areas are able to afford fire resistant housing but most of them are being swindled into buying stick homes. The few properly designed homes fared far better. Code needs to be updated and consumers need to be educated.

Actually, in the long run, it's likely to make good engineers a lot more scarce.

It is a webpage that was quickly put together. We are a small company and our focus has been on the product. You can run Linux and macOS currently. That is listed on the features page as well as the app store product listing.

There is no dark pattern, it is actually a problem with the way Apple allows developers to sell software on the Mac App Store. We don't have proper control over the process and thus end up with this convoluted purchasing system that is more geared towards subscriptions - which are the real dark pattern nowadays. We sell without any subscriptions - at a very fair price that is extremely competitive with other products. The old upgrade pricing model was a lot more fair to both developers and users and we are sticking to it. This is the only way to offer a free trial on the App Store without requiring a separate installation, which would be inconvenient for everyone.

Far from a university project - but your opinion is yours to keep. It is a shame you are so negative, as it really is a labour of love and a quality Mac app. In fact we have a lot of firsts here, no one has really done a lot of these things (snapshots, suspend & resume, proper dynamic resolution with retina support) with the new Apple framework yet.

Yes, VMTek does snapshots natively and takes advantage of APFS. We have a great graphical snapshot UI as well.

Also check out https://www.getvmtek.com for something very polished. We just released a huge update a few days ago.

This is self promotion, but we genuinely have a great solution to this with a free (no commitment) trial: FireStream https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/firestream-upnp-dlna-med...

The app launch delays still occur when the internet connection is slow or lossy even in Ventura beta.

Do you really have to ask?

Insteon isn't closed - it had an open and documented protocol and was supported by various software. It did not require "the cloud" either. The problem with Insteon is it was low quality hardware, not a very reliable protocol and there was a lack of good software.

The same thing is happening in video games and even software. Technology is advancing but quality and talent are vanishing.

The Russian state media are reporting lie after lie - see some of the real footage from the war that you can easily find anywhere online and compare to what they are reporting. You don't need to be an intelligence expert to see that the Russian media is spreading outright lies and propaganda. Stopping this propaganda is the right thing to do.

Check out FireStream, it's a modern DLNA server for macOS: https://geo.itunes.apple.com/us/app/firestream-upnp-dlna-med...

Borderline? It's far beyond that by now.

Seems like a problem with VSCode.

Write more of your own code. If your app is made up of more packages and dependencies than you can audit then you're doing it wrong.

Consider OpenBSD.

Not wrong.

Installer/AppTapp did this first, to be fair. I should know, I wrote it. ;-)

So, basically nothing changed? Thanks Apple.

Drives me crazy reading discussions or long "posts" on Twitter - who in their right mind uses such a platform for such things? We have links. Post a link to a proper web page.

See ya!

A beautiful OS that is far more enjoyable to use than todays inconsistent, schizophrenic UIs.

How does one monitor stories from different sources without RSS anyway? That's how I got here.