auxio

StrangeDays said:

Wiccanbear23 said:

HomePod also updated today 13.4.8

While I'm a fan of my HomePods, used primarily as a stereo pair for Apple TV streaming (replacing a much more expensive 5.1 receiver setup), I am getting increasingly frustrated with them. For some reason they eventually lose independent connectivity, responding to my HomeKit Siri commands with "I can't seem to connect to the internet right now" or such. Curiously they continue to function as the ATV's AirPlay end-point, they just forget how to do other things. Restarting or unplugging restores connectivity. I have to do it several times a week. 

Going to file a feedback.

Network issues are always tricky to track down the source of.  I recently was having problems with random dropouts and connectivity issues on Wifi (one symptom of which was Siri not working on my HomePod), and it turned out that a firmware update to my DSL modem had re-enabled the Wifi network on it.  That network had the same name + channel as the newer Wifi network I'd set up on another router in my place (replacing the one on the DSL modem).  Once I disabled the Wifi network on my DSL modem, everything worked fine again.

muaddib said:

The problem I see is one of RAM.  iPhones have a relatively small amount of ram because of energy use, and Macs the more ram the better.
I don't see how this is limitation is overcome.

Fast storage.  If your storage is nearly as fast as RAM, then it's not a big performance hit to swap out to disk.  Check the partitions on a modern Mac and you'll see that macOS is already doing this.

gatorguy said:

auxio said:

KITA said:

Look at all those wires!  And notice how literally the only things running there are browsers.  That's ChromeOS in a nutshell: if it doesn't run in a browser (so that Google can build a profile of everything you do), it doesn't run.

And all because advertisers (including Apple BTW) want to be sure that the money they spend is going to the right market. For example, no sense in presenting you with panty ads if you're a male, and besides you'd just get them in a wad anyway.

I just want real apps.  I had to use Google Slides for my son's homework at the end of the school year and god it was horrible.  The text cursor was about an inch below the text selection box and I was constantly having to resize/reformat to get it where I wanted it (while struggling to click in the right spot to actually select it).  My son was literally in tears because he was so frustrated (as was I).  This is the problem when you try to build a complex app using half-baked web technologies.

I'll gladly pay for an app which saves me time/headache because it was designed to do a few things well rather than shoehorning everything in a browser designed to do everything half-*ssed.

swineone said:

(BTW: I'm a cryptographer, so I know at least a tiny little bit about the topic.)

And I'm a software developer who has worked on everything from the OS kernel (Linux), to low-level TCP/IP and BSD socket communication (encrypted and unencrypted), to high level/end user applications on a number of platforms.

Apple's technology stack is a mixture of open and closed source components.  The vast majority of the OS-level technology stack in both macOS and iOS is actually open source (shares much in common with BSD UNIX).  So it's subject to the same open peer reviews as any other open source platform.  It isn't "security by obscurity" as you somehow believe it is.

steven n. said:

slurpy said:

steven n. said:

razorpit said:

So does that mean this will no longer work?

sudo xattr -r -d com.apple.quarantine /Applications/[name_of_application_bundle_here].app

This 100%. 

The team which designed the entire quarantine process must have been high on crack. The design is miserably broken if you do anything more than write live poems on Word/Pages.

I so dislike the implementation.

I hope the above still works.

Really? I use maybe 30 pro apps for design/development, and haven't seen anything "miserably broken" in Catalina. 

But maybe I'm actually imagining all that, and in reality I'm writing poems in pages. 

If you have tools which auto generate test scripts, trust me, it is miserably broken beyond belief. The team was high on crack or their own self importance. 

It's funny, I hear some of the same complaints from people at my company.  And yet, every time I take the time to really dig into their complaints, I somehow always seem to find a different way of solving the problem which, in their blind rage against Apple, they didn't bother to investigate.  Sometimes people would rather just stew in their anger than do things a different way.

I do plenty of automated testing on the software I write, and it all works fine in Catalina.