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Comment · 10 days ago
Windows 11 contextual menu takes 2 second to open on a recent PC. Windows surely goes out of its way to make contextual menu a pain to use.
Comment · 11 days ago
No, we are all on the same boat. 27.2 is a bit better, but introduced some new bugs too. In the end they fix one bug and introduce two new ones.
Comment · 1 month ago
After every time the computer goes to sleep or something like that. I made a script to quickly restart the Dock.
Comment · 1 month ago
The funny fact is that they didn't add any new feature to Mission Control, they just rewrote it and broke it in the process.
Comment · 1 month ago
They surely fixed a lot of bugs, but not enough, and they added so many new stupid ones. Mission Control wasn't perfect before, but at least it wasn't buggy. Now there is a bug every two clicks.

Even double-clicking in Finder is broken, many times double-clicks are just ignored.

Comment · 1 month ago
Mission Control is unusable in macOS 27. Shortcuts to switch spaces stop working (Dock must be killed to get them to work again), there is a padding between spaces thumbnails and the top of the screen so it's no longer possible to just easily move the mouse at the top to select one, windows rearrange randomly when one is clicked, full screen app spaces breaks each time you try to use them, animations are wonky and you can't reenter mission control while some animations are running, etc…
Comment · 1 month ago
The process that shows the Spotlight UI is now the one called "Siri", previously it was called "Spotlight".
Comment · 1 month ago
Which version of svt-av1 are you using? Neon optimisations were added quite recently in svt-av1, and are still a bit incomplete, so it might make a difference.
Comment · 1 month ago
Running something with "Wine" doesn't usually mean "porting", "porting" means making a native binary that doesn't run through an emulation layer.

Anyway, probably you are trying to run a 32-bit executable with Rosetta, that won't be fast, because Rosetta was never meant to run 32-bit things and has got a lot of pitfalls.

Comment · 1 month ago
Cool, but Apple didn't announce any M6 Pro yet, so where is this coming from?
Comment · 2 months ago
Apple's Weather app has an animated background, glassy views, and nice animations like water droplets on the glassy views when it's raining. So rendering all that on a 4k or more display at 10bit depth is going to consume a bit of RAM. However I guess it can surely be improved to make it consume less RAM.
Comment · 3 months ago
Snow Leopard shipped a new 64-bit Cocoa Finder too, but no one noticed because it was almost a pixel perfect and behaviour perfect copy of the previous one.
Comment · 4 months ago
Of course, but that works only if the files are already in the same partition. A dmg is a virtual image, even if it's stored in the same partition, once mounted it acts like another partition.
Comment · 4 months ago
Tahoe can't ramp up the GPU frequency fast enough, and many animation like the QuickLook one often run at less than 30 fps. So much fun.
Comment · 5 months ago
Games are an almost perfect type of software to be run in a sandbox. The question is, why aren't they already run in a sandbox?

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