the_lucifer
Joined 6 years ago
Joined 6 years ago
In the most recent beta, they added animations, and drag effects when reordering tabs in Safari: https://old.reddit.com/r/MacOSBeta/comments/1x656oc
At this point it almost feels intentional on Apple's part for not having a first party app, as if having one would be a tacit admission that iPads/iPhones are lesser than actual computers (although the logic does break down since they allow it on Macs).
IIRC they do support weird versions of screen sharing and remote control when on a Facetime call which is convoluted to say the least.
Now that was a good thing with https, not so much with passkeys until Chrome pushes through a change and says they'll only accept attested passkeys issued by their own google password manager/authenticator.
Ah, I overlooked that, since I have a claude sub at work and all my explorations are purely personal. There's another fast version of 3.8: ThinkingCap[1] by bottlecapai but they have the same $1M restriction from what I can see since it's distributed under a PolyForm Small Business 1.0.0 + BottleCap personal-use grant.
[1]: https://huggingface.co/bottlecapai/ThinkingCap-Qwen3.8-27B
> "When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through."
These things matter because that's what the OS has been championing for years. It's not Windows where it's almost expected to see a random Windows 95 dialog when you're trying to do something.
Apple slipping here means they've lost sight of their DNA and that's rot-from-within bad. If you are careful of the small details, that means they care enough that the larger details will iron themselves out.
Yes, like you said, there's bigger things that matter, but Apple's older software quality strived to achieve both, not just one or the other
> I'd even say friendlier than MacOS (heresy!!)
Honestly, I disagree. If you've used macOS for a length of time, you might be aware of the universal menu search system using (cmd+? i.e. cmd+shift+/). Hit that, type the menu item name, and simply hit return to activate it. Doesn't get simpler than that. The alt+ system always feels very janky to me on Windows because on many apps, hitting Alt relayouts the entire app sometimes to show the menu bar on top.
As I was reading your comment I was imagining how hard it would be to do in Boston where even using a GPS gives me borderline paranoia then I finished reading your comment.. Yeah that's not something I'd wish on my worst enemy.
If you are directly using it through Deepseek, they do mention that the flash slug has migrated over
A tale as old as time with OSS software from what I've seen. So far the only exception that I've seen of a FOSS piece of software with great UX is Blender[1]. With UX not being a first-class citizen on Linux, exposure to a solid universal tooling to create great UX also exacerbates things.
I think the issue of bad UX and OSS are comorbid because good UX needs an extremely opinionated mind at the helm and a culture of prioritizing features and saying "No, this is not important" which OSS generally lacks.
Honestly you could open-source it with a not-maintained disclaimer just as a way for others to take it to not have to redo the work working with Agents and just build off of your existing work (and you can turn off github issues etc. to prevent nags). I for one would love to poke around with it and point an agent at it to see what it can do