Yeah that would be good, too. 👍

I’m personally of the opinion that we should always upgrade if the improvement is significant and the improvement actually gains us something beneficial.

Sometimes even a significant improvement doesn’t necessarily net you a real tangible gain. But often it does!

Or in layman’s terms, why fix what ain’t broke

Okay? I don’t understand this reaction in this context. I’m just making statements lol. Not yelling at you.

Exactly, so there should be no reason to edit sensitive system files in either case. Great, further to my point.

I don’t get the appeal of immutability. System files are read-only for users for a reason already. Don’t modify them as root unless you know what you’re doing and you’ll be fine.

What am I missing?

(Also gaming for a 78 year old, meh.)

Understandable, but it’s just not how macOS works; it’s an intentional paradigm. I guess the use case is “dealing with documents”, opening, editing, closing, in repetition.

But closing the application and all its open documents in one go also has a common UX pattern: Command+Q. So if that’s what you really want, do that instead of closing windows/documents.

It’s just a very simple matter of making happen what you want to happen instead of not doing that. 🤷‍♂️

With all this said, I don’t think macOS is a good operating system. It’s very well thought out and very cohesive and very nice looking, great for beginners. But it’s just not practical for me. The window management is clumsy and lacks a lot of features, I don’t like how applications are installed (or uninstalled; sometimes packages can’t be easily uninstalled), and I don’t like how the hardware will just not support the latest operating system after a while.

With Linux, I can just keep going and upgrade the system in perpetuity and it’ll just keep going.

I also find tiling managers are good, but after about 15 years with i3 I’ve committed myself to Niri. It’s so good. A whole new paradigm that fits my mental model very well.

Why not? Sounds reasonable to some extent.

True. Either that, or, if too expensive, just don’t include an image. I really, really don’t need an image for every article. Especially if it’s slop that doesn’t bring anything interesting to the table.

In macOS there’s the general concept that every window should represent a document. You can have several documents open, such as PDF files, web pages, Word documents, etc. For a running application, you can have zero or more documents open at the same time, meaning you can close all documents and still have the application open.

🤷‍♂️

[Giggles in Niri]

I don’t understand either why the sound mixing is so bad on TVs. Makes me just want to down-sample everything to stereo.

Me and my kids must be O, then. It’s been a pain all my life, being so delicious, living where I live.

Kind of similar to how horrendous experiments in humans in the past have provided a lot of insight in the field of medicine, to benefit us all.

Is that the takeaway? Maybe I’m missing something big right on my nose.

I didn’t know Ricky Martin was born on Christmas Eve. Bless him.

It’s easier to set up than a forum. I suppose. But messier.

A forum is much better suited for the purpose a lot of people are using Discord for.

They should be using Discord for voice chat and streaming, that’s what it’s good at. Use a fairly tool for what it does well. Not for what it does poorly.

Yep. I noped out. Exported all my data using the Desktop application and deleted my many years old account.

I feel like you should be able to have some sort of shared library between the two platforms where you can have backend facing code and maintain that as a single truth, then develop the apps for different platforms independently. But sure, it’s a matter of resources obviously.

I figured it had to be something like that 🙂👌 Thanks!

Glad I dumped their asses for Signal when I found out Grok was coming to Telegram as a chat bot. I said hell naw.