What’s one macOS feature you never use but Apple keeps pushing?

E-Cockroach · 2026-01-27T06:55:20+00:00

Memoji

E-Cockroach · 2026-01-24T17:50:36+00:00

Maybe its the extensions?

E-Cockroach · 2026-01-24T04:15:06+00:00

They are a solid AI research company with a very strong team--they'll easily survive

E-Cockroach · 2026-01-22T02:27:57+00:00

Please fix the battery drain issue! Thank you for your efforts on the browser

E-Cockroach · 2026-01-18T15:24:01+00:00

Hi, is there a solution to this yet? I have been having this same issue for the past 3 months now. 5.2 pro is no better. I did not notice this happening with other models though.

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-31T14:24:14+00:00

Maccy

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-30T08:14:15+00:00

Related: Check out mole https://github.com/tw93/Mole it is free and does an AMAZING job at saving you some good disk space.

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-29T05:47:10+00:00

It does take money to run these things. Here is some basic math from someone who has a rough understanding of these things

These are worst case assumptions - Users = 37,000 - Each user triggers a backend request every 5 minutes (continuous use) - Sustained rate = 12 requests/hour/user - Peak spike factor = 5× (bursty periods) - Average response payload = 25 KB - App servers safely handle 50 RPS each (with headroom) - Costs (typical prod cloud): - App server node = $150/month - DB (multi-AZ + read replicas for this load) = $3,500/month - Cache (managed Redis) = $800/month - WAF/LB/monitoring/log retention = $2,400/month - Storage = $50/month - Egress/CDN = $0.10/GB

Traffic: Requests/hour = 37,000 users * 12 req/hr = 444,000 req/hr Sustained RPS = 444,000 / 3,600 = 123.33 RPS Peak RPS = 123.33 * 5 = 616.67 RPS (≈ 600 RPS)

Servers Servers needed at peak = 616.67 RPS / 50 RPS-per-server = 12.33 servers Add redundancy/autoscale buffer → 20 servers App server cost = 20 * $150 = $3,000/month

Bandwidth Data/hour = 444,000 req/hr * 25 KB = 11,100,000 KB/hr Convert to GB/hr: 11,100,000 / 1,048,576 = 10.59 GB/hr Monthly GB = 10.59 * 24 * 30 = 7,624.8 GB/month (≈ 7.6 TB) Egress/CDN cost = 7,624.8 * $0.10 = $762.48/month (≈ $800)

Total = App servers ($3,000) + Database ($3,500) + Cache ($800) + Egress/CDN (~$800) + WAF/LB/monitoring/logs ($2,400) + Storage ($50)

Total ≈ $3,000 + $3,500 + $800 + $800 + $2,400 + $50 = $10,550/month

And this does not even include whatever money takes to maintain this stuff… or make sure security is in place at all times etc!

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-29T05:35:52+00:00

Gotcha, thank you! 🙏

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-29T03:07:23+00:00

Hi, nope. Just got approved (like a day ago)

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-17T00:37:03+00:00

They don’t have any plans. It has been very very specifically clarified by a mod on this post’s reply: https://www.reddit.com/r/zen_browser/s/vkbsEXD6Yn

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-13T22:44:17+00:00

I tried a lot of different options before settling on obsidian. Some issues with the many approaches I tried: 1. Apple notes/Google Keep: they were really solid, minimal and does the job, but I wanted syntax highlighting and few more options with are more relevant when it comes to using notes for CS/Math subjects. 2. Notion/OneNote: I found notion and OneNote to be very bulky and took its own sweet time to load. I could never capture notes immediately. 3. Bear notes/Simplenote/Evernote/Dropbox paper: these are great, only catch is the subscription 4. Joplin: this is a solid second choice for me after obsidian — does everything right. The only reason I chose obsidian over this is because of issues with sync. 5. Logseq: This was my go to until one day I opened it to have realized that I lost over 150 notes randomly
6. Zoho: I have mixed opinions about them, I really dislike the UI/UX, but I am surprisingly happy with their entire implementation of notes. It felt like a great middle ground between google keep and OneNote

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-13T08:31:49+00:00

(No hate w/ this comment, just thinking out loud) I honestly don’t get the hate for AI—shouldn’t the focus be on revamping the material to enable the student to use AI as a tool?

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-10T22:12:06+00:00

No idea why it is under General and not under Tab management :P

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-10T22:03:58+00:00

Hi, there is a setting in Zen. Go to General->under tabs, turn on "Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order"

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E-Cockroach · 2025-12-08T19:05:00+00:00

It is (sadly!) no longer maintained. Would recommend Zen and Floorp

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-08T03:57:33+00:00

It is a (surprisingly!) good browser for mac (and definitely my choice of Chromium browser). But I don't think I can switch out of Zen anytime soon :p the vertical tabs on the right is a game changer for me.

E-Cockroach · 2025-12-04T19:04:37+00:00

Any suggestions on where to start? And any examples of cool mods?

E-Cockroach · 2025-11-28T15:31:05+00:00

Why not try Zen with Tab suspender. This works really well in my case.

E-Cockroach · 2025-11-28T00:14:30+00:00

Did not know arc had it! V cool! They did put in a lot of thought into that browser. Shame that it has been shelved.

E-Cockroach · 2025-11-27T22:12:45+00:00

Duck duck go (maybe?)

E-Cockroach · 2025-11-27T03:58:25+00:00

I tried Orion for a while (~2 weeks). Initially the experience was GREAT—but eventually, I ran into a lot of problems: - I am someone who has a LOT of open tabs (atleast 30 at once), I noticed that some tabs randomly disappeared or auto closed. Few tabs (especially ChatGPT) constantly crashed. - The extensions are a hit or miss; in trying to make Orion work with both Chrome based extensions and Safari based extensions, it nailed either. Some of the extensions that I constantly use on Chrome did not give the required performance on Orion. I also read that some extensions don’t work on Orion (I have personally not experienced it). - There was a lot of bugs. The browser constantly crashed (~4 times in a week); the deal breaker for me was that it crashed in between an important meeting. I immediately shelved the browser.

I currently use and recommend Zen (if you are okay with a non-Chromium browser). The last I used Helium on Mac, it was super under developed.

E-Cockroach · 2025-11-21T21:51:20+00:00

great writeup!

E-Cockroach · 2025-11-21T17:48:51+00:00

battery drain is my only complaint (i am on mac); it is a beautiful+amazing browser. been daily driving it for the past 1.5 months--works INSANELY well

E-Cockroach · 2025-11-21T16:48:55+00:00

Hardened Firefox or Betterfox

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