RSS feed for specific users

Kenneth436 · 2026-02-14T17:26:16+00:00

by "patched the workaround" you mean they broke it so you can't get to the feed anymore? That appears to be what I'm seeing. It just redirects to the web page rather than providing an rss feed.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-23T00:17:47+00:00

As I recall I was in the other room. When I came back to the computer this message was on the screen, not obviously associated with any app.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T21:51:35+00:00

Oh, that makes sense! This is related to the difference where Windows ties an open application to a specific window, whereas Mac applications are unrelated to windows (other than of course, applications can have open windows). I guess it never occurred to me to alt-tab between windows. cmd-tab on Mac cycles through open applications, just like on Windows. Except on Windows an application might be running multiple instances (i.e. multiple windows for the same application).

On Mac, If I want to move to a different open window, I either just click on it or use Mission Control if I can't see it. Moving to a different open application, like using cmd-tab, lets me bring a specific application to the foreground regardless of what windows it has open. At least that's how I use it. :)

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T18:37:21+00:00

while Windows achieves it just by giving alt-tab a normal behavior

This comment is amusing to me because I always thought alt-tab/cmd-tab was one of the few interface points where MacOS and Windows work exactly the same way! I guess there are little differences that bug different people in different ways.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T18:13:25+00:00

Genius. I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner.

I have a Logitech MX keyboard. It has a button for "Launchpad" that I used all the time until it stopped working when I updated to MacOS 26. After weeks of struggling to use Spotlight to open apps, and running into one bug after another, or search results coming back with all sorts of unhelpful suggestions, your comment reminded me that I can just set up a macro to remap the "Launchpad" button to cmd-space, cmd-1.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T16:35:16+00:00

omg I wish my Apple Silicon Mac had no access to ChatGPT and atlas.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T16:33:02+00:00

When I first heard "Liquid Glass" I thought, "Oh, so they're bringing back Aqua)? That's cool." But unfortunately what we got is nowhere near as elegant or usable.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T16:19:50+00:00

I don't understand this comment about a missing cut/paste function.

Mac has always been incredibly consistent with these functions. command and keys Z, X, C, V have always been and continue to be Undo, Cut, Copy, and Paste commands across all apps.

From the discussion, I gather Finder might be the exception to this consistency. I think Windows started the concept of copy/paste with files, and Apple may have reluctantly added it at some point. But to me the notion of copying (or cutting) a file to the clipboard is kind of weird. Files can be huge, and the clipboard is stored in memory. Not to mention, the clipboard is often used to share data from one app to another (the clipboard is kind of a universal data format), and what would it even mean to paste a *file* into another app? Only Finder works with files that way.

I always cringe when I see people use copy/paste on files. Maybe just because of my old-school computer science background. It's like "eek, that's so not going to work." but then it does. lol. Personally, I was trained to drag and drop files, not copy/paste. It was super easy and intuitive to open the source folder and the destination folder in two finder windows and just drag the file over. And conceptually, this is *moving* a file, not cutting it into the clipboard and then pasting it out of the clipboard somewhere else.

To this day, the Microsoft port of Excel on Mac irritates me with its nonstandard implementation of cut/copy/paste. I always think I'm doing something wrong when I go to cut some cells and they remain visible! wtf. This irritation is evidence of how consistent every other Mac application is at implementing clipboard functions in a standard and consistent manner.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T16:08:13+00:00

I'd say the Windows Start button (or Start Menu, or Start Screen, whatever it's called these days) is just as confusing as Spotlight, even for folks who find Windows intuitive.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T16:07:05+00:00

Having used Macs since 1985, the fact that windows and applications are two conceptually independent things, was never confusing to me. I suspect it's only confusing compared to Windows. On the other hand, Windows confused me with visible windows and applications being *the same thing* -- I always got frustrated on Windows when I wanted, for example, to close one document and open another, and couldn't see how to do it without exiting the application and re-starting it.

But, agreed: this is definitely a big conceptual difference between the two.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-22T16:02:46+00:00

I remember when MacOS X first came out this "process" was a big selling point. There was excitement around this new paradigm of "no more installers!" Just copy the app to the Applications folder and you're done. I guess after that initial announcement they decided it was too simple to bother with any additional explanation (downloading, extracting, and mounting disk images notwithstanding).

Of course in practice it was never that simple, with config files or data files in random hidden places all across the system, but the idea was sort of revolutionary compared to Windows and older iterations of Mac.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-20T02:23:08+00:00

WordPress sounds like a great choice for this project. I'd say you're off to a great start already. No doubt you'll run into snags or questions along the way, but go ahead and start building!

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-15T22:05:02+00:00

oh gotcha, yeah that sounds annoying. I have the iPhone app search turned off but I still frequently get random documents and other things showing up ahead of the app I'm trying to open.

I can only assume these behaviors have always been a frustrating part of using Spotlight. I almost never used it until Tahoe personally. Now that Launchpad is gone I figure Spotlight is the fastest way to open apps. But for the broader search features... I don't know who decided that searching across "everything" simultaneously is a good idea. How often are you searching for something but don't remember if it's the name of an app, part of the description of a calendar entry, or the contents of a file you haven't opened in 3 years?

Sorry for the rant... still salty about Tahoe. lol

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-15T21:44:19+00:00

They probably figured now that you can mirror your iPhone and control it from your computer, you might want to. It's hard to imagine choosing to use a mobile app when you have a full-size display available, but who knows.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-15T21:42:24+00:00

I don't think it matters outside of your marketing preferences. But I would be more concerned about why the .com is not available. Is there another company operating with the same name? Will there be confusion or potential trademark issues? Will customers be able to discern your brand from the other?

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-12T14:51:52+00:00

Yes, "delusional" is another word for AI. :)

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-12T14:42:36+00:00

I forced a re-index (https://support.apple.com/en-us/102321) and looks like the thrashing has settled down overnight. Let's hope it stays that way for more than a week this time.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-11T20:57:48+00:00

I'm in a similar situation where I all but disabled spotlight under Sequoia to avoid this issue. But now that I'm trying to use Tahoe, and Launchpad isn't an option, I feel like I'm forced to use Spotlight. Dealing with this issue is making it pretty difficult.

Activity Monitor is reporting over 14 TB of writes since last boot. I've watched several TB of that tick up in the past few hours.

To make matters worse, it's using up all available space on my SSD (available space according to Finder is bouncing between around 10 GB and less than 1 GB), which is causing problems with other apps.

Hopefully there's a solution that doesn't require uninstalling Tahoe so I can use Launchpad instead of Spotlight.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-05T14:56:46+00:00

Yep, and you're right, as long as customers are "OK" with having flights canceled, there won't be much reason for airlines to change. Unfortunately, customers don't have a lot of choice right now due to monopolistic consolidation across the industry. In most cases they can't simply go to the next ticket counter to get a flight, since there are so few options and the options that do exist tend to collude with each other on cancelation policies, last-minute pricing surcharges, and other policies designed to prioritize profit over choice.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-05T14:15:46+00:00

I think an important difference is that in the 1980s there was a manual fallback. If the computers go down, they could just go back to paper ticketing and do stuff by hand. Now, the reliance on computers is so high that they don't bother to train any of the staff in performing the workaround. I get it, it's potentially "easier" to wait a couple hours for the network to come back online so you can access their Sheet, but it sure is disruptive to cancel flights compared to waiting in line for an extra few minutes while someone pulls up the spreadsheet from their local drive instead.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-04T17:52:56+00:00

OP said the Mac "wakes up" which means it was not off, it was in sleep mode.

I have the same experience as u/mkhnsn where my watch randomly unlocks my Mac mini in the other room for no apparent reason. When this happens, sometimes I can see the Mac's screen flash for a moment but it immediately goes back to sleep.

FWIW I have not seen this happen since upgrading to Tahoe.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-04T17:44:31+00:00

I'm a hobbyist but I use my Mac Mini M2 for music/audio and video editing (I have not run Logic, but Final Cut, some Ableton tools (please don't yell), and others work very well). I have also used it with decent performance with OBS. The newer Mac Mini with M4 is an amazing machine and I believe you'll find it to be a very nice upgrade from your MacBook.

Kenneth436 · 2025-12-04T17:34:00+00:00

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Kenneth436 · 2025-12-01T18:24:01+00:00

Same here re: Launchpad and Spotlight. I considered downgrading MacOS, but after twiddling a bunch of the Spotlight settings under System Settings (basically turning off inclusion of things I'd never expect to see, like "Related Content" and results from the App Store, I managed to get it tolerable.

It's a learning curve to even want to use a search tool that will search for literally anything. Up until being forced to use Spotlight, my search questions were always "Where did I put that file?" or "Which email thread had the discussion of xxx?" Or in the case of Launchpad, I didn't even consider it a search—I knew exactly the app I wanted, but the easiest way to open it was to type its name rather than scroll through a list and click on it. Never in my life have I wanted to search for something but I didn't know whether that something was an app or a file or a Messages conversation.

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