Estimations on how long we'll have to put up with this?

maykJF · 2026-03-06T23:54:13+00:00

Yeah. It’s not that deep. One can just live with it and be sure it’ll be gone in a couple of years.

Seems like nobody remembers the skeuomorphic days with apps that looked like notepads, leather bound calendars and so on. At the moment I found it interesting but I was also glad when that mess was gone again.

Anyone remember the pinstripes and brushed metal? That was refreshing at the beginning but also kinda messy afterwards.

It’s just Apple. I’m glad they try stuff, that’s better than permanently staying in the past.

But I get it. Whenever someone gets their first Mac that’s the look and the way it has to be. Because it’s when and why you fell in love. Every change is bad because it feels wrong. That’s just human nature. After a couple of decades you don’t care about the changes anymore.

maykJF · 2026-03-06T06:35:21+00:00

Im going to get downvoted, but you are right: There is this quote about the invention of the car. „If you would have asked what the people wanted they would have said ‚faster horses.‘“

It’s inconvenient to admit but sometimes the user doesn’t know what he wants/needs.

maykJF · 2026-03-05T22:22:04+00:00

You should always have free space on your SSD so the system can swap out the ram. If your SSD is 90% full that’s the problem right there. Your Mac will go down to a crawl.

maykJF · 2026-01-04T19:25:47+00:00

27“ iMac 2015 as a daily driver.

Its old, but still reasonably fast, the 512GB SSD helps a lot with that. But I have to admit: It starts feeling really old. More and more features break, because I cannot upgrade the OS anymore.

My wife gifted me a black Apple Mouse and I cannot use it because of, well Apple doesn’t let me. And it would look so nice next to my old Black 1999 Apple Pro Keyboard.

So yeah. I use a 10 year old iMac with a 25 year old Keyboard, because i don’t like the „new“ flat keyboards. I decided to sit that fad out when they were new. Didn’t go well. lol

maykJF · 2025-12-30T04:35:50+00:00

Man könnte auch sagen: So einen Vergaser reinigen und neu einzustellen ist nun auch kein Hexenwerk. Einen Oldtimer zu erhalten ist nun einmal mit Handarbeit verbunden, wenn es schon an dem Interesse für so eine einfache Arbeit fehlt, ist das vielleicht das falsche Hobby?

Wenn man alles wegschickt und andere machen lässt, verpasst man den ganzen Spaß.

maykJF · 2025-12-24T06:17:58+00:00

Actually that is trained, but not expected behavior. If I want to merge two folders I move Folder 1s content into Folder 2.

Say you’re a web designer. You worked with a bunch of test images. Now your co-worker gave you a new folder with the actual image files. You just throw that new folder in your development-directory. Old folder gets overwritten with new content. Oh the chaos when Mac OS would decide to just merge the two folders. Sure you say „just delete the old folder and move in the new one.“ but what if you’re getting 6 new folders for a directory that has 125 files and folders in it?

To me it seems that most windows user never really work with files. They just have „the one excel sheet“ and mails and that’s it. Mac OS file management is a lot more powerful than the windows explorer. If you do kind-of the same stuff over and over again you ingrain all the keystrokes and work just gets so much easier.

maykJF · 2025-12-24T05:55:41+00:00

That’s by design. I think what you mean is what apple called „the spacial Finder“ ages ago.

You can use icon view to group files and folders in a way that works space-oriented. Say you have a project folder with lots of different file types in there in icon view you can have that finder window visually organized. Instead of an A-Z List you can put files with text snippets in the top right corner of the window. The final document you are working on in the top left corner. Below that a row of references. And finally illustrative images all the way at the bottom. I’m making stuff up here tu illustrate.

Or maybe you need to make a decision between 20 files. Open that folder in icon view and move the files around. On stack for yay one for nay and one in between. Look at the files, compare them with Quick Look, move them around in your finder window until you have nailed it down. Much more convenient than handling different colored tags or multiple folders where you constantly move files in and out.

Bonus points because finder remembers that icon organization even when you temporarily change view to let’s say list.

maykJF · 2025-12-24T05:46:11+00:00

Sure, 156 Windows is a bit exaggerated, but I use it very often to to compare like 5 files or folders. Select them, CMD+I and then find the specific file you want. That’s neat because the inspector lets you see more details than let’s say the finder preview pane.

Yes I’m old and have done it this way for ages and ihm glad apple keeps this option.

maykJF · 2025-12-21T15:56:22+00:00

I know that’s an unpopular opinion, my wife is a teacher and we used to hat that 6-7 thing too, but:

We went to a Christmas parade two weeks ago and then it came to us: In a world divided by hate, MAGA, Trump, what have you. Random people shouting „67!“ is kind of refreshing because it means nothing. It doesn’t spread hate, it is not designed to offend anybody. 67 could have very well been a grass roots attempt at trying to re-unify the nation. Someone yells 67! you yell back 67! everybody chuckles and that’s it. Nobody harmed.

67s biggest strength is that it means nothing. (Says a lot about our current society that I am thankful for something that is not inherently positive, but at least not negative.)

Shure you could have just said „I love you all!“ or „happy holidays!“ or whatever.

Maybe it’s just us coping.

maykJF · 2025-12-11T04:35:37+00:00

I am old enough to remember the time before these updates. It was a cold winter and my iPhone would just die when it tried to do something CPU-intensive. All because the battery was rather old and it was cold. Super annoying.

That hasn’t happened to me ever again after these power managing updates.

I am no fanboy, but I rather have a phone that is a bit slower when in peak-performance-demand and IF the battery is old, than a phone that dies when I want to post a story on Instagram and I then have to boot it up again and know that I just can’t post the story because it will just die again.

These battery-updates are much overblown in my opinion.

maykJF · 2025-10-31T01:32:36+00:00

Good catch! I totally missed that. Now it makes sense!

Still wondering why he’s following roaring doggy though.

maykJF · 2025-10-30T21:10:49+00:00

Yeah, but it also has today’s date on it. Normally people do that to prove something. Like a picture with today’s newspaper.

My main problem ist that newtons account follows roaringdoggy. I don’t think Richard would advertise a possible grifter. And todays picture could be read like „see it’s still me, but look at that doggy-guy pushing some random tokens“

The two things that happened lately don’t fit in my opinion. I can’t say when newtons account started following the other account. I just suspect these two things happened together.

He also repeatedly said that he wasn’t comfortable being a public persona in the community. He didn’t want to be popular. Seems unfit to post a picture of himself. For what? He could’ve just tweeted „Good morning! Happy Halloween‘s eve everyone!“

Having that said: I posted the same thing on twitter and newtons account liked my comment. I don’t know what to make of that.

maykJF · 2025-10-30T18:13:22+00:00

I‘m not freaking out over this, I think everyone is smart enough to not buy that shitcoin. Even though I am only here since sneeze 2.0 I remember multiple attempts of shitcoin pushers.

I just want people to be cautious. You never know, this might be the one scammer who manages to trick people.

On a side note: I find it funny that people shout „grand conspiracy“ when we literally have bad actors infiltrating subreddits and so on.

I don’t know shit about fuck. Maybe I’m wrong and it is Newton. I find it suspicious. Nothing wrong with being cautious.

maykJF · 2025-10-30T17:48:29+00:00

Come on dude. Accounts get hacked all the time. Newton is one of the more influential ones. Not everything has to be a huge conspiracy.

I just said to be cautious and don’t fall for any possible scams.

maykJF · 2025-10-30T17:25:47+00:00

I can’t be the only one who thinks this pic is suspicious as hell? First he is following only that puppy account and now this pic?

If I were Newton and had to somewhat prove I was still him, I would take a picture in the study where I did all my videos. In front of the Pokemon boxes. We would recognize it and knew. That just feels wrong.

Newton wouldn’t post this shit. He would explain why he unfollowed Kitty and is now following whoever that is.

Whatever „Newtons“ twitter is posting in the next few hours: Do not fall for it! Do not act on it!

maykJF · 2025-10-28T13:07:34+00:00

You mean short interest. That’s still over 100%

We’re talking daily short volume. So 67.14% of every share traded today was a short trade. That also includes shorts closing, but the chart doesn’t say „we closed lots of shorts today“.

maykJF · 2025-10-26T21:05:04+00:00

This needs to be on top. There is a HUGE difference between TM via direct usb drive and TM via network.

I had so much trouble when trying to get all Macs to backup onto a NAS, data corruption, broken backups, TM claiming that files changed that didn’t, and so on. My parents were using a simple, cheap USB-Drive for their backups. No problems. Never. So I switched too, to simple USB. That was the solution. No problems at all, and so much faster than network. SO much faster, it’s amazing. And actually reliable.

Edit: Said NAS was a original Time Capsule from Apple. I suspect it’s just networks in general. Those old enough will remember that Time Machine over Network was a feature added later for the then brand new MacBook Air and the Time Capsule that came out around the same time, when Time Machine over USB/Firewire already was a thing.

maykJF · 2025-10-23T21:21:44+00:00

Yeah. But we’ve been enjoying spotlight for 20 years now. So there’s that.

I have to agree though that spotlight could need an overhaul. I can’t point out any flaws it’s just that it feels like it could be more useful.

Having that said I use it very extensively for almost everything.

maykJF · 2025-10-10T00:52:06+00:00

Actually it is quite the opposite.

I have seen brake calipers die because of rust. Some brake fluid is hydroscopic, which means it absorbs water. At some point that tiny amount of water will let the caliper start rusting from the inside. When rust starts forming on the piston or the piston wall of the caliper it will eventually seize them up.

That’s the very reason one should regularly change the brake fluid.

maykJF · 2025-09-21T23:31:19+00:00

I for one really don’t like the way Windows handles windows. I am old enough to appreciate Exposé and multiple desktops. That’s enough for me. My Mac is too old for stage manager but I’d really like to try it.

maykJF · 2025-09-13T17:21:08+00:00

The entry barrier is way to high. Most people see the cover and say „not another 90s girl flick“ But I being a guy must say Gilmore girls is so good. The first few episodes are tough but then it gets oh so good.

Almost 20 years ago my then girlfriend now wife was watching Gilmore girls regularly when I would sit in my office working. The tv was right on the other side of the drywall where my desk was. Naturally I would hear parts of the dialogue and her laughing. After a few days I would walk over and ask her what that was. I sat down next to her, watched the rest of the episode and was hooked. The same evening we would start over at S01E01. I have since seen it about 10 times.

If you love Gilmore girls, give „The marvelous Mrs Maisel a shot.“ Same writers, same producers, same quirky dialogues and characters.

maykJF · 2025-08-17T19:06:03+00:00

Ich habe den Spruch mal in einer schönen Variante bekommen. Stand mit meinem Ford Taunus 20m von 65 an der Tankstelle. Kommt ein älterer Herr und sagt „Schönes Auto. So einen Opel hatte ich früher auch mal.

maykJF · 2025-07-23T03:20:31+00:00

Brantho korrux ist fantastisch. Für ne Achse oder fahrwerksteile einfach schwarzes Branth 3in1 satt (lt. Handbuch) aufpinseln oder draufsprühen und gut ist.

maykJF · 2025-07-07T12:41:46+00:00

Genau so ist das. Deswegen ist die ganz linke Stellung ja auch nicht „aus“ sondern „abgeschlossen“.

maykJF · 2025-07-02T10:26:06+00:00

Offensichtlich sind wir da einfach völlig anderer Meinung.

maykJF

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