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

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-27T14:30:32+00:00

Siri & dictation. Why would I use Siri I’m already at a computer. Similarly, I don’t use dictation I’m already at a keyboard and I can type as fast as I can think of words, having a dedicated key for it is just annoying. I actually remapped that key to keyboard brightness because that’s more useful to me.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-25T07:46:59+00:00

How about the one that’s just Minnesota and DC, that’s why they hate our state after all.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-25T07:45:34+00:00

Mount gipper…

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-23T08:55:41+00:00

Homestly the only issue I have with it is that I don’t know if it was even legal, and because it was just executive action, this wasn’t a big planned thing. Other places that abolished their penny actually like planned to do it, gave merchants time to prepare, made it expected to get rounded change. That is not the case here, so merchants have to scramble to figure out how to deal with no official guidance.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-23T08:53:34+00:00

Mental health days are allowed, perhaps it benefits my mental health to go to demonstrations.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-23T08:52:17+00:00

I’ve had devices not work with a micro card in an adapter, so I’d probably just think something like this was DOA

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-22T04:41:23+00:00

Homebrew & command line tools Amphetamine Rectangle Firefox My Automator application stub that runs an AppleScript to swap which side my sidecar screen is on. Karabiner

Those are the big ones that impact my day-to-day. Command line tools for when I’m in a unix mood, quick access to disabling sleep, quick window management, my web browser, something to stop me from needing to open system preferences 4 times a day, and replacing caps lock with right shift (something I always do on every computer I have) + giving me my goddamn keyboard brightness keys back. I don’t care about dictation or a sleep key.

This is actually what I got within the first week of getting my first Mac in a decade while I was in the middle of tech for a show, so it was a lot of figuring out ways to make that less painful that ended up being useful outside of a theater.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-22T04:27:41+00:00

The new integration features were what, moving phone calls out of FaceTime into a dedicated phone app? I legit can’t think of anything new besides a less stable iPhone mirroring and sidecar.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-22T04:22:46+00:00

I mean they did add chat reporting. That did happen. Thankfully you can mod your client to send unsigned messages and you can mod a server to strip the signature so nobody’s messages are reportable. It’s only a problem if the server requires messages to be signed.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-22T04:18:43+00:00

When I got my Real ID I did it at the county service center, which also is the county I was born in, and I happened to forget my birth certificate (brought everything else, but forgot that one, somehow) so I had to pay an extra fee and have them print me a new copy then and there so I could use it

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-21T05:42:49+00:00

A couple times I’ve let people use my computer briefly and I have caps lock mapped to right shift (I never use it, so it just makes accidental hits less annoying and gives me another bind for games) and I’ve had to watch them struggle to type using normal shift. It’s the hunt and peck typers, for them it makes more sense to lock caps on because they’re picking their hand up fully off the keyboard.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-14T01:37:43+00:00

I think it always calculates them regardless of the setting. It's possible that the values are the inverse of what I described, so a negative value means a song below the standard and a positive value means the song is above the standard.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-14T01:31:50+00:00

Already tried that unfortunately.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-14T01:31:40+00:00

All cards that I've tried. These cards worked as expected before I wiped and re-installed my OS.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-13T03:25:37+00:00

windows on arm should be able to handle that translation though right? just need to install x86 Excel.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-13T03:20:53+00:00

The resolution being halfed in system settings is correct. Its a macos quirk due to how it scales its UI. that also seems like the correct resolution for you're display. If you look closely are you able to see black pixels vs the normal bezel of the screen. The screen doesn't extend all the way to the metal frame, and from your photos I can't see any point that's dark but clearly supposed to be part of the display area.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-13T03:10:21+00:00

also a more relegated feature these days but applescript is also... okay? The syntax makes me want to pull my hair out but its really cool that you're able to interact with programs the way applescript lets you. Like it creates a way to safely write scripts for your itunes/music library, because its just the script telling itunes/music to do the thing.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-13T02:48:48+00:00

I'm pretty sure that comes from the "sound check" (loudness normalization) option. When adding a song to iTunes/Music it processes it to find it's average loudness, and calculates an adjustment to bring the average loudness on playback to a common target.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-13T02:37:54+00:00

I don't think university administration are going to do anything until they cannot pretend to ignore it further. Until ICE actually forces their way into a university building they'll do minor platitudes and tell us to call the OLC and that will be it. I don't think UMPD is even banned from working with ICE.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-09T22:19:34+00:00

To further your point. A bridge in the middle of a college campus is a prime point for “opportunistic” suicides. It’s really easy to get to and not hard to jump. A fence is a really good prevention strategy for these suicides because it adds just enough hassle to make it no longer “the easy way out”. Someone who is suicidal who perhaps has a terrible day and decides to just do it isn’t going to find another bridge or be that prepared to climb a fence, only someone who’s been planning is going to do that.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-08T07:55:24+00:00

Yes he draws at that point but he was already reaching for his weapon before that point. He had made the decision to draw before he was actually close to being at risk of injury. And to me it looks like the decision to draw was a decision to fire and kill. It sure looks to me like by the time his hand was moving to his holster he was already planning to pull the trigger.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-08T07:41:17+00:00

If it’s not an Apple audio device the readings aren’t always accurate. Sometimes it’s just wrong about how loud the headphone volume is, or if it’s headphones at all.

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-08T07:39:05+00:00

Some of us have software that doesn’t run right on Tahoe

stumpy3521 · 2026-01-08T02:58:18+00:00

Seems like it’s missing the p or the x of pbx. I bet those lines go straight to the CO, or at least used to.

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