In 16, I started getting a small handful of Dutch words as suggestions for reasons I have never understood. 17 fixed this but seemingly only because it totally reset the suggestions and has never learned a single thing since.
Perpetual Random Apple Rants Thread
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For something like seven years, when my wife replies to an email sent to her iCloud account, the From: is my name with her address! New emails work correctly, but it makes people very confused when the name changes. I've called Apple repeatedly over the years and have had zero luck getting this fixed. I don't even understand how this is possibly aside from it being some super weird family sharing bug.
Thanks for the suggestions. The Apple ID name is correct, but I'll have her check what shows up in Contacts.
It's a shame that desktop RAM didn't keep increasing at the same rate so we'd be sitting pretty with over 1TB by default!
The pricing in general starts to get screwy with upgrades. A mini with maxed out RAM and CPU costs as much as a Studio and $30 more with education pricing but is slightly worse spec wise in return for smaller size. I've been holding off on upgrading until the M3 mini is out, but the upgrading pricing might be pushing me towards a Studio.
Funny thing… although it was a Snow Leopard wallpaper, it apparently was never included as an iOS wallpaper until 16! You'd think they would have shipped it as an iPhone OS 1 wallpaper since it was so instantly iconic but nope. I can't remember that far back anymore so maybe everyone saying that is wrong, but it also doesn't show up in the GitHub repo that claims to have every iOS wallpaper ever ripped directly from the OS.
If you look really closely, the version in that Google Photos gallery isn't exactly the same. The nature photos are licensed from somewhere (National Geographic?) and it's shifted the smallest handful of pixels to the left over the one in the announcement.
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I think this is a solvable bug. This happened to me the first time I used it, and the solution I accidentally found was to linger on the bottom edge with the resize cursor showing until the track title and artist show up. Afterward, that info shows when the cursor isn't over it and gets replaced by those controls when it is.
Click on the activate tab, or use some keyboard shortcut to switch away and then come back if you only want the current tab selected.
For some reason I'm finding that certain shades of purple have a weird frame buffer issue. If there's some purple near the edges of the screen, they'll be some content from other windows in about a band of around 100px. Doesn't matter the app, and it doesn't matter where the overall window is placed as long as it overlaps that around. It also doesn't show up in screen shots, but the purple of the Podcasts icon is one that'll do it. Weirdly, it's happened to me on multiple OS versions and on Intel and AS.
Like I said, it doesn't show up in screenshots. I did get this blurry Bigfoot sighting-esque photo though. The ghost of my dock is showing up in this blown up screenshot of the Podcasts icon. I also superimposed the bottom three icons since I think they're the easiest to discern.
Edit: I also meant to say that this doesn't happen all the time, but I'm also not sure how often it does since I generally do not have big blocks of purple on screen. I'm fairly sure it is only specific purples that do this, but it's possible that it just shows up the best on them. Finally, it's clear in person, but I had a lot of difficult taking a photo without having the detail wash out entirely.
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Thanks for helping me figure this out! I didn't realize that could happen with an LCD.
There's nothing stopping someone from deleting an open file or replacing it which is effectively the same thing. There's a lot of screwy behavior that can happen, but replacing an entire file will keep the old one hanging around in the background until every file handle is closed. I also doubt that there's any caching beyond the generic OS file caching except for very specific ones like the system UI font. It was was slow to load the font list in say Pages on an HDD.
That's really the key. As a mouse, it's a canvas full of potential. The problem being that the built in options are so ridiculously minimal. You can't even get tap to click or middle clicking (which first party apps use in a few places) without BTT! That being said, I'd never go back.
I've found the notification summaries nearly useless, but the mail summaries have been more hits than misses in my experience.
I had a similar problem, and I was actually able to get it corrected with a single "Report an Issue" request assuming it's some kind of vandalism. My recollection is that it did take a few weeks, but I didn't have to do anything else. Google on the other hand seemingly will not fix map data. It's just outright wrong where I live so deliveries end up in the wrong place constantly.Someone added something to Maps in my city called “Home,” so when I say, “Hey Siri, take me home,” I get directions to somewhere a couple miles from where I live instead of my actual Home, which is listed as “Home” in Maps and is my “Home” address in my contact info. I have to reach up and touch the screen like a Tesla driver trying to do anything.
iCloud tabs work fine for me, but Reading List syncing broke years ago and has never worked again.
This is old hat at this point, but it is even possible to get your real disk usage anymore on macOS? Had 56GB free at shutdown, 65GB when came back up. Did the 18.3 update and now I have 78GB…
In the playlist view, unselect the infinity symbol in the top right. Unless it's doing something weird. Some time earlier in the week, albums randomly wouldn't have art in some views but not others.
I have become very familiar with "xattr -rd com.apple.quarantine". I'm tempted to set up a folder action that applies that to anything dropped into it. I do mostly blame the developer though since it doesn't seem to be an issue for OSS devs to notarize.
The fast directory size flag, INODE_MAINTAIN_DIR_STATS, has to also be set manually for all subdirectories according to the APFS documentation, and it has never been exposed by a high level API. I'm not sure if there's any terminal utility that will set it either. I think SSD speeds outpaced Apple's willingness to fully implement it.
What kind of WiFi network are you using? I started to have a similar problem on my 2015 MBP and AppleTV (the last non-4K one) after years of no issues until I finally switched from 802.11n to ac. I think congestion/interference was the issue in my case, but something in the stack could have changed in the last few years.
Apple Music has always been like this. I don't think there's any weird shenanigans going on though. Both of those compilations were put out by UMG and are very recent. I've seen stuff like this happen more with soundtracks getting selected which makes me think that the underlying issue is that later releases get preference over earlier ones.
It's because it's built on Unity which is almost always hot garbage on Apple platforms.
There's always really niche stuff at the high end of any line up, and a maxed out M3 Ultra Studio is triple niche with the Ultra, 512GB RAM and 16TB SSD.
Another fun comparison, an original base model iMac is $2600 which is almost the price of an M4 Max Studio with the stepped up CPU, 64GB of RAM and 1TB SSD. It's just funny because my parents wouldn't buy an iMac because they were too much, we had a PC with a Cyrix processor for reference, and now it'll get you the fastest system before the upgrade prices start going through the roof.
Another fun comparison, an original base model iMac is $2600 which is almost the price of an M4 Max Studio with the stepped up CPU, 64GB of RAM and 1TB SSD. It's just funny because my parents wouldn't buy an iMac because they were too much, we had a PC with a Cyrix processor for reference, and now it'll get you the fastest system before the upgrade prices start going through the roof.
Most of the problem is that email is fundamentally a system that was created when not enough people were even on the internet for security to be a major issue. Everything that's been added is basically just bolted on. To the best of my knowledge, the anti-spoofing protections that exist now don't work inside a domain. They assume that it's someone from the outside pretending to be internal. I wouldn't be surprised if something would break if iCloud did do the very obvious thing of making sure the From address matches the account because that's technically out of spec.
You're already in Apple Music. Clicking on the title of the album will bring you to the album in Apple Music.
Someone on the official Apple support board says it's a bug with the display controller around temporal dithering which can't be disabled in any standard UI. There's some mention of other monitors that also have this issue. There's an app called Stillcolor that programmatically disables it which could be worth a shot.
My inclination is that you have something screwing around with the network settings in the background. The default domain is .local, and last I knew, the default hostname is based on the model name.
You need to use LocalHostName. My understanding is that HostName is more for "serious" networks not standard local use.
Setting hostnames is super quirky on every OS and there is no standard. It's more consistent on Linux since those utilities tend to be the same.
Setting hostnames is super quirky on every OS and there is no standard. It's more consistent on Linux since those utilities tend to be the same.
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For things being more consistent on Linux, it's only because everyone is using the same net-tools package along with components made by Linux itself. This isn't some kind of grand cooperation. This is boring stuff people don't want to much around with.
Secondly, the whole three hostname thing is wrong in spirit. One is ComputerName, literally the human readable name that shows up in the GUI. The Second is LocalHostName which is what Bonjour uses. The final is HostName which is only used if you actually need it otherwise you use the Bonjour name.
Every OS that has a Bonjour implementation e.g. avahi has a seperate hostname for it. It's not even necessarily the same by default as the regular hostname. A system with a GUI is also probably going to have an equivalent to ComputerName. My Rocky Linux workstation has three different things for host, avahi and computer name.
If anything, this stuff is handled way better in macOS because there is a single purpose made utility that handles everything, scutil. Otherwise, you're dealing with multiple files that vary by OS and specific Bonjour implementation.
Finally, the behavior of hostname is the same everywhere. It temporarily changes the name until reboot. The advice to not use it applies to all platforms.
Secondly, the whole three hostname thing is wrong in spirit. One is ComputerName, literally the human readable name that shows up in the GUI. The Second is LocalHostName which is what Bonjour uses. The final is HostName which is only used if you actually need it otherwise you use the Bonjour name.
Every OS that has a Bonjour implementation e.g. avahi has a seperate hostname for it. It's not even necessarily the same by default as the regular hostname. A system with a GUI is also probably going to have an equivalent to ComputerName. My Rocky Linux workstation has three different things for host, avahi and computer name.
If anything, this stuff is handled way better in macOS because there is a single purpose made utility that handles everything, scutil. Otherwise, you're dealing with multiple files that vary by OS and specific Bonjour implementation.
Finally, the behavior of hostname is the same everywhere. It temporarily changes the name until reboot. The advice to not use it applies to all platforms.
It's a consequence of cramming more and more hardware and battery. The 3GS still had a bit of empty space in it, but the 4 and up are crammed full. MagSafe makes having a case that gives a smooth curve problematic too. I suppose there could be one with a recess for people that don't need/want certain accessories, but I've never seen that.
It is very frustrating. Just give me the unprocessed photo! Halide isn't as simple to use as the regular camera app, and 90% of what I even want to photograph are animals that aren't going to sit around while I futz with an app. I've also noticed focus issues even when set to manual which is annoying.
You mean middle click for that in general or three finger taps specifically? Middle clicking has been able to do that in Safari for as long as I can remember, and Terminal supports X11 middle click paste.
This is definitely a tech bro car, and every current Ferrari is hideous in a few different ways. If they're just catering to the tastes of the modern nouveau riche, that just reinforces my view that they have no taste. This is like a worse Amalfi which already looks boring.
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