I see your point, but as someone who prefers my home folder be my home folder, I prefer they put it under ~/.config regardless of what operating system is being used.

No. Hiding files is still just an attribute.

Actually, technically, it’s two. Files marked as system files are treated as hidden as well…

“They broke the law,” tweeted the motherfucker who never respected it in the first place…

One can only hope they also included Twitter.

I doubt it would ever happen, but they could redistribute the money from those tariffs back to citizens. It would be a net positive for people who choose to get goods made locally or imported from friendly nations.

You forgot to mention that “he doesn’t know what he’s doing is wrong because he’s autistic”, but otherwise, yes.

“Rules for thee, not for me.”

The contrast is insane. So many people on shitter love the taste of leather, apparantly.

Or, apparently, introspectiveness…

Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them. They think they don’t need to believe anything other than the media tells them. One of the things the media tells them is they are superior to others, and it gets into their heads.

Kettle meet pot?

Interesting posts being served up:

• “This isn’t a fight between republican and democrat. It’s between communism and freedom.”

• A map showing Republicans as an overwhelming majority.

• Photo about Democrats being more likely to call white people terrorists, while Republicans are more likely to call every other race terrorists.

They’re not in the majority, but not subtle enough to avoid worming their way into peoples opinions.

to a point i feels like they’re seeing us as a lesser kind that need protection.

I think you hit the nail right on the head with that observation.

Speaking in accordance with someone’s wishes when they’re not around to advocate for themselves in a private conversation is fine. Someone publicly speaking on behalf of an entire demographic that they know little to nothing about is bigoted as hell. It shows a complete lack of respect by assuming they know what’s best for others without actually taking the time to learn about their values and culture. And it’s super condescending, treating people of the demographic as if they lacked the capacity and autonomy to speak up for themselves.

I didn’t address that one because the commenter qualified it by saying you can’t easily change them, which is kind of true. You can change the modifiers, but anything beyond that or changing keyboard layouts is a crapshoot in my experience.

It’s considerably better than trying to remap anything on Windows, at least. But, it’s also not completely free from hard-coded hotkeys and dumb restrictions. For example, Command + Tab can’t be changed or disabled, and you need to use third-party programs like BetterTouchTool to hijack the sequence in order to replace it with some other action.

More recently, I read that the latest OS version disallows registering hotkeys with only Option or Option+Shift as the modifier, which is a very big step backward. Being able to insert unicode characters is cool, but it’s peanuts compared to having 80 more options for hotkey sequences that aren’t already used by the OS or application.

Well, shit. It’s a good thing that I don’t use a Mac unless it’s forced upon me.

I’m not looking to argue, but this is my take:

They’re going to keep making it more and more difficult for the average consumer to step outside of the Apple-intended vision (as they have with Gatekeeper, SIP, and removing kernel extension support), but I really don’t think they would be stupid enough to fully close the ecosystem.

A lot of their MacBook Pro and Mac Pro sales comes from corporate hardware refreshes. If a company can’t get their proprietary software working because of arbitrary restrictions, they’re going to buy a Windows device next time.

It’s a persistent toggle. You could just leave it on permanently, which is what I did when I had to use a Mac for work. If they ever made it reset on reboot or on a timer, I would be pretty fucking annoyed, however.

Outside of gaming, there is not a single reason to use Windows over macOS–maybe if you enjoy suffering

Let me name a couple of shitty ones:

• Your work’s IT only supports Windows.
• You work with industrial control systems or lab equipment that only supports Windows.
• Hardware vendors are assholes that use proprietary protocols instead of USB device classes and don’t release drivers for anything other than Windows.
• You need to use CUDA.
• You need to use a dedicated graphics card for some reason or another.
• You’re hosting a server, but not competent enough to use Linux.

None of those are reasons to voluntarily choose Windows, but sadly, they’re still real reasons.

Not defending Crapple, but adding context:

There’s no way of globally enabling hidden files and folders, there’s a terminal command that does it for vanilla finder windows, but none for the finder file picker windows that apps use.

You can use command + shift + full stop to toggle hidden files and folders, if I recall correctly.

Unclear if it’s hardware or MacOS, but despite having the graphical horsepower to push enough pixels, Macs are limited to two external monitors unless you buy the multi thousand dollar Max processor.

It’s the hardware. Each display needs to have a dedicated controller chip and video signal encoder, and Apple decided to be assholes and only add two of them.

Not defending Crapple, but in the name of fairness, some of these aren’t really accurate unless you’re ignoring the spirit of the complaint and being pedantic.

You can scroll right but not left with the track pad

You can scroll up, down, left, and right if you use two fingers to scroll.

The delete key doesn’t do anything in the finder

You can use command + backspace to delete selected files.

The terminal uses cmd+c instead of cmd+shift+c (really should be ctrl but okay)

The rest of the OS uses command + c for copying. This is consistent.

Every app relies on an antiquated menu bar at the top which is straight out of 90s UI

This is a personal opinion. It’s a valid complaint, but it’s not a universal problem.