weird.. but if it works it works I guess? :D

You don’t know our dogs … It sometimes helps keeping them from destroying furniture

I’m so glad I’m still on Sequoia, I’ve already had a terrible experience with an Apple OS update once before, don’t need to experience it a second time.

So for us on sequoia, update or no?

Was es nicht alles gibt…

https://music.apple.com/gb/album/entspannungsmusik-f%C3%BCr-hunde/1793970195

„Entspannungsmusik für Hunde“ bitte was???

Liquid glass will always be a mess.

I installed a third-party app to do just this. Great to see I can use this built-in method. Thanks!

I don't see that option, and have disabled everything else.

Click the (i) next to “disable automatic updates” — is there a “Check for updates” checkbox there?

It's a really old laptop (Intel era) that's barely chugging along. Every new update makes it slower than it already is. :(

Hmm I think there is a way but I do not remember how. I do recommend the security updates, but I pretty much never get prompted for other updates at all.

It reminds me of that prank where someone's stapler was set in jello.

I preferred Apple in the early years because they had consistency across all the apps, file managers, browser, etc. But now linux has that too so I'll have to make the switch eventually.

Crazy that it can't be disabled but they seem to be designing for touch/fat-fingers over the mouse pointer now.

Oh gods, that's really fucking horrid. Like a 90ies Linux windows manager theme, where "gloss!" and "bezel!" are more important than "adds something to the whole" or even "radius of the grouping thingy doesn't clash with that of the window".

At this point the Linux window managers surpassed Apple, which (and I say this who has been solely using Linux for close to a decade, now) was something I didn't expect.

Apple used to care about interface. A lot.

Can’t tell if it does, and yes WindowBlinds! Good memories!

Is that WindowsBlinds by Stardock you're thinking of? I absolutely loved that software and still miss it today.

And thanks for the info (and solidarity!). But does reduce transparency actually work for the toolbar icons? I thought it only worked on control centre dropdown and elements that overlap content.

In solidarity. The hard truth is that UI design jobs are done by people who could be our kids.

Back in the day, there was a reskinner for WinXP that allowed you to make things look like the old OSX Aqua.

Best we can do is System Settings > Accessibility > Display: reduce transparency, and there’s also an ‘Increase contrast’ which works, but obviously has some side effects.

Al rumors are that 27 will allow you to manage the LG a bit better, but I really wish apple allows us to have granular skin control. 27 seems like a tok update, so I wouldn’t worry about things getting worse.

I put the beta in a separate volume on my M2 Air so as to not mess up my Sequoia install. Played with it for a few days and it was... fine.

Went back to Sequoia because I still don't like the new design language, and Sequoia works fine for me for now.

Only been a day so far but it’s a damn sight better than Tahoe.

My only real gripe so far is that I typically use Spotlight a lot for starting web searches and the new Siri keeps getting in the way.

No. I want to but I'm really having difficulty getting the appearance to be as legible as Sequoia. Dark mode is too dark and light mode is too light. It also bugs me that the new folder colors are layered on top of the old lighter blue color (you can see it when changing colors). This is all on a M4 Mac Mini.

If I can't make this work for my old eyes, I'll likely sign off as a Mac user after 25 years. I'm finding Fedora Linux w/ KDE to be pretty appealing.

Good to know.

I installed NixOS with Asahi kernel manually, I partitioned free space given from Asahi using cfdisk and there's no problem about that.

Using Linux tool to resist partitions and install a boot loader can back fire sometimes if the original system doesn’t play nice with it.

Avahi uses macOS own partitioner via command line. You can switch back and forth between the two systems easily and not worry so much about losing access to one or the other after an update.

What do you mean by macOS Native Tools?

Her video is a great recommendation. Thanks! I love the way it uses macOS native tools to make the installation less tense. I’ll absolutely be installing it when the time comes. Thanks again!