Integration with macOS and features like synchronization with iOS/iPhone or generating new iCloud mail addresses.

I always use other browsers in parallel. Sadly they typically fail to adhere to macOS UI conventions or don’t integrate as well across devices.

I use Waterfox (Firefox fork) as a secondary browser because of the more powerful extensions. Other than that usability and OS integration is worse.

Camino used to a be a good Mozilla/gecko browser back in day. Sadly it was abandoned a long time ago.

The screenshots show the same functionality.

Gestures like pinch to zoom or swiping photos are easier with touch. Drawing a shape or writing a signature are another thing.

Multitouch is something a mouse can’t do at all. Macs have quite a nice set of gestures that can be used with the touchpad. A touch screen could use similar gestures.

For laptops touch screens are useful. Especially on convertible laptops, that transform into a tablet when folding over the screen completely. Also when you’re using it with more than one person at the same time.

For desktops, I don’t really see much of a benefit. Apple’s touchpads are pretty nice for that use case. I used to have a mouse on the right and a touchpad on the left of my keyboard.

Apple has completely failed to build a great convertible laptop for many years now. Windows laptops do it somewhat okay, but this is the product category where Apple could actually build something great. Apple Pencil on a convertible MacBook would fly off the shelves.

Since Tim Cook’s reign started there has been little vision regarding product design.

Apple should go beyond iOS, iPadOS, macOS to a unified operating system with an adaptive UI. I want to connect my phone with an M-series chip inside (or watch) to a thunderbolt hub and have a full desktop experience. iOS/iPadOS are too neutered. macOS is too neglected. VisionOS is a dead end toy.

I don’t want synchronization between four devices, I want one device that does everything and connects to various peripheries.

Leopard was peak Mac OS X.

Any recommendations?

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Lots of programmers are autists and dont like new information.

Most pages don’t need dynamic loading.

App Store monopoly is actually an issue, which is slowly improving.

What monopoly does Apple have?

Better than continue building something useless.

Deaths per day for gunmen from Gaza: more than 1100

Deaths per day for IDF armed with tanks and fighter jets: 60.000 / 612 = 98

Only one side is maximizing the number of deaths and it’s not the one with the heavier armament.

Agile

Soon people will want to marry their dogs.

You can turn off a lot of the transparency and other effects in System Preferences under accessibility. Setting the traffic light window buttons to greyscale is done in appearance I think.

I always enable “reduce transparency” and “always show scroll bars” for a saner default. There’s a bunch of other settings there that are sensible as well

Keyboard navigation for windows and menus is turned off by default. So turn it on for a more efficient experience.

It’s more difficult to find free software for macOS.

Most Linux software is available for macOS as well.

The indie developer scene for macOS is quite healthy and there are a lot of gems to be found like Panic, Omni, Kaleidoscope.app, GitTower, and many more.

Not upgradeable

Buy as much RAM and storage as you can afford. The high purchase price is offset somewhat by the very good resale value.

You can start reading Wikipedia.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13537121.2025.2495417

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/10/hezbollah-war-against-syria/680212/

https://syriaaccountability.org/hezbollahs-role-in-syria-under-scrutiny-in-historic-trial-in-germany/

https://www.mei.edu/publications/hezbollah-and-syrian-conflict

Many Arabs celebrated when Israel killed Nasrallah. https://www.newsweek.com/why-arab-street-celebrating-israels-killing-hezbollah-chief-nasrallah-opinion-1960901

What’s defined as genocide apologia?

Do the following cross the line?

• Israel has a right to defend itself.
• Hamas oppresses Gazans and is an obstacle to peace.
• Hamas has repeatedly announced to want to repeat an October 7 style attack as soon as they are able to.
• There have been protests going on for weeks in Gaza demanding Hamas to let the hostages go and give up power in Gaza (Hamas out!, Hamas barra barra!) to end the war.
• One third of Gazans wanted to emigrate before the war started.
• Serious and powerful people make arguments that the war in Gaza is not a genocide.

Would you consider Abu Mazen’s thesis to be genocide apologia?

Is this specific to Israel or are genocide of Armenians, Uyghurs, Rohingya, and others covered as well?

The best new use of woke is the woke right.

The author James Lindsay has defined it in similar terms, as “a victimhood-based identity politics” whose “victim groups are whites, Christians, men, and straight people”. He argues that the movement is “roughly intersectional” insofar as it is obsessed with identity politics and a grievance relating to anti-white racism. “Like their counterparts on the Woke Left,” Lindsay writes, “the Woke Right have accepted as fact that there’s a conspiracy against people like them and that their only real hope is to lean into the identity grouping and advocate for collective power under that heading”. In these terms, the “woke right” is a kind of ideological doppelgänger, whose members exhibit the same precisionist and absolutist tendencies of their leftist counterparts.

Pierce Morgan uses it more and more often against right wingers to great effect.

Hezbollah has killed far more Arabs than they ever damaged Israel. Without Hezbollah Assad would have lost in Syria years ago. They have also turned Lebanon into a failed state for decades.

Hezbollah are horrible all around. They are ineffective at fighting Israel and great at killing Arabs.