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Not to mention the fact that there were tons of rumors around Apple developers practically handholding adobe to get them across the finish line for the Apple Silicon port.

Adobe is extremely incompetent wrt actually developing usable, clean and efficient software so I can definitely see this as being plausible


Another classic issue of a "death by a thousand cuts" situation— you cannot hide the Mac menu bar icon and still keep the background agent running unlike 1Password 7 (Discussion from 2022 silently closed without any resolution here: https://1password.community/discussion/129305/latest-1passwo...).

They've constantly been downgrading the quality and the polish of the macOS app, just for "cross-platform" feature parity- leading to a subpar experience everywhere (Windows is a whole another can of worms).


> It’s awful but in a helpful way. Like it will suggest “if $argument is empty, this function will return an error”, which is not true because $argument is an int, but it does do something wonky if you give it negative numbers so I remember to add that.

So like an intern/new hire asking what they think are basic questions but lead you to realize an edge case you missed?


100%. The iOS vision accessibility APIs are top notch and consistent throughout the system. A simple example, Siri describes the image in the notification if you have announce messages turned on


I will go so far after argue that Apple is only one of the major vendors actually adopting EPUB books.


ISH does not need a jailbreak. you just download it from the App Store.


> It is possible to lightly touch them but this requires more mental effort imo than just using a chiclet keyboard.

This is easily remedied by using a very lightweight switch. Many different mechanical switches are available from well under 45gf to actuation force. (Thinkpad and macbook laptop/desktop keyboard range from 60 to 65gf of actuation[1]) You can see a small set of available switches and their force actuation curves here: switches.mx. You should possibly look into getting a switch tester with many types of switches to get the exact feedback force you prefer.

There’s a ton more websites (theremingoat.com) and public github databases for this data.

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/MechanicalKeyboards/wiki/ripometer


Thanks, but I'm happy with my thinkpad keyboard!


I’m guessing the key here is in the term itself. This avoids the repetitive-ness of it.


“You see, I’ve become a connoisseur of using VPNs at exotic locations. But pinky promise I’m home”


Because it, like Mastodon, is a usability nightmare and literally nothing is being done to address it. All criticism falls on deaf ears and the community is hell bent on pushing their flawed vision through


There is plenty being done to address usability issues. Development activity exploded when Reddit announced the API changes (https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/graphs/commit-activity) and usability issues are discussed daily. Reddit's usability issues were (and are) glossed over by third party apps to this day.


So much of a nightmare that millions of people are using it, right ? Despite the dozens of alternative clients, not a single one of them deserves to not be called a nightmare right ?


Right, like e-mail. That other thing that never took off. I'd love to have been here to read about uts launch.


Literally just made his point. Every single person keeps repeating it’s like email, as if email is a fantastic place to go get your news and interact with others.


But that's not email's use case at all. It's not being compared to email because they serve the same function otherwise there'd be no need for Lemmy. It's being compared as a distributed and open protocol, and where the comparison is important is in adoption, and email proves out that an open distributed system can achieve not only strong, but universal adoption. We pulled it off in the 80s on ridiculously weak hardware and snail pace internet, I'm sure it can be done again.


Email was kinda federated in the start, there were hundreds of email companies. They all got eaten up and now only a few big ones remain.


It's not like e-mail. It already fixes the things you're complaining about, while the things OP was complaining about will be fixed eventually. The point of bringing up e-mail is that a) federation does work and b) that usability is not a hindrance by itself.


Federation is to social media as blockchain is to useful software architecture.


Why do you think that? Aphoristic assertions aren't very convincing. Maybe make an argument.


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