Hordes of fraudsters preying on uninformed foreigners, e.g. one is not covered with oh-so-famous German tenancy laws if the apartment is furnished, exploitive practices with refurbishing the apartment, litigations regarding the return of the deposit, extortive agent fees, etc. A whole long expensive scammy bumpy road at the end of which one is broke financially and exhausted mentally.
> There's a difference, in almost every piece of software, between closing the last window and quitting. In a browser, just pressing the "close" button would lose all your tabs, whereas "quit" will preserve them. That makes no sense to someone coming from Linux or Windows;
MacOS distinguishes between closing an application's window and closing the whole application. Therefore, closing the last window will not automatically close the application as well. Consequently, in a browser pressing the close button results in all tabs getting closed, with the browser still running.
Quit however closes the whole browser and, hence, preserves the tabs. This is the action triggered by pressing the close button on Windows and Linux.
I can understand that this is counterintuitive coming from Linux or Windows. But it is a design-choice coherently implemented throughout MacOS.
I understand where it comes from, and in the days of floppy disks and 128KB memory, it made sense (I know, I'm that old). But it's been making progressively less sense over the last 30 years, with the advent of hard drives, faster hard drives, SSDs and GBs of memory.
It used to be the terminating a process you were going to reuse would cost you tens of seconds. That's no longer the case. The fact that it was a rational, consistent, design decision made 35 years ago doesn't mean it still makes sense. Apple killed the phone jack and the replaceable batteries, two things which are even older than that - things change.
I've been eaten by this when Firefox once didn't give me back all my tabs when I reopened. For earlier versions of MacOs there's Redquits, but it doesn't work now :(
Definitely fast and elegant. I like it very much! I thought at first, that it didn't show comment threads with indents, I almost missed the "X replies" label. I like it the way it is, however.
Just two things:
1. In the "Lists"-tab, it says "synched". I'm not a native speaker, but I guess that should be "synced"?
2. Maybe I just missed it, but: Is there any way to submit a comment from within the app?
> Worlds largest ICT companies by revenue, category and year founded:
> [...]
> 2. [2] Samsung (1969)
I know, I'm nitpicking here, but I guess you are thinking of Samsung Electronics here, which is just a part of the Samsung Group. Samsung was founded in 1938.
Sounds to me, like you are finding excuses to defend a bad design decision. If my mouse dies on me, then I expect to be able to plug it in and then continue to use it, with a minimal interruption of my workflow. Which, how you presented it, is not possible. I shouldn't be forced to bend my workflow around my devices, but my devices should bend to my workflow.
Yes, this is not always possible, but in this case it is just an unnecessary inconvenience. And if I decide, that I want to have the "crappy experience" of using my mouse while it's on a charging cable, then I should be able to make that decision.
This is not "refining experience", it is just bad design.
My slightly tongue-in-cheek take is that Apple engineers and designers must have extremely tiny hands. One of my colleagues got one of the new 13' MBPs recently; I can't even get my hands to fit on the home row.
Huh. My personal experience is almost the opposite. I feel like I'm much faster with a mouse, and my hand cramps up when using the trackpad on my macbook for too long...
Would you care to elaborate on that?