> macOS Sequoia, the latest version of the world’s most advanced desktop operating system.

From their opening sentence in that press release. Lol.

Do you still have to quit and restart the entire application after you give the permission? Holy shit mac users are gonna become a meme in meetings.

MacOS is turning into quite the poo log lately. I respect that Apple has every right to completely destroy the legacy of the Macintosh, but they are slow playing it so that it's just a little bit better than the alternatives. The end result is my life gets just a little bit more difficult with every release.

I feel like the freaking frog on the stove while the water slowly heats up. When is it time to jump out?

Doesn’t optimised charging ensure it’s not always at 100% natively?

Additionally, AlDente is even better than the native battery management.

Edit: Seems like its also broken on 14.7 now, battery went straight to 100%.

I feel the same and decided my next update would be to Asahi (Fedora or Ubuntu). I switched from Linux to macOS a few years ago, but I never really felt like I was the target user for this environment. It always feels like I have to adapt to the walled garden of Apple's ecosystem, rather than it adapting to me.

The iShittification of the Mac platform continues ... I predicted this a long time ago when Apple released its first Mac mini with soldered SSD. Then the ones with security chip. And now we have soldered RAM + SSD behind a custom SoC that can only run macOS (yes, it is a macOS only system despite the PR of "ARM Linux / xBSD on M1+" because all these are crippled version of OS that cannot fully exploit the hardware because there are no literature on it for system developers, and they have to literally reverse engineer at a slow pace to make the OS run on it).

As the hardware iShittification continued, macOS too was also being slowly stripped of features to ensure Apple controlled your data and what you could run on it. Support for independent Kernel extension (outside of Apple's control) was removed mainly to cripple existing independent Application Firewall and virtualisation software. Apple-made OS APIs for these were integrated to the newer macOS and offered as replacement to ensure Apple controlled how Application Firewalls and Virtualisations should / would work on macOS. (Such restriction on the kernel extensions for independent system developers is also meant to prevent support for other filesystem, like ZFS for example - the OpenZFS project is maturing fast on Linux, Windows and macOS and can be a game changer as its usage has the potential to "free" our data from a closed and controlling ecosystem, to be used on any platform of our choice.

Whether you are a developer or a user, a "consumer relationship" with Apple feels like a relationship with a controlling and abusive spouse who repeatedly gaslights you that you are imagining things and are the one at fault because "you just don't understand them".

> The right-click/control-click option for easily opening unsigned apps is no longer available. Users who want to open unsigned software will now need to go the long way around to do it: first, try to launch the app and dismiss the dialog box telling you that it can't be opened. Then, open Settings, go to the Privacy & Security screen, scroll all the way to the bottom to get to the Security section, and click the Open Anyway button that appears for the last unsigned app you tried to run.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/08/macos-15-sequoia-mak...

Does the command line to remove the quarantine flag (xattr -d com.apple.quarantine filename) still work?

From the same place is system security settings you could always approve it, bummer about ctrl click though.

Before this update you could hold control and click the application, then select "open" from the menu. It would give you a warning and let you confirm you'd like to run it anyway.

aerospace tiling app is the bees knees.

The way it's even implemented now is like the nightmare realized from everything Richard Stallman warned about for decades. Especially for non-technical users, they've practically implemented a system where Apple decides what software you are and aren't allowed to run on your own computer. They can muddy the issue by claiming it's for safety/security but I don't buy it. They could have made the override still clear but much easier to access.

Like Apple’s own screencapture command-line tool.

Can I do it once and for all, or will I have to do it every time?

I bet I know the answer.

Did this conveniently break Rewind AI?

again, i keep asking: which apps have actually switched to the new screen sharing API and which apps have not?

does zoom, chrome, google meet, etc still require this?

Presumably you mean dtrace? strace is a Linux thing. dtrace should still work but you need to disable SIP first.

The official way, which is by going to the Privacy & Security screen to click the override button

There's a separate entitlement used for remote access software without the repeated prompts (com.apple.developer.persistent-content-capture), so you basically need Apple's permission to build that category of software now, and open source remote access software is not possible.

So the category of software will still have some working entries (existing players will try to get approved, and probably will), but it's hard to imagine anyone will want to build a new one knowing its viability on modern macOS completely depends on filling out a form and hoping Apple's approval bureaucracy likes you.

Anyone who's used these unusually locked down entitlements know whether you can apply for it before building the software, or if App Review needs to have their hands on something functional first to approve it?

Rectangle is as mandatory on macOS as VLC was on windows.

I use the "Multitouch" app from the same developer which integrates Rectangle with some other things.

Trying out the new macOS version.. it's a little fiddly to activate sometimes didn't want to go. Then the margin/spacing between the edge of the screens was annoying. Though I discovered that there is an option under "Desktop & Dock" in settings you can turn off called "Tiled windows have margins".

What I haven't figured out is if you can create a keyboard shortcut to tile left or right without using the mouse... so far have not figured out how to do that. Couldn't see an option for it.

Those settings revealed another option though to "Hold key while dragging windows to file". If you hold that key you don't actually have to drag to the edge, just move it to the correct side of the monitor (or not really move it at all if it's already on that side). Interesting alternative.

But I really often specifically use a keyboard shortcut for tile left, tile right or tile left third/middle third/right third (on a 35" Ultrawide).

I have been using Amethyst and like it.

Same, install Rectangle, learn shortcuts, never look back. I would happily remove it if the exact same functionality were ported to macOS (remove one more supply chain concern), but it seems it hasn’t been?

Upon getting sequoia it asked if I wanted their new windows tiling or rectangle’s. Rectangle has been good to me, so I stuck with it

Have you figured out the keyboard shortcuts for the native version? I only see the Option + drag window "shortcut".

I've been happy with Divvy for many years. It's not autotiling but the one-time config setup is intuitive after which my kbd shortcuts put things exactly where I want em, so I hardly ever think about it.

I have to use XQuartz for some apps I run in macOS. Magnet (and other apps I've tried) don't understand those windows. ShiftIt does, but it's buggy and no longer maintained.

Had to make an account just to say thanks! You literally solved one of my biggest gripes with macOS. This site honestly feels like the internet of the late aughts' last bastion. I think I'll stick around.

I didn't know about this one, thank you for posting.

Also, on most windows, you can option-click the green window bar button and get this same behavior. However, some apps, like Safari, will instead expand the window to "a reasonably large size" that will not necessarily cover the whole screen.

You can also double click the title bar to expand to fill the screen, and double click it again to return to the previous size. One caveat to this is if your application saves window sizes on close and you close with a full screen window and re-open, it won’t shrink again because the “original size” was full screen when the window was opened

I wish I could set the macOS one to allow me to have ⅓ on the left and ⅔ on the right.

Moom's keyboard shortcuts and grid layout are superb.

In the settings you can turn off this margin

Have been using Rectangles for a while. I like Swish's tiling options, though! I'll have to give it a try.

That does look pretty cool. Unfortunately my experience with third party window management features has been bad.

Didn't the original Windows 1 put all of the windows in tiles?

Here's an image from a history:

https://money.cnn.com/gallery/technology/2015/06/22/history-...

Did you mistype or are you actually somehow using a 57 inch monitor?

If really 57”, are these multiple separate screens?

I went up from 32 to 40 and regret it, to be honest. It’s m nice for Xcode, but for any other use, it’s too big for me. For instance, I miss notifications that pop up in the top right corner, it’s just out of my field of vision.

Magnet is great, with very good sane default keybindings so you can just install and go.

The original Aero Snap was almost perfect. But I find the newer variation in Win11 a bit annoying as it adds a bunch of UI for tiling that is too easy to activate by accident.

BetterTouchTool used to be a mandatory install for every Mac for me. Unfortunately, at some point it started putting all my screens to sleep a few times a day. I have no idea why, and it persisted across multiple devices. I switched to Magnet once I narrowed the issue to BetterTouchTool.

Yeah, probably but that's not the point.

It's especially frustrating since you always stumble upon it when you have something else in mind, this your flow is broken to re-confirm something you did a month ago.

I'm not aware of a fix, hopefully more people will write a feedback about it.

Figuring out what garbage to type into jq is the best thing about ChatGPT.

jq's syntax is different, but well worth remembering.

i have some flash cards if you'd like. a teensy amount of effort pays huge dividends with swiss knife software like this (and things like matplotlib, tar CLI options, etc)

I can't know what "-dirty" implies, but https://github.com/jqlang/jq/commit/cff5336 is a pretty random commit from 2022 :-(

https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/distribution-macO... hasn't been updated with a "jq" directory yet

1.6? Wonder why they went with an outdated version.

I manage a lot of Macs, been beta testing since June.

Nah just the last GPL2 licensed version from 2008

ope wait that's just bash

I have never understood this.

Trying to guess if I should look for something in the root level of Settings or in the General subsection?

Absolutely no rhyme or reason as far as I can tell.

It's why I just use search for settings now. I refuse to keep guessing wrong.

They were previously in "Keychain Access," which was primarily an app for administrators so it was also a pretty bad UX.

I mean I use rectangle, and used spectacle before it, and I’m very grateful to the developers for maintaining it and making it available for free, but this really should be part of the OS and I will be very happy to get rid of that app after updating to Sequoia.

I also use an app that reverses the scroll direction of an attached USB mouse, without affecting the (natural) trackpad scroll direction, because MacOS does not allow changing them independently (looks like they are separate options for mouse and trackpad but they are in fact the same).

The App is called Scroll Reverser [1] it is free and works flawlessly, but it really should not have to exist, it’s ridiculous.

[1] https://pilotmoon.com/scrollreverser/

I was/am a rectangle pro user!

New features are often launched with partner companies, and then all the PMs have a real life example to go point at to convince their conservative stakeholders to adopt the new thingy. Looking at your power usage is not an apple thing, it's a power company thing to implement.

The way Apple product management works is that everyone is always demoing stuff up the chain and ultimately to Tim. They’re reverentially referred to as “Tim demos” internally. If Tim likes it, you get tons of resources.

The downside may be that in the pathological case you’re implementing stuff just for Tim. Another downside is you can’t really demo e.g. high-quality backwards-compatible SDKs to an exec.

The upside is you end up with a pretty coherent and un-fickle set of products. Unlike Google, Apple doesn’t have a roster of five (?) competing chat apps that it constantly changes.

Thank you!