And Canada too.
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Pathetic.
lupinglade commented on There's Life Inside Earth's Crust noemamag.com/theres-life-... · Posted by u/jprohov
>If the subsurface were like an inert container, we could just pump that gas down there, sit back and watch the global temperature stabilize and the glaciers creep back to where they’re supposed to be.
I find it fascinating how some scientists seem so sure about how things are 'supposed to be'. The Earth's climate has never been static. Almost everything present today (temperature, pressure, percentage of each gas in air, etc.) has been higher and lower (sometimes by a lot) in the past.
What makes anyone think that they know the ideal amount of anything? Higher temperatures will certainly cause change, but why does every prediction paint a 'worst case scenario'?
Human accelerated change is the concern.
lupinglade commented on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia reviews.ofb.biz/safari/ar... · Posted by u/trbutler
I long for a modern NeXTStep-like OS. A polished, consistent, solid operating system that is lean, clean and simply focused on getting things done. It should be predictable in every way and never get in your way. None of this SwiftUI bullshit, Animoji, AI or blurry UI. sigh
lupinglade commented on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia reviews.ofb.biz/safari/ar... · Posted by u/trbutler
> I could walk item by item through System Settings and point out many equally inexplicable decisions. Did anyone at Apple really believe a Mac user’s life would be better if common features were buried deep in menus?
I have to agree with this, System Settings seems very inconsistent (design) and has terrible information architecture / organization.
Use it every day and still no idea where anything really is in there. What a shitshow.
lupinglade commented on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia reviews.ofb.biz/safari/ar... · Posted by u/trbutler
Ahh Apple Vision Pro.
I entirely forgot it existed! They still sell that?
Not sure.
lupinglade commented on Apple needs a Snow Sequoia reviews.ofb.biz/safari/ar... · Posted by u/trbutler
Is Bertrand still kickin? Can Apple poach him for a few years to clean house? I miss the days when he was running the software division at Apple.
This might be the main issue with software at Apple getting so much worse. Bertrand knew what he was doing. Apple's (and NeXT's) OS used to be an OS, not a collection of toy apps.
lupinglade commented on Is the world becoming uninsurable? charleshughsmith.substack... · Posted by u/spking
The problem is the materials used. Greedy developers building junk homes and making bank. People in those areas are able to afford fire resistant housing but most of them are being swindled into buying stick homes. The few properly designed homes fared far better. Code needs to be updated and consumers need to be educated.
Engineers are paid for their scarcity, and AI is going to make them much less scarce for line of business software
Actually, in the long run, it's likely to make good engineers a lot more scarce.
lupinglade commented on Tart: VMs on macOS using Apple's native Virtualization.Framework tart.run/... · Posted by u/PaulHoule
Kind of a dark pattern to hide the license price (last line in the AppStore page -> in-app purchases). Should be really prominently shown on the "buy now" page.
Also the features page is garbage. Wall of text with fairly generic stuff while it's still unclear: Can it run Windows? Can it run Linux? Arm64, x64 or both? MacOS?
Your main competition is VMWare Fusion and Parallels. See what features they advertise, make sure you are better and cheaper. Currently it looks like a university project rather than a real product.
It is a webpage that was quickly put together. We are a small company and our focus has been on the product. You can run Linux and macOS currently. That is listed on the features page as well as the app store product listing.
There is no dark pattern, it is actually a problem with the way Apple allows developers to sell software on the Mac App Store. We don't have proper control over the process and thus end up with this convoluted purchasing system that is more geared towards subscriptions - which are the real dark pattern nowadays. We sell without any subscriptions - at a very fair price that is extremely competitive with other products. The old upgrade pricing model was a lot more fair to both developers and users and we are sticking to it. This is the only way to offer a free trial on the App Store without requiring a separate installation, which would be inconvenient for everyone.
Far from a university project - but your opinion is yours to keep. It is a shame you are so negative, as it really is a labour of love and a quality Mac app. In fact we have a lot of firsts here, no one has really done a lot of these things (snapshots, suspend & resume, proper dynamic resolution with retina support) with the new Apple framework yet.