I thought maybe it was something to do with Apple Intelligence, so I turned it off. And the luminous bulging persisted.

  • reddig33@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    There’s no benefit other than to waste battery power. This UI redesign is gawd awful.

  • Jännät@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    3 months ago

    I stayed on Sonoma until just a few weeks ago because more and more software requires Sequoia, and I finally gave in.

    Really shouldn’t have.

    My computer’s noticeably slower with constant random performance stutters and beachballs, multimonitor support somehow got worse again (eg my external monitor just refuses to stay as the primary monitor, it keeps getting switched back to my laptop), I keep having to kill bird because it starts eating up 20GB of RAM and tons of CPU time by getting stuck in some loop where it constantly vacuums some sqlite dbs, and so on. Rebooting so often I feel like I’m using Windows again. This really reminds me of my move from Ventura to Sonoma, which I put off as long as I could.

    And now Tahoe’s apparently yet again worse (but there’s more AI! Nobody asked for it, but we got it!), and nothing I read about it exactly sparks joy. Been a macOS / OS X user since Jaguar, and the steady downward slide of the past few years has gotten me seriously considering daily driving Linux again, but I’m not too enthusiastic about that thought either. Windows is a definite no, haven’t touched that bullshit since Vista.

    Guess I’ll get a wooden abacus once running Sequoia gets untenable. By that time there’ll probably be a Linux distro for them.

    • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksOPM
      4·
      3 months ago

      I’ve heard of these things called slide rules…

      I used my 2011 iMac for 10 years. I got the M2 Mac mini when it came out, thinking this was going to be another tank of a computer for the next decade. Less than 2 years later I felt my needs had outpaced the M2. I gave it to my mom (I amazingly convinced her to try it, and then, mostly, ditch windows) and got the M4 Pro Mini.

      Sigh…

      I miss Lion.

      • fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        3·
        2 months ago

        I thought the same thing when I got my 2018 Mac mini. 6 cores ought to be plenty for browsing the internet… oh how I was wrong.

        Now I got a Mac Studio and this MFer better last me a while.

        • DominusOfMegadeus@sh.itjust.worksOPM
          2·
          2 months ago

          I kept eyeing older model and refurbished studios until the M4 mini showed up. And despite apples usurious upgrade costs, I fell the M4 Pro mini is one of (3?) best bang for the buck values in the lineup.