macOS has slid a long way down the quality ladder over the past ten years.

In what way? Tahoe's UI SNAFU aside, it seems like it's basically just a more polished version of the older macOS versions from a decade ago.

Fast user switching turned into excruciatingly slow user switching.

I run into bugs every day. It wakes, and has a black screen not wallpaper. Change spaces and the focus is wrong for half a second. Login screen is a pain because it collapses all users together. Notifications don’t scroll if they stop scrolling when the cursor is over a gap between them. Something on the system constantly eats disk space, and I think it’s the system updates. If I dock two apps in one space, sometimes one is black. If I zoom out to the Spaces overview it shows fine in the preview though. In the Terminal if I close a tab it can focus an entirely different window.

I could go on for hours. It’s a buggy mess these days and I miss Lion and Snow Leopard desperately.

Unless these problems only started after an upgrade to Tahoe, I would strongly suspect defective hardware in your case.

For all its faults I do still like modern macOS, but it is a far cry from the beauty that was Mac OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard).

Oh, I completely agree. But they can get away with it because we depend on the platform more than the individual apps.

And yes, Tahoe is shiny hot garbage piled on top of so much broken software, just to push an effect trick. I'm not sure how I feel developing with SwiftUI when Apple clearly can't make it work for their own apps.

Sure, but relative to windows…

Wow, what a shitty thing to say.

It was someone else who posted it to HN, too.

>Petro is pretty much upstream of everything: [...] cooking oils

Wait, what?

Petro is often used to transport cooking oils from the farmers to the retailers, so without it, cooking oil is going to be hard to source.

>WiFi

>1600W EIRP

Your local regulatory authority would like a word with you.

I hold a licence that allows me to transmit on pretty much whatever frequency I like with as much power as I like, wherever I like.

Someone has to test the transmitter before you hand it off to the customer.

Also, I'm in the UK, where it's hard enough to get the regulatory authorities to do anything about people causing interferenced to licensed chunks of band. You can wipe out the whole of 2.4GHz if you like, you literally could not pay them to take an interest.

Edit: also you have probably done the same a couple of times today too.

So I thought your initial comment was a (pretty good) joke about using a microwave oven, but now I’m not sure. Is this testing license you reference a continuation of the joke or a real thing?

The testing licence is real but the comment was a joke about microwaving some sauce base :-)

>a device whose core functionality [...] is both trivial and has no inherent need for internet connectivity.

For a while I've given a hard pass to anything which requires an app for such functionality, knowing full well that eventually I'll be locked out of it (not to mention the privacy implications of such designs).

I encourage others to follow suit.

>the international standard

Except the United States, because of course.

ISO is 134 kHz, US has both 125 and 128 kHz.

lol - the long tail of international standard dissent in US

>he [...] was on the right side of history in regards to Lithium-Ion battery evolution.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

A stopped clock is right 730 times per year.

What an incredibly well-written article.

What Raspberry? I don't see any Raspberry.