More thoughts in no particular order: The fan control algorithm is a bit amateur. It oscillates back and forth in frequency at a high enough frequency (0.1-0.2 Hz) – and with significant range – that it’s quite noticeable, audibly, and sometimes distracting. For some reason the full-load CPU frequency on my machine has dropped from… Read more
10-core w/ Vega64. Upgrading from a 2014 Retina iMac. Relatively briefly, and in no particular order: I don’t see why the very slightly different colour scheme, vs the regular iMacs, is such a big deal to some people. Yes, it’s fairly obviously a different colour. No, it doesn’t really look any better (nor worse) than… Read more
I need a ‘facepalm’ category apparently. There’s been a lot of that lately. You cannot import, let-alone work on, Photoshop files (“PSB” file extension) in Lightroom. It flat-out doesn’t support them. That’s such a weird limitation & oversight, for a program that Adobe now officially names ‘Adobe Photoshop Lightroom’. See also this six year old… Read more
I hate this dialog with the fire of a thousand suns. When this appears, it basically means one (or both) of two things: Some application went nuts and chewed through all your memory and/or disk space. macOS got itself into a darkly comical & embarrassing deadlock. Quitting any of the listed applications is rarely the correct… Read more
I was highly surprised to find the Apple Maps actually does fix errors that are reported by users – at least sometimes. I was even more surprised to see that there’s actually a predesigned interface within Apple Maps, on iOS, for notifying reporters that the issue they reported has been fixed. First on the lock… Read more
Apple supports two styles of two-factor authentication, that they call (and distinguish as) “two-step” vs “two-factor”. “Two-step” is their older method, though functionally they’re basically equivalent. If you have multiple accounts on a Family Sharing arrangement, and some use “two-factor” while others use “two-step”, you’re in for a bag of hurt. For example, any time you change… Read more
Apparently if you get bored enough you start just playing with the keyboards installed on your iPad. Those that have the suggestion bar at the top can make some interesting ‘poetry’. You just keep tapping in the same place, or in some simple pattern across the N suggestions. Some are just bemusing drunk gibberish, but… Read more