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New comment by galad87 in "Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM"

galad87 — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 16:56:34 +0000

Apple's Weather app has an animated background, glassy views, and nice animations like water droplets on the glassy views when it's raining. So rendering all that on a 4k or more display at 10bit depth is going to consume a bit of RAM. However I guess it can surely be improved to make it consume less RAM.

New comment by galad87 in "The myth of Snow Leopard"

galad87 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:31:40 +0000

Snow Leopard shipped a new 64-bit Cocoa Finder too, but no one noticed because it was almost a pixel perfect and behaviour perfect copy of the previous one.

New comment by galad87 in "Dissecting Apple's Sparse Image Format (ASIF)"

galad87 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:04:38 +0000

Of course, but that works only if the files are already in the same partition. A dmg is a virtual image, even if it's stored in the same partition, once mounted it acts like another partition.

New comment by galad87 in "Sweet Jeebus, macOS 27 Golden Gate Removes the Dumb Icons from Menu Items"

galad87 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:24:28 +0000

Tahoe can't ramp up the GPU frequency fast enough, and many animation like the QuickLook one often run at less than 30 fps. So much fun.

New comment by galad87 in "Valve removes free game from Steam after players discover it contains malware"

galad87 — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:29:18 +0000

Games are an almost perfect type of software to be run in a sandbox. The question is, why aren't they already run in a sandbox?

New comment by galad87 in "Backblaze has stopped backing up your data"

galad87 — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 10:56:29 +0000

Long press is a shortcut, the longer way is to click on the icon beside the url and tap/click the enormous "reader mode" button.

New comment by galad87 in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

galad87 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:55:09 +0000

TCC is a leaky shoot at limiting non-sandboxed apps permissions. The actual macOS sandbox is a different thing.

I would say that TCC is working as intended, unfortunately, with many obscure behaviors to avoid breaking existing apps.

It's even more unfortunate that a lot of apps that could be easily sandboxed aren't.

New comment by galad87 in "You can't trust macOS Privacy and Security settings"

galad87 — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:54:00 +0000

TCC is a different thing. Sandboxed apps work differently and won't need those TCC dialogs.

New comment by galad87 in "H.264 Streaming Fees: What Changed, Who's Affected, and What It Means"

galad87 — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 12:12:26 +0000

Safari, or better, macOS and iOS include a software AV1 decoder (libdav1d), but it's used only to decode avif, and to generate file previews in Finder.

New comment by galad87 in "Hormuz Minesweeper – Are you tired of winning?"

galad87 — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 10:31:24 +0000

It's missing the double click on a number feature from minesweeper.

New comment by galad87 in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

galad87 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:23:45 +0000

To align the window corner radius to the window close/minimize/resize buttons distance from the edge of the window.

New comment by galad87 in "macOS Tahoe windows have different corner radiuses"

galad87 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:53:01 +0000

Because that's by design. The windows are meant to have different corner radius, they even explained it at WWDC. Then people forgot and rediscovered it again, like it was some new thing.

I am not saying that it's a good idea to have different corner radius, just that it's nothing new.

New comment by galad87 in "Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues"

galad87 — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:16:16 +0000

It broke some NSWindow styles: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/814798

New comment by galad87 in "Show HN: Itsyhome – Control HomeKit from your Mac menu bar (open source)"

galad87 — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 13:03:00 +0000

Every device compatible with the Matter standard[1] can be used with Apple Home (and with every other solution that supports Matter, like Google and Amazon ones), so almost everything is compatible with everything out there.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matter_(standard)

New comment by galad87 in "Epic celebrates "the end of the Apple Tax" after court win in iOS payments case"

galad87 — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 18:25:27 +0000

It should be based on the app size, so maybe developers will stop shipping apps with a single feature and one button that takes 700 MB because of random bloated third-party SDKs that aren't even used.

New comment by galad87 in "Netflix’s AV1 Journey: From Android to TVs and Beyond"

galad87 — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 17:39:15 +0000

All I read about is that it's less hardware friendly than H.264 and HEVC, and they were all complaining about it. AV2 should be better in this regard.

Where did you read that it was designed to make creating an hardware decoder easier?

New comment by galad87 in "Windows GUI – Good, Bad and Pretty Ugly (2023)"

galad87 — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 07:04:48 +0000

I assume there is a reason for leaving out Windows Me.

New comment by galad87 in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

galad87 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:42:31 +0000

web.whatsapp.com is still going to use more RAM than the old native version.

New comment by galad87 in "Meta replaces WhatsApp for Windows with web wrapper"

galad87 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 07:06:16 +0000

The macOS app is the iOS app running on macOS thanks to Catalyst, hopefully they won't replace it with that Electron/WebViewOfTheDay crap.

New comment by galad87 in "App Store web has exposed all its source code"

galad87 — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 08:31:49 +0000

Nowadays it's all AppKit/UIKit/SwiftUI. It's no longer a webview.