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New comment by ibll in "Firefox tab groups are here"

ibll — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 06:15:26 +0000

It copies a lot of Arc, but the core tab organisation features from Arc are significantly lacking. Last I checked (a few weeks ago), Zen didn't even have a keybind for pinning a tab. It fully keeps the Firefox bookmarks and prioritises those all over the UI. The Arc tab system is meant to entirely replace all of that. It just makes Zen feel very shallow in comparison. It's just firefox with some goofy Arc features mashed into the front without care.

Arc (macOS) is ridiculously good though. It's become difficult/impossible for me to use another browser happily the past few years. I wish they were focused on it instead of their mediocre AI browser project. They decided to claim Arc windows was out of beta when it's still vastly worse than the mac version in just about every sense. But at least they got the core tab management features locked down (from what I've heard, I don't have a windows machine to try it on.)

New comment by ibll in "macOS Sequoia is available today"

ibll — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 01:41:11 +0000

to be fair, developers on mac create like 100% of their highly profitable iOS app store revenue because you can't hardly make iOS apps without a mac.

New comment by ibll in "Why Login Security Sucks"

ibll — Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:27:05 +0000

I always forget how stinking nice password manager autofill is until I have to fight with magic links because some service hates me. And most implementations I've seen only log you in from the new link the email sent, not the original page. So if you are trying to log in on a device your email isn't signed in on, you get to type the entire thing in on your second device.

New comment by ibll in "Inside Apple Arcade"

ibll — Sat, 10 Aug 2024 17:15:24 +0000

Mini Motorways is a blast. But it's on Steam so you don't need their subscription unless you want to play on iOS.

New comment by ibll in "Tot Notes"

ibll — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 04:44:17 +0000

Shortcuts is Apple's block based programming language for automating stuff between apps. Pretty barebones but still useful. Just so you get an idea of how limited it is, the only way to emulate a normal function is to recursively call the entire program with different input parameters and skip down to the right region of code.

Complications are just the little informational widgets on Apple Watch faces. Just like on normal watches.

Iterations had no special meaning here.

The Modular face is basically one of the lockscreen options on an Apple Watch. It dictates the layout of complications. Don't know why it was mentioned so specifically.

New comment by ibll in "Apple announces new accessibility features, including eye tracking"

ibll — Wed, 15 May 2024 23:00:33 +0000

not OP, but macOS has a ton of options available with arcane commands. my favorites are the auto-hide dock speed setting, the third hidden window minimise animation, and the hidden system accent colours usually locked to the colourful iMacs

New comment by ibll in "MacRelix – Unix-like features for classic Mac OS"

ibll — Mon, 13 May 2024 01:41:28 +0000

I've been having an absolute blast with it though! Don't think it's really geared to be daily drivable at all, just a fun environment to make stuff.

New comment by ibll in "Dune: Part Two Is the Best Sci-Fi Film of the Decade"

ibll — Thu, 29 Feb 2024 19:54:31 +0000

I find it interesting how divisive this movie is. Many of my friends thought it was immensely boring. One even fell asleep halfway thorough. I found the first movie so incredibly captivating that it immediately became my favourite movie and I've gone on to read the first few books. I've seen it I think 10 times now.

I watched Part II on the 25th. Really really good. Having read the book now there's some things I missed or thought could be better but it still just blew me away.