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New comment by sbuk in "MacBook Neo"

sbuk — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:11:32 +0000

Evidently, and especially in comparison to Windows 11, alive and well. In rude health in fact.

New comment by sbuk in "MacBook Neo"

sbuk — Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:07:39 +0000

I like it. Debacle isn't the word you're looking for. "Some loud people on the internet don't like it and the user base has largely been ambivalent towards it. In reality, it's rough around the edges and needs some work."

New comment by sbuk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

sbuk — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 03:28:31 +0000

Don't be rude. I did read TFA, hence my comments. You didn't understand my comment, did you?

Whether it disabling SIP, enabling root (see the bit about Linux and Posix in my previous comment), enabling case sensitivity in APFS (done for backwards compatibility), or any of the other stuff, the OS shipped remains the same as the tested one, and pay attention because this is the bit you seem to be incapable of grasping, with the extra bits turned on! Some are dumb, some for backwards compatibility and some are genuinely useful.

A Kia Ceed is still the same Kia Seed if the showroom add their stickers, changed the tyres and put some registration plates on it.

New comment by sbuk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

sbuk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:48:44 +0000

You’re confusing operating mode with operating system.

SIP/SSV don’t create a different macOS, they restrict mutation and introspection. They don’t change the POSIX surface, the SUS semantics, or the kernel interfaces being certified. They just stop test harnesses from instrumenting the system without elevated privilege.

By your logic, no modern OS is anything it claims to be unless you run it in an insecure debug configuration. Linux isn’t POSIX because you need root. Windows isn’t Windows because kernel debugging exists. That’s obviously nonsense.

The Open Group certifies macOS 26 as shipped. Temporarily relaxing protections to run a conformance suite does not produce a “different OS”, it produces a different trust configuration of the same one.

Saying “it’s not really UNIX because SIP is on” is like saying a container isn’t Linux because it doesn’t let you mount /proc without extra privileges.

New comment by sbuk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

sbuk — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 01:36:37 +0000

The Windows 7 vs 8 analogy doesn’t support your argument, it undermines it. Windows 8 wasn’t disliked because it was “modern”, it was disliked because it broke core interaction models in a way that actively obstructed use. macOS Tahoe hasn’t done anything remotely comparable. No Start screen catastrophe, no forced touch-first UI on non-touch hardware, no fundamental workflow regression.

What you’re reacting to is aesthetic drift, not functional decay. Liquid Glass is a visual language experiment, not a UX rupture. You may dislike it, that’s fine, but equating it to Windows 8 is category error. One is a design iteration layered on top of a relatively stable interaction model, the other was a structural interface failure.

Also, invoking Media Player vs Groove Music as if those are meaningful historical markers of “user-hostile downgrade” is... generous to the point of fiction. Windows 8’s problem was input metaphors, not media apps.

This isn’t Apple becoming Microsoft. It’s Apple doing what Apple always does: overreaching aesthetically, then sanding it down in point releases until everyone forgets they were angry in the first place. Which, incidentally, is exactly what happened with Aqua, iOS 7, Big Sur, and every other supposed apocalypse.

New comment by sbuk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

sbuk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:25:42 +0000

It really hasn't. The hyperbole here has been though.

New comment by sbuk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

sbuk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:23:38 +0000

Howard Oakley has been writting about macOS internals for a long time, and 99% of the time, his essays and articles are excellent. This is not one of them. Don't be put off by this one article - the site is a goldmine.

New comment by sbuk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

sbuk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:18:00 +0000

The people that certify it say that you are wrong. What you think and what actually is are two entirely different things in this case. The fact remains that, according to the OpenGroup (and they are the one that matter here), macOS 26 is UNIX.

New comment by sbuk in "Can you slim macOS down?"

sbuk — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 20:11:33 +0000

It is. Add we all have off days. Perhaps Howard has had one here. I mean, he is defining what type of OS it is by how it's configuted. Which is just wierd.

New comment by sbuk in "Free software hasn't won"

sbuk — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 09:57:56 +0000

Blender is an interesting case. It's seeing wider adoption in studios generally - an Oscar win has helped and the recent Blender Conference had talks from Framestores vizdev[1] and Paramounts in-house teams[2]. Blender 5.0 is around the corner, which is adding more and more industry standard features[3][4], though recently there was a discussion about pulling away from the VFX Reference Platform[5][6], which they have walked back from[7]. It's not there yet, but it's gaining mindshare rapidly. Enshittification in DCCs is interesting. Arguably the two dominant companies, Autodesk (Maya, 3ds Max) and Maxon (Cinema 4D) are on that path, whereas SideFX (Houdini) is kicking ass!

[1] https://youtu.be/BtZ-ien0WOk

[2] https://youtu.be/DJu7C6tVM8o

[3] https://youtu.be/UiIJytlTFPc

[4] https://landscape.aswf.io

[5] https://devtalk.blender.org/t/blender-and-vfx-reference-plat...

[6] https://vfxplatform.com

[7] https://devtalk.blender.org/t/vfx-reference-platform-stateme...

New comment by sbuk in "macOS Tahoe"

sbuk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:07:02 +0000

Webkit (along with Safari) was started under Avie Tevanian's watch. Scott Forstall worked under him and Bertrand Serlet, along with Lisa Melton, who lead the development team for Webkit. Forstall was responsible for the development and release of Apple Maps.

New comment by sbuk in "macOS Tahoe"

sbuk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:16:33 +0000

People in glass houses...

New comment by sbuk in "macOS Tahoe"

sbuk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:11:44 +0000

Not that OS9 was better - there are thing that I miss, such as drag and drop control panels and system extensions. My point is that people have been complaining about the newer versions of Mac operating systems since there were numbered upgrades.

New comment by sbuk in "macOS Tahoe"

sbuk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 08:09:51 +0000

Rich Corinthian Leather? Green baize backgrounds? Really..?

New comment by sbuk in "macOS Tahoe"

sbuk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:54:39 +0000

> I feel like every macOS update has been worse than the last, since like 2015-2018 or so.

Tha's been going on for as long as the Mac has been a thing.

New comment by sbuk in "macOS Tahoe"

sbuk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:48:07 +0000

Steve saw this and approved it...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Apple_US...

New comment by sbuk in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

sbuk — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 07:26:13 +0000

> A modular iphone that has an easy to replace battery, easy to replace screen and is maybe 2mm thicker to account for it? That would be a sellout.

The same was said about a smaller iPhone. They made it and sales were lacklustre. I know a few people that lament it, but sale's don't lie...

New comment by sbuk in "LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers"

sbuk — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 16:12:43 +0000

Tedious tasks, like retopologising, UV unwrapping and rigging would be great examples of where AI in tools like Maya and Blender could be really useful.

Whisky – Maintenance Notice

sbuk — Tue, 15 Apr 2025 11:17:02 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/Whisky-App/Whisky/blob/main/README.md

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43691269

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New comment by sbuk in "Rsync replaced with openrsync on macOS Sequoia"

sbuk — Mon, 07 Apr 2025 19:21:48 +0000

https://xkcd.com/1172/