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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by slowin on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:10PM (#49441386)
I would say the artist formerly known as OS X has never been good. It literally started its life as a half-assed NeXT attempt and has only gone downhill from there. There's still a "Services" entry in the file menu. .DS_Store files are an abomination. Mac OS thinks it knows better than I do about which software I'd like to install. Plist insanity that makes the Windows registry look pristine. GUI inconsistencies across every surface area... I'm curious what you like about it, because other than font rendering (which it does well), I can't think of anything positive.
Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by icedchai on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:26PM (#49441531)
In almost 20 years of using Mac OS I can count on one hand the time I've used the "Services" menu, and that was mostly by accident...
Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by slowin on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:34PM (#49441607)
No one has ever used it.

It's one of those NeXTSTEP things that was copied over.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Services_menu

Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by icedchai on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:45PM (#49441703)
I'm sure there are some die hard users out there. Speak up!
Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by heddhunter on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @10:59PM (#49443704)
I love it! I write my own services for it all the time. You can assign global hotkeys to them as well which makes it crazy convenient to be able to select text, a file, etc and invoke some script you wrote on them.
Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by nxobject on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @07:00AM (#49446869)
There used to be – pre-LLM days – a "Summarize" service that "summarized" prose to a length of your choice by deleting sentences. I'm sure it was once someone's pride and joy.