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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...
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Re:Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra for a big leap in perfor... by slowin on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @06:34PM (#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

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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!
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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.
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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.
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