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Let me know when we get M4 support.
Re:Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one on Sunday September 06, 2026 @03:37PM (#49590046)
Coming from Windows, what's outrageous about Finder, is that when I'm looking at a SMB share has is named the same as a local directory, it is very confusing as to which location is which. Scary. Like, show the full path! Not "Folder" at the top. Just crazy.
Thank you for doing this. So cool. Its a form of time travel, getting to live the past.
This is the way. Gimmie the look I want with the data backend of the phone.
Re:Thunderbird's Desktop Calendar Visual Redesign on Saturday August 15, 2026 @04:23PM (#49313977)
I was an Outlook user for nearly 20 years. Switch to macOS last year, and along with that went with Thunderbird. It does need some love, but grateful it existed. I like to look at my monthly calendar, open two events, and compare them. Sometimes, I like my monthly calendar visible all by itself, then I'll open emails to the far left or right, then maybe an event in the middle, or to the left.

In other words, I like them all as separate windows, while I compare websites, notes, on the phone, and then adding or editing all these things while talking to people too.

Making the Calendar view, an the list of emails as two separate windows would be amazing.

Thank you Thunderbird team!

Re:Zoomit Sysinternals for Mac on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @08:52AM (#49083045)
Sysinternal tools have been around forever on Windows. Cool utilities that own very specific tasks. This is the first I've seen one developed for macOS!
Re:Microsoft please get your tab to autocomplete shit together on Wednesday December 24, 2025 @07:45PM (#46380996)
yep, and FileSearchEX
I was so impressed with the MacBook M3 Pro that my daughter had that I switched from Windows desktop and laptops to the Apple ecosystem. And I'm a veteran Microsoft user from the '90s!

Currently using a MacBook Air M4 and a Mac Mini M4.

Agree. Currently using VSCode, but its not really a dedicated file editor.
Wow, this will be helpful.
Re:Show HN: rift – a tiling window manager for macOS on Sunday October 19, 2025 @12:52AM (#45632130)
Something like sidebarapp.net?
Re:Show HN: rift – a tiling window manager for macOS on Saturday October 18, 2025 @11:39PM (#45631935)
I'm new to macOS, long time Windows dev. What I'm really missing is taskbar. A way to see, visually, that I have application running that are minimized and yet able to be positioned by sliding them around. Is there anything like this for macOS 15.7?
Re:I built ChatGPT with Minecraft redstone [video] on Thursday October 02, 2025 @02:03PM (#45453185)
And I did it over the weekend. /s
Re:How to waste CPU like a Professional on Friday September 19, 2025 @06:49PM (#45307674)
Would it use less power on ARM architecture?
I've wanted to switch to Linux. May have to give it another go someday. Currently moving over to macOS. Will see how it goes.
Re:Windows XP Professional on Thursday August 07, 2025 @10:45PM (#44832879)
I loved XP. However, one of the first things I would do is make it look like Win2k. :-)
Will be a good thing ™
Re:So you want to parse a PDF? on Monday August 04, 2025 @10:00AM (#44785874)
Be sure and talk to Derek Noonburg, he knows PDF!
Back in 1993, I would open up binary files in edit and enjoy seeing hearts.
I'm a user, I like it.
Re:Bill Atkinson has died on Saturday June 07, 2025 @01:16PM (#44211015)
"Some say Steve used me, but I say he harnessed and motivated me, and drew out my best creative energy." - Bill Atkinson
Back in the day I used to use UPX to compress my executables to achieve impressively small sizes.
Its a grand conspiracy, really bad search makes you look at what they want you to see. I've wrote my search tool just to see what was so hard about it all.
Podcast with Monte Davidoff

https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-113-monte-davidoff...

Starts after about the first 15 minutes.

Re:Moon on Thursday December 19, 2024 @08:55AM (#42461394)
The solar system is like a mechanical clock, a timepiece.
Why is this not front page?
Taxing is not for punishment. Taxing is to support the government who's role is to shepherd the people.
Well, maybe people will stop frowning at me for wearing my wicking running shirts now.
Re:Former President Trump is projected to win the presidency on Thursday November 07, 2024 @01:30PM (#42079402)
I would like to see faster ways of counting. Only just recently AZ and NV have been called. How do other states, with millions of votes to count get it done quicker?

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