Block the “Upgrade to Tahoe” alerts and System Settings indicator – The Robservatory

🚀 If you’re facing font issues in #Mastodon, enable "Use system's default font" in Preferences > Appearance. 🖥️ Details: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/36003

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Typing 'find' or 'office' replaces some characters with strange symbols · Issue #36003 · mastodon/mastodon

Steps to reproduce the problem Open a chat textarea (e.g., in Mastodon). Type the word find (without spaces, e.g., "fi"). Observe that the input is replaced by the symbol ⋔ (pitchfork) instead of d...

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Was a delicious way to start the day. I so love this site 💜 Thanks @mwichary 🙏🏼
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Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings

Windows 10 spies on your use of System Settings

@siracusa At the very least, if you can *only* have popup buttons that “hug" the title of the selected item, at least lower the compression resistance on the label so it truncates. This is NOT how you build UI. Look how the label will go into its own row if it doesn't fit vertically.

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What is Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling on Windows 11?

In this well researched article, let us check out Hardware Accelerated GPU Scheduling in detail, how to enable HAGS on Windows 11 and more.

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Hmm, looks like either #macOS #SystemSettings' Storage screen can't add or it can't find all applications...

It says there are 509.26 GB of applications, but when I added up the claimed sizes from the same screen, it was only 312.04 GB 🤔

Thus, (at least) one of two things is wrong — either the displayed total is nearly 200 GB too large, or there are applications not in the list or with the wrong size in the list.

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Multiple displays on a Mac sucks

So many people I've worked with have used multiple displays - typically a matched pair side-by-side - and sworn by them. It's always mystified me, to be honest.

I've attempted the multi-display lifestyle a few times over the last thirty years. At first as a bourgeois indulgence, back when even having a single 17" display was considered luxurious1, let-alone two displays. Just because I could. Then sporadically over the years in more practical attempts to expand my screen real estate.

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https://wadetregaskis.com/multiple-displays-on-a-mac-sucks/

Multiple displays on a Mac sucks – Wade Tregaskis

It might come as a surprise, but people don’t interact with controls they can’t see.

The fact that you don’t show cursor in a text field doesn’t help either.

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