Christina WarrenThe never-ending “Background Items Added" pop-up for an item I already disabled or already know about is the most annoying part of Ventura after the new System Settings design.
Remember when there was an "I'm a Mac" ad making fun of Vista's atrocious UAC settings? Yeah, we get that now, but it is somehow worse!
Shawn King@film_girl I Tech Edited Pogue's Vista Missing Manual book. I kept reading it and thinking, "WTF are they doing it this way? The Mac does it SO MUCH BETTER!"
I no longer think that way. :(
@KingShawn it's honestly so depressing
@film_girl I am no longer that guy who jumps on every update the second it becomes available. Hell, I waited a year for one update just because of its issues. I *still* haven't updated to Ventura.
Basically, I no longer trust Apple the way I used to. And that's not just me "getting older/wiser". Their software has literally been going downhill for a decade.
@KingShawn same. Unfortunately at work, we need to use updated versions (tho they did require us to wait a few weeks for Ventura) and I’ve found iCloud to be finicky if you are on multiple OS versions (which goes back to your point about Apple trust) so I have to upgrade each year, even if I don’t want to.
@film_girl For me, iCloud has been so consistently flakey, I've stopped using it wherever I can. Sad state of affairs.
And don't even get me started on Apple and their "Storage options"....😡
@KingShawn oh, I absolutely don’t rely on it for exactly those reasons.
@film_girl And if "us nerds" don't trust it, I damn sure don't recommend anyone I know, ie, The Normals, use it either.
Feed Me Doughnuts@KingShawn @film_girl who uses iCloud? I dumped that flakey pos in 2015.
Dan Betcher@KingShawn @film_girl it would be kind of nice if they just slowed down on the new features for macOS and we got a couple years of Snow Leopard-style upgrades that were all about performance, bug fixes, and overall quality assurance.
I need my Mac to be a rock-solid work horse I can trust and rely on.
@danbetcher @film_girl Eaxctly. And that's why I now wait 3-12 months *before* I even think about updating to major new versions. :(
@KingShawn @film_girl yeah, I only ever make exceptions when a feature I want on iOS requires me to update everywhere - like when they upgraded the notes app a few years back. Even that, though, I’ll try to wait as long as I can. (Or more often, switch to a 3rd-party app to fill those needs instead)
@danbetcher @film_girl iOS is a bit different for me. I usually upgrade after a week or so.
@KingShawn @film_girl yeah I’m much quicker on iOS too. Usually less than a week. Usually long enough to know that the upgrade isn’t bricking phones, then I go for it…