Because I bloody hate the default behaviour of Apple apps for ⌘⇧S, I have a @KeyboardMaestro macro that hijacks it and uses it to trigger the normal/sane/expected “Save As…” commands in those apps.

The problem is that, occasionally, macOS takes a notion and, after the app is launched, for some reason it refuses to let KM hijack the shortcut. There's no rhyme or reason to it. It just happens. And I hate it. MacOS is so bloody flaky and unreliable. (This is just one unreproducible example.)

I recently added a compilation (in the form of .m4a files) to my library in Apple Music. It shows up as a single album with all 15 tracks under “Recently Added” in macOS. On the other hand, in iOS on my phone, tracks 9, 11 and 12 are listed separately, making it impossible for me to play the whole album continuously.

Try as I might, I cannot see any difference in the tags between these three tracks and the rest.

Sigh.

Typical of today's Apple to put this once-in-a-lifetime “Updated Time Zone Information” notification with absolutely no explanation whatsoever.

Did I ever ask for time zone defition updates? Nope.

Have I ever seen one before? Nope.

Could I use more info without having to do a Google search for this? I sure could.

Whatever…

In MS Teams for macOS, if you change the destination for file downloads from ~/Downloads to a folder on an *external* volume, and then you attempt to download a file, you will consistently get a “Couldn't download - No permissions” error — even if you grant Full Disk Access to MS Teams in macOS's Settings.

Because of course Apple's security theatre and Microsoft's security theatre are not compatible, and nobody tests anything in real-life situations anymore.

Maybe one day someone at Microsoft will realize that using coloured underlined text for BOTH hyperlinks and tracked changes can lead to somewhat confusing results for the user.

(And the fact that, when you compare documents, EVERY hyperlink is somehow flagged as having been deleted/replaced even when it is actually unchanged doesn't help either.)

Hadn't used the TV interface (provided by TiVo, which still exists, apparently) of my local cable provider (Eastlink) for several years. What a pile of crap it has become. It never was great to begin with, but the UI is now a complete mess (and ugly as sin), and there are responsiveness issues all over the place. How can you expect the user to guess that it might take 2 or 3 seconds (sometimes more) for a simple button press to register and actually do something on the screen?

It's ridiculous.

Kinda awkward, in this day and age, that @bbedit still asks you to enter your serial number manually on a web page in order to confirm your eligibility to upgrade pricing. You'd think they'd have something built into the app itself by now.

Also do NOT understand why the payment process forces me to give a phone number.

If this is all forced upon them by their payment services provider, maybe they need to change providers.

Every so often, MS Word takes a notion. Here, double-click-and-drag has stopped working properly. Word only selects the LAST word in the dragging movement when the mouse button is released.

Sometimes quitting and relaunching the app clears the problem. It was not one of those times. A complete reboot was required.

Probably an obscure bug deep inside macOS that only MS's crappy code is able to trigger. (No other app was affected.)

Nobody cares.

Sigh.