You would think that a fairly advanced utility such as CleanMyMac would have the decency to honour the underlying macOS Finder preference when it comes to the visibility of file extensions, or at least give the user the option to show/hide these extensions in the app itself.

But nope. It just shows *some* extensions, from time to time, when it feels like it.

I find that it's definitely much better for my sanity to *not* look at what Disk Utility is saying about my external volumes *while* I am running my backups.

Right here, according to DU, I have zero free space and three unmounted volumes totalling "-2.72 GB”. (I actually have 7+ TB free, as the number next to the white that I don’t have actually says.)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/116257908522337122

As far as I can tell, what’s “peculiar” about StopTheScript is that you have to install and then immediately *deny*, and only *allow* the extension on a per-site basis when you want to *disable* JavaScript. And then you might also have to *disable* noscript elements in order to *enable* the extension to work.

https://underpassapp.com/StopTheScript/tutorial.html

All that is slightly counterintuitive, but it seems to be unavoidable based on the way Safari extensions work.

Because your employer uses Microsoft, you have to use both Outlook and Teams. Both apps handle your work calendar. In Teams, you see a notification of a change in a scheduled meeting, with RVSP. You reply by saying “Accept”. Then you go to Outlook and… you have a new email in your inbox about the same change, also with RVSP.

You *would think* Outlook would know to remove the email. Instead, it still displays an “Accept” button, while saying that… you have already accepted it.

So elegant.

What *should* happen when the I-beam cursor is directly after a manual page break in MS Word and you press ⌫ is that it should delete the manual page break, right?

Right.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/116249861882658430

“It’s not slop because you can fine-tune it” assumes that you can fine-tune slop into non-slop.

Oh, the arrogance.

So these are the future jobs we can all look forward to:

“What do you do for a living?
— Me? I am a sloptuner.”

The world is *definitely* going to be a much better place!

When you hover over a disabled menu item in macOS with the mouse, it's not supposed to be highlighted. (It’s… disabled.)

Yet, in macOS Safari (in Sequoia), macOS gleefully highlights disabled menu items. And of course it doesn't invert the text, which the highlighting then makes unreadable, especially when “Increase contrast” is on.

Quality stuff.