The update to #macOS 14.5 "Sonoma" has been as unpleasant as expected.
After downloading many gigabytes, macOS got stuck for more than HALF AN HOUR, doing some undisclosed "Preparing".
This is just BS, I checked what happened, and a secret Apple tool named "UpdateBrainService" was slowly crunching away with a lousy 99% CPU. And that on one of the fastest Macs ever been built.
And now, the Mac is crippled by dozens of "mdworker_shared" processes, because for EVERY SINGLE macOS update, as small as it is, Spotlight needs to reindex ALL DATA, slowing down macOS for many more hours.
Tim, you should be ashamed, really.
And now the real fun begins, because in the next days, we need to find out what NEW bugs Apple has added to macOS 14.5.
And yeah, it is the latest version 5.1 of "SF Symbols.app", and of course, this message lies, as the app is actually NOT damaged, and can be launched with the "open" contextual menu command.
It is only SEVEN years after we had reported this glaring and obvious bug in the ExFAT driver of macOS, and yes, it is still here today in #macOS 14.4.1 #sonoma
No, #Apple, that drive has NOT been created or updated in January 1970.
How I wish Apple would actually start fixing their bugs for once.
And yes, the ExFAT driver in macOS has a LOT more bugs.
Wow, it is #macOS 14.4.1 already, and we are still getting these stupid untitled and misleading "notifications" from the badly designed and completely undocumented "security" features in macOS when adding a launch item.
Oh #Apple.
We had reported this dangerous and stupid bug two years ago already, but of course Apple has ignored it, like thousands of other bugs.
Oh fun… another weird #SwiftUI bug. When I resize my window, it clears the state of my modal window presented by said resized window. Sometimes I don’t even know where to start looking with these bc SwiftUI is just so black box.
Trying to copy some MIDI parts from one project in Logic to another. For some reason the exported MIDI part contains some additional info that messes up the instruments completely - I get the Massive instrument I want plus a Steinway grand piano at the same time. 🤬
So, figured I'd just open both projects at the same time and then hand paint the MIDI notes into a new track while looking at the old one. What a disaster! Logic becomes a bug riddled unworkable mess. 🤬🤬
Frankly, the new "Wallpaper" "System Setting" in #macOS14#Sonoma is the most confusing piece of horrible interface design I have ever seen.
And that is compared to the rest of the utterly confusing and ugly "System Settings" which is an entire textbook full of interface violations, inconsistencies, and how-not-to's in its own.
Sigh.
Oh dear #Apple, could you spare a few bucks to hire a human interface designer for once, maybe? Pretty please?
Comparing phones side-by-side with iOS 15 and iOS 16, not sure what Apple changed about their data sources for weather but iOS 15 is much more accurate at times.
Please do NOT install macOS 13.4 beta 4 if you are using any network content filter like #LittleSnitch or #LittleSnitchMini. Apple has introduced a bug in its latest beta causing network connectivity to break.