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gernot

@gernot@mas.to

iOS and Mac developer, focused on SwiftUI. Working on Matter/HomeKit stuff. Founder of nxtbgthng.

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This is a huge part of the reasoning (and the problems with) Apples product lineup.

The „we make stuff for ourselves“ strategy works really well, if empoyees and customers lifestyles overlap. That was mostly the case under Jobs, but is increasingly rare now. https://mastodon.social/@stroughtonsmith/112445265673130083

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Woah, Apples Disk Utility has UI for the Time machine Snapshots!!!! https://mastodon.cloud/@fheusel/112444549167077303

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I have a neigbour’s iMac that does not boot up, because the hard drive is 100% full. It’s a Fusion drive. It boots up fine in recovery mode, the drives seem ok. There in terminal I deleted some large files, but this does not seem to free up space so it can boot again. Any ideas anyone besides re-installing? Is there a way to „vacuum“ a Fusion Drive so it exposes the free space?

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@fheusel Ah, diskutil can do that? When I tried yesterday, tmutil wasn’t available in recovery mode. (or I mistyped…)

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@fheusel Cool, I will try this tonight. Hopefully it helps, I don’t want to tell him he has to reinstall :-) Thanks!

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Question: I am using AnchorPreferences. Is there any way to use multiple AnchorPreferences at once? Like, use an array of points and communicating it up the hierarchy, but using a collection of [Anchor<CGPoint>] instead of the single Anchor<CGPoint> that the .anchorPreference modifier hands over?

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@ctietze This is what I am doing. Essentially the whole „Anchor“ thing is just a fancy way of bubbling up geometry values in the „global“ CoordinateSpace, and it’s converted back at the point of use. I can do the whole ting myself by „convention“ thtat the points I use are global, but I’d rather do it with Apples wrapper that makes it explicit – if I can.

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At least downloading Xcode SDKs is fast. (Officially this is 250 MBit VDSL)

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@arrizer Zwischendurch war’s mal da. Notification kam nicht, ich habe oft geschaut ;-)

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@arrizer Musst den Scraper tunen, es war ein paar Stunden verfügbar, ich hab mich nicht sehr beeilt.

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Again, Xcode Previews break for some reason when using SPM, and it does again cost HOURS.

Every. Week. At. Least. Once.

This is the real Apple these days.

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@marcus I think Previews are at least as important as Tests. I don’t want to build without them.

But the experience is beyond frustrating.And whoever is responsible for this mess at Apple, if anyone, does not seem to care. All Issues are well documented and without solutions since YEARS.

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@marcus No It suddenly works WITHOUT ANY CHANGES. And it will break again, probably tomorrow. probably when I need it. It will never ever stop to be annoying and costly.

But yeah, Apple wants a 30% cut for this.

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@rhysmorgan And there is SO not an alternative to it.

Build projects in one blob with merging .xcodeproj files? NO way. Generating Xcodeproj files? NO way

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@rhysmorgan I am currently considering making this a 1-module app and giving up separation. Not the cleanest approach, but maybe the only working one.

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@rhysmorgan Did it and Previews work again.

Except for On-device, because, sure, Apple can’t be bothered supporting on-device previews in SPMs, because who does that? „We never thought of it, have you filed Feedback, can you attach a sysdiagnose? Oh, and give us 30%.“

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Now I doubt we can buy the VisionPro in Europe before WWDC.

It’s not like it outsells in the US…

Also, M4 seems perfect for the device, and Apple seems to be able to „spontanously“ put it into new products. Will we see a revision with that?

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@meaningful_jan If it’s so much more efficient than M2: Run longer.

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Summary: Until the iPad Pros are a REAL Mac replacement, they aren’t for me. They're impressive, but I won’t spend that much money on an experience consisting of compromises. I want EVERYTHING the Mac can do, and then we’re talking.

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Hm, Apples can change the iPad Hardware all they want, except for the Air having a bigger screen, it won’t make much of a difference to anybody. But they have a chance to give the category the much needed change, if they are „letting lose“ the software. But is this likely to happen just weeks before WWDC? If they mean it, they have to preview iPadOS 18. @appleevent

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@sneezr You might be right. He takes big risks on new categories like Watch, Car and Vision, but plays it very, very safe on existing product lines. But the iPad is the category where I think even he got the message that „playing it safe“ might not do it anymore, and taking risks is the way forward. We’ll see.

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@sneezr Well, the possibility of failure is what „risk“ means. I’m not too sure about Vision failing though: While there’s clearly not a successful product with the current possible tech, I appreciate that they try to get there in public. It’ll take a couple of years, and it might never happen, but to call it a failure is too early.

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@meaningful_jan iPad is already a wireless device, I don’t think they can theme the new ones around „losing wires“. My gut feeling is that they mean speed, even though nobody cares about speed on the iPad. My 2019 device is just fine, and I don’t expect to upgrade it because it is „slow“.

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@sneezr Hm. The hardware is there, but useless without a software change. That might still come at WWDC. But as it is right now, everything i’d use the new iPads for, I can do on the cheapest one.

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