Aerospace looks neat - might have to give it a try.
However, honestly, 99% of my multitasking pain on MacOS comes from the un-removable ~300ms animation delay when switching spaces. "Reduced Motion" changes the animation to a fade and doesn't solve the problem.
If I could instantaneously switch between virtual desktops I'd be so happy. I've wanted this for years.
> However, honestly, 99% of my multitasking pain on MacOS comes from the un-removable ~300ms animation delay when switching spaces. "Reduced Motion" changes the animation to a fade and doesn't solve the problem.
That's basically why I stopped using them altogether. I'm using COSMIC DE now on my Linux systems, and while it also has animations, it doesn't look nearly as bad as MacOS.
On MacOS I resorted to tiling and alt-tabbing my way through because of the delays. I don't want to wait for the window system to draw pointless animations, but I can't disable them.
And then in Sequoia they implemented primitive tiling too and of course decided they HAD to add a non-configurable, impossible to disable resizing delay on tiling which nearly brought me to install a VM and use the MacBook as a glorified VM host (before Sequoia it used to be instant).
Came here hoping someone would mention those absolutely cursed cameras - the ones with the pre-canned video of a guy in a back office "monitoring" the feeds?
Gets to me the worst when I'm on my 3rd Home Depot trip of the day BEEP looking through a box of pipe fittings that is filled with everything _except_ the fitting matching the label on the box BEEP okay.. the Home Depot website says it's in stock at the one 20 minutes up the store BEEP but, that's what it said about BEEP the stock at this store so.. but hmm BEEP maybe I could combine these two other fittings and save a BEEP ... trip to the other store, okay I'll look here for... BEEP hmm, the two fittings I would need to combine also aren't in the right BEEP box, but... it looks like maybe there's some that someone put back into a BEEP different box? Oh, wait BEEP _none_ of these fittings are in their correct box? What!? BEEP
Sorry I've just never had anybody to talk with this about. I hate those things with a passion. Let me know if you'd like to start a support group.
There are fewer and fewer physical stores left that sell non-food for reasonable prices. Home Depot is often the only choice (at least in my area, the competitors, Lowes and Ace Hardwares, are more expensive, sell fewer things, and sometimes worse quality too)
Has nobody learned anything from the Humane saga? I don't get it - if you have something so revolutionary and so great, just release it and let it speak for itself!
This was exactly my thought. Image HumaneRabbit R1LLM. Developed with an unlimited budget. It will be a $3000 paperweight assembled from the finest raw materials available.
While this all is super cool, and I don't want to downplay TFAs efforts - I'm kind of at my wit's end here. You've gotten me at a bad time.
I use a computer every day to do electrical (and sometimes, poorly) mechanical CAD. Getting frustrated with/at software is a daily occurrence, but CAD software is some of the worst.
Egg on my face, maybe, but for MCAD I use Fusion360. It's constantly bugging out - and I'm not even talking about the actual modeling workflow or tools! I'll get windows disappearing and floating above other windows. It won't work if you don't install updates within a few days of their release. If I go offline it pops banners in my face. Sometimes, duplicate copies of itself open up, presumably because the updater put a new binary somewhere on my machine that spotlight indexed while I had the previous version running... Sometimes you can't delete files in the cloud because they're referenced by... other deleted files?? A few weeks ago I installed an update like a good boy, and it literally broke the functionality of _being able to click on things_ in the model tree.
On the ECAD side, I use KiCAD for most personal/professional projects these days - very, very few complaints there, actually. However, a new client is using Altium, so here we go... My primary machine is a M3 Max MBP, and I know it's running through the ARM translation layer inside Parallels, but Altium was completely unusable! Opening the component library or moving the explorer window took multiple seconds.
I dusted off an X1 Carbon, which admittedly is 6-ish years old, but it was even worse there! You must understand, for schematic editing, this software's primary use is to drag rectangles around and connect them with lines. How difficult can this be? I had to get a new Windows machine just to be able to navigate around Altium without constant stuttering. Honestly, even on this new machine it's still slower than I'd like. This software is upwards of $5k a year for a single seat license! [1]
I grew up using Macromedia Studio 8, which I installed from a box of CDs, watching my father use his Pentium 4 machine to make complex block diagrams in Visio 2002. In the mid 2000s he was laying out PCBs in PADS without any issues on a laptop! Now a single tab of Lucidchart takes more memory than my old PC could even address, I can't resize the godforsaken library viewer window in Altium on a machine with 16 cores, and if I want to change the settings on my mouse I have to sit through Logitech asking me if I want to log in and join the mouse community to share usage tips? What the hell is going on!?
So, forgive me, and not to go full Casey Muratori, but when I see companies like AdamCAD trying to push this new paradigm, I just can't handle it. Can we please, please, please, just go back to making decent software that enables me to do my work without constant hassle? I don't give a single damn about the AI features if I can't count on the software opening and being usable day in and day out. I lose actual time each and every week to dealing with software issues and I'm so so over it.
[1] $5k for a single site license, of which to attain, you'll have to sit in a sales meeting for a half hour, during which the sales rep tells you that - technically the EULA establishes a 0.5 mile radius for your "single site" but - don't worry - using it at home 3.5 miles away is totally okay, he's not going to make you buy two $5k licenses - thank god!
Concepts is nice. Subscription model IIRC but I’ve been happy with it. Nice options for different papers, can cut and paste/transform objects. Has multiple layers.
Have also been using Concepts since I found it to be the best whiteboard app for me on Android. But last time I checked they had a one-time puchase option available? Did they change that?
Looking for new clients! My background is primarily in the consumer hardware industry doing system integration, but I've done everything from simulating thermal throttling for wireless charging to (most recently) building laser cut art for Figma's holiday parties. Particularly interested in opportunities in climate tech and electromechanical art.
It pains me deeply that they used Autodesk Fusion in one of the app screenshots. It is by far the worst piece of software I use on Mac OS.
Wish the nano-texture display was available when I upgraded last year. The last MacBook I personally bought was in 2012 when the first retina MBP had just released. I opted for the "thick" 15" high-res matte option. Those were the days...
I'm working on some hardware in this space (I've been up to my eyeballs in GTFS lately) and I can tell just how much went into parsing and presenting the transit data.
If you're willing, I would love to chat about some of the UX decisions you made - specifically in summarizing and grouping the trips available at each stop, and your backend!
Plugging my own project here [1] for SF's Muni to say I 100% agree with you - the phone is a trap! There's something so charming about having a thing you know you can look at anytime and __no matter what__ it's doing exactly what you expect it to be doing.
However, honestly, 99% of my multitasking pain on MacOS comes from the un-removable ~300ms animation delay when switching spaces. "Reduced Motion" changes the animation to a fade and doesn't solve the problem.
If I could instantaneously switch between virtual desktops I'd be so happy. I've wanted this for years.