I HATE APPLE

huh, but it is prompting you via the system preferences app? the tag for the update should just be "macOS Catalina", maybe if you tell it to ignore it will even if it's not listed.

yes, under the apple on the left of the menu, next to system preferences it says "1 update". I just used softwareupdate to ignore macOSCatalina, and it didn't fail, but the "1 update" indicator hasn't changed. Under System Preferences, Software Update, Catalina is listed as an "upgrade" rather than an update, so maybe they've added some distinction to increase the pressure to update to Catalina?

perhaps. it seems that even if you --ignore, software update will re-check and re-notify. so if you have the app open it might be accepting the ignore command and then checking again immediately? lol. try it with the app closed.

you can do an additional step to remove the notification from the system preferences dock icon, but you might have to do it again if you are in the habit of opening software update.

https://dev.to/krnsk0/turn-off-macos-badge-update-notifications-4bip

hmm I don't have the systems pref app open. just to be sure, I did the ignore again, and it's there under the apple menu.

I mean I don't care that much, it doesn't bug me to have a number on a list, I mean my mail icon currently says 58 comme d'hab so

i have grown accustomed to the 1 for the bloated xcode update i am too lazy to clear space for from the app store, but if i get a second 1 on my dock it is too much grief

happily systems pref is not on my dock & there are no other numbers on my dock save the menacing email count

I will never understand folks who leave email unopened to pile up into the hundreds - surely it’s the difference between giving it a cursory glance and literally never opening it before trashing it in a fit of guilt. I have like 4000 messages in my inbox but no red dot.

my emails marked as unread are not indeed unread, but instead serve as a to-do list: these are mails asking me to do something. Since I have to reply to say that I've done the task, once I've done it, keeping them in my mailbox as unread works well.

i have a similar system but have ongoing anxiety that i've accidentally clicked on an email to read it, not dealt with it, but forgotten to reflag it as unread

occasionally i've half-heartedly attempted to use 'flag' email as a way of keeping on top of to-dos but it appears to have the effect of making those emails even more forgettable

loving the way that the apple podcast app now crashes every single time i start listening to a new podcast, thx tim cook

ah - I have done that myself at various stages but I just hate that narcissist attention seeking dot so much that I open everything and accept the occasional failure to follow thru

same here - unread for me means still to be adressed

> I will never understand folks who leave email unopened to pile up into the hundreds

you haven't been subscribed to a github mailing list that sends a message every single time someone in your group changes anything (1279 unread). or to a jenkins mailing list that emails a message every single time one of the 300 builds passes, or fails (1416 unread). (and 203 unread from aws, not even sure what those are. "alarm notifications").

for those I'd build a rule which dumps them in a separate mailbox and tags them "read" so I can just dip in when I need, or deletes those matching "alarm" in subject.
My mail software currently has a complete archive going back to 1995 - I am pretty ruthless about organising it all. I suppose it must be about half a million messages now.

how many of those are from your mom

my stance is if I delete an email that was important someone will eventually send another email

go with god

it's all robots nowadays anyway, they're always sending another emails

iphone11 froze up when trying to update. had to contact apple support, did not know about this way of forcing it to shut down: tap the volume up, then the volume down, then hold the power button.
Hoping the update fixed issue where I now have to manually reconnect bluetooth in my car every time, but I'm not holding my breath on that.

how many of those are from your mom
just the ones with ALL CAPS SUBJECT LINES

moms, still great at sorting

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2mdz2c8sh18b8sc/Mail1.JPG?raw=1

I know what’s important

*hives erupt on face*

damn, I think that beats another ilxor I will not name who also has tens of thousands

fwiw, if you have bluetooth headphones connected to your phone, the download option is greyed out on Software Update.

I remembered this today, but I was on wifi with my phone on the charger a couple weeks ago and couldn't figure out wtf was going on. It mentions those two factors but says nothing about bluetooth!

lol that's insane

this is more I Hate My Fat Fingers but I accidentally swiped leftwards across a thread in messages that goes back to like 2006, with photos of my godkids that I prob didn't remember to save. There was a dialog box I assumed said "do you really want to delete" but evidently it said "wtf r u kidding me" because despite my tapping 'no' it deleted the thread anyway.

Because I have messages in the cloud I could jump into the message app and see it disappear from my watch (and presumably when I get home my mac too) and because I backup the phone to icloud I guess I can't recover it from there either, so I guess it's gone for good. Ah well.

btw hoonja doonja of note: https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive

I would live an easy way to run a few 32 bit apps. Is parallels the only way?

might just dual boot mojave if i can be bothered. for now i'm not upgrading

I’m not sure if this is a Catalina related thing or if I am just noticing it but the interaction between my crappy external monitor, apples approach to type rendering and the Apple Japanese IME means it’s impossible to read the kanji selection menu and type in Japanese on the external monitor.

Seems like the solution is suck it up or by a monitor with a retina equivalent resolution.

iirc Catalina ditches subpixel anti-aliasing

yes it does, and i can't tell if i got used to it or if they did some further tweaking since they first removed it, because i don't remember what the blissful days of having it were like anymore

it was such a cool hack back in the day, I remember seeing it for the first time and it was like whoa, triple resolution!

iOS Mail continues to be utter trash

'filter by unread' i.e. easily the most useful button in Mail now only works after hitting it a couple of times

new mails often don't show up in individual mailboxes but only in All Mailboxes, or vice versa, many minutes after the push notification has arrived

on Desktop everything is fine

Yes. Mail functionality is less intuitive and efficient in 13 eg moving emails.

App store updating has also been revised by chimpanzees.

insane. tap “today” then tap the picture of your face.

New iOS update appears to fix Mail. lots feels snappier on my SE tbh - keyboards, safari

Holding off on the latest update because my se seems to have battery drain issues already without it.

Is Apple Podcasts even more trash than usual for anyone else? Crashing constantly, if I'm lucky I get about 8 minutes in before it crashes (pauses and blinks away from the homescreen, though it's still open in the background). Restarting the app, restarting the phone, deleting and redownloading the app - nothing seems to work and it's happening with every podcast I try to play.

use Castro innit

otm

Oh I know, I'm way past time to switch to a better podcast player. Just won't be able to do that until I get home tonight, just wish Apple's wasn't completely unusable at the moment.

Castro better than Overcast? I've been using that one for a long time

Castro is made by some Irish fellows rather than Marco Arment

I'm asking about software, not politics!

(everything's political)

Lol phish

ok, Castro has the best instructions -> import from competing apps intro screen I’ve seen. nice!

The new Macbook Pros have problems with popping when you scrub through audio or video and apparently the SSDs make a high-pitched whine or something.

I'm on Overcast but still miss the ease of clicking or searching for new podcasts podcasts. Might go back to Apple Podcasts just for this but maybe i'll first give Castro a chance

I’ve used Pocket Casts for years. The only problem it has is not being able to search inside of episode descriptions if you’re trying to find where someone has been interviewed.