Increasingly Familiar Apple Lust Objects for 2016 and onwards

I think you can do most of that with Shortcuts? I haven't gotten involved with Ventura yet to see what's changed in shortcuts or how addressable OCR / Live Text is. I use a shortcut to remove all metadata from files - I think you can write into those attributes also?

I'm an old man here because I still think in AppleScript/shell script combos. i never found Automator helpful (prob that robot icon)

i just want the OS to do the recognition and metadata enrichment on import

OCR is awesome when it works!

Personally I am still using my 2007 Macbook at least for Garageband

with Ventura this apparently works now ^

Guys can i say i am a MASSIVE fan of Stage Manager?? i have it set on the left side of the screen. i have my Dock set to self-hide. so if i need to drag from one app to another i can still do that via the Dock. it plays nicely with Spaces and Mission Control if you use those things. suddenly my computer feel fuckin… Marie Kondoed. elegant. clean. simple. visible. really feels like the first (baby) step outside the flat 2D overlapping desktop window paradigm (for Macs at least)

i mean like all UI experiments some will hate it but it’s extremely.. calming to me somehow.

i’ve hidden my desktop as well, and starting to wonder why it exists at all. there should just be one massive pile (“Downloads” probably) and then anything else you want to create, possibly with the help of Hazel. but Stage Manager isn’t really about files it’s about apps, which makes sense for the app-centric view of the world that Apple’s been pushing ever since the advent of iOS

I had Stage Manager running for a couple of weeks but I was also having huge system slow-downs and I noticed I often had kernal_task using ~1000% cpu in Activity Monitor - possibly this is because I am on an Intel mac and it hasn’t been optimised and bug fixed properly yet.

I did quite like it, although I wish there was an option to open new apps in the current stage rather than always opening a new one. I’ll try it again next time the OS is updated.

Lol I don’t even use it properly I don’t think. I’m just using it as an app switcher. I’m on an Intel Mini and it seems fine. In fact the whole computer feels a teeny bit quicker. Kind of wild how the windows update in real time in Stage Manager. If there’s an annoying animated ad it will keep plowing along over there.

The thing that annoys me most about stage manager is how I couldn’t figure out how to just have the calculator floating in front of my window so I can still see the numbers I’m adding. I ended up getting this app that puts a pop out calculator in the menu bar.

Yeah I can see that being annoying. Could you add it to the same “stage” as the thing that has the numbers or something?

I tried it but 90% of the time I'm using an external monitor as an additional display and stage manager requires each display to have separate spaces which kind of breaks my whole workflow

that’s dumb if you’ve extended your desktop

Was like "what is this Stage Manager thing?" Then realized my iMac just got dropped for support. I guess Apple is not so subtly nudging me to get a new computer...

Yeah I have no idea what it is either
I need fewer screens in my life, not more

ok

seems like it'd be great for domain-specific stuff

really selling it hard as a general purpose device

it looks way better than any of the other headsets

god damn bob iger?

tech nerds where everyone in the office is wearing them.

Porn.

They'll sell if they actually look/work as well as they say. Obv curious about eye control, like maybe I'd rather just point at stuff? Wonder how weird that will be. Of course I never thought touch typing on a screen would take off.

think they just admitted to extensive phrenology

I was joking with a friend that there was a cable coming out of it for the 20lb battery pack

and...

apple engineering is so nuts

I assumed it was going to fake your appearance in video chat so you wouldn't see the goggles, and yup

$3,499!

I was thinking it would be like $500 and that would feel like a lot.

Apple's new Vision Pro will deliver new immersive experiences to users

for example, in the photos below, these two women are experiencing for the very first time what its like to be a huge ass loser pic.twitter.com/eVlFztsPTc

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) June 5, 2023

I was expecting $5k tbh

I mean, PSVR 2 has 1080 resolution, a fraction of the cameras, and requires a whole-ass PS5 to work at all and it's $550

This sucker has the hardware equivalent of several iPhones in it. $3500 ain't no bargain, but

Were they just completely vague on whether the new Mac Pro will have any support for third-party GPUs? My guess is that they left it vague because that's completely based on whether hardware vendors will collaborate on drivers.

Ars Technica's coverage was claiming that adding ARM driver support would be very arduous and I was thinking "hmm, citation needed"

Not that the driver model is similar, but NVidia has ARM Linux drivers, and they already have a long in the tooth macOS driver

https://i.imgur.com/eF4JLUZ.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/PKNqsIw.jpg

I know that they're definitely still working on the deepfake-style video conferencing appearance but I reeeeally want to see more footage from whatever stage the prototype is at

Were they just completely vague on whether the new Mac Pro will have any support for third-party GPUs?

“Nothing to announce today.”

lol

My friend who tracks pc hardware more assiduously than me was explaining that 24GB ram modules are becoming a thing as the new budget compromise and guess what? The new Macbook Air maxes out at 24GB of memory!

They're still trying to sell the base model with a criminal 8GB

I was a bit sceptical of 8GB, but I do some quite heavy lifting as a FE developer with just 8GB on the 13" Air. It isn’t meant to be a “Pro” machine anyway but it smokes the old i9 2019 16" Pro machine I had with 16GB - and without running any fans.

fair. I end up having to fire up some containerized stuff on my own machine from time to time and it’s hard to work around hard memory limits in that case

not as if I don’t do a large portion of my computing on a phone and tablet with less

companies want people to wear computer glasses so bad but people dont want to, lol

Waiting for Vision 3GS

soooo with that price this is just a toy for the super rich, right?

that's kind of what every new apple product gets badged as tbh

soooo with that price this is just a toy for the super rich, right?

― Nhex, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 9:10 AM (thirty-eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

It’s shocking. They have a very good professional software team (Final Cut Pro, Logic Pro, and Motion) and, as far as I know, they didn’t announce anything. Someone somewhere suggested a mixed-reality AutoCAD and Revit competitor. That would’ve been sick.

I got the impression they only locked in the APIs at the last minute and almost all the software features that were shown outside of the interface were video mock-ups

The Disney presentation was pure Imagineering with a couple clips interspersed from their existing products. I think I caught a clip from one of their previous Star Wars VR games

I got the impression they only locked in the APIs at the last minute and almost all the software features that were shown outside of the interface were video mock-ups

The Disney presentation was pure Imagineering with a couple clips interspersed from their existing products. I think I caught a clip from one of their previous Star Wars VR games

― mh, Tuesday, June 6, 2023 10:30 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Ah. That makes so much sense.

They mentioned Lightroom and the ability to selectively edit a 10’ photograph does sound like fun

I mean it’s cheaper than what they were selling in the 80s and 90s. They’ve only recently become a mass market brand.

Still, lol at face computers.

early 2024 reads as late March at earliest, to me

all of the apps that run on the device (as opposed to using it as a remote display for your laptop) looked like the iPad versions hovering in the air, and obviously they were all mockups because what else would they be, someone attached a camera to one of the devices eye holes and shot video through it?

I'm admittedly and embarrassingly kind of intrigued by the idea of having all my work apps around me in the air and manipulating them by waving my arms around like I'm conducting an invisible orchestra while the virtual heads of my coworkers float in front of me. I can't imagine wearing something like that outside - it seems more like the answer to an Occulus (which you use at home but you can't see your physical environment) than the answer to google glass (which was ostensibly designed to wear outside).

Like most tech, I will wait a few generations before even considering a purchase, and certainly not for $3500.

In line with that, actually seriously considering an apple watch for the first time, as a combination of wanting a running watch, wanting the time on my wrist, and wanting fewer reasons to pull out my phone.

As a self contained thing, I'm assuming this won't be compatible with any existing VR apps and games, and you'd be paying $3500 to use some nifty iPhone apps. I'm not into VR but if I sprung for this and couldn't even try out Half Life Alyx that'd be super lame. otoh fragmenting this space might hurry up its demise already.

I got the impression they only locked in the APIs at the last minute and almost all the software features that were shown outside of the interface were video mock-ups

God I hope so. They had a DJ app thing and the latency on manipulating the crossfader was awful.

xxp i got apple watch pilled a couple of years ago. they are good!

i will never wear the apple watch or the apple glasses im against computers