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Broken - An annotated summary of unpleasant experiences with macOS Catalina

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  1. [2]
    welly
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    I can't remember the last time Apple shipped a new version of OSX/Mac Os that wasn't broken in some way. It's usually perfectly fine by 10.x.3 or 4, which is when I upgrade. I could probably get...

    I can't remember the last time Apple shipped a new version of OSX/Mac Os that wasn't broken in some way. It's usually perfectly fine by 10.x.3 or 4, which is when I upgrade.

    I could probably get away with upgrading now as I really don't use much of what osx offers. No icloud, no back to my mac, no time machine, honestly no idea what else there is.

    Osx is pretty much a launcher for Firefox, phpstorm, mamp pro, sequel pro and a few command line utilities.

    Oh, I launched iTunes for the first time in I have no idea how many years yesterday as I'm giving some podcasts a go.

    I could probably get away with running some Linux distro but simply can't bring myself to spend any time whatsoever configuring it to run on my macbook pro.

    4 votes
    1. ubergeek
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      The only issue I am facing is virtualbox crashes now. But, I'm generally in the same use cases as you: open firefox, iterm2, and thunderbird.

      The only issue I am facing is virtualbox crashes now. But, I'm generally in the same use cases as you: open firefox, iterm2, and thunderbird.

      2 votes
  2. [3]
    ubergeek
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    I think much of the problems stem from things like people calling themselves developers, but choosing very soft gray font color, on a white background for a long essay. Contrast and readability ==...

    I think much of the problems stem from things like people calling themselves developers, but choosing very soft gray font color, on a white background for a long essay.

    Contrast and readability == usability.

    1. [2]
      unknown user
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      Just as a heads up, his website passes both Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WGAG) AA & AAA standards for contrast—I checked. His background (#FFFFFF) to foreground color (#5F6D80) contrast...

      Just as a heads up, his website passes both Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WGAG) AA & AAA standards for contrast—I checked. His background (#FFFFFF) to foreground color (#5F6D80) contrast ratio is 5.26:1, and as the content is large text (24px or larger), is higher than the required value to be deemed 'accessible'.

      Might be time to get your monitor checked for color accuracy? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

      6 votes
      1. ubergeek
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        I dunno. On a Note 9, the font was light gray, on a white background, and standard font (Not 24pt) and was quite hard to read. So yeah, poor degradation is an anti-pattern for web sites. That...

        I dunno. On a Note 9, the font was light gray, on a white background, and standard font (Not 24pt) and was quite hard to read. So yeah, poor degradation is an anti-pattern for web sites.

        That being said, the use of gray, on white is... Bad. Regardless if it "passes".

        1 vote