I use macOS daily for dev and office work, and to me it doesn’t feel languishing at all. Add Homebrew and Docker or Podman, and we’re off.

The only places I can see there could be features missing are:

- IT management type stuff where it looks like Apple are happy just delegating to Microsoft (eg. my workstation is managed with InTune and runs Microsoft Defender pushed by IT),

- CUDA support if you’re into AI on NVIDIA

- Gaming I hear, but I don’t have time for that anyway :)

Of course this is biased, because I also generally just _like_ the look and feel of macOS

Just basic customisation functionality is missing in MacOS. Recently bought a MacBook and am constantly amazed about the stuff you can't do. Oh you want do use normal scrolling on your external Bluetooth mouse (like everybody that uses a mouse does) and natural scrolling on the trackpad? Nah bro, choose one for both. You wanna just plug in some generic usb hub connected to multiple monitors like you did with your 500 euro laptop? No can't do. Want to specify the SDR content brightness on an external display separately from HDR content brightness when enabling HDR on the display? Nah bro we're just gonna blast full brightness at you all the time, and I can go on. Hardware is second to none but the software is really.holding the machine back

Scrolling, you’re right. I usually run alt-tab, rectangle and bettertouchtool to solve scrolling and a couple of other annoyances

Any decent mouse should have software that lets you customize that device.

Isn't it the other way around? Majority of noises around macOS seem to come from {front-end|back-end} {mobile|app|Web} {development|asset creation|content authoring}. The way I feel is macOS outside blogmedia hypesphere is still not a lot more relevant than OS like Haiku, and CUDA and gaming are just glitches in the Matrix: the distances between macOS hype-core to glitch walls is not uniform, and those two domains are the closest to the core.

The software has languished severely. It's been incredibly downhill since Snow Leopard (2009).

OP stated they didn’t remember installing any certificates. I doubt DoH would be successful if the DoH server was MITM’ed

Do you also write for Ars Technica by any chance? :)

In several European countries, those parts of a license that put the customer in a worse position than what the law stipulates are simply invalid.

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” - Pablo Picasso [0]

[0]: https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/558213-learn-the-rules-like...

It's sarcasm without the sarcasm tag.

I’m no nuclear physicist (only a climate/math physicist), so I had to look it up. If a helium-4 nucleus were to absorb a fission neutron, it looks like it would transmute to helium-5, which has a half-time of 602 ys (yoctoseconds), and decays by neutron emission[0]. So pretty much status quo.

For context, in 602 ys, light travels a distance equivalent to around a hundredth of an atom width, so it’s a rather short moment.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isotopes_of_helium

A couple of points I can think of, 1) the Helium nucleus is exceedingly stable so the coolant won’t get radioactive from neutron activation, 2) the coolant being chemically inactive means you can use run the reactor at higher temperatures, thus achieving higher efficiency if you use the heat to run a heat engine (steam turbine).

Quicksilver, now there’s a blast from the past! I don’t think I’ve installed it on any Mac in the past 5 years, but I used to love it.

What are the advantages over native macOS shortcuts these days?

Maybe if you expect the heat pump to mainly move heat in, the heat generating parts should be on the inside, and reverse if you’re mainly moving heat out (A/C).

Don’t know if this is considered during installation?

The compressor is the only component that generates a substantial amount of heat. That's really it's purpose: trading a pressure increase in the refigerant for a rise in temp.

The compressor is usually in the outdoor unit, because of noise, size, and proximity to the controls. It also is the item that consumes most of the power, so for minisplits, the outdoor unit is the part wired for high currents. It usually is wrapped in a nice insulating blanket (for sound as well), and vapor injection techniques used in cold climate pumps means the heat wasted is minimal.