macOS 26: All The Little Things

[r_atkins]

I'm getting used to the new interface, the bubble corners are something to get used to; reminds me too much of gnome3.. if they were elevated on each side by about 30% it'd be better

but I have some things for you guys to experiment with when you get macOS 26 or while you're waiting, im using the beta and its awesome except for a few things

(most of these cost money so sorry in advance lol)
1. link aggregation (lets you combine network connections, I think up to 3 or 7, for a faster connection. meaning you can combine a 1.5gps internet connection with a 2gbps internet from 2 different isps, connect to them both using link aggregation, and download files with a combined throughput, somewhat good for ethernet, awesome for a Mac mini router hooked up to a wifi7 router since wifi7 supports up to 50gbps wireless
2. for services there's directtv streaming (100$/mo for live tv for the entertainment package, includes cnn, Viacom stuff like Comedy Central and bet, local channels, I think cbs news is on there) so you can watch live tv in a web browser window (you don't need a physical directtv dish, the service works on any network) or on an iPad/iPhone app and you can use Microsoft azure/entra for cloud based domain controller like stuff (including email and one drive for each users, there's also office365 support so you can do web office and get an office365 license for running the office365 app, entra is windows server on the cloud), the downside is directtv can be buggy and problematic, including login issues and may cause trouble with some att connections, windows server requires your own resolvable dns domain and cost minimum of 200$/mo for a family
3. you can use iOS/iPad apps on macOS, generally awesome, direct tv app works in iPad/iOS but not macOS, but xfinitys streaming tv app may work, think it didn't work for me though, most games work fine and are awesome for running on a macOS desktop, including anime games
4. chatgpt+siri
5. if you don't want an azure cloud domain service (meaning centralized authentication and shared access to server/cloud resources) there's always ldap, but it can be problematic and busy
6. if you want another internet, I get 1gps/50$ a month from att but I get a discount, call them and ask around
7. if you want to develop gtk4 apps in Xcode, just add the libraries and headers in build settings, look for compile flags for compiling gtk4 apps and "headers" or "include" for auto complete
8. xquartz, -noconsole for qemu-system-aarch64, and x11 forwarding for linux/bsd kernel and user space development
9. mingw64 (I think you need rosetta) for win64 development on macOS


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[redpandadev]

I'm getting used to the new interface, the bubble corners are something to get used to; reminds me too much of gnome3.. if they were elevated on each side by about 30% it'd be better

but I have some things for you guys to experiment with when you get macOS 26 or while you're waiting, im using the beta and its awesome except for a few things

(most of these cost money so sorry in advance lol)
1. link aggregation (lets you combine network connections, I think up to 3 or 7, for a faster connection. meaning you can combine a 1.5gps internet connection with a 2gbps internet from 2 different isps, connect to them both using link aggregation, and download files with a combined throughput, somewhat good for ethernet, awesome for a Mac mini router hooked up to a wifi7 router since wifi7 supports up to 50gbps wireless
2. for services there's directtv streaming (100$/mo for live tv for the entertainment package, includes cnn, Viacom stuff like Comedy Central and bet, local channels, I think cbs news is on there) so you can watch live tv in a web browser window (you don't need a physical directtv dish, the service works on any network) or on an iPad/iPhone app and you can use Microsoft azure/entra for cloud based domain controller like stuff (including email and one drive for each users, there's also office365 support so you can do web office and get an office365 license for running the office365 app, entra is windows server on the cloud), the downside is directtv can be buggy and problematic, including login issues and may cause trouble with some att connections, windows server requires your own resolvable dns domain and cost minimum of 200$/mo for a family
3. you can use iOS/iPad apps on macOS, generally awesome, direct tv app works in iPad/iOS but not macOS, but xfinitys streaming tv app may work, think it didn't work for me though, most games work fine and are awesome for running on a macOS desktop, including anime games
4. chatgpt+siri
5. if you don't want an azure cloud domain service (meaning centralized authentication and shared access to server/cloud resources) there's always ldap, but it can be problematic and busy
6. if you want another internet, I get 1gps/50$ a month from att but I get a discount, call them and ask around
7. if you want to develop gtk4 apps in Xcode, just add the libraries and headers in build settings, look for compile flags for compiling gtk4 apps and "headers" or "include" for auto complete
8. xquartz, -noconsole for qemu-system-aarch64, and x11 forwarding for linux/bsd kernel and user space development
9. mingw64 (I think you need rosetta) for win64 development on macOS


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This is all over the place, I'm trying to understand what you're wanting people to comment on:

1) macOS has supported link aggregation for a decade or more when using supported networking hardware and environments. What's the issue you're wanting to know about?

2) What does directTV have to do with MS azure, Office 365, a windows server, AT&T and macOS Tahoe? What are you trying to do?

3) Yes, in many cases iPad apps run out of the box on an Apple Silicon Mac. Developers can explicitly disallow this behavior. Again, what does DirectTV, and now bring Xfinity into this have to do with anything?

4) AFAIK, ChatGPT + Siri has already been working in Sequoia. What's the question?

5 - 9) Any one of these is certainly a topic on its own, but all of this together is not a singluar coherent thought. What is the connection to the topic of macOS Tahoma?

I think overall I think you'd do well to think about how you can break up all of these thoughts into specific individual questions and maybe take them to a more specific place. An all the little things thread is definitely not the place for what amounts to a whole bunch of highly technical topics that don't yet make sense together.

 

[Populus]

I need to ask something that we could say it’s just a little thing.

The finder icon on the Dock. Has it been tweaked somehow with this redesign? Maybe someone could post a comparison between both Sequoia and Tahoe Finder icons.

Thank you.

 

[KoolAid-Drink]

I need to ask something that we could say it’s just a little thing.

The finder icon on the Dock. Has it been tweaked somehow with this redesign? Maybe someone could post a comparison between both Sequoia and Tahoe Finder icons.

Thank you.

Sequoia on left, Tahoe on right.