The taste of their food and the beauty of their women made the British the greatest sailors the world has ever known. Though to be fair the part about the beauty is no longer true.
Surface google searches do not return anything meaningful. It would be also weird to call one of the domestic car lines after something that is supposedly banned.
Russia has been pursuing aggression towards non-aligned European states for a long time (including chemical weapon attacks) and no peace treaty has held. That's why many European countries aren't fond on a peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia with no kind of security guarantee, because they think it will just give Moscow time to rearm and repeat.
There's no reason to think another peace treaty as you're implying would make any difference. It's an unfortunate truth that the war ongoing in Ukraine is beneficial for European security, because it prevents Moscow re-arming and going for the Baltics, which is why European countries are happy to throw money at it.
I think since COVID I haven't seen an office that actively chooses those "SFF" PC's anymore, and those were as anaemic as laptops performance-wise... and weirdly: not much cheaper either.
Granted, I don't see a lot of offices, but everywhere that I have seen seems to be choosing docking stations or USB-C enabled displays (Dell has an excellent selection of those) and some kind of business laptop like a Precision or Elitebook.
Incidentally, those same screens are used for the staff who have Apple computers, and, largely, those are laptops too.
Desktops seem to be practically dead except for workstation-grade ones in the businesses I've been to.
Where the stationary work PC survives (I think): point of sale like desks that are half way between cash register (not personal at all) and notebook computer (each employee got their own). E.g. the computer feeding the screen at the hotel check-in counter. Not a big market relative to the number of systems existing because they aren't frequently replaced and when they are replaced, very cheaply, but the number existing is huge. And leaning to the PC side a lot, I think?
Workstation-grade, I'd say, is extremely limited and shrinking fast. Particularly outside of the tinkerer niche. Think "gamer", even if I suspect that actual gaming isn't half as big in that niche as marketing approaches would suggest. But in any case very much not-Apple.
I do Windows application development and the company I work for is all desktop machines. Some of the static analysis tools need a lot of RAM and CPU (I have 128 GB and a pretty new Threadripper with a lot of cores). There aren’t good laptop options for this type of development machine, at least not ones I’d like to use (ie minimal fan noise).
I would expect any call centre type operation would have desktops.
The employees would never work from home (outside of a pandemic) and work set hours.
So if desktops costs less, they will of course be used here since there is nothing to be gained from paying extra. Similarly, these users would not be using pricier Apple products.
> The employees would never work from home (outside of a pandemic) and work set hours.
This isn't quite true, the call center at my Co. is partially remote for call center staff, they use jabber and other VoIP connected to their PC's to work from home.
Manufacturing plants, gas stations, mechanic shops, every single retail store, restaurants, movie theaters, bars, call centers, farms, police stations, prisons, libraries, etc. Basically everywhere my guy. The world isn't just dev shops.
Most of those aren't offices. And many of the computers at places like that either are POS terminals or other specialty hardware. And even at most of the places you listed, I bet you'll find most of the actual office work is still done on laptops. The accountants back at the office for the movie theatre and gas station companies almost certainly have laptops
What’s the point of using a laptop with a docking station? You still need an external keyboard, mouse, monitor, etc. Is the main reason to save money? Or is it because laptops are now more powerful than desktop PCs?
For example, do MacBook Airs paired with external monitors perform better than traditional PCs? If not, are people opting for MacBook Pros with docks instead? And if so, is a top-tier MacBook Pro with an external monitor and keyboard actually cheaper than a Mac Studio setup?
- Awkward sorting by name (mixing folders and files), unless you change the default
- Does not snap files to a grid by default on icon view, leaving some folders looking like a mess
- Not possible to figure out what's the exact path of the open folder - I just want a full path in the header/title bar. Or let me copy the full path without having to open "get info"
Apart from the Path bar in the bottom, there is also an old school title bar method:
defaults write com.apple.finder _FXShowPosixPathInTitle -bool true
killall Finder
("false" for reversing it.)
It doesn’t work for great for tabs, though, because tabs are short and paths are long.
> Or let me copy the full path …
There are some alternative fun and old methods:
* If you're hovering over the title bar of a finder window there is a little folder icon, the so-called proxy icon which gives access to the current folder. One can drag and drop it and it moves the folder. Dragging a folder or the proxy icon on the Dock icon of Terminal or iTerm opens a new window with the working directory directly set to the folder. But dragged into a text field you're getting the text path. Right click gives you a dropdown for navigation in the current folders path.
The proxy icon was stable in Finder until recently, now you need to hover. But you can re-activate the permanent display of the proxy icon under System Settings → Accessibility → Display, I think.
* MacOS has, since the Next days, the concept of Services. Services are little actions which the System and (good) Apps can provide to do something with with something. Services are found in the context menu or the App menu. If you're right clicking on a folder (sadly not the proxy icon), there are Service Actions by Terminal and iTerm for opening a window or tab for a selected folder.
* AppleScript:
tell application "Finder"
if exists window 1 then
set currentDir to POSIX path of ((target of front Finder window) as text)
else
set currentDir to POSIX path of (path to desktop folder)
end if
set the clipboard to currentDir
end tell
It works in Script Editor at least. I'm not an AppleScript expert.
But you can use AppleScript everywhere in MacOS. The Script-Menu, as an own App, as an Automator action or a Shortcut, you can give those hotkeys, possible use them in Alfred or Raycast, etc.
Apart from the syntax it will be a sad day, if Apple retires the AppleScript architecture.
Once there was a nice app called ThisService which could convert shell scripts into services, but it is not developed anymore.
The modern equivalent is "Run Shell Script" in Shortcuts or maybe Automator. Shortcuts has the advantage that you can use your shortcut directly in Quick Actions in Finder's context menu.
I played around a minute and created this but I'm not a Shortcuts expert.
One insane caveat: For this to work you'll need to grant Finder Full Disc Access in System Settings → Security. Yes, it sounds insane. It is. But it works.
Sounds like you want "Show Path Bar" (in the View menu), though it lives at the bottom of the window not in the header.
The sorting by name criticism is a weird one to me though. You want it to not sort by name when you tell it to sort by name, and instead sort by file vs folder and then within those two groups sort by name?
I should have paid more attention to the menu bar. Show Path Bar helps with my needs.
For sorting I want it to sort like File Explorer or Dophin. So folders on top (sorted by name), then files (sorted by name). It works if I change Settings > Advanced > Keep folders on top.
Sorting folders seperately is definitely a personal preference thing. This behavior drives me nuts in Explorer and Linux file managers.
I’d support this being an option in the View menu or View Options palette, but I think I would lose my mind if this behavior were made default with no way to turn it off.
I unironically like working on legacy projects. It's good to know it stood the test of time and my efforts spent on it won't be wasted, because it is unlikely to be dropped.
Of course this assumes there is a way to introduce improvements at all. Just keeping the lights on isn't as satisfying.
Unfortunately it is a tool that is also used to generate a lot of content for the sake of views capture. For this to work it needs to be created with lowest effort possible. As a result the bulk of AI stuff I have seen so far was not worth my time to consume it or the hardware cycles to generate it.
They kind-of do. The main page allows you to browse popular albums by genre. Each individual album also has a "recommended by this artist" footer, or "people who bough this also bought" (if there aren't any recommendations set).
I also check profiles of other people who purchased an album I liked and see if anything catches my interest.
I do not use Spotify, so I'm not sure if the above counts as a proper discovery tool.
