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For-profit Pie Adblock (from the founder of Honey) called out for copying uBlock Origin open source code without credit (www.theregister.com)
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[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I agree, unless it's straight up paid software which I usually don't mind paying for if it's good and I need it. Although arguably uBlock Origin is so close to perfection that I can't imagine how a paid ad blocker would hold up.

[–] brbposting 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

What software have you paid for? Over here, proud owner of (off the top of my head) Keyboard Maestro, BetterTouchTool, Shottr, and superwhisper for Mac.

Would be hard to live without these automation/macro, screenshot, and dictation tools!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shottr is legit. It's really amazing that there aren't more decent screenshotting tools when they're so incredibly useful. People would rather just take a picture of their screen and upload it that way :cringe:

[–] brbposting 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shottr was well worth their Black Friday price ($12?). But the free version is entirely sufficient and worked well for me for over a year.

Snagit has 10 times as many features for several times the price, but somehow Shottr is like the most efficient app ever. So, so fast! But Snagit is more like Shottr plus a miniature Photoshop so can excuse some of that.

Oh hey, forgot Snippety the text expander 🔥 even has an iOS keyboard.

Great dev too, super responsive solo dude.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

It's not just a higher price, it's an ongoing subscription. That's not something I would ever agree to. It makes zero sense. It's just greedy bullshit, in my opinion. Give me a flat fee and if it breaks or you add new features, I will decide if I want to pay again for an upgrade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Shout-out to Beyond Compare! It makes my life as a many-hatted systems librarian much easier.

[–] brbposting 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Nice, looks quite powerful

BC5 must be a huge upgrade for word wrap alone!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago

Oooh. I've not upgraded yet, but that looks exciting.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Ohh, can really recommend Bartender as well! If you have a lot of apps using the precious space in your statusbar (Docker; OneDrive; etc) this solves it nicely!

[–] brbposting 6 points 3 days ago

Yesss, thank you, using the free Ice - Bartender quietly sold, causing some controversy.

I installed Ice after troubleshooting for an hour until I realized macOS was hiding some of my menu bar apps. wtf? Quoting this piece:

I have gripes about the notch. There isn’t enough room to display all of my menu bar apps and icons, so… they just get hidden!? Apparently, everyone in Cupertino thinks the best solution to this problem is to hide them with zero indication that there are more that simply can’t be displayed because of the notch. I wasted so much time trying to figure out why Little Snitch and 1Password were not running on my new machine. Was there a compatibility issue with Apple Silicon that I didn’t know about? That couldn’t be. In turns out, they were running the whole time but they were hidden by the notch.

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This “design” (or lack thereof) is so dumb. It is utterly ridiculous to me that this is still how it “works” two years after the introduction of the redesigned MacBook Pro with a notch. How hard could it be to add an overflow menu with a “«” (or should it be “»”?) button that shows the remaining apps and icons that can’t be displayed? This entire situation with the notch is ironic, because the iPhone notch and “dynamic island” are so thoughtfully designed with zero compromises regarding the functionality of iOS. In fact, they actually provide a better user experience. Yet on the Mac, how the notch interacts with macOS is laughably incompetent. It is shockingly lazy regarding attention to detail, and results in an outright disruptive and confusing user experience.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I recommend Ice as a FOSS alternative to Bartender. Recently discovered it through a Mastodon post https://mastodon.macstories.net/@comfortzone/113600838579784511

Also stats as an alternative to iStats Menu btw