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Apple Releases macOS Sequoia 15.3 With Genmoji

iFunk said:
Here are a few things I'd point out to counter the claim that the end is near for emoji.

  1. Genmoji, although I haven't used it (still on iOS 17) only works in messages - my understanding. If say Instagram/Facebook/etc. do not support this feature then Genmoji is only good via text, notes, etc. That is not a bad thing just pointing this out. I use emoji on Instagram/Facebook to bullet-point out listing or details in a post such as the check marks, etc.
  2. Emoji is unicode and it worldwide. I highly doubt the end is near https://home.unicode.org/emoji/
  3. On both my Mac and iPhone I type a word and the emoji appears to select or specially on the Mac I know the emoji I need to use so I type a word - say dog - and press Fn/
    the Globe key
    -E and the emoji appears. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/use-emoji-and-symbols-on-mac-mchlp1560/mac. I rarely, if ever, scroll through a list looking for an emoji. On the iPhone it is even easier. I have my most used emoji which is easy but I often type a word - example done - and the green check mark appears for me to tap
Not trying to be negative just stating a few things I've noticed and/or use daily. I do agree that from what I've read / seen Genmoji is a game changer. It does somewhat negate needing to wait until Apple includes the latest round of updates on iOS since you can pretty much create your own. Oh and I was told the Emoji movie was not good lol.
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I didn't say that the Emojii keyboard is finished today. Genmoji provides a long awaited way off this runaway train of emojis growth that has been on a path to becoming unsustainable in a keyboard given how many are being added. Maybe 10 years ago a keyboard was fine, but hundreds more have since been added. There's finally a viable user input solution for emoji that can be rolled out before the emoji keyboard becomes completely unusable.

As Genmoji become a reliable way to generate emojis that are specific to each use case, they can become integrated at the OS level and get automatically generated anywhere text input is offered. Genmoji in messaging is a good first step give that's where emoji are generally used.
 
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Polinsky said:
That's absurd and obviously untrue.
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Really, I've had ongoing issues for years that have spanned multiple OS updates. Reported many times using the feedback tool, and always make the effort to report quirks and anomalies that degrade the OS experience. And instead of getting them fixed with get gems such as Genmoji. Clearly asking for a stable OS is too much to ask these days. And, I'm not alone so the facts unfortunately don't live up to your statement.
 
sliceoftoast said:
Installed the update. Apple still haven't fixed the YouTube notifications, these are not clickable. in older Mac OS versions if you clicked on them it would open directly to the video.
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Not much seems to be getting fixed, as they squirrel around with Genmoji and AI headaches

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turbineseaplane said:
Not much seems to be getting fixed, as they squirrel around with Genmoji and AI headaches

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I don't even know what Genmoji is and that Image Playground is gone I would have never recognized. When I first saw pictures of it, I decided to never even try it and I also don't know what it is.

It's the same with Memoji, I never even saw them on my iPhone. I only see them on profile pictures here or elsewhere and I can't do anything about it, but I can't take people serious having one of those. I really feel disgust seeing them like some of those new AI created human images.
 
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Adora said:
I don't even know what Genmoji is and that Image Playground is gone I would have never recognized. When I first saw pictures of it, I decided to never even try it and I also don't know what it is.

It's the same with Memoji, I never even saw them on my iPhone. I only see them on profile pictures here elsewhere and I can't do anything about it, but I can't take people serious having one of those. I really feel disgust seeing them like some of those new AI created human images.
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Same on all the stuff I don't want and now have to disable or see in options/menus..

Somewhat related, on my macOS messages I have to see this whole list of stuff I don't use other than Photos

(does anyone know if this is editable on macOS?)
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turbineseaplane said:
Same on all the stuff I don't want and now have to disable or see in options/menus..

Somewhat related, on my macOS messages I have to see this whole list of stuff I don't use other than Photos

(does anyone know if this is editable on macOS?)
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WTF ist this? Sending as I type? I never saw that before. Is this really enabled by default? I even deactivated sending by just pressing Enter.

Edit: No I didn't find a way to disable sending by pressing Enter. But in every other Messenger I have done it.
 
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Well, Tags, Airdrop and Time Machine error is not fixed with 15.3! At least on my iMac M3 and wife's MBA M2.
 
kagharaht said:
Well, Tags, Airdrop and Time Machine error is not fixed with 15.3! At least on my iMac M3 and wife's MBA M2.
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Time Machine worked for me last night on an NVMe stick in a USB-C (10G) enclosure

My other TM drive (a SATA SSD) won't complete no matter what I do .. have tried it with a USB-SATA connector and 2 different enclosures
 
turbineseaplane said:
Time Machine worked for me last night on an NVMe stick in a USB-C (10G) enclosure

My other TM drive (a SATA SSD) won't complete no matter what I do .. have tried it with a USB-SATA connector and 2 different enclosures
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For what it's worth, I had a similar Time Machine error that resolved itself somewhere in the 18.1-18.2 period. I didn't do anything to fix it, so unfortunately don't have any steps for you to follow, it just all of a sudden started working again. Very frustrating and confusing.
 
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navaira said:
Setting up an external drive to serve as Time Machine back on my Intel NUC with Linux was so painful – every reboot = executing two scripts that sometimes needed to work in one order and sometimes other – that I ended up hackintoshing that NUC, that was easier. Now I have a Mac Mini. Every year I read about how Linux is just about to become very easy and user-friendly and every year it doesn’t happen.
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I have small RPi server under my desk and it "just works" (even after power outage).

I only backup certain stuff/directories using syncthing and again - it just works (and it's distributed so no hassle with external drives though I have one with RPi)

As for software - I'm quite fortunate that I'm not artist/designer/dealing with graphics so for my need I have everything that's multiplatform.

Though I had huge issues with setting up macOS to actually use my preferred providers for contacts and calendar... eh :)

Ad47uk said:
I spent too much on my Mac last year to just not use it and as I said, Linux just don't have the software I need. So I will stay with the Mac, just got to decide if I should update to sequoia or not. I suppose at some point I will have to
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I'm using mac for more than a decade so I know it quite well. Agreed that "it just works" and linux may lack polish in certain areas but for for most cases (for me) it also "just works". And I'm willing to put in more time/effort/energy to have something open that everyone can benefit (and I have at least some influence how it works).

For example recently apple introduced new windows management and... it broke Firefox shortcut to move tabs ( fn+ctrl+shift+ up/down ) - now each time I want to move tab the whole desktop jumps... yay! And obviously there is no way to disable it :/ same with reminders and other tiny quirks.

There are no perfect things and everyone has to decide for oneself what issues one is willing to put up with :)
 
turbineseaplane said:
Not much seems to be getting fixed, as they squirrel around with Genmoji and AI headaches

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Exactly. Furthermore, they're introducing new bugs, at least for me. My 1TB drive had ~900GB remaining before the update. After updating, it went up to ~940GB. Less than 2 days later, it says ~960GB remaining which cannot be correct going by the details in the System Settings > General > Storage. In addition, System Data keeps "calculating". I let it go for hours yesterday and never completed. Jeez.
 
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ipedro said:
I didn't say that the Emojii keyboard is finished today. Genmoji provides a long awaited way off this runaway train of emojis growth that has been on a path to becoming unsustainable in a keyboard given how many are being added. Maybe 10 years ago a keyboard was fine, but hundreds more have since been added. There's finally a viable user input solution for emoji that can be rolled out before the emoji keyboard becomes completely unusable.

As Genmoji become a reliable way to generate emojis that are specific to each use case, they can become integrated at the OS level and get automatically generated anywhere text input is offered. Genmoji in messaging is a good first step give that's where emoji are generally used.
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You're a prophet Pedro and a visionary. May you be blessed many times in your lifetime!
 
Looking for advice: My Mail app has recently stopped loading remote images for just a few sources, like N.Y. Times emails and a few others. I have "Load Remote Images" etc. all set properly (for me), and yet on some senders' emails, images show up as blank areas with a tiny "?" icon in the center, and there's no way I can find to access the image.

I do have NordVPN--but it seems so odd that this only occurs on a few senders.

Any suggestions? Thanks.
 
srbNYC said:
...and yet on some senders' emails, images show up as blank areas with a tiny "?" icon in the center, and there's no way I can find to access the image.
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With little exception, that means that the remote image has been moved or renamed on the sender's server, or the server is experiencing issues.

However, this sounds like one of those exceptions because (if I'm understanding you correctly) this always happens to you with the emails from the same sender(s). This would lead me to believe that something on your computer is telling Mail to not load images from that particular server. Keep in mind that just because the email comes from the NYTimes for example, the images may be served from a 3rd party CDN/server and THAT is actually what you have blocked.

I'm just speculating, of course. It could just be that Apple's Mail app sucks and has a mind of its own. 🥴
 
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