#macOS Tahoe only has 3 new shell commands over Sequoia as far as I can tell:
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#macOS Tahoe only has 3 new shell commands over Sequoia as far as I can tell:
1. avbcapture "Audio Video Bridging traffic capture tool"
2. lesskey, a command from `less` which appears to have been deprecated before it was even added
3. memacct, no man page, --help says "Monitor memory accounting of various subsystems". Not entirely clear what it's for.Overall pretty dull for CLI folks.
BUT…
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#macOS Tahoe only has 3 new shell commands over Sequoia as far as I can tell:
1. avbcapture "Audio Video Bridging traffic capture tool"
2. lesskey, a command from `less` which appears to have been deprecated before it was even added
3. memacct, no man page, --help says "Monitor memory accounting of various subsystems". Not entirely clear what it's for.Overall pretty dull for CLI folks.
BUT…
Right in the official printable full release notes <https://www.apple.com/os/pdf/All_New_Features_macOS_Tahoe_Sept_2025.pdf>,
"Powerline glyphs
With built-in support for Powerline glyphs,
you can now add informative status bars
and prompts to your experience."I have been avoiding Powerline because I do NOT want a new attack vector in my fonts, so this is exciting
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Right in the official printable full release notes <https://www.apple.com/os/pdf/All_New_Features_macOS_Tahoe_Sept_2025.pdf>,
"Powerline glyphs
With built-in support for Powerline glyphs,
you can now add informative status bars
and prompts to your experience."I have been avoiding Powerline because I do NOT want a new attack vector in my fonts, so this is exciting
I was going to get excited about "Automations for External Displays" but it turns out that is just "an external display is connected" and not a specific external display. I could probably hack something together with the "Find Displays" action, and then identify it by name…
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I was going to get excited about "Automations for External Displays" but it turns out that is just "an external display is connected" and not a specific external display. I could probably hack something together with the "Find Displays" action, and then identify it by name…
@glyph Why does tech keep doing this? As of last year, at least, it's still impossible to source-rename a printer, because picking the right one in a long list of nearly identical 34-character model names surely isn't a problem anyone ever had... or how about MacOS still just copying "File" to "Drive" or whatever, which is SO helpful, particularly if you're running more than one operation. A generation of UX development & it's still like 50% legacy "engineers only" blind spots
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@glyph Why does tech keep doing this? As of last year, at least, it's still impossible to source-rename a printer, because picking the right one in a long list of nearly identical 34-character model names surely isn't a problem anyone ever had... or how about MacOS still just copying "File" to "Drive" or whatever, which is SO helpful, particularly if you're running more than one operation. A generation of UX development & it's still like 50% legacy "engineers only" blind spots
@jwcph don't even get me started on the menu of devices I have available in CarPlay, which is to say:
- HONDA
- HONDA
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@jwcph don't even get me started on the menu of devices I have available in CarPlay, which is to say:
- HONDA
- HONDA
- HONDA@jwcph although now that i think about it, while I sympathize with these problems generally, I'm not sure what you're talking about with the specific examples? Source-renaming a printer is usually possible within the printer's native admin UI, I guess you're saying that there's no standard for it? And MacOS does show me what file I'm copying, if I have a half a dozen copies going (not an unusual situation for me, as even the fastest NAS interface is still pretty sluggish) I see them in a list
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@jwcph although now that i think about it, while I sympathize with these problems generally, I'm not sure what you're talking about with the specific examples? Source-renaming a printer is usually possible within the printer's native admin UI, I guess you're saying that there's no standard for it? And MacOS does show me what file I'm copying, if I have a half a dozen copies going (not an unusual situation for me, as even the fastest NAS interface is still pretty sluggish) I see them in a list
@glyph Like I said, as of last year, the last time I tried - I was even in contact with HP support; it was not possible to make a printer display a user-defined name on the network, each user had to rename it locally after adding it (which nobody does). The MacOS thing is from memory; I'd have to get exact documentation later but I definitely can't see which file/destination is which (I also often run a bunch of copy/move operations simultaneously)...
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@glyph Like I said, as of last year, the last time I tried - I was even in contact with HP support; it was not possible to make a printer display a user-defined name on the network, each user had to rename it locally after adding it (which nobody does). The MacOS thing is from memory; I'd have to get exact documentation later but I definitely can't see which file/destination is which (I also often run a bunch of copy/move operations simultaneously)...
@jwcph I believe on HP printers it's configured by HP Web Jetadmin or your EWS, via:
- "System Name" or "Host Name" in the EWS (pp 134)
- IPX/SPX name (pp 503)
- Bonjour Service Name (pp 497/507)https://kaas.hpcloud.hp.com/pdf-public/pdf_3017438_en-US-1.pdf
That should work for most OSes, I think. It is of course totally different for different brands of printer
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@jwcph I believe on HP printers it's configured by HP Web Jetadmin or your EWS, via:
- "System Name" or "Host Name" in the EWS (pp 134)
- IPX/SPX name (pp 503)
- Bonjour Service Name (pp 497/507)https://kaas.hpcloud.hp.com/pdf-public/pdf_3017438_en-US-1.pdf
That should work for most OSes, I think. It is of course totally different for different brands of printer
@jwcph (I am sadly not very surprised that HP support didn't know how to do this.)
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@jwcph (I am sadly not very surprised that HP support didn't know how to do this.)
@glyph I think we can also agree that this equals "impossible" to even pretty savvy users - and that it should be A LOT easier...
