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NMDoerner<p>The process to update the <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/WWDC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WWDC</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 26 early preview to the new "beta 2" is exactly as buggy and unpleasant as I have expected it to be. </p><p>Oh <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> </p><p>ROTFL. <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@vincefried" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>vincefried</span></a></span> </p><p>Well, after seeing the total mess of code that <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> has released in recent years, I very much doubt that.</p><p>But hopefully you are right, really!</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/wwdc25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wwdc25</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.yakshed.org/@moonglum" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>moonglum</span></a></span> </p><p>Who would have thought, right? 🤗</p><p>I am so sick of the endless <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> that is <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> these days, horrible, and absolutely no improvements in sight, on the contrary. 🤮 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/wwdc25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wwdc25</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.community/@chakie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chakie</span></a></span> </p><p>Every single year since the infamous Mac OS X 10.7, we have to spend more and more weeks to work around the new bugs in AppKit and CoreFoundation in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a>, last year was truly horrible. </p><p>This may be because our <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NeoFinder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoFinder</span></a> uses a lot of low level stuff, but it is tedious and increasingly frustrating for the total lack of help, documentation, and bugfixes from Apple.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/wwdc25" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>wwdc25</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/developer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>developer</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://iosdev.space/@tempelorg" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tempelorg</span></a></span> </p><p>I have posted that as a bug report to <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> 12 years ago already, and urgently asked them to provide us with a professional API to get and set Finder comments, but you can guess what Apple has said. </p><p>Right?</p><p>Nothing. Nothing at all.</p><p>I have repeated that bug report every year for every new major macOS release, but still: Nothing.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>So, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> has still not fixed the glaring SVG crash in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15.</p><p>Of course.</p><p>There are no bugfixes anymore. Just new bugs...</p><p>So disappointing, but not unexpected.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@marioguzman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>marioguzman</span></a></span> </p><p>Lucky you it actually works!</p><p>I am seeing this here for the last months, it is now taking 192 days so far to download 2 bytes.</p><p>Brilliant software, I may add. 😂 </p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/iCloud" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iCloud</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricobeck" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ricobeck</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@chockenberry" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>chockenberry</span></a></span> </p><p>Good heavens, this is getting absolutely out of hands.</p><p>I don't think there is a single Q&amp;A engineer left working at Apple, it seems?</p><p>ROTFL</p><p>Quite frankly, I'd much rather pay more than 1,000 USD a year for decent developer tools, than getting this buggy crap for, well, "free"...</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Xcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xcode</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/CodeWarrior" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CodeWarrior</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>Uh, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> has released <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15.2 "Sequoia".</p><p>Let's see what new <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bugs</span></a> they have added this time, we already found the first one!</p><p>And maybe, as it is almost Christmas, maybe they have actually FIXED a few?</p><p>Or maybe just one?</p><p>One can still hope, right?</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/developer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>developer</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/xcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>xcode</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>No, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>, this volume was NOT created back in 1970, but only a few minutes ago, yes, in 2024.</p><p>This very embarrassing <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bug</span></a> in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> when displaying information about an <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/ExFAT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExFAT</span></a> volume in the Finder has been reported by us SIX YEARS ago, and it is still glaringly present in macOS 15.2.</p><p>This type of negligence is very problematic for a digital asset manager software like my <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NeoFinder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoFinder</span></a>, and we can see bugs like that in most parts of the Apple operating system these days.</p><p>Come on, don't you have a few dollars to spare for an engineer who can actually fix a few bugs, Tim? <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>Another <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bug</span></a> that <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> still hasn't fixed in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15.1.1 "Sequoia" is this one here.</p><p>If you connect an iOS device to the Mac with a USB cable, it still claims the super old iOS version would be the most recent one.</p><p>Seriously, this is so wrong, I can't believe it.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>Good heavens, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Xcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xcode</span></a> 16.1 is such a horrible crashfest.</p><p>Hey <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>, how about, I don't know: BUGFIXES????????</p><p>How the heck are we supposed to write insanely great software with that buggy trash?</p><p>Apple Software quality is a complete mess, getting worse every month.</p><p>Sad.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>And no, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> is really NOT "intelligent" anymore. ROTFL</p><p>This message in the buggy "System Settings" is wrong, and a lie.</p><p>Of course, "Apple Intelligence" is ONLY available when the global macOS language is set to English "US".</p><p>But you need a couple of reboots until it takes.</p><p>What a <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a>. <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Sequoia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sequoia</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macos15" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macos15</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>Uh, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15 "Sequoia:" </p><p>The gift that keeps giving:</p><p>After updating to macOS 15.1, I get this wonky error message.</p><p>What the heck does that even mean?</p>
NMDoerner<p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Xcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xcode</span></a> 16 in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> has a very weird bug in which the Mac Pizza (spinning cursor of death, SCOD) is often turning like crazy in other Apps when my application is being debugged and has hit a breakpoint.</p><p>This only goes away if I move the Xcode Debugger Window away from being on top the window of the debugged app onto a second screen.</p><p>What the heck?</p><p>Dear <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a>, can we please get decent developer tools now?</p>
NMDoerner<p>Is there a reason why <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Xcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xcode</span></a> 16 secretly mounts a volume at<br> <br>/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Volumes/iOS_21E213</p><p>every single time when Xcode is launched?</p><p>What the heck? </p><p>I don't even do any iOS development, and seriously, there is sufficient time for such a weird thing when I open any iOS project with Xcode.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>Guess what?</p><p>More new <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15 <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bugs</span></a>!</p><p>Yeay!</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> has completey forgotten to add support for folders to their new QLThumbnailGenerator in macOS 15.0 "Sequoia".</p><p>So we can no longer catalog folder icons with <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/NeoFinder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NeoFinder</span></a>.</p><p>Instead, we get this error message:</p><p>Error Domain=QLThumbnailErrorDomain Code=0 "Could not generate a thumbnail" UserInfo={NSUnderlyingError=0x60000295e100 {Error Domain=QLThumbnailErrorDomain Code=102 "(null)"}}</p><p>Great job, Apple!</p><p>Of course, the old QuickLook API to get the folder icons has been removed in macOS 15, so we can no longer use it.</p><p>What a sick <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15 is.</p><p>Stay away from "Sequoia", really. This is not even alpha level quality.</p><p><a href="https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=537#p537" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/view</span><span class="invisible">topic.php?p=537#p537</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>And another very serious <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bug</span></a> in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15 "sequoia".</p><p>The <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> NTFS driver is unable to traverse a volume using opendir();<br>The very first call to readdir() will often return NULL, and thus failing to read the contents of that folder, even if the folder is NOT empty. <br>Also, the child-&gt;d_type value is often 0 for files, which is so wrong.</p><p>Brilliant work, Apple, really.</p><p>Until Apple fixes this grave bug, if they ever will, use a real NTFS driver, like Paragon NTFS, or TUXERA NTFS, or even the free ntfs-3g driver.</p><p>Especially the TUXERA driver is much faster than Apples driver anyway...</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?p=535#p535" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">neofinder.de/forum/phpBB3/view</span><span class="invisible">topic.php?p=535#p535</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>Of course, <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Xcode" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Xcode</span></a> 16.0 cannot be bothered to actually "notarize" anything, because of yet another crap <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bug</span></a>.</p><p>Dear Apple, we need <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bugfixes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bugfixes</span></a>, and a LOT OF THEM.</p><p>Like, really.</p><p>This is disgraceful.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a></p>
NMDoerner<p>And two exciting new <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/bugs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bugs</span></a> in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/macOS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>macOS</span></a> 15 "Sequoia"!</p><p>Yeay!</p><p>1. QuickLook in <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Apple</span></a> Finder is not only horribly slow very often in macOS 15.0, but it crashes a lot for SVG files (looking at you: /System/Library/ExtensionKit/Extensions/ImageThumbnailExtension.appex/Contents/MacOS/ImageThumbnailExtension)</p><p>2. Apples Calendar.app has completely screwed up my five calenders after trying to synchronize them with my iPhone. I suddenly had entries from a "once a year" calendar on every single day.</p><p>Really, Apple, you release such buggy stuff as "release" quality? I would be ashamed, really.</p><p><a href="https://techhub.social/tags/BugFest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BugFest</span></a> <a href="https://techhub.social/tags/developer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>developer</span></a></p>