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I'm staying away from macOS Tahoe for now. NetNewsWire has already announced that they will no longer support the earlier 6.x release that I use. I assume that means no bug fixes or back-porting of new features. Sad.

Don't be sad! NetNewsWire has been my newsreader for well over a decade, and I only consider "upgrading" out of idle curiosity, because the version I have now does what I want, and does it well. The version treadmill is a machine producing only sadness.

Vienna will support older MacOS releases for longer. Our development has been slow the past couple of years due to maintainers having big life changes. Things are about to pick up so keep an eye out!

Love Vienna! Been using it for years. Looking forward to updates

I'm staying away from Tahoe for now as well, but are there any bugs in the 6.x release?

GitHub reports that there are 242 open issues labeled "Bug".

https://github.com/Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire/issues?q=is...


how could it be reasonable for them to indefinitely maintain an older version?

you didn't say why you prefer use of the earlier version, but i'm curious.




Minor quibble: sqlite3 is not a database, it's the CLI for SQLite 3.x

I’ve seen it written this way in older sqlite management tools.

I admire what you are doing. It obviously serves you well and you hope it helps others.

I'm familiar with how to import CSV data with SQLite and I could probably learn how to do it with DuckDB with ease. Your tool introduces a new and rather shallow abstraction layer with commands that work for both databases.

The world needs tools that provide a great deal of utility, are trustworthy, and keep getting more reliable and capable. I'm not sure that yours will qualify.


+1 for Carbon Copy Cloner. Rock-solid reliable and well-supported.

https://bombich.com


Another disturbing example of sloppy execution by Apple Software Engineering. This only reinforces my resolve to avoid upgrading to macOS Tahoe.


I just switched back to Sequoia. I gave Tahoe a good shot, used it for 4 months. Tahoe is half-baked. I upgraded to Tahoe because most of the complaints were cosmetic which I don't care about at all, but the problems are worse than cosmetic.

The last straw is that Finder's scroll bars are broken in Tahoe. I put up with it until I hit an emergency at work and was working as fast as I could (each minute mattered), Tahoe was slowing me down. Tahoe didn't pass the pressure test.


> I just switched back to Sequoia. I gave Tahoe a good shot, used it for 4 months. Tahoe is half-baked. I upgraded to Tahoe because most of the complaints were cosmetic which I don't care about at all, but the problems are worse than cosmetic.

Yeah, this is most I’ve regretted updating macOS in a decade. Apple Music in Tahoe is no longer capable of playing LAN-shared music without bugging out, which is a real bummer for my normal workflow of listening to music all day while I work.


Avoid it as long as possible. Mail search is broken 4 out of 5 days that I attempt a search, and I need to go to the webmail versions of my accounts to find anything. Fortunately it's only something I need to do about once a day, unlike in prior lives, but holy crap they took the best ruing about macOS and kids destroyed jt completely.

Plasma on Linux is looking pretty tempting these days, especially with almost all office software being web based these days.

Switching email clients is a big lift that I need to investigate, and have been hesitant to jump into until absolutely necessary, but another week of this BS...


Geary or Thunderbird are excellent mail clients.


Nice! I'm adding this post to my collection of useful git tips & tricks.

Reference: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-show

Revision Selection: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Revision-Selection


Closed source, I assume. Are you using double-entry bookkeeping?


Yes, I’m planning for the app itself to be subscription and/or one-time payment, but of course the database is all yours if you stop paying.

I haven’t used double-entry because I wanted to focus on spending analysis rather than account balances, and often bank statements are partial data. Would this be a deal-breaker for you?


This controversy could have been avoided if the GUI changes in Tahoe had been opt-in only. In other words, the Sequoia GUI should have remained the default, with the option of choosing to switch to Liquid Glass.


When has Apple ever really allowed you to do anything like that?


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