Macs have rounded corners on the desktop. I.e 4 corners. It looked awesome in the CRT days because of the shape of them. These days on flat lcd screens the geometry is so good that they aren’t required to provide the same function as in CRT days but some people still like the look. I do, but i dont run extra software if i can help it especially for an aesthetic change. I used a tool like this is the past but there were incompatibility’s.

I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?

> I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?

Running an Apple Studio Display here, and no rounded corners at any edges. So, just for non-Apple monitors?

Not even that. I have both Apple and non-Apple monitors, and my Mac only rounds the top edges on the MacBook’s screen, as intended.

Not sure what this tool’s function is supposed to be, given that the rounded corners only appear on screens that are actually rounded. Why would you want to straighten that out on a physically-rounded screen?

It’s more than that, the screen is rounded at the hardware level, there are no pixels to show anything here. What the OP software is supposed to “fix” CANNOT be fixed!

Running two Lenovo ThinkVision displays off of my work MacBook Pro.

On the MBP built-in display, the upper-left and upper-right corners are rounded. I believe this is due to the shape of the display. The bottom corners are not rounded.

On the external displays, the corners are all square.

Not the case with a third-party display either.

The newest design of MacBooks with the notch have the top corners of the display rounded.

Yes, but that’s not in-software, the screen is actually, physically rounded. Using software to straighten that out would have, quite literally, no effect at all on these machines.

But most importantly, when connected to sharp-edged monitors, the Mac does not round the corners and instead displays the entire contents of the screen edge-to-edge (including the desktop and menu bar). So this tool seems to be solving a problem that does not exist.

Do those pixels even exist on the display? They certainly don't on the iPhone; the implied corners on those are physically outside the device.

Yeah I really thought (and actually still think) the rounded corners on the top left and right of the new(-ish) MacBook Pro are hardware. I know for sure they pre-date Tahoe!

They are hardware.

There's software like Top Notch if you want to make the bottom corners rounded also.

TopNotch also solves the problem this app targets I think: the rounded corners are not visible when the menubar is black.

Absolutely this. I can’t agree with this more. Having been using apple macs for 2 decades now I’m wondering whether my next machine will be apple. There’s even a setting for the adverts in the system settings. This is disguising.

Isnt that exactly how it works?

From the first message in this thread:

  automatic OCR / processing of all image files on macOS

If OCR was deferred until user request/consent, it would eliminate the battery/performance cost of speculative image analysis.

The first message in the thread isn't the definition of the actual feature.

What's the best way to disable all MacOS image processing background services?

There isn't any such service; it's on demand.

These macOS services appear to be related to image processing:

  photoanalysisd 
  mediaanalysisd
  com.apple.photos.backgroundAnalysisService

Seems to be England only.

As far as I am aware, 'probably' is about the best you can do, since the OSA is so vaguely defined, it's actually difficult to actually know what is and what isn't valid.

There's some technical reason (or non-reason) why Mac OS does not accept the System photolibrary on an external disk. It prevents certain things from happening which may or may not mater to you. Otherwise you can switch librarys by holding Option during photo bootup.

This. I don't understand why Apple don't have another checkbox beside the Download Originals to this Mac that reads 'Store Backup of Original Photos on Timemachine' This is all that's needed to solve the issue. I actually bought a Mac Studio, and a USB disk, just to be able to download originals of my photos for local backup, since a MBP is effetively a mobil limited device just like an iphone.

"I actually bought a Mac Studio"... "I don't understand why Apple don't " ... wait a minute

The benefit of plex ( and jelly fin falls down here) is that anyone with any smart tv can access your media library just like Netflix . So family, friends etc can download the plex app, sign in and start watching your stuff.

There’s wide compatibility with all sort of devices and you dont need to firewall tunnel vpn or do any setup. It’s totally grandma friendly.

Your approach works great for a single user with a tv connected PC. Lets say with your current system you want your parents, right now, to be able to view your movies files. How easy is that to do, and how much technical knowledge or assistance is required?

Ask for a refund.

Didn’t buy, not gonna reward them for it.

> Didn’t buy

My point exactly. If you want the timer pay for it? Otherwise what are you complaining about ?

Ferrari dont’ even let me use a car for free, and I dont post complaining about how if I wanted one I would have to pay.

Does Ferrari have a competitor that lets you use a similar car for free? Because Plex does.

Sure obviously you're right. I think it's shitty of them because I learned about it after already setting up everything because I thought this was basic functionality. My bad.

So it would be more like Ferrari giving me the car for free, and then after a while when it starts raining I find out the windshield wipers are behind a paywall. Sure that would also be my fault, technically but it's also a shit company for doing that.

Can you not just set your TV to turn off after X hours ? In the EU this is actually a legal requirement that they can do this. (for 'energy saving')

Many TV's also have an explicit sleep timer. Yes this doesn't resolve plex issue but could solve the issue in the meantime. Or go old school and plug an actual electric timer in the socket and cut power to the TV after X minutes/hours

> Can you not just set your TV to turn off after X hours

That's actually clever, I didn't think of this and is much better than just a timer. I'll check that out later!

Spoiler: you can.

You still use word?

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As a more serious response - The last time I purchased MS office (decade+ ago) I paid once for a product license I could use forever. That felt fair - I buy a tool, I use it.

Plex had that payment model and got a lot less pushback from the community - but this whole "we're a SaaS now!" thing is just not going to fly.

I just don't trust the company anymore, and Jellyfin is absolutely great.

I don't think anyone would've had an issue with buy to use, that's not their business model however.

As a matter of fact, I paid them 150€ for a "lifetime license" - because a long time ago, that was their business model.

I too left for jellyfin because of their pivot to being "Netflix" as paxys phrased it.

They just decided to throw away the market they established themselves into previously. Saltines should be expected at that.

I've been using LibreOffice (and before that OpenOffice) for a long time.