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  • Since you mentioned Chinese, there’s also an interesting thing in languages that have Chinese characters as their writing system origin and use names based on it (Chinese languages of course, Japanese, Korean and I think also Vietnamese) where names of historical or important people are translated via their written form and not their pronunciation. For example, the Japanese prime minister Ishiba Shigeru 石破茂 is called 石破茂 (shí pò mào) in Mandarin, written with the same characters. (Been a while since I read about this so I forgot the examples where the name is pronounced significantly different and in all of these languages but this is a good enough example)






  • Another time I left my computer while I went out for a walk, came back, and it was like I just rebooted… all my work was gone, and it was starting fresh from the login screen.

    Well, I’m pretty sure I had this happen once or twice in the recent past after wake from suspend I think, but it might be that my CPU is just one of the faulty intel ones.

    Either way the rest of this does not reflect my experience at all. Try distrohopping, I feel like you’ll find one that you like and doesn’t have these issues. openSuSE is always one of my suggestions, it was the one that I used for a long time when I started out as well, but tbh I’m out of touch with the more mainstream distros, I’ve only touched Gentoo and NixOS in the past >5 years. (I also specifically recommend against using Ubuntu.)

    Then I’ll open a different app, sometimes it might open, sometimes it won’t.

    Or an app will freeze for no obvious reason, and I’ll get a popup asking to wait or quit.

    Check journalctl --user, and also htop, specifically the process state, for the last one (you mention a NAS, is it perhaps stuck on IO? I’m in a fucked network where that regularly happens with my NAS.)






  • Round 2 :)

    This one is very annoying when I have Safari windows already open on my secondary display and trying to create a new Safari window on my primary display because it then needs an extra click to focus the window.

    Since this occurs with multiple apps (and also third-party ones like BBEdit), this is very likely not an issue in each of the apps but rather in AppKit or the windowing system.

    FB17088400 Opening a new window of various apps via the Dock icon while the app is inactive does not focus it when it is created on another display

    Normally, opening a new window of an app that supports this via the dock icon (e.g. Finder, Terminal, Safari) focuses the newly created window. However, this does not work correctly when the app is not focused and the previously focused window of the app is on a different display. In that case, it will create the new window on the current display, but keep the previously focused window focused.

    This does not happen if either the app creating the new window is already active, or there are no windows of that app, or the previously active window is on the same display as the new window is created from using the Dock.

    I’ve found this issue to occur in the following apps:

    • Finder
    • Terminal
    • Safari
    • TextEdit
    • QuickTime Player

    To reproduce:

    1. Have at least two displays connected
    2. Open Terminal (or any other app of the list above) with at least one open window
    3. Focus another app (e.g. Finder’s desktop) on the display the Terminal window is not on
    4. Control-click on Terminal’s dock icon on that display
    5. Select “New Window”

    Observed result: Terminal creates a new window, but does not focus it. Instead, the last focused Terminal window is activated.

    Expected result: The newly created window is always focused (and appears on the display the Dock was used from).


    System info:

    • MacBook Air M2, 2022, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage
      • macOS 15.3.2 (24D81)


  • Oh hey, awesome!

    I’ll just paste here what I’ve already written in Feedback Assistant.

    FB15922287 Messages sometimes only allows you to send SMS despite the recipient supporting RCS
    • Device: any
    • App: Messages
    • Conversation type: 1-on-1, RCS

    Sometimes, Messages only allows you to send SMS despite the recipient supporting RCS. During a conversation, receiving an RCS message even briefly changes the text in the input bar to RCS before switching back to SMS.

    This seems to be caused by failing to deliver an RCS message sometime before, which can always happen (bad connection on either side, recipient is offline, other network error, etc.)

    To reproduce:

    1. Take recipient phone offline
    2. Send an RCS message
    3. Wait for it to fail to be delivered
    4. Take recipient phone online

    Observed result: Messages shows the recipient as supporting SMS only, even when they are actively sending you RCS messages.

    Expected result: RCS is never artificially disallowed by Messages.


    This also happens if you use the “Send as SMS” entry in the context menu on a stuck message.


    Looks like at this point receiving an RCS message fixes this. However one sent RCS message that falls back to SMS will still lock the conversation to SMS until you get a reply.


    FB16920262 Separate window for single conversation does not mark messages as read
    • Device: Mac
    • App: Messages
    • Conversation type: 1-on-1, RCS (probably any)

    When opening a conversation in a new window, this window does not mark the messages as read when active like the main window.

    To reproduce:

    • Open conversation in new window (Control click on conversation, Open in New Window)
    • Receive a message
    • Focus the separate window/scroll to the bottom

    Observed result: The received message is not marked as read

    Expected result: The received message is marked as read like in the main window


    FB17053263 When "Group windows by application" is enabled, selecting a specific window from Mission Control does not actually focus the window
    • Device: Mac
    • App: Mission Control

    In Mission Control, with the “Group windows by application” setting enabled, you can scroll up to unstack the windows of an application to allow you to select a specific one. In this view, clicking one of them focuses the application but not the window, leading to a weird state where the application is focused but none of its windows are, and the menu bar also isn’t interactible until you click on another window.

    Steps to reproduce:

    • Turn on “Group windows by application” in System Settings (Desktop & Dock)
    • Open an application such as TextEdit, open one or multiple windows
    • Open Mission Control
    • Scroll up on the TextEdit group to expand its windows
    • Click one of the TextEdit windows

    Observed result: The application is focused but none of its windows are, nor are they ordered to front. This also looks really glitchy because Mission Control will show the animation that the selected window is expected to be in front but it will then move back behind any other windows that were in front of it after the animation is done

    Expected result: The selected window is focused and ordered to front, like when you don’t scroll up.


    System info:

    • MacBook Air M2, 2022, 8GB RAM, 256GB storage
      • macOS 15.3.2 (24D81)
    • iPhone 13 mini, 128GB storage
      • iOS 18.3.2 (22D82)

    I have a couple more watchOS ones, and a couple wonky ones that I either don’t know how to reliably reproduce, or can’t reproduce anymore right now but also don’t know if they’re fixed yet. But these should be the bugs I can think of right now that I can reliably reproduce that aren’t watchOS. If I find/remember more I’ll post them.

    This also just made me check and close 2 feedbacks that did get fixed in the meantime :^)