Links From the Week of 08-02-2026

Links Posted to Thoughts The Week of 08-02-2026 There were 4 links posted this week. 08/08/2026 @18:35 “As a Windows user, it’s a very surreal way to install a program.” – UnsungMac’s operating system has a peculiar way to install apps. [...] the Finder window resembles almost a specialized app window, and you can use all of this power to… tell the user to drag the app to the permanent folderWay back in the bad-old days you had binhex and StuffIt files to handle the novel app bundles that MacOS. With OS X those were replaced by .dmg files. In either case you extracted a single file and copied it onto your hard disk (usually into the "Applications" folder). This was so much more elegant than the Windows method of letting some installer throw files all over your disk in hopes that it also included an uninstaller that worked when you wanted to get rid of the program later (it often left all sorts of detritus around).This was one of the features that attracted me to OS X back in the day…