Weather is there in my Setapp version. I would upload a SS, but, as others have noted, uploading images doesn’t seem to be possible right now. I didn’t know about the Weather feature until I saw your post. I’m using Forecast Bar, but it won’t hurt to turn on the weather feature in iStat Menus to give it a try.
So far, I haven’t encountered an app on Setapp that is not as full-featured as the stand alone version. I don’t know if that is Setapp rule or just the way things work out.
…and the fact that the first thing the new devs did was to add telemetry.
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Understood
But what I don’t understand is - what exactly do you fear they are going to do?
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They have permission to record your screen, and immediately after acquisition they modified the app in such a way that it sends data back to their servers. I think the negative scenarios kind of write themselves, don’t they?
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But only the 60 minute forecast, according to the developer.
Copy credentials, spoof you on sites you might care about, steal your identity, gain access to your credit data, hijack your web sites, take control of official government accounts just off the top of my head without even really thinking on it.
No ay I’d allow that sort of access!
I’m just glad I never got sucked into using Bartender…
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I don’t think we need AI to be giving answers here on the forum.
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To me it seems to have a whole lot more than that. But I’m not a weather app guru. If the image upload problem gets fixed, I’ll send some screen shots.
OK, you are the boss. But I wonder what you have against AI input.
I live out in the country. There are some cross streets with stop signs that people routinely run. 999 times out of 1,000 nobody is coming. The 1,000th time they lose their car and maybe some lives. I have loved Bartender for years. I started using it based on a trusted opinion (@MacSparky). I’m dumping the sucker. Not worth the risk.
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Based on what I have heard on MPU, to paraphrase @MacSparky AI’s are currently the equivalent of an intern at a company. Assign them tasks, but never depend on their output to be correct. We are still a bit away from a trustworthy AI. I do appreciate the fact that you identified the AI’s answer as such, which in my mind makes it simply an exercise testing AI output, nothing more.
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I look on AIs as a valuable resource, but also as just one opinion or presenter of facts. Occasionally, I’ll check one AI against another. Certainly, skepticism is warranted as it is for watching TV, using the internet, reading books, reading forums, and listening to podcasts.
Having said all of that, I have been impressed with Perplexity Pro. It uses multiple AI engines in addition to its own. It does list its sources, so I am able to easily look them up and evaluate the AIs answers. I haven’t encountered any obvious prejudice in the results. I think that it is better than an intern. Maybe closer to a judge’s law clerk. But human expert judgement still rules.
I don’t know about Stephen, but for me I come here because of the useful discussion and the experience of the group.
AI doesn’t bring that to this space.
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This is the problem though. 1) AI doesn’t have an opinion and 2) AI presents what it finds, it doesn’t fact check (not that people always do either)
I prefer the people on this forum who give honest opinions and provide context for those opinions based on their experience. We’re a very small cross section of Apple’s customers, but we’re a community who are on the whole pretty fair.
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Agreed. I’ve just opened a new thread to troubleshoot a little issue I have. I suppose I could ask an AI if they know how to change the settings, but I don’t want to talk to an AI. I want a group of people who have tech knowledge I trust, who have probably already figured this out, to tell me what they did (or tell me why it doesn’t work!). I know their answer comes from real-life experience and will probably work for me.
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Apart from their scrapping of copyright content to populate the LLM base — although Common Crawl would be okay — there is the trustworthiness of the output. Recounted before the problems I expereinced with ChatGPT in particular generating incorrect information. And the example of Microsoft’s chat bot Tay outputing racist and inflamatory posts with foul language does not engender support.
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You can do this with stock macOS by ⌘-dragging the menu bar icons. No need for extra apps!
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Thanks. Either I never knew that or I totally forgot.
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Command-dragging to rearrange the menu bar was introduced in macOS Sierra. Originally, it only worked for Apple’s own apps but from 10.12 onwards it started working for every app.
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Agreed. I also like reading dissenting opinions and experiences here.
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