Why Linux Sucks- 2020 Version

On 1/8/2020 3:01 PM, nospam wrote:
In article , AnonLinuxUser
wrote:

Well, you definitely did the research. Wife did have a step wave
UPS,
and the iMac started doing some strange things, (like emptying trash
that doesn't empty the trash and hang). Got her a pure sine wave UPS
and those problems disappeared.

unrelated and a coincidence.


Not a coincidence if you know your electronics well enough.

i do, and it is very much a coincidence. stepped sine waves won't cause
the trash not to empty.

The UPS stepped output can cause harmonics that the iMac power supply
can't handle. I put a new UPS pure wave output and the problem went
away.

false. imacs have no issue with stepped sine waves, nor do other macs.

But not in my case. Is it a faulty ps in the iMac? Could be, but the
pure sine wave output is a much better options.

pure sine wave is better but it cannot cause the symptoms you describe.

So you say.
Again, your credentials?

unlike you, extensive knowledge about macs, pcs and upses.

it's not possible for a stepped sine wave to cause only one app to hang.

you have also contradicted yourself, so we know the story is bull****.

Whether you put much
trust in the GeekSquad or not, they did say that some iMacs are affected
by this.

geeksquad? seriously?

Seriously. Not all of them are incompetent,

almost all of them are incompetent and the ones that aren't will soon
find much better jobs elsewhere.

and so far their
explanations do make sense.

they don't.

the claim that some macs are affected is simply false.

So I went up to another store and asked the same question.
Funny that the store won't stock the cheap stepped UPS, but they do
stock the better ones.

that means nothing.

Not to you, but it does to me.

all it means is one store chooses to sell higher end products. higher
end products generally have higher profits. best buy and the geek squad
doesn't cater to that market.

it says absolutely nothing about what happens when a cheapo ups is used
with a mac or any other device.

some devices do have issues. macs are not among them.

you also shouldn't be running anything off a ups for an extended period
of time anyway. it's for brief amounts of time, to safely shut down.

The UPS has about 2 hours of power before I have to shut down the iMac.

higher end upses that last that long normally are pure sinewave.

Yes, that is why I don't use the el-cheapos.

the el-cheapos don't run that long.

that said, i've run several different macs, pcs, upses and many other
devices for 30+ minutes off a cheap ups (stepped sine) without issue.


But not her iMac. It is not fun to have a hanging process. You have
to, in this instance, bring up Activity Monitor and force quit Finder.
Which, in this case, also mandates a restart.

no it definitely doesn't require a restart, nor is activity monitor
needed to force quit finder.


Hah. Now I know you are a fraud and troll.

ad hominem.

learn something for a change.

there are numerous ways to force-quit any app on a mac, including
finder, which does not involve using activity monitor or needing a
restart.

some of the most common ways include -

choose force-quit from the apple menu (or press command-option-escape),
then choose finder:
https://i0.wp.com/www.techjunkie.com...015/02/force-q
uit-menu.jpg

shift-click the apple menu to force-quit the frontmost app, skipping
the above window:
http://cdn.osxdaily.com/wp-content/u...quit-menu-shif
t-key.jpg

option + contextual-click the app's icon in the dock:
https://appletoolbox.com/wp-content/...nch-macOS-Find
er-via-Option-Key.jpg

in terminal, type:
killall Finder

that you think activity monitor is the only way to force-quit an app or
that a restart is required is clear proof you know next to nothing
about macs and makes *you* the fraud and troll.


Lack of any credentials noted.