There are also under-the-hood changes that I found truly upsetting: among other things, all the Emacs versions I've tried (stock GNU Emacs or Mac Port, downloaded binary blobs and compiled on my machine) are either immediately unusable or become so slow after a day that they are almost unusable. Tracing things on Instruments suggests a culprit (the culprit?) is NSAutofillHeuristicController. This is not a new feature, but I'm guessing with them pushing Apple Intelligence it was rewritten. AFAIK no obvious way to disable this "feature". (Turning off Apple Intelligence doesn't seem to do it.)

I'm contemplating rolling back to Sequoia.

▲ rick_dalton 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The developer of ghostty had this exact same issue with his terminal. Ironically apple's iCloud password autofill extension on firefox also practically halves my firefox performance. Seems like they haven't figured out autofill yet. https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty/commit/b58a761aba75fa...

▲ nitros 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

The following should fix that:

  defaults write org.gnu.Emacs NSAutoFillHeuristicControllerEnabled "NO"

	▲	kkylin 2 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		[delayed]

▲ josteink 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> among other things, all the Emacs versions I've tried (stock GNU Emacs or Mac Port, downloaded binary blobs and compiled on my machine) are either immediately unusable or become so slow after a day that they are almost unusable.

So basically my #1 work tool will no longer work.

That’s a hard deal-breaker right there.

As a longer-term means of escape, what’s the best way to run a «full» Linux desktop on a otherwise managed Mac?

	▲	skydhash 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Parallel or Vmware (the former is paid and the latter is tortuous to download). Then you can go with debian (for minimal installation) or fedora (for ready to work desktop installation). Works quite great.