https://interfacecraft.online/tags/macos/Recent content in MacOS on Alexander Deplov, AI artist, product designerHugoenTue, 16 Jun 2026 12:00:00 +0200https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/how-i-match-freebsd-youtube-speed-on-macos/Tue, 25 Nov 2025 12:55:15 +0100https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/how-i-match-freebsd-youtube-speed-on-macos/On FreeBSD, YouTube seeking feels instant: click anywhere on the seek bar and playback resumes immediately. On macOS, Firefox gave me a short pause after each seek. The fix that worked for me was not global macOS TCP tuning. Those system-wide tweaks can affect other apps. The stable solution was Firefox-only: keep HTTP/3/QUIC enabled, give Firefox a much larger media cache, reduce media throttling, and prefer the faster MP4/H.264 path over AV1/WebM MSE.https://interfacecraft.online/blog/archive/automatically-disable-wifi-when-ethernet-is-plugged-in-macos/Wed, 12 Nov 2025 14:33:35 +0100https://interfacecraft.online/blog/archive/automatically-disable-wifi-when-ethernet-is-plugged-in-macos/macOS has a long-standing bug that persists in macOS Tahoe. When I connect my MacBook to an external dongle with an Ethernet internet connection, it prioritizes the Wi-Fi connection. My Wi-Fi is very unstable, so even when connected to Ethernet, macOS refuses to use it. I set the Service Order to put Ethernet on top, but macOS ignores it. It’s so annoying that I ended up making a script to automate it:https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/why-i-ditched-dark-mode-on-macos/Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:42:50 +0200https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/why-i-ditched-dark-mode-on-macos/I stopped using dark mode on my macOS. I don’t need it anymore. It actually creates more problems than it solves. The original idea was good: with dark mode in the operating system, you can use your computer at night without damaging your eyes with high brightness. Dark mode was first introduced in macOS Mojave in 2018. Then web community realized the same need. In 2019, the CSS Working Group added new specifications for prefers-color-scheme.https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/mate-on-freebsd-macos-like-setup-guide-font-rendering-ui-tweaks-and-settings/Fri, 23 May 2025 20:38:13 +0200https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/mate-on-freebsd-macos-like-setup-guide-font-rendering-ui-tweaks-and-settings/Font rendering settings Keyboard and mouse settings Interface settings Turn on TearFree Wallpapers macOS theme for Mate Spotlight replacement As I mentioned earlier, I noticed similarities between FreeBSD and macOS—after 20 years of using macOS, returning to FreeBSD feels like coming home. But I don’t like the font rendering used in non-macOS systems. Partly because Apple did it very well — Steve Jobs had a great understanding of typography — and partly because I’m just used to it.https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/freebsd-vs-macos-for-daily-use-my-personal-migration-story/Mon, 19 May 2025 22:15:36 +0200https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/freebsd-vs-macos-for-daily-use-my-personal-migration-story/As a designer I’ve been using macOS since 2005, but with each new update, I dislike the direction Apple is heading in. They add unnecessary features that use system resources and can’t be disabled. My seven-year-old MacBook Pro with an Intel processor became so slow and unresponsive with the latest macOS version that I can’t use it at all anymore. If your Mac can’t handle the latest macOS version, the only solution is to buy a more powerful Mac.https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/how-i-automated-my-computer-life-with-macos-folder-actions/Wed, 12 Feb 2025 21:53:39 +0100https://interfacecraft.online/blog/2025/how-i-automated-my-computer-life-with-macos-folder-actions/I’ve always believed that computers should handle repetitive tasks better than humans. It frustrates me when something can’t be automated the way I want or when simple actions require more effort than they should. Let’s say we want to convert a video from one format to another. This often happens to me when I need to share a screencast video with colleagues on Slack. By default, macOS records in .