learning that mac users don’t have a right click was fucking crazy like omg how r u still alive is everything ok girl ….

@ellie@yearning.gay mac users don't have right click?? ​​

@ellie@yearning.gay uh, they do? They also had a force click distinct from right click not so long ago

@ellie@yearning.gay i swear they literally do it's just no one knows how to do it

ok i might be wrong

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@alice @ellie force click still exists too

@sam@mk.woem.space @ellie@yearning.gay is it actually used for anything these days?

@ellie mac users still have a weird obtuse way of doing things so u have a point

@alice @ellie looking up definitions at least. i haven’t found any other uses for it yet but i also constantly forget it exists, so

@ellie i think by default you have to hold the control key while clicking or something like that and then theres a setting to make it use the normal right click thing like everywhere else

@sasha@labyrinth.zone @ellie@yearning.gay yeah like you have to go into the terminal to allow non app store apps to open

@ellie they don’t have it by default, at least not on the magic mouse (the default mouse shipped with imacs) . i can’t remember if it’s disabled by default on trackpads too

@tauon @sasha @ellie this isn’t true, you run applications downloaded through a browser by just double clicking them and clicking “yes, run this app” once
even non-notarized apps (which is a stupid concept, to be fair) just send you to system settings to allow them. and again, you only have to do that once per app
it’s kinda annoying but it’s not nearly as bad as “you need the terminal to install third party apps”

@sam@mk.woem.space @ellie@yearning.gay aha ok. Because on iphones they removed force touch entirely and my mtp2 is fairly old (the space grey version, so discontinued), so I wasn’t sure if it’s still supported (tho with how it’s implemented there are 0 reasons it wouldn’t work in newer models)

I wish we had it on linux too, but unfortunately the current driver uses click on device mode (basically windows compatibility), so touchpad is the one that registers clicks and plays feedback/sends click events rather than click on host (reading pressure and having os register clicks and play haptic feedback, so you can easily have 2 clicks on 2 different pressure levels)

@sam@mk.woem.space @sasha@labyrinth.zone @ellie@yearning.gay really? i swear you have to right click open if you don't use the terminal

@tauon @sasha @ellie ….so there’s a much easier option that doesn’t use the terminal why mention the terminal then

@sam@mk.woem.space @sasha@labyrinth.zone @ellie@yearning.gay because you can't (as far as i was last aware) open the app normally unless you use the terminal to fix it