If you're experiencing crackling under high system load, try connecting external speakers or headphones. It's weird, but it seems to mitigate or even eliminate the issue.

Thanks for the tip, however all of the crackling I've heard was exclusively WITH speakers plugged in (via the 3.5mm jack). Though I've noticed lately I'm not hearing any crackling any more. I don't think I updated anything so it might be spurious.

That's one of the changes I like. Instead of getting a huge volume indicator in the center of a video you're watching, it's a small slider that's off to the corner where I'd prefer it to remain.

That's an amusing comment because there's a migration happening toward flip phones with physical keyboards (https://android.gadgethacks.com/news/that-qwerty-tapping-sou...).

I think it has to do with frameworks like SwiftUI.

I can't believe this is the reality we actually live in. It's like a wannabe monarchy.

That's a very reductionist way to describe it. According to the article, these are key researchers from some of America's most prestigious universities.

> On the other hand, users that demand you rewrite the project in their favorite language or otherwise accomodate their preferences over your own are pretty annoying.

Who's demanding a rewrite of Linux?

Apple certainly appears to be going all in on Swift. Even Foundation is written in it now. The use of Objective-C could have any number of explanations, from compatibility with legacy frameworks/applications to flaws in methodology. The charts give a general sense of trends but should be taken with a grain of salt.

> Reference counting is not tracing garbage collection.

???

They didn't say it was.

Reference counting is a kind of garbage collection.