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hakanderyal ◴[] No.41406732[source]
My bet would be on some compounding error from long usage also.

I'm using Apple Notes and it fails in some random ways after keeping it open for 1-2 weeks: When I try to copy something I select, it copies some random stuff, dragging text won't work, I can check/uncheck todo boxes. Goes away when I restart it.

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jval43 ◴[] No.41406884[source]
Notes has been super buggy for a while. The failure modes are so weird I don't even understand how it's possible for a text editor. E.g. text and selections rendered floating between or on top of lines of text. I wonder how they manage to bork it so hard.
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isametry ◴[] No.41407216[source]
Did this possibly start when they added “live” collaboration (quotation marks placed very intentionally) to shared notes?

[0] says that was in macOS Ventura 13.1 and iOS 16.2.

I wouldn’t be surprised if they had to rewrite the text editing engine in Notes, or at least parts of it, to accommodate for this change. And if there’s anything more terrifying than modern Apple rewriting parts of macOS, it’s them doing it for any cloud-based functionality. shudders

0: https://techhub.social/@shantini/109508624631773033

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1. lelandfe ◴[] No.41414407[source]
I started using a shared note last week and my sister in law edited a grocery list at the same time I did

It duplicated the entire list on top of itself; I was laughing at how bad of a bug it was