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If you’re not using it to run Xcode what’s the point?

cle 6y ago
I do this because my family is locked in to iMessage and FaceTime, and to test programs that I write to ensure they work on Macs.
- swiley 6y ago
  Is there really no way to reverse engineer the iMessage protocol? Or is it just difficult and no one is motivated. I'm in a similar situation where my family and some of my friends only want to talk over iMessage. Last time my iphone wasn't available for a while I had to spend a couple hours pirating OSX and fiddling with a bunch of hackintosh tools just to talk to the girl I was dating at the time.
  - jmnicolas 6y ago
    > just to talk to the girl I was dating at the time You mean she wouldn't talk to you if it wasn't on iMessage? That's not love (or friendship for that matter). I would use smoke signals, learn sign language, use Morse or whatever is necessary to communicate with my love.
    - swiley 6y ago
      It's not that she would have refused, we just got so used to using imessage that we didn't have a working backup (we had sent emails but that's not always reliable.) We lived hours apart and I needed the address of the place we planned on meeting the next day (she had already sent it, but over imessage.)
chmaynard 6y ago
It's a hack. The best hacks are intrinsically interesting. Their only purpose is to satisfy one's curiosity. They don't need to have a point. :)
newhouseb 6y ago
Also you can't run anything Metal-based by default (which is a lot of things on macOS these days). You can theoretically PCI passthrough a GPU, but we're not to the point where you can use GVT-g based Intel passthrough to get something functioning. Such magic has seemed "very close" for a number of years now [1] 1. https://gist.github.com/artizirk/28aa4c28b252bd679a4daf84d919a175 https://gist.github.com/artizirk/28aa4c28b252bd679a4daf84d91...
ngcazz 6y ago
Audio Units... the most annoying vendor lock-in ever.
_def 6y ago
I just installed macos in a VM a few hours ago to test cross platform builds
solarkraft 6y ago
Audio software, Video software, Graphics software, plus pretty decent UX.

cle 6y ago

I do this because my family is locked in to iMessage and FaceTime, and to test programs that I write to ensure they work on Macs.

swiley 6y ago
Is there really no way to reverse engineer the iMessage protocol? Or is it just difficult and no one is motivated. I'm in a similar situation where my family and some of my friends only want to talk over iMessage. Last time my iphone wasn't available for a while I had to spend a couple hours pirating OSX and fiddling with a bunch of hackintosh tools just to talk to the girl I was dating at the time.
- jmnicolas 6y ago
  > just to talk to the girl I was dating at the time You mean she wouldn't talk to you if it wasn't on iMessage? That's not love (or friendship for that matter). I would use smoke signals, learn sign language, use Morse or whatever is necessary to communicate with my love.
  - swiley 6y ago
    It's not that she would have refused, we just got so used to using imessage that we didn't have a working backup (we had sent emails but that's not always reliable.) We lived hours apart and I needed the address of the place we planned on meeting the next day (she had already sent it, but over imessage.)

chmaynard 6y ago

It's a hack. The best hacks are intrinsically interesting. Their only purpose is to satisfy one's curiosity. They don't need to have a point. :)

newhouseb 6y ago

Also you can't run anything Metal-based by default (which is a lot of things on macOS these days). You can theoretically PCI passthrough a GPU, but we're not to the point where you can use GVT-g based Intel passthrough to get something functioning. Such magic has seemed "very close" for a number of years now [1] 1. https://gist.github.com/artizirk/28aa4c28b252bd679a4daf84d919a175 https://gist.github.com/artizirk/28aa4c28b252bd679a4daf84d91...

ngcazz 6y ago

Audio Units... the most annoying vendor lock-in ever.

_def 6y ago

I just installed macos in a VM a few hours ago to test cross platform builds

solarkraft 6y ago

Audio software, Video software, Graphics software, plus pretty decent UX.