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“Stuff just works” for 99%+ of what I do daily, including HN, photos and music scores. When I start coding again, the old hardware will get Linux and OpenBSD f

by k310 3y ago

“Stuff just works” for 99%+ of what I do daily, including HN, photos and music scores. When I start coding again, the old hardware will get Linux and OpenBSD for networking. The old MacBook Air still works after over 14 years (?) and maybe the Mac cube as well, but I am not a history buff. I just loaded Trunk Notes, a 14 year old Wiki app, onto the brand new phone, and it runs. I have versions of Unix shell and Jupyter Notebooks running on iOS, FWIW, no sideloading or jailbreak needed.

sp332 3y ago
In 2017, Apple deleted thousands of 32-bit apps from the App Store. https://mashable.com/article/ios-11-could-kill-200000-32-bit-apps https://mashable.com/article/ios-11-could-kill-200000-32-bit...
- k310 2y ago
  On the ios side of the world, the ipad 1 has old apps and runs ios 5.x. The ipad air2 is at 10.3.2 and will go only to 15.8.2. Stay old, keep your old apps. I keep old hardware that still runs. They do the basics that I got them for: music scores and lots and lots of book and article reading. And I haven't read them all yet. On the mac end: Supposedly, 32 bit apps stopped running post Mojave. No problem for old hardware that won't go past Mojave anyway, and I recommended sticking with Mojave to a friend who has 32-bit apps. Older mac apps I bought all are downloadable from the app store if they show in the app store under my purchases. And perhaps some are missing, if the apps shown have all been updated to run post-Mojave. I am actually trying to simplify things. (not easy for me) On the ios side of the mac app store, a lot of apps from 2013 and before are not downloadable. So, no Wild Berries and Herbs app for me. At least on a mac you can copy apps from the /Applications directory and sneakernet them. It seems that you need a third-party app to extract ios apps via a cable. Not going there.

by k310 3y ago

sp332 3y ago

In 2017, Apple deleted thousands of 32-bit apps from the App Store. https://mashable.com/article/ios-11-could-kill-200000-32-bit-apps https://mashable.com/article/ios-11-could-kill-200000-32-bit...

k310 2y ago
On the ios side of the world, the ipad 1 has old apps and runs ios 5.x. The ipad air2 is at 10.3.2 and will go only to 15.8.2. Stay old, keep your old apps. I keep old hardware that still runs. They do the basics that I got them for: music scores and lots and lots of book and article reading. And I haven't read them all yet. On the mac end: Supposedly, 32 bit apps stopped running post Mojave. No problem for old hardware that won't go past Mojave anyway, and I recommended sticking with Mojave to a friend who has 32-bit apps. Older mac apps I bought all are downloadable from the app store if they show in the app store under my purchases. And perhaps some are missing, if the apps shown have all been updated to run post-Mojave. I am actually trying to simplify things. (not easy for me) On the ios side of the mac app store, a lot of apps from 2013 and before are not downloadable. So, no Wild Berries and Herbs app for me. At least on a mac you can copy apps from the /Applications directory and sneakernet them. It seems that you need a third-party app to extract ios apps via a cable. Not going there.