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by rollcat 1y ago
There will be interest in running a stable and sensible version of macOS on Intel Macs as long as there any Intel Macs left around. People still use PPC Macs to do work: < https://lowendmac.com/2025/skeuomorphic-icons
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by rollcat 1y ago
I didn't say it should happen overnight, or that this should be the final state of affairs. It isn't about politics, or even corporations simply having control over our daily lives. At some point, it has to be recognised as a nece
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by rollcat 1y ago
People are patching newer macOS's to run on older HW (like OpenCore), running older OS's on PCs as they see fit, all Macs allow downgrading (and 10.15 runs on the final 2019 models). I speculate that the community will settle arou
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by rollcat 1y ago
My take: - The Mozilla Foundation should be publicly funded, with Firefox being considered a reference implementation for all web standards; Google should be considered a "gatekeeper", and fined for introducing de facto "st
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by rollcat 1y ago
This. Apple in the past couple of years was all like, "oh look, gaming on macOS is good now". I can run a 1995 game OOB on my Windows laptop in 2025. My question is: on macOS, what's the actual market for casual games, like m
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by rollcat 1y ago
There always were ways to "upgrade" your Windows edition (Home -> Pro, etc) through less official channels. I can imagine these "corporate" patches will also make their way somehow. There's also enough community
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by rollcat 1y ago
It's surprising enough that you can still get a few things done with a 2002 PowerBook G4: < https://www.rollc.at/posts/2024-07-02-tibook/ > The most painful parts are (1) it's a bit hot and loud unde
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by rollcat 1y ago
> As opposed to that, there's OrbStack, a venture-backed closed source application thriving off of user licenses, developed by a small team. As empathetic as I am with them, I know where I bet my money on in this race. Orbstack star
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by rollcat 1y ago
> All this said, my above "gut feelings" don't explain why Apple would have bothered spending their time making this when Orbstack, Docker, etc. already meet the needs of the developers on Mac who actually need and use con
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by rollcat 1y ago
> The (maybe) rising solution is "build-your-own-desktop" options [...]. This is not a solution for power users, this is a half-hearted non-solution for people with too much time on their hands. As a power user, I need the comp
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by rollcat 1y ago
< https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/issues/217 > TL;DR: if you want window decorations, link with libadwaita. SDL ended up linking with libdecor. You know how when you use a Qt app in Gnome, it
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by rollcat 1y ago
> I prefer my desktop to be designed around one unifying philosophy instead of a hodgepodge of customizations which don't work well together. I agree. It's why I prefer Gnome over KDE, and macOS over Windows. My main point is:
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by rollcat 1y ago
True. They're stuck in between badly aping Apple, trying too hard to do their own thing, and being toxic to the rest of the developer community. They're not a trillion dollar company. Sure, many projects would do well with more de
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by rollcat 1y ago
macOS is awful in so many places. I would prefer if they had an option to disable only some of the animations. "Show Desktop" is so sudden and zoomy I almost get motion sickness, but Mission Control is more subtle and really hel
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by rollcat 1y ago
The radial menu is brilliant. It is reminiscent of how basic team communication works in StarCraft 2. You alt-click to ping the minimap (draw allies' attention to something in that general area). If it's something more specific, y
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by rollcat 1y ago
I think it's time for me to look back at Linux. (*Looks at Gnome.*) Hm, they're getting worse faster than Apple does. Never mind.
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by rollcat 1y ago
I find it comical that macOS displays an HDD icon for internal storage. It's even using the "old", skeuomorphic art style, from before the flat design. (It also displays a CRT with a Windows 95 BSOD for Samba network shares,
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by rollcat 1y ago
> [...] this is something that only Apple can do well, because you do need to ensure that hardware can keep up. Yeah, about that. When iPhone SE2 was first released (April 2020), it featured the A13 Bionic, which was the most powerful So
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by rollcat 1y ago
macOS (I'm still on Sonoma tho): System Settings -> Accessibility -> Display -> Reduce Transparency. (I also recommend Reduce Motion, but YMMV - some animations are really helpful.) iOS: Settings -> Accessibility -> Disp
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by rollcat 1y ago
One word: Dehomag
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by rollcat 1y ago
Ask a crow, or a parrot. ( Really intelligent animals, by the way!)
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by rollcat 1y ago
"Think of the children" is the primary justification for so many abusive laws and efforts. The public is buying into it, despite the simplest solution being: parents should pay more attention to how they're raising their kids
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by rollcat 1y ago
I would be looking forward to the Landing Day celebrations every 780 days of 24.6 hours!
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by rollcat 1y ago
Sourcing of my opinions mostly based on Wikipedia and random hear-say. The Antarctica already is an interesting case study. Different time zones are being used mostly due to territorial claims, but south of 80deg, UTC is dominant. Each base
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by rollcat 1y ago
I see another possibility, on topic with TFA. We start colonising other worlds, and will need to coordinate timekeeping between them. Time dilation will also kick in (GPS already has to compensate). An Earth year is a year only on Earth.
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by rollcat 1y ago
Our dominant culture's "year zero" (aka the Common Era) is based on an estimated date of birth of a messiah of the currently-dominating religion. That calendar has also seen a major revision in October 1582. Long before and a
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by rollcat 1y ago
Just to give everyone some perspective, my guesstimated peak power usage of common household appliances: an electric stove - 5kW; a fridge - 500W; washing machine - 500W; 55" TV - 120W; a laptop - 65W; gaming PC - 600W. If you'd r
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by rollcat 1y ago
> So if you want tracing, you just need to wrap the error and returns it. Here we go, fifth time we're both spelling this one out. This thread is now a meta-self-joke.
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by rollcat 1y ago
> They have also developed anti-drone drones that drop nets from above, catching and tangling target drones in a bunch of netting that simply snags the blades. Yeah if we could just all agree that from now on, all warfare is limited to d
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by rollcat 1y ago
More or less this. Maybe a job opportunity, but many decision makers won't see the real problem until they get hit by that AWS bill. Ironic, if the business won't hire you because they went out of business?

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