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by smoldesu 3y ago
Really it depends on perspective. The #1 reason I left MacOS after Mojave was the fact that none of the APIs I deployed to were naively available anymore. I had to buy a new computer to get updates for the same software I used before. I wai
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by smoldesu 3y ago
https://paulgraham.com/disagree.html
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I still don't agree with your point, then. Apple does treat the Mac just like their other devices, and they use it as the justification for sweeping API depreciation and user-hostile software decisions. If Apple made a decent way to de
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by smoldesu 3y ago
What's more suspicious to me is that someone would make a seemingly obvious assertion but refuse to explain it. Help us understand what you mean instead.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> they made M-series Macs capable of booting third party operating systems when it would’ve been much easier to not do that "much easier" is maybe a stretch. Both options come with their own tradeoffs; rework the boot system to
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Why would wealthy people support a bill that universally limits the capacity of wealthy companies? To... enable better competition and limit the provenance of Gatekeeper businesses? And that's bad for citizens? You're welcome to e
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> Why do you think an app store isn't something people want, rather than something they put up with? Because it seems to be that way on MacOS. On Mac, the App Store is absolutely useless and exclusively something people do not want.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Ideally we encourage people to port to Vulkan instead of Metal and DirectX, so porting is easier and more people can run common software. Unfortunately, certain vendors have a reputation against third party Open standards.
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Because it's a cross-platform framework that thousands of programs (including Mac exclusives) rely on? There's so much OpenGL-only software that it should be Apple's moral imperative to support it anyways. I don't think
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The US might. Microsoft narrowly avoided a company breakup over web browser policies, it seems entirely feasible that Apple's App Store could lead down the same path.
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> without a bunch of backdoors And on what authority can you make that claim? We assumed notifications weren't backdoored until, oops: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/apple-admits-to-...
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well, you're welcome to take issue with that I suppose. The way I see it, Apple has invited this for years; the only way in their ecosystem is through the App Store or the browser. If they make unreasonable demands out of their App Sto
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Why do you see that as a problem? Apple is welcome to leave if they disagree with Europe's market terms. They didn't leave Russia when they made their demands though, and Lord knows they're deep enough in bed with China. Wh
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Can I make an iOS app in pure Python, and should Apple make it possible? Given that neither the browser or iOS runtime can interpret it, no? I think it's reasonable to expect people to write an iOS Python interpreter and expect to
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by smoldesu 3y ago
None of that really disagrees with what I said. Apple failed to lower the on-ramp for native development to the people that wanted it. Now we're seeing desperate porting attempts to the browser, and Apple's desperate attempt at pl
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> If PWAs win, it will just mean that the users got worse apps If PWAs win, it will be because native apps failed. Android and MacOS both have an enormous community of open source native apps that are more private, functional and accou
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> the Surface X and Lenovo X13S snapdragon devices exist today but Linux support isn't close to Asahi. Is that necessarily true? When the X13S Snapdragon released I seem to remember it shipping with first-party Linux drivers for alm
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Will HN’s very strong anti-crypto anti-blockchain sentiment continue when it’s their own mothership accelerator contradicting them? I mean, it's sandwiched in-between such moonshots as "A.I. TO BUILD ENTERPRISE SOFTWARE"
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by smoldesu 3y ago
OEM updates =! Play Store updates I've had phones that hadn't received OEM updates in a half-decade but still ran Netflix just fine. Quite literally, the only thing you're describing right here is the TLS cutoff which also ex
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by smoldesu 3y ago
It could very well be anticompetitive. Microsoft was was almost broken up over similar scareware tactics, you'd have to be blind to see Apple in a different position today.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
On paper, yes. Pretty much all of the necessary technology (and then some) can be found on an average smartphone. The Flipper has a few important differences but function-for-function they're pretty analogous. In practice, there&#x27
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Well, here's to the crazy ones. I haven't tried the Vision Pro yet, but I think the whole "target more affluent customers" shtick is what usually kills VR. It's what killed Windows Mixed Reality, it's what kill
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> It is far better for people who want to play games, but far worse for anything else. Isn't that more of an indictment of VR as a whole right now, rather than just the Quest or Vision Pro?
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Just wait until subscriptions can be bought for ~<30% cheaper elsewhere and see how much it matters to people. Apple will certainly get their chance to make a case for the feature.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
> Expect a deal between Nvidia and Apple. I'm sooner expecting hell to freeze over. Apple would be rewriting their own history with that kind of deal.
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Because it's Apple's problem regardless. The iPhone is at-odds with it's identity of security and privacy even without the threat of sideloading. The App Store, a supposedly curated and well-reviewed platform, is dominated by
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My favorite feature of the Flipper Zero is the comment sections it generates. Nobody tell these people that they also carry software-defined radios around with them everywhere they go.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
SDXL Turbo is much better, albeit kinda fuzzy and distorted. I was able to get decent single-sample response times (~80-100s) from my 4 core ARM Ampere instance, good enough for a Discord bot with friends.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Today, Timmy's parents learn what a "chargeback" is, and how stable financial institutions help circumvent fraud better than App Store curation does.
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by smoldesu 3y ago
Apple should be to blame. Even registered and paying iOS developers aren't allowed basic sideloading privileges you'd get for free on Android. This isn't about stopping Little Timmy, this is about annihilating all avenues o

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