I'm pretty sure I do this on my mac using Aerials. Is your way different from this?
Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers
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Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers
#52If you're going through so much trouble to reverse engineer macOS to customize it in a non-standard way, why even bother staying in the Apple walled prison. Why not just use Linux at that point? You can customize it to your heart's desire.
Because there is nobody who makes linux devices of equal battery life and performance to macbooks, nor does linux wake up from sleep as reliably.
fair point on the battery life. though my Thinkpad x9 gets a solid 8-10 hours of heavy coding session on a single charge.
> nor does linux wake up from sleep as reliably.
This hasn't been a problem for at least the past 7ish years.
Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Because there is nobody who makes linux devices of equal battery life and performance to macbooks, nor does linux wake up from sleep as reliably.
fair point on the battery life. though my Thinkpad x9 gets a solid 8-10 hours of heavy coding session on a single charge. > nor does linux wake up from sleep as reliably. This hasn't been a problem for at least the past 7ish years.
8 hours was impressive in 2019. Nowadays, I don’t take a charger for my MBA with me on weekend trips. It is life-changing.
Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers
#54$45 or a monthly subscription for a feature that should be possible out of the box. I will simply never understand the allure of Apple products.
Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers
#55I like this and would seriously consider buying it - except that the purchase page only has prices in something called "AA$". I have no idea what currency that refers to (AA is Aruba, but they don't use dollars), or how much that might come to in my local currency.
Must be a placeholder? But you briefly made me think it was some sort of Apple-specific currency. We really aren’t that far away from “Apple Bucks” are we?
I'm a bit surprised Apple Coin doesn't exist yet.
Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers
#56What's reverse engineering like on a Mac? Have you ever written about it? I had a lot of experience reverse engineering things on windows (win32 + x86, before 64bit was a thing) using OllyDbg and patching binaries and/or (ab)using dlls. If I had to use windows again and wanted to customize something, I'd probably use windhawk nowadays [0]. On Linux, I can just compile software myself if I need to make changes. But us…
I have not written about it yet. I use Hopper ( https://www.hopperapp.com ) to disassemble related binaries and frameworks. It's a great way to explore whats actually happening within macOS or Apple apps. My current workflow is to run Hopper, export assembly files and then throw various agents (Gemini, Claude etc) at them to learn more or validate my theories. It's surprisingly effective! Maybe I'll write about it.
Please do!
Re: Show HN: I reverse engineered macOS to allow custom Lock Screen wallpapers
#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks for reporting this! To clarify, what currency did you expect to see?
I'm in Australia, you're Swedish (but I don't know if your business is based there), and most web sites show US prices by default. So I wouldn't like to guess whether it was meant to be AUD, USD, or SEK.
Thanks! Should be resolved now, and show AUD correctly.