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Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by nullwarp »

peruvian wrote: post #45
LegitShady wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand. Do you imagine there isn't a young generation of time rich cash poor tinkerers now? Why would the idea of a hackintosh suddenly become obsolete because you can afford one now and don't have time? Nothing about your statement logically follows.

He’s just parroting a usual HN-ism of ignoring the topic and talking about themselves. I’ve seen the “I used to tinker but now I don’t” line a hundred times as well as the “this doesn’t apply to me so I don’t care - let me tell you how”.

Isn't that the truth. For a site with the word "hacker" in it there seem to be so few of them. I can't imagine letting all that curiosity die out of me like the parent comment implies.

I don't have the amount of time I used to to do that stuff either but the curiosity of it has never died and if I had more time I'd still do it.

If I ever lost that drive I think I'd rather be dead.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by j33zusjuice »

vehemenz wrote: post #63
hparadiz wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really not much of a time commitment. You can just lookup hardware with full compatibility and build a desktop that "just works".

Cost of ownership of an M3 MacBook Pro is like $300-400 a year. Even if you have the time, it's just not worth it anymore like it used to be.

It seems reasonable when you consider TCO, but you still have to pay 100% up front. Not everyone can drop $2k on a laptop, most people don’t need to.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by jwells89 »

twoodfin wrote: post #57

No speculation in the article or thread yet what Apple is doing with the WiFi stack that creates such a fragile coupling with its services. Per iFixit, they’re using an obscure WiFi / Bluetooth module from USI in the new MacBook Pros: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/MacBook+Pro+14-Inch+Late+2023+M... Possible they’ve gotten some “out of spec” capabilities wired in? Trying to imagine what for… Securely bridging local adh…

Apple’s always done some unique things with WiFi/Bluetooth. Macs have long been able to keep Apple-branded bluetooth keyboards and mice usable even before the OS initializes for example, and if you use one of a few Broadcom chipset BT/Wifi cards that were used in real Macs in a hackintosh, that capability extends to those too. It feels weird being able to navigate BIOS/UEFI with a Bluetooth keyboard.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by huytersd »

I used hackintoshes for a long time. I’m done with dealing with kexts and other such nonsense. Life is short I don’t want to spend all of it dealing with some silly technical administration. Windows is good enough for every piece of software I want to run and I have an old MacBook for the odd thing that windows doesn’t support. My windows machine dual boots into Linux for the extra exceptional thing that I can’t do with windows.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by Solvency »

peruvian wrote: post #45
LegitShady wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand. Do you imagine there isn't a young generation of time rich cash poor tinkerers now? Why would the idea of a hackintosh suddenly become obsolete because you can afford one now and don't have time? Nothing about your statement logically follows.

He’s just parroting a usual HN-ism of ignoring the topic and talking about themselves. I’ve seen the “I used to tinker but now I don’t” line a hundred times as well as the “this doesn’t apply to me so I don’t care - let me tell you how”.

HN community selects for these kinds of posts, in the same way that subreddits like /r/amitheasshole love overwrought girlfriend-is-evil stories.

Most often the highest rated posts on HN are from 40+ year olds who don't discuss the post at hand, they'll post a hyper-specific nostalgic story from their youth on something that is tangentially related to the post.

In fact, the older the better. If your childhood anecdote is from the 70s or 80s you're a god.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by stavros »

bruce511 wrote: post #13

Back in my youth, when I was time rich and cash poor, this kind of tinkering was fun and a good way to improve the machine I was using. Now that I have more disposable cash, but waaay less time, I couldn't imagine "wasting my time" doing this sort of thing. These days I want to -use- the computer, not spend time trying to convince it to work. Incidentally it's the exact same journey with my cars. 35 years ago I was f…

I don't know about you, but for me it was never about the money. I did this stuff (and still do) because I find it fun, not because I can't afford to buy it. I have my desktop, and I want that to just work, and I have a bunch of computers, hardware, 3D printers, etc etc that I constantly tinker with, because I like it.

I suspect it's the same for you, and it may be the lack of time, but not so much the access to money.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by Klonoar »

peruvian wrote: post #45
LegitShady wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand. Do you imagine there isn't a young generation of time rich cash poor tinkerers now? Why would the idea of a hackintosh suddenly become obsolete because you can afford one now and don't have time? Nothing about your statement logically follows.

He’s just parroting a usual HN-ism of ignoring the topic and talking about themselves. I’ve seen the “I used to tinker but now I don’t” line a hundred times as well as the “this doesn’t apply to me so I don’t care - let me tell you how”.

They’re not that far off topic - the site would be far less interesting if we didn’t have tangential discussions in the comments.

They are also, as you noted, expressing a very common opinion.

Now I’m off to spend my Saturday not tinkering, because there’s a bigger world out there and I’ve done my time.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by steve1977 »

I gotta say, 10 or 15 years ago, Mac OS X would have been worth the effort and it was basically what justified buying Apple hardware for me.

Nowadays, if anything, it's the hardware that justifies buying Apple, and the operating systems are something I can live with. I don't see any compelling reason to use macOS on non-Apple hardware today (except hacking for hackings sake)

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by MenhirMike »

k12sosse wrote: post #76
givemeethekeys wrote: post #20

I'd give Windows some credit - it is actually quite good and stable these days.

Good is relative. Windows 2000 never reset your preferences on an update of the OS.

Windows 2000 was the pinnacle of Windows. Rock solid, and that was before they broke the search function (when it actually still actually searched in files rather than an incomplete index - thankfully, grepWin can be installed) or when they dumbed down the Control Panel.

Re: Hackintosh is almost dead

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Post by ktosobcy »

bruce511 wrote: post #13

Back in my youth, when I was time rich and cash poor, this kind of tinkering was fun and a good way to improve the machine I was using. Now that I have more disposable cash, but waaay less time, I couldn't imagine "wasting my time" doing this sort of thing. These days I want to -use- the computer, not spend time trying to convince it to work. Incidentally it's the exact same journey with my cars. 35 years ago I was f…

Same story but with custom Android ROMs
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